Former ironworker John James Sekulic wants to put his brother ironmen back to work - by having them construct multiple Ohio wind farms through his company.
Sekulic's company has applied for a $10 million grant from the state Air Quality Authority, and this week got further backing of the Lorain government, which favors a wind farm at the western edge of the city, about 2 miles off shore.
But the Ohio Department of Natural Resources hasn't quite completed developing a regulatory process to award underwater land leases for wind turbine development. Sekulic's firm needs 13 of those leases to start building 13 wind turbines, and he's giving state officials a strong incentive to approve them.
JOHN JAMES SEKULIC: The reason we're doing this is to create economic development and job creation.
Once the state signs off on it, Sekulic says the wind farm off Lorain could be operational in 5 to 7 years.
