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UI turbine still faces uncertainty
Unanticipated costs and unanswered questions have created the potential for a bigger price tag on the University of Illinois' wind turbine project, and officials will wait at least until March to get approval from the school's board of trustees.
January 8, 2011
by Patrick Wade
in The News-Gazette
URBANA - Unanticipated costs and unanswered questions have created the potential for a bigger price tag on the University of Illinois' wind turbine project, and officials will wait at least until March to get approval from the school's board of trustees.
Project organizers originally hoped to get the OK from the board this month, but now they may need to find new sources of funding for the project that has stirred nearby residents, worried about the 400-foot turbine's intrusiveness on their homes.
It is not the first time the turbine project has faced uncertainty. The idea - which, at the time,... [continue via Web link]
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