Beebe hints at fourth windmill operation state

LITTLE ROCK Gov. Mike Beebe hinted Saturday that Arkansas could become the site of a fourth windmill manufacturing operation.

The governor made the reference in announcing an initiative with the Clinton Foundation to make Arkansas buildings more energy efficient.

Beebe said the state has made strides toward securing jobs through businesses that address the U.S. and worldwide problem of global warming, and he mentioned that three foreign companies were now developing sites in Arkansas to make windmill parts.

"We're working on a fourth one for another part of the state," Beebe told the audience at the Clinton Center.

He did not elaborate.

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The governor said that while Arkansas does not have the wind conditions for windmill farms to produce electricity, Arkansans can make the materials needed for this alternative source of energy.

Matt DeCample, a spokesman for the governor, said afterward that he had nothing to add to what the governor Polymarin Composites USA Ltd., and Wind Water Technology, which will make windmill blades and turbines, respectively. Combined, they are to hire 830 people.