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Gamesa scraps wind farm project
Developers have pulled the plug on the 60-megawatt Shaffer Mountain Wind Farm project.
"Because of a combination of factors, including uncertainty surrounding federal policies, Gamesa has decided to halt development plans for its proposed Shaffer Mountain Wind Farm in Somerset County."
June 11, 2012
by Randy Griffith
in Tribune-Democrat
WINDBER - Developers have pulled the plug on the 60-megawatt Shaffer Mountain Wind Farm project.
"Because of a combination of factors, including uncertainty surrounding federal policies, Gamesa has decided to halt development plans for its proposed Shaffer Mountain Wind Farm in Somerset County," Gamesa Energy U.S.A. spokesman David Rosenberg said in a statement sent to The Tribune-Democrat.
The decision was celebrated by opponents who had been fighting the company for six years.
"I feel great because of the fact that we went up against insurmountable odds," Shaffer Mountain resident Joseph J. Cominsky said... [continue via Web link]
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