August 17, 2006
New York
New York
by: Maryalice Demler, Anchor/Reporter
The big battle in the Town of Sheldon is who’s benefiting from a project to bring wind turbines to the small rural Wyoming County town.
A wind energy company wants to create a state of the art wind farm there that could save taxpayers up to a million dollars a year.
But three town board members, who vote on the fate of the project, will get a wind turbine on their own property or a family member’s property.
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URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2006/08/17/windmills-financial-windfall/