Fort Drum wary of wind near Wheeler-Sack Airfield
By NANCY MADSEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010
FORT DRUM — Wind power developers looking at Jefferson County don't have a set distance to avoid the Army installation.
"It would be something we would look at on a case-by-case basis," Fort Drum spokeswoman Julie A. Cupernall said.
About a month ago, the New York Times published a story detailing the delays or abandonment of 9,000 megawatts of proposed wind projects in the country because of concerns of radar interference raised by the military or the Federal Aviation Administration. Turbines can look like airplanes on radar or cause blackout zones where planes disappear, the article said.
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