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Ill wind blows through Townships
He was hooted and heckled and confronted with counter-arguments by an angry crowd of 300 Eastern Townshippers.
But the promoter of a controversial project to turn a dozen farmers' fields near the Vermont border into a gigantic industrial wind park got his point across last night......
At issue is a plan by Cliche's company, SM International Inc., to erect 31 towering, three-rotor wind turbines in local fields, hoping to generate two megawatts of electricity for Hydro-Qubec from each, for a total of 62 megawatts, starting in 2011 for export to the United States.
August 3, 2007
by Jeff Heinrich
in The Gazette
Wind farm developer gets rough ride. Residents not satisfied by assurances that power project won't harm way of life
He was hooted and heckled and confronted with counter-arguments by an angry crowd of 300 Eastern Townshippers.
But the promoter of a controversial project to turn a dozen farmers' fields near the Vermont border into a gigantic industrial wind park got his point across last night.
The plan is good for the environment, good for the local economy, and won't harm people's health or property values or their views of the landscape, David Cliche tried to assure residents at a raucous information... [continue via Web link]
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