[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 61 (Thursday, April 17, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E645-E646]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE CITY OF ROCK PORT, MISSOURI

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 17, 2008

  Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly rise to recognize, the City of 
Rock Port, Missouri, the first community in the United States of 
America whose energy source is totally wind powered.
  Rock Port, where Lewis and Clark camped in 1804, the county seat of 
Atchison County--named after United States Senator David Atchison--and 
the home of the annual Atchison County Fair, has come a long way to be 
the undisputed leader of energy innovation by becoming the first 
community in our Nation to be totally energy independent of foreign 
resources.
  Named for the soil that it is built on, Loess Hills Wind Farm is 
located on agricultural lands within the city limits of Rock Port. The

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four wind turbines that make up the Loess Hills Wind Farm will produce 
16 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. Rock Port will truly 
be the first community in America capable of meeting its entire annual 
electricity demands from wind power.
  As a long standing supporter of wind energy, I am a proud to report 
the first 100 percent wind-powered community in the United States is in 
the Sixth Congressional District of Missouri.
  Madam Speaker, I ask that you and the entire United States House of 
Representatives join me in celebrating with the City of Rock Port, 
Atchison County and the great State of Missouri in being the ``true'' 
leader for this Nation for energy independence.

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