A slew of (belated) editorials came out today on the Glasgow wind farm that got killed -- or at least dramatically scaled back -- by environmentalists.

Here's the Daily Inter Lake telling the truth -- Democrats talk energy independence, but the very environmental groups who block energy independence at every turn almost always support Democrats.

Here's the Billings Gazette saying, "The wind farm might have worked, except it needed more government and deregulation messed everything up."


And here's the Wilderness Society saying, "No, no, really, we support wind energy. Really! Just not this farm, not this place, not this time."


I'll just clue you folks in in case you don't already know. The Wilderness Society will say the same thing about the next wind farm. And the next. And the next. And the next. Until people stop trying to build them in Montana. Because they DON'T support energy independence. They don't support energy at all.

And as for the Gazette's idea? Yeah. Sure. What the wind farm needed was MORE government involvement. That's all every private industrial project needs, right? Just get the govt to take it over, and everything will be fine.

Try this, Gazette. Try this, Wilderness Society. Try this, state government: Get the heck out of the way. You'd be amazed at how many Montanans suddenly find themselves employed.