The Chinese government will allow overseas experience in wind farm development, and not just experience in China, to qualify the developers for Chinese projects.
"English communities affected by wind farm development will also now be receiving significantly more generous community benefit payments from developers than before.
But they insist recent shrimp farm development has been more environmentally friendly.
Wind farm development follows a common pattern in Europe and the United States.
Landscape effects of wind farm development are localized, but the clean-energy gains are momentous.
Mr. Amper said the county had spent none of a voter-approved $20 million fund for buying farm development rights.
To liberal opinion, opposing wind farm development is the moral equivalent of denying global warming or voting Ukip.
"We've spent $13 million in grants and we buy farm development rights, do clustering and it goes on and on and on," Mrs. Cochran said.
He said that over the past 30 years, the county had purchased 24,000 acres and spent $283 million on farm development rights, open space and watershed protection.
He called for companies to invest in large-scale farm development to generate enough power for up to 25m homes in the next 12 years.
The Chinese government will allow overseas experience in wind farm development, and not just experience in China, to qualify them for Chinese projects.
