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Ground broken for turbine installations

WJRT|Terry Camp|December 2, 2005
MichiganUSAZoning/Planning

Bingham Township - (12/02/05)--Michigan's first wind farm is one step closer to reality. Ground was broken Friday for the renewable energy project near Ubly, which will most likely see the landscape dotted with huge wind turbines soon.


Huddled inside a tent protected from a strong wind, a group of people came together Friday to celebrate the start of what is being called a new era in Michigan for renewable energy.
Peter Mastic's Noble Environmental Power plans to put up 32 wind turbines in Bingham Township this spring. The 400-foot-high structures are expected to bring in tourists.
His company says the Thumb Area is the best location to harness the wind.
"The advantage is somewhere between five and 15 percent better annual production from each wind turbine on this 80-foot-high ridge in the middle of the Thumb than anywhere else in the state," he said.
Two-hundred construction jobs come with the project, with 10 permanent jobs in all for Huron County, which has seen …
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Huddled inside a tent protected from a strong wind, a group of people came together Friday to celebrate the start of what is being called a new era in Michigan for renewable energy.
Peter Mastic's Noble Environmental Power plans to put up 32 wind turbines in Bingham Township this spring. The 400-foot-high structures are expected to bring in tourists.
His company says the Thumb Area is the best location to harness the wind.
"The advantage is somewhere between five and 15 percent better annual production from each wind turbine on this 80-foot-high ridge in the middle of the Thumb than anywhere else in the state," he said.
Two-hundred construction jobs come with the project, with 10 permanent jobs in all for Huron County, which has seen its share of job losses in recent years.
A renewable energy expect called the people who brought the project to this point pioneers.
A zoning issue is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by area residents in an attempt to stop the project, even as Friday's ground breaking ceremony took place.
For the farmers who will have these wind turbines on their land, they are anxious to see them dotting the landscape.
A hearing on that zoning ordinance lawsuit to stop the project will be heard in a Huron County courtroom on Wednesday.
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