On April 9, 2024, Governor Reynolds signed SF 2204, a bill to limit foreign business, foreign government and non-resident alien control of Iowa farmland.
American soil belongs in American hands.
In 2018, Governor Reynolds proudly displayed Iowa’s new license plates that feature wind turbines.
Iowa is second after Texas as the largest producer of wind energy.
Now there is global resistance to free/renewable/green energy.
Here in Henry County Iowa, RWE, a German company that buys and sells energy and energy companies, is planning to build an industrial wind complex.
It started a couple of years ago when RWE representatives quietly went around the county offering landowners thousands of dollars for leasing their farms for 45 years.
Even though they didn’t know the salesperson or heard of RWE, some landowners grabbed the signup bonus like they had won the lottery.
They didn’t read the 57-page contract or ask their neighbors how a 650’ wind turbine tower might affect them.
RWE reps. then went running to the county supervisors saying they had all these people wanting to participate in the project and they even volunteered to help write a new county ordinance for wind energy.
They claimed money would pour into local schools and governments, but it’s only recycled tax dollars.
An overwhelming number of citizens pushed back.
They had researched health risks, quality of life for those near, defacing the landscape, reducing property values, destroying farmland and raising the $34.2 Trillion national debt with government subsidies and incentives.
Without government assistance, these projects don’t operate.
RWE survived WWII with the sacrifice of the Allies’ blood and treasure.
Just last year, RWE called the ‘Polezei’ in riot gear with police dogs, batons and pepper spray, beat and dragged people from their homes and family farms, bulldozed the entire village of Lützerath so they could expand their lignite coal mine, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
That was in Germany and they are in Southeast Iowa now controlling Henry County farmland for the next 45 years.
Governor Reynolds just signed SF 2304 to control illegal immigration and there is no reason to support a foreign company that profits from Iowa citizens while their electric bills increase.
After emailing Senator Chuck Grassley, the father of the ‘Wind Energy Incentives Act of 1993’, he responded that he will always support funding wind energy. Since he didn’t say, I followed up and specifically asked if he had wind turbines on his farm, but he has yet to respond to that.
I emailed a person with much knowledge and found that Grassley’s farm is in Butler County, they have NO wind farms and a very strict ordinance that ensures there won’t be any wind turbines in Butler County.
China is now a major player in wind energy and RWE could sell these farm leases to them.
The whole state doesn’t need to look like a junkyard.
We need to keep Iowa and America first, future generations are depending on us.
- Leland Graber
Wayland
