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Applause echoed through the halls of the Gage County courthouse in Nebraska. The county board had just approved new, more stringent wind energy regulations, and the overflow crowd of residents couldn’t contain themselves.
Few in the crowded courthouse that day in September 2020 beamed brighter than Larry Allder. The Cortland-area resident helped lead the yearslong charge against wind energy’s looming expansion into the county.
“It’s been a long road,” he told The Voice News after the vote.
Now, six years later, another historically controversial energy source — nuclear power — could be coming. Last month, the Nebraska Public Power District, or NPPD, announced a list of four potential sites for a... Read more
