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Town may create new energy advisor position
The town may ask Block Island residents to fund a paid energy advisor who could help organize an effort to bring the island's energy future under its own control, including, as a first step, polling community sentiment about erecting huge wind turbines.
August 13, 2007
by Pippa Jack
in The Block Island Times
The town may ask Block Island residents to fund a paid energy advisor who could help organize an effort to bring the island's energy future under its own control, including, as a first step, polling community sentiment about erecting huge wind turbines.
Preliminary results from a recent study say turbines make sense for power generation in the island's isolated setting, and recommends that three of the big machines be placed on Block Island.
In the past, residents have objected to smaller turbines erected on private property, which neighbors have complained are excessively noisy. Discussion at a recent public meeting acknowledged that public... [continue via Web link]
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