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Mayors give wind-farm plan go-ahead
A controversial bid to turn a dozen farmers' fields in the Eastern Townships near the Vermont border into a huge industrial wind-turbine park will be submitted to Hydro-Québec for approval - but opponents aren't giving up their fight to see the project die.
In a 16-4 vote Tuesday night, mayors of the Brome-Missisquoi regional council in Cowansville approved the proposal by Sherbrooke firm S.M. International Group Inc. to erect 31 wind-turbine towers in a swath of farmland 80 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
In return, the company will pay the three communities where the land is situated - Stanbridge Station, St. Pierre de Véronne de Pike River and Bedford county - $6.7 million over 25 years.
As well, S.M. will establish a $2.5-million fund for the regional council to use over the same period to clean up and beautify the Pike River. Both amounts are to be adjusted for inflation.
August 23, 2007
by Jeff Heinrich
in The Gazette
A controversial bid to turn a dozen farmers' fields in the Eastern Townships near the Vermont border into a huge industrial wind-turbine park will be submitted to Hydro-Québec for approval - but opponents aren't giving up their fight to see the project die.
In a 16-4 vote Tuesday night, mayors of the Brome-Missisquoi regional council in Cowansville approved the proposal by Sherbrooke firm S.M. International Group Inc. to erect 31 wind-turbine towers in a swath of farmland 80 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
In return, the company will pay the three communities where the land is situated - Stanbridge Station, St. Pierre de... [continue via Web link]
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