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Wind Power News: August 2002
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Gone with the wind: A historic town in upstate New York prepares for its new neighbor
CHERRY VALLEY—A developer’s proposal to construct 27 wind turbines on a blustery ridge in this rural New York town has spurred opposition from some residents, who worry that their historic landscape and quiet lifestyle will be irreversibly altered. The proposed location for the Cherry Valley turbines, a hill called Cape Wykoff, is located on a 9,000-acre tract listed on the National Register of Historic Places that was part of an 18th-century land grant to John Lindesay, who established the settlement . . . Complete story »