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Neighbors make noise about Mars Hill turbines
February 7, 2007 by Andy Kekacs, Copy Editor in Village Soup
February 7, 2007 by Andy Kekacs, Copy Editor in Village Soup
In the Aroostook County town of Mars Hill, 28 wind turbines will soon be generating electricity. Even before they begin commercial operation, however, the windmills are generating considerable controversy.
The biggest issue is noise.
Mars Hill tries to get used to new windmills
January 27, 2007 by Glenn Adams, Associated Press in The Boston Globe
January 27, 2007 by Glenn Adams, Associated Press in The Boston Globe
It seems few in this town of about 1,500 people can agree on UPC Wind Management’s newly completed $85 million project, which makes the unassuming potato-growing and truck-brokerage community home to New England’s largest wind farm.
But there’s one thing everybody can agree on: The place sure looks different.
Long before a visitor arrives at Mars Hill, the towers become visible along what used to be just another mountain. The total height from the ground to the tip of the blade is 389 feet. Each tower has three blades, which spin in winds whipping west to east toward Canada just a few miles away.
FARMINGTON–The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission voted, 6-1 against rezoning 1,004 mountaintop acres in northern Franklin County for a 30-turbine wind-energy project today.
Only commissioner Stephen Wight, of Newry, supported the rezoning request.
The commission's staff had previously recommended the rezoning be approved.
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BREWER - As wind power begins to blow into Maine, state regulators on Wednesday considered its potential to squeeze increasingly expensive - and less environmentally friendly - fossil fuels out of the region's energy mix.