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Pennsylvania’s famed ridgetops aren’t the only place to put them
Another announcement of plans to build a large wind farm along a Pennsylvania ridgetop brings additional emphasis to the urgent need for the state to enact a windmill-siting protocol.
Failure to do so threatens to dramatically alter Pennsylvania’s ridge and valley landscape to a degree not seen since the 19th-century lumber barons denuded Penn’s Woods.
January 19, 2007
by Editorial Staff
in The Patriot-News
Another announcement of plans to build a large wind farm along a Pennsylvania ridgetop brings additional emphasis to the urgent need for the state to enact a windmill-siting protocol.
Failure to do so threatens to dramatically alter Pennsylvania’s ridge and valley landscape to a degree not seen since the 19th-century lumber barons denuded Penn’s Woods.
The latest count shows Pennsylvania with 153 megawatts of wind generation, which on a typical day produces enough power to serve 70,000 homes. But under the state’s Alter native Energy Portfolio Standard, at least 3,000 megawatts of wind- generated electricity is projected to be in... [continue via Web link]
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