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Wind Power News: January 2007
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Appeals board to air wind farm challenge
FREEDOM – The board of appeals is set to begin hearing arguments on three proposed wind turbines on Thursday. The first of five scheduled meetings is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in the basement of the First Congregational Church. A meeting originally scheduled for Friday has been canceled, said Addison Chase, chairman of the appeals board. Selectmen agreed to hire Waterville attorney Al Stevens to guide the appeals board through its deliberations, Chase said. The planning board last month approved . . . Complete story »
Mars Hill: Windmill owners to analyze noise level
Residents say the wind turbines atop Mars Hill Mountain are making noise and they want it fixed, but town officials aren’t sure whether anyone can do anything about it. More than 40 residents who live around the mountain crammed into the town office Monday night during the Mars Hill Town Council meeting to register concerns about the Mars Hill Wind Farm. Town councilors spent almost two hours trying to answer the crowd’s questions, but said the issue cannot be fully . . . Complete story »
Glenmore wind power plan advances
The town Planning Commission gave its OK to a Milwaukee-area company’s request for a conditional use permit to build an eight-turbine wind farm. Shirley Wind LLC of Hubertus, a division of Emerging Energies, wants to build eight 492-foot-tall turbines on several parcels of property owned by four families in Glenmore. The sites on land owned by Mark Mathies, 5982 Fairview Road; Dan Mathies, 4157 Shirley Road; Dan and Tina Zeamer, 3384 School Road; Rodney and Sue Leiterman, 4611 Shirley Road; . . . Complete story »
Developer to circulate turbine bylaw petition
SAVOY – After months of waiting for the town to draft its wind-turbine bylaws, Minuteman Wind decided to speed up the process – with a decision of its own. At last night’s Selectman meeting, Donald McCauley, the president of Waltham-based Minuteman Wind, announced that the company would “circulate a petition” that would propose to make a model wind-turbine bylaw, recently drafted by the state’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, into Savoy’s wind-turbine bylaws. The petition, which would require the signature of 10 . . . Complete story »
Beekmantown wind review set for Wednesday night
Windhorse Power’s proposal for a wind-harvesting facility will know approval or refusal from the Beekmantown Zoning Board this week. “This could be the beginning or the end,” said Dr. Ted Klaudt of the West Beekmantown Neighborhood Association. Following approval of Windhorse’s State Environmental Quality Review application, the Zoning Board will weigh the merits of the project in a meeting starting at 6:30 tonight in the Beekmantown High School auditorium. If a decision is not reached, a second meeting may be . . . Complete story »
Wind farm concerns include questionable reports
Denise Preller is sensitive to motion sickness. She told the McLean County Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday that for her, the proposed 100-turbine wind farm will make her ill. “I’m disturbed that I’ll get motion sickness in my own back yard,” she said. Her husband, Bill Preller, doesn’t relish the thought of sitting in his recliner in his family room and looking out his bay window only to see a wind turbine instead of a sunset. While the couple’s . . . Complete story »
Ashe attorney withdraws in windmill case
The attorney who advises Ashe County government said yesterday that he no longer represents a client who is trying to establish a wind farm because the issue has become a conflict of interest with the county. Until last week, County Attorney John Kilby had been representing Richard Calhoun, a former Ashe County commissioner who has applied to the N.C. Utilities Commission to build 25 to 28 windmills in the Creston community. Kilby said that county commissioners were aware he was . . . Complete story »
ACW waiting for EPCOR response
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township council is not pleased that EPCOR is not responding to the public’s concerns. “EPCOR is not coming through with the information we have asked for,” said Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek, following council’s Jan. 16 meeting. Van Diepenbeek said the public continues to address concerns to council of noise and of EPCOR not responding to their concerns. He said township resident Ross Brindley has also expressed concerns of stray voltage in his barn which he says were not there . . . Complete story »
Residents pack wind farm meeting
AMHERSTBURG – About 150 people packed the Malden Community & Cultural Centre Sunday afternoon to hear the views of some of the people opposed to the proposed wind farms in the area. The event was hosted by Bill Anderson and his wife Maureen. Anderson doesn’t believe the time is right for the area to build wind farms until more in known about this way of creating electricity. “We think this isn’t the answer (wind farms). We have found out that wind . . . Complete story »
Turbine delay is slated
Windfarm bosses last night condemned a North-East council for delaying a ruling over plans for new turbines in Northumberland. A decision was due next on Tuesday over the bid by Your Energy Ltd for 10 turbines at Moorsyde, near the villages of Ancroft and Lowick – more than two years after the firm applied for planning permission. But bosses at Your Energy yesterday said they were baffled by the delay, which Berwick Borough Council says is because it needs to consider . . . Complete story »
