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PublishedSeptember 19, 2010
Wind farms: towns learn from trials of others
As wind farms sprout in the American Midwest and Maine's western mountains, citizens of Camden, Hope and Rockport are considering a joint committee to evaluate the energy potential and community response in regard to the wind resource on Ragged Mountain. Across the state and around the world many communities are looking to other towns that have more established wind projects to understand some of the less ...
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2010
Federal and state officials talk offshore wind, way offshore
As Augusta eyes a trio of offshore wind energy demonstration sites, federal and state officials met at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast on Sept. 13 to discuss the potential of siting wind turbines further out to sea, in the federally-controlled waters of the Outer Continental Shelf. The daylong meeting, attended by officials from a number of federal agencies, representatives of the state and ...
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2010
Environmental activist asks court to halt offshore wind power project
A Rockland man, who for much of the past two decades has tackled a variety of environmental issues, has gone to court to halt the proposed demonstration wind power project off Monhegan Island. Ron Huber claimed in his appeal filed Jan. 26 in Knox County Superior Court that the designation of waters off Monhegan as a test site violates his constitutional rights to practice his religious stewardship of Penobscot ...
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