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Lincoln group fears wind farm impact
by Outspoken on Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:52 am
Lincoln group fears wind farm impact
By Nick Sambides Jr.
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
LINCOLN, Maine — Nadia Wotton swims in the waters of Long Pond near the gentle slopes of Rollins Mountain every day in the summer. She spends half the year in a camp along the edge of the water, and she doesn’t take it for granted, she said Tuesday.
“My fear is that the aesthetics, the whole feel of the area and the views of the ridge, I really feel that this will be gone soon,” Wotton said. “That’s my biggest fear.”
That’s why Wooton is a member of the newly formed Friends of Rollins Ridge group, an organization of about a dozen town residents that is investigating, and likely will oppose, a proposed $120 million wind farm that, if approved, will go on sites in Burlington, Lee, Lincoln and Winn, including Rollins Mountain.
First Wind of Massachusetts will apply by the end of the year for permits to build 40 1.5-megawatt windmills creating as much as 60 megawatts of electricity through Evergreen Wind Power, a subsidiary of First Wind.
Lincoln would have 19 or 20 turbines; Winn, three; Lee, seven; and Burlington, 12. Two turbine sites are listed as alternates. The company also would install a 115,000-volt transmission line that would run from the north end of Rollins Mountain to a Mattawamkeag connection to the New England grid.
First Wind is building a 38-turbine farm on Stetson Mountain between Danforth and Springfield and operating a 28-turbine wind farm in Mars Hill. First Wind advertises its projects as creating no air or water pollution, lessening dependency on oil and tapping into a limitless natural resource while hedging against the electricity droughts seen in California.
First Wind claims the Lincoln project will generate 168 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
The Friends of Rollins Ridge group is not generally opposed to wind power, but questions whether a wind farm is a good fit with such a pristine area as Long Pond, said Bagley Mountain Road resident Gary Steinberg.
“The fact that so many changes will be coming with this project and that we’re dealing with a company that is coming from out of state has me wondering whether we are … getting into something that we cannot get out of,” said Harry C. Epp, a Folsom Pond Road resident and group member.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/90217.html
By Nick Sambides Jr.
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
LINCOLN, Maine — Nadia Wotton swims in the waters of Long Pond near the gentle slopes of Rollins Mountain every day in the summer. She spends half the year in a camp along the edge of the water, and she doesn’t take it for granted, she said Tuesday.
“My fear is that the aesthetics, the whole feel of the area and the views of the ridge, I really feel that this will be gone soon,” Wotton said. “That’s my biggest fear.”
That’s why Wooton is a member of the newly formed Friends of Rollins Ridge group, an organization of about a dozen town residents that is investigating, and likely will oppose, a proposed $120 million wind farm that, if approved, will go on sites in Burlington, Lee, Lincoln and Winn, including Rollins Mountain.
First Wind of Massachusetts will apply by the end of the year for permits to build 40 1.5-megawatt windmills creating as much as 60 megawatts of electricity through Evergreen Wind Power, a subsidiary of First Wind.
Lincoln would have 19 or 20 turbines; Winn, three; Lee, seven; and Burlington, 12. Two turbine sites are listed as alternates. The company also would install a 115,000-volt transmission line that would run from the north end of Rollins Mountain to a Mattawamkeag connection to the New England grid.
First Wind is building a 38-turbine farm on Stetson Mountain between Danforth and Springfield and operating a 28-turbine wind farm in Mars Hill. First Wind advertises its projects as creating no air or water pollution, lessening dependency on oil and tapping into a limitless natural resource while hedging against the electricity droughts seen in California.
First Wind claims the Lincoln project will generate 168 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
The Friends of Rollins Ridge group is not generally opposed to wind power, but questions whether a wind farm is a good fit with such a pristine area as Long Pond, said Bagley Mountain Road resident Gary Steinberg.
“The fact that so many changes will be coming with this project and that we’re dealing with a company that is coming from out of state has me wondering whether we are … getting into something that we cannot get out of,” said Harry C. Epp, a Folsom Pond Road resident and group member.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/90217.html
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