Four years ago I picked up a good news/bad news local paper in Duluth. Good was the major revenue growth for the Port of Duluth -- importing wind turbines, in addition exporting taconite iron ore (to places where those wind-turbines are made.) Bad was that instead of the taconite being made into steel for turbines in the U.S. ports the ore freighters pass -- Chicago, Gary, Detroit, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo -- it went to China, and the turbines themselves were imported from Europe. But while I was in Brazil last week some much better news appeared -- Brazil this year is importing hundreds of wind turbine blades on freighters from Duluth. Great Plains demand for wind power had grown so much...
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