CARTHAGE — Tuesday’s recount in Dixfield that reversed the wind ordinance vote — allowing wind projects to be built in town — spawned rumors that Patriot Renewables was fast-tracking one in. People who started the rumors said all of those oversized turbine tower sections and gigantic blades that drivers see being hauled west along Routes […]
Saddleback Ridge Wind Project
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Carthage wind farm taking delivery of giant turbine parts
CARTHAGE — Travelers on Routes 17 and 2 between Jay and Winter Hill Road in Carthage will experience traffic delays from now through mid-July. Developers of the Saddleback Ridge Wind Project off Winter Hill Road are trucking in oversized wind turbine parts for the last nine turbines to complement the three operational turbines installed last […]
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Carthage anti-wind power advocate appeals Canton wind project approval
CANTON — A Carthage woman has filed an administrative appeal with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection of the eight-turbine wind project on Canton Mountain. Alice McKay Barnett, an anti-wind power advocate, submitted seven documents of supplemental evidence on July 17 that mostly concerns turbine noise adversely affecting health. The DEP approved the nearly $50 […]