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- Wind farm company reps met by small army of protestors (7/17/14)
ALEXANDRIA — Well in excess of 100 sign-carrying opponents of wind power from five local towns lined the road in protest when the project developer and attorney for EDP Renewables arrived July 15
- Wind farm developer seeks lease at Quonset Business Park (7/10/14)
The developer of a wind farm proposed for the waters of Nantucket Sound is seeking to lease property at the Quonset Business Park for a staging and assembly area for the 130-turbine project.
- Plug pulled on $150M wind farm over unfriendly political, regulatory climate (5/27/14)
ALEXANDRIA — Spanish wind-energy giant Iberdrola Renewables said Tuesday it is abandoning efforts to build the Wild Meadows wind farm in the Newfound Lake/Cardigan Mountain area.
- Clifton voters to decide on property line setbacks for wind farms, ordinance change (5/8/14)
CLIFTON, Maine — Residents will likely decide the future of wind farms in town when they cast ballots in two votes.
- Portsmouth council puts plan to sue Newington on hold (5/6/14)
PORTSMOUTH — The City Council decided to wait to make a decision about whether to sue the Newington Planning Board for its anticipated approval of the proposed expansion of the Sea-3 propane terminal
- Cape Wind developer awarded lease option for staging area at Quonset Business Park (7/15/14)
NORTH KINGSTOWN — The Quonset Business Park could be the assembly and staging area for the first two offshore wind farms in the United States after a lease option was awarded on Tuesday to the developer of the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts.
- PSNH, forest society executives continue to seek Northern Pass deal (6/9/14)
The new president of Public Service of New Hampshire and senior executives with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests have been meeting privately, hoping to break the impasse over the Northern Pass hydroelectric project, but that has yet to garner meaningful results.
- Monhegan’s power struggle: Turbines versus tourism on Maine’s iconic island (5/9/14)
MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine — When Winnie and John Murdock, longtime residents of Monhegan Island, heard the University of Maine did not receive a large grant for its offshore wind power project near their home, they “did a little happy dance.”
- Opponents of Proposed Landfill Meet in Alton (5/6/14)
In April, the Municipal Review Committee, a group representing nearly two hundred Maine cities and towns, submitted an application to the Department of Environmental Protection to build a landfill in Greenbush or Argyle
- Maine Public Advocate Reverses Opposition to Joint Wind Venture (5/5/14)
One of the lead opponents of a wind energy joint venture has reversed its opposition to the project, and says it's OK to go ahead under certain conditions