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Lawsuit stalls Cohasset wind turbine project
Plans for a controversial wind turbine on Turkey Hill have been put on hold while project organizers review a lawsuit likely to test Cohasset’s three-year-old regulations on wind turbine construction.
April 1, 2011
by Neal Simpson
in The Patriot Ledger
Plaintiffs allege town board violated bylaws in granting OK
COHASSET — Plans for a controversial wind turbine on Turkey Hill have been put on hold while project organizers review a lawsuit likely to test Cohasset’s three-year-old regulations on wind turbine construction.
The suit, filed in Boston Land Court by neighbors and a skilled-nursing home near the site for the project, alleges that the Cohasset Planning Board failed to acknowledge neighbors’ concerns and violated the town’s new bylaws when it granted special permits requested by the Trustees of Reservations, a statewide conservation group that oversees much of Turkey Hill and would operate the turbine.... [continue via Web link]
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