I hear that boosted tax revenues due to wind turbines will be swallowed up by the need for extra services, such as firefighting and road maintenance, is it true?

It is hard to understand what these extra services will be; wind turbines do not travel on Ferry everyday, they contribute to school taxes without contributing to extra kids in school, one fails to find documented cases of fire fighters putting out fires in wind turbines either in Canada or United States on a regular basis or even one off basis, wind turbines do not run on the roads. As for any construction, the roads are left in much better shape than they are before project construction begins. Proof is in the pudding, travel to see a wind project - see the roads in the project area are in better shape, are better maintained, people in neighbourhood are building new houses, economy of the region is doing well - the reality will be very apparent.  more