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--Fort Kent council refuses wind moratorium
Hoping to send a strong message, the Town Council on Monday night voted unanimously to withhold its support of a moratorium on industrial wind turbines within town limits. A citizen petition has placed the question of a 180-day moratorium on industrial wind power development in the community on the March 23 town meeting warrant.... Read more
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--“Glitch deals a big blow to wind project”
A proposed wind-energy project designed to send massive amounts of electricity from Aroostook County through southern Maine has been put on hold... The proposal involved hundreds of wind turbines with a total output of 800 megawatts, equivalent to the former Maine Yankee nuclear plant in Wiscasset. The developer's decision to stop work on that project may threaten plans for a separate $625 million transmission venture ..... Read more
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Forum mulls wind farm health effects
Forum organizers wanted to help residents of Fort Kent, a likely site for a large wind development, to explore the pros and cons of wind farms before any applications are filed, said David Soucy, a lawyer who helped organize the event. Texas-based Horizon Wind has been negotiating lease ..... Read more
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Bangor Daily News article on the Fort Kent Moratorium, November 12, 2008
Residents will have the opportunity at the next annual town meeting to decide the fate of a citizens petition seeking a 180-day moratorium on the construction or processing of applications for wind power facilities. The annual Fort Kent town meeting is in March.
Members of the public were excluded from the Town Council's deliberation..... Read more
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Bangor Daily News article on the Fort Kent Moratorium, October 3, 2008
A group of Fort Kent residents is proposing a moratorium on industrial wind turbines within town limits until local officials can develop ordinances governing the enormous structures. The group has gathered roughly 220 signatures on a petition seeking a 180-day moratorium on construction of commercial wind power facilities..... Read more
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Bangor Daily News article on Wind Development in Aroostook County, August 16, 2008
Officials with Texas-based Horizon Wind won’t disclose how many of the turbines — each likely standing 400 feet tall from base to blade tip — would be built in each location. With the exception of Number Nine Mountain west of Bridgewater, company officials also decline to discuss exactly where they are looking.... Read more
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Bangor Daily News Summary of the Fort Kent council meeting of - June 9, 2008
The Town Council took no action Monday on a citizen request to begin zoning changes aimed at regulating industrial wind-powered energy within the municipality.
Nearly 100 residents were on hand for the meeting in which Mark Aman presented the proposed ordinance amendment.... Read more
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Bangor Daily News article on the Fort Kent project - April 5, 2008
A Texas company is courting Aroostook County landowners as it moves forward with plans for several large wind farms that could transform the landscape in some areas of northern Maine. Horizon Wind Energy's long-term plan envisions up to 400 turbines spinning in the farm fields and forests of Aroostook County.... Read more
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Forum discussion about Mars Hill project
Wind turbine noise problem in Mars Hill -- I read an article in the Boston Globe about how residents in the Mars Hill area really regret that they allowed a wind power plant to be built in their area because of the noise.... Read more
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Morning Sentinel article about Mars Hill project
It seems few in this town of about 1,500 people can agree on UPC Wind Management's newly completed $85 million project, which makes the unassuming potato-growing and truck-brokerage community home to New England's largest wind farm. But there's one thing everybody can agree on: The place sure looks different.... Read more
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Mars Hill resident Wendy Todd’s testimony to the Maine Legislature
Thank you for allowing me to speak. My name is Wendy Todd. I am from Aroostook County. I am a resident of Mars Hill and live approximately 2600 feet from the Mars Hill Wind Project. I am here today to offer testimony that residents around the project are suffering. There are 18 families that I know of ... Read more
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Sun Journal Article about Roxbury and Byron
The real issue is where wind power is developed in Maine. Small communities such as Roxbury and Byron, after several battles in unorganized territories, are now viewed as ideal candidates for wind projects. A recent state task force cited all of organized Maine as right for sites. It seems a hasty conclusion, given the discord in Byron. If a town of 120 people, in a remote part of the state, can divide along such harsh lines regarding wind, potential for acrimony could escalate proportional to population.... Read more
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Energias de Portugal recently acquires Horizon Wind Energy
In July 2007, EDP acquired 100% of the share capital of Horizon, a leading developer, owner and operator of wind power generation in the United States, from the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The combined entity resulting from the acquisition will be a leading global renewables player, with over 3.800 gross megawatts ("MW")of wind power generation in operation by the end of 2007.... Read more
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Interest of ‘CLF Ventures’ in ‘Aroostook Wind’ and the Fort Kent project
CLF Ventures is working with Linekin Bay Energy and Horizon Wind Energy. This team is planning a substantial wind project in the agricultural region of far north Maine. This project, known as Aroostook Wind.... Read more
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Noise issue at the Mars Hill project
Having now "lived" with the turbines for four full seasons of the year, the Mars Hill residents within 3000 feet of the turbines have a consistent refrain: "Noise is a real problem". Residents of Mars Hill recently submitted letters to the towns of Byron and Roxbury Maine, who were considering changes to their land use regulations to permit turbines... Read more
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