This video (2min 28sec) is a report about Lackawanna NY's initiative to replace rusting steel mills with modern wind power generation using Lake Erie's constant winds. Wind power generation is growing at a rate of 25 per cent a year in the US, along with the demand for renewable energy. While not every community is happy to see giant wind turbines popping up on their skyline -- one city in New York State considers them a boon. Kristen Saloomey has the details from Lackawanna, once a booming industrial city. "For decades Bethlehem Steel defined the City of Lackawanna. In it's heyday the plant employed more than twenty thousand people including the current mayor. More recently it's seen a a rusting symbol of that bygone era. Eight Windmills now stand on the thirteen hundred acre industrial site..."
