Friday, April 29, 2011
Horse Creek Wind Farm ~ A stunning reversal~ Editorial
At this week's Clayton Town Council meeting, the developers of the proposed Horse Creek Wind Farm must have thought they were watching a replay of the 1929 Rose Bowl wherein University of California, Berkeley, center Roy Riegels scooped up a fumble and ran 65 yards in the wrong direction against Georgia Tech. At Wednesday night's meeting, Supervisor Justin A. Taylor, after nearly relentless support of commercial wind projects, suddenly offered a series of amendments to the town's zoning law regarding wind projects that surely must have flummoxed wind power advocates everywhere.
The amendments, if accepted, will probably send the Horse Creek project back to the drawing board or beyond. Atlantic Wind LLC, a subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, has submitted a draft environmental impact statement to the Clayton Planning Board and review of that document has begun. But the amendments proposed by Mr. Taylor appear, at least on the surface, to throw a serious monkey wrench into Atlantic Wind's plans.
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