Watertown Daily Times
Date: 04/27/2007
T. Urling and Mabel Walker of Watertown and Cape Vincent are among 20 north country residents named in a 94-person antitrust complaint against the wind industry.
The complaint — submitted Wednesday via e-mail to the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division — alleges that a number of foreign and domestic companies “have conspired to eliminate competition in the newly emerging wind energy industry.” It claims that, through alliances and cross-ownership, the alleged “international cartel” is avoiding competition for potential wind farm sites, reducing benefits to landowners and municipalities, and that “virtually all of the earnings are funneled abroad to the foreign owners and investors.”
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Cape Vincent Local Development Corp. sends out survey asking about wind farm.
Byline: Kelly Vadney
Article from:Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY) Article date:
Apr. 11--CAPE VINCENT --
It's easy to ruffle feathers in Cape Vincent.
Just follow the Cape Vincent Local Development Corp.'s footsteps and send out 2,000 surveys that ask questions about wind turbines.
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Apr. 11--CAPE VINCENT --
It's easy to ruffle feathers in Cape Vincent.
Just follow the Cape Vincent Local Development Corp.'s footsteps and send out 2,000 surveys that ask questions about wind turbines.
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Saturday, April 7, 2007
WPEG ~ Wind Lawsuit Claims zoning law change required for utilities designation of wind turbines
By Kelly Vadney
Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY)
04/07/2007
The town of Cape Vincent sees proposed wind turbines just like a water treatment plant or electrical substation, utilities allowed under its existing zoning laws. But an opposition group contends that dozens of 400-foot-high turbines spread over hundreds of acres aren’t utilities, and has filed a lawsuit to force the town to create new zoning controls.
A judge will decide who’s right, and that ruling may send the town back to square one in the planning process for turbine development. If the ruling is made in favor of the town, the planning process will continue with the possibility of turbines being placed in the municipality’s river and lakefront districts, on waterfront property near Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
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Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY)
04/07/2007
The town of Cape Vincent sees proposed wind turbines just like a water treatment plant or electrical substation, utilities allowed under its existing zoning laws. But an opposition group contends that dozens of 400-foot-high turbines spread over hundreds of acres aren’t utilities, and has filed a lawsuit to force the town to create new zoning controls.
A judge will decide who’s right, and that ruling may send the town back to square one in the planning process for turbine development. If the ruling is made in favor of the town, the planning process will continue with the possibility of turbines being placed in the municipality’s river and lakefront districts, on waterfront property near Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
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Monday, April 2, 2007
Turbine foes file lawsuit
April 02, 2007
Turbine foes file lawsuit
(Watertown Daily Times (NY) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Mar. 31--CAPE VINCENT -- A citizens group opposed to a proposed wind farm here has mounted a legal challenge to the town's determination that the project qualifies as a utility under zoning law.
Wind Power Ethics Group filed an Article 78 petition Wednesday in state Supreme Court against the town's Zoning Board of Appeals and St. Lawrence Windpower LLC, the developer of the proposed 97-turbine project.
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Turbine foes file lawsuit
(Watertown Daily Times (NY) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Mar. 31--CAPE VINCENT -- A citizens group opposed to a proposed wind farm here has mounted a legal challenge to the town's determination that the project qualifies as a utility under zoning law.
Wind Power Ethics Group filed an Article 78 petition Wednesday in state Supreme Court against the town's Zoning Board of Appeals and St. Lawrence Windpower LLC, the developer of the proposed 97-turbine project.
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Wind Farm Meeting Moved Due To Crowd
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By Kelly Vadney
Publication: Watertown Daily Times
(Watertown, NY)
Publication Date: 04/01/2007
The town of Lyme’s debate on a wind power moratorium Saturday drew enough residents to be moved, physically.
When the crowd formed a line outside the municipal building’s meeting room, the Town Council relocated the session less than a mile down the road, to the fire hall. There, about 80 people listened to arguments for and against a moratorium on wind farm development. A moratorium would put development on hold while the council adopts zoning for turbines.
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By Kelly Vadney
Publication: Watertown Daily Times
(Watertown, NY)
Publication Date: 04/01/2007
The town of Lyme’s debate on a wind power moratorium Saturday drew enough residents to be moved, physically.
When the crowd formed a line outside the municipal building’s meeting room, the Town Council relocated the session less than a mile down the road, to the fire hall. There, about 80 people listened to arguments for and against a moratorium on wind farm development. A moratorium would put development on hold while the council adopts zoning for turbines.
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