You may soon notice wind turbines while driving across Route Six in Tioga and Bradford counties. That's because plans are in the works to build more than one hundred wind turbines on Armenia Mountain.

Marie Harris has lived on top of Armenia Mountain for sixty five years.  She's not worried at all about the one hundred and twenty four wind turbines A.E.S plans to build around her home. 

“I think it’s wonderful,” says Marie Harris, a neighbor on Armenia Mountain. 

Pretty soon the landscape on top of Armenia Mountain will be dotted with wind turbines.  The neighbors we spoke with say it doesn't bother them.

“Everybody up here did it, and I followed them,” says Harris. 

“If they need them, I think it might be a good idea,” says Richard Reinhard, a neighbor on Armenia Mountain. 

“Tioga and Bradford County are participating in helping the country generate cleaner non-polluting form of electricity,” says Bob White, the Vice President of A.E.S. Armenia Mountain Wind. 

Neighbors we spoke with say financial incentives motivated them to sign the lease agreements.

“For those that actually own the plots that they'll be put on will make a lot more money,” says Roni Corey, a neighbor on Armenia Mountain. 

“They pay you so much for it,” says Harris. 

A percentage of the revenues from the wind turbines will go right to the landowners. The three host townships where these will be located, Ward, Sullivan, and Armenia, will also receive annual payments.  A.E.S. will also pay property taxes in both Tioga and Bradford counties.

Both the Bradford and Tioga county commissioners have granted preliminary approval to the project.  Now A.E.S. just has to secure a few more permits and submit a final design to the counties, which they hope to have complete by May.   Construction could begin this summer.

“We've had a little opposition on this project.  Its really boiled down to probably eight or ten people,” says White. 

“They say they're not noisy, but I don't know,” says Harris.

White admits the turbines do make a noise, but they will be required to abide by a fifty five decibel sound limit.  A.E.S. has also conducted several studies to make sure local wildlife, like birds and bats, won't be negatively impacted.

“The results of those studies have shown that there will not be an adverse impact to those species,” says White. 

The four hundred million dollar project is expected to create one hundred and eighty megawatts of power each hour.  Neighbors on Armenia Mountain will receive some of that power, while the rest will be sold in several states around the country.

A group of about forty people called the Tioga Preservation Group is trying to stop the project.  A spokesman says they'll file papers on Thursday in Tioga County Court seeking to appeal the project's preliminary approval.