Tunica County, once home to a booming casino industry, has long struggled with poverty. Now, some are looking to green energy as a potential windfall.
and has sparked competition among local governments seeking the projects. The new sector, though, is running up against an old debate: whether to use generous tax breaks to woo big business.
He supports renewable energy, because “climate change is crazy.” But he disagrees with the county’s approval of a decadelong tax break, which will allow AES, which bought the project from another developer, toCharles Finkley Jr., the director of Tunica County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development, at Tunica RiverPark. Finkley said the wind farm is one of several renewable energy projects the county is working on.
“We definitely want to be competitive in order to successfully recruit these types of projects into our community,” he said.
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