Attitudes towards wind energy do not seem to be hampered by unmet expectations of development. Respondents seemed to expect a greater magnitude of positive impacts than they reported after the facility was operational, yet attitudes still remain positive towards the wind industry. Contrary to other studies, this research demonstrates that pre-construction expectations of positive benefit were much higher than the post-construction benefits that were experienced. Yet, despite these unmet expectations, attitudes towards the development remain positive overall and our data shows no statistical relationship between degree of met expectations and wind energy attitudes. [17], in his extensive work on U.S.attitudes towards hydraulic fracturing, demonstrates that while impact perception is typically the orized as a driver of attitudinal variation, such causality is rarely proven, and our work supports his findings that it may be pre-existing attitudes that in fact pre-dict the impacts residents expect and perceive. Our results show economic beliefs to be highly correlated with wind energy attitudes, suggesting that the revenue perceived to be generated by the development is enough to concord with their pre-existing beliefs in economic productivity. In an area of longstanding depopulation,any investment may be seen as good investment.