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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 10:07 AM
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Winds of Change: Turbine farms sprout right across the lake (VT/NY)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071104/NEWS01/71105006/1009

TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON, N.Y. — While Vermonters fight over proposals for a few wind farms, the largest concentration of wind turbines in the eastern United States has begun to rise just 60 miles from Burlington.

White, needle-like towers spike the scrubby landscape along U.S. 11 as it parallels the Canadian border through this sparsely populated stretch of farm country northwest of Plattsburgh.

Huge trucks inched along local roads late last month, delivering turbine blades like giants’ pinwheels and generator housings the size of mini-buses. In half-cut cornfields, cranes and crews assembled towers taller than the Statue of Liberty.

Noble Environmental Power, a Connecticut company, plans to turn on the power from its 120-turbine project in Clinton and neighboring Ellenburg this winter. A second developer, Texas-based Horizon Energy, is awaiting permits to erect 109 turbines next summer in the two towns.

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OKIsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 03:12 PM
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I was up in the area a few months ago, no turbines at that time, although we saw some protest signs.
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Add in Noble’s plans for 154 wind towers in three nearby towns, and this stretch of northern New York is expected to host nearly 400 wind turbines.

Together, the projects will have a capacity of 629 megawatts — nearly as much as Vermont Yankee’s 650 megawatts — although wind turbines operate on average at about one-third of that capacity.

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