North Dakota Wind

I got this picture for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This explains one of the ways North Dakota envisions a way to bring money into the state. Notice how I said money and not people.
This state suffers from a lack of people (one of the big concerns is the emptying of the small towns, ND will be one of only two states to experience a decrease in population in the 00's. Louisiana is the other) and the leaders are always looking for ways to either keep people (the biggest problem is that people encourage kids to go off to college and then they never come back) or attract new people (one of my favorite moments being here was when the number three person power-wise at this school heavily encouraged the misses and I to start having kids "you know, that is one of the reason we hire young people like you two, to re-populate the state", ha ha).
This wind power thing will bring some money, but it will not bring many (if any new people here). What this really shows is that if ND can keep its current population, it may ride the coming depression better then most states (I imagine Nevada, Montana or Indiana doing this same thing, good luck migratory birds).