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Wind farm proposed for Lake Champlain?
Champlain Wind Park is a figment of Annette Smith's imagination, created to suggest that Chittenden County residents should consider what it would mean to have windmills - 450 feet high to the top of their turning blades - in their backyard.
May 30, 2012
by Candace Page
in Burlington Free Press
At first glance, the website looks like the real thing - an announcement, complete with visual simulation, of a multi-turbine wind farm looming large on the waters of Lake Champlain.
"Twenty to 40 turbines... powering 80,000 homes in Chittenden County ... payments of more than $1 million to area towns," the website, www.champlainwind
park.com, promises.
The site looks so real some Burlington Electric Department employees wondered for a moment whether they were out of the loop on a wind proposal in the city's backyard.
Nope.
Champlain Wind Park is a figment of Annette Smith's imagination, created to suggest that Chittenden County residents should... [continue via Web link]
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