Posted on 12/20/2017 12:48:53 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
David Friend began scouting the former strip coal mine here 16 years ago, with visions that it could one day produce a different sort of energy.
The developer persuaded landowners along the blustery ridge in Western Maryland to bless his plans for more than two dozen wind turbines that would tower more than 40 stories high.
But after a years-long battle with Allegany County officials and concerned neighbors — a saga that has passed through the local zoning board and state Public Service Commission, and reached Maryland’s highest court — the clear-cut hilltops remain bare. The modern windmills that are visible from Interstate 68 are mostly in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Tens of thousands more have sprouted across the country.
It’s one of many examples in Maryland showing that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, it’s not always easy going green.
Eileen Stoger argues that living next to a wind farm isn’t a breeze. The Garrett County woman has joined Allegany County residents in their fight against the Dan’s Mountain proposal because she objects to a set of turbines already in her community. She says they can seem as loud as a jet engine and sometimes cast a strobe-light flicker that makes her dizzy. Many of her neighbors are suing the developers of the project, known as Fourmile Ridge Wind.
“It drives me crazy when people call them windmills,” she says. “Those are those cute little things in Holland.”
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Make the guy come up with some 10x better batteries before allowing the spread of centuries old, outmoded technology.
a set of turbines already in her community. She says they can seem as loud as a jet engine and sometimes cast a strobe-light flicker that makes her dizzy. Many of her neighbors are suing the developers of the project, known as Fourmile Ridge Wind.
Tony Bequette, who manages a small farm near the project, says that he has to turn on white noise so his daughters can sleep and that he awakens frequently at night. He thinks the turbines’ noise has given his daughter migraines and nausea.
the red lights atop each turbine, resembling the glowing eyes of giants, force his family to keep their blinds closed, especially when it’s foggy.
“It is menacing,” he told the commissioners. “This is no way to live.”
Ha-ha. H0gan and Fr0sh are NOT gonna get their way around those parts!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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