Proposed wind park will be a win-wind situation for Glacier and Toole Counties.

The McCormick Ranch Wind Park Project is a win-wind situation for Glacier and Toole Counties. Great Plains Wind & Energy officials met with county commissioners from both counties last month to firm up an agreement that would provide the company with 10-year tax incentives to construct the wind park.
Turbines similar to this one will be constructed at the proposed McCormick Ranch Wind Park.

On April 25, at 7 p.m. the Glacier County Commissioners will hold a public hearing in the Glacier County courtroom to explain the tax benefit program and the negotiated impact fee the county will assess Great Plains during the first three years of the project.

Montana state law allows the taxable property of the project to be taxed at a 50 percent rate for the first five years, and then the property tax will increase by “equal percentage until the full taxable value is attained in the tenth year.” In the following years, the property will be taxed at 100 percent of its taxable value.

By LEANNE KAVANAGH for the Cut Bank Pioneer Press

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