Lyme Council to appeal ruling against wind law: Supreme Court judge ruled town improperly voided citizens petitions

By Nancy Madsen
Times Staff Writer

Watertown Daily Times

11 September 2008

LYME — At its meeting Wednesday night, the Town Council decided to appeal a judge’s ruling that knocked down its wind energy facility law.

After an executive session that lasted nearly an hour, the council voted 5-0 to appeal state Supreme Court Judge Hugh A. Gilbert’s Aug. 21 decision to side with 10 property owners who said that the council acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it rejected a petition protesting the adoption of a local law regulating the siting of wind turbines.

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