Business Week reports that the best way to expedite wind farm construction in the USA is to bypass the gale forces of "not in my back yard" local opposition. The industry's rule-of-thumb for averting NIMBY totally is to propose no project locations closer than 30 miles to the nearest Starbucks.
Source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/us-wind-industry-follows-starbucks-rule-turbine-siting.php