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Lowell wind project still has foes

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The Associated Press - Published: May 26, 2010

MONTPELIER - A wind project approved by voters in the town of Lowell still has its opponents, and they're vowing a fight.

The Lowell Mountain Group, which represents people who live near a ridgeline where Green Mountain Power plans to erect two dozen 400-foot tall wind turbines, plans to lobby Vermont utility regulators who are being asked to grant a certificate of public good for the project.

The group's attorney, Jared Margolis of Jericho, said Wednesday the group wants the state Board of Public Service to weigh legitimate concerns about aesthetics, stormwater runoff and habitat fragmentation before rendering its decision.

On Friday, Green Mountain Power filed for permission to build the $150 million project, which it says will generate up to 63 megawatts of electricity.







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There is a good chance many people are going to suffer property losses, increased energy costs, adverse health effects, and local environmental degradation and in return will continue to have all the same problems with global warming and fossil fuels that we now face. Wind cannot replace baseload power in a meaningful way.

GMP while wanting to bill itself as responsible is whitewashing the problems these turbines will create for those in Lowell and the surrounding towns, and exaggerating the benefits. All these companies want one thing the money coming from the govt subsidies and they could care less about the people who will have to live with them or the environmental problems they will create for our mountains. Wennberg was in the paper today saying they could not get a met tower off Susies peak because they were going to damage the road! What do you think is going to happen when they start blasting our ridgelines to ***** these 40 story monstrosities????

I hope the PSB wakes up and acts responsibily by acknowledging that these are not about the public good, but energy company profits.
-- Posted by VT Nature on Wed, May 26, 2010, 1:46 pm EST

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I am constantly amazed at the people now living in Vermont (note I did not say Vermonters). Where do they think they will get their power from in the future? Vt Yankee is closing, there few, if any, power damns left and the Canadian Power grid is getting close to full capacity. Perhaps they really do want to go back to nature - but even then they need to charge their cell phones to log onto the internet.
-- Posted by Bonnie Oakman on Wed, May 26, 2010, 12:29 pm EST

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