Terry Karkos, Staff Writer
River Valley |
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 12:10 pm
RUMFORD — Selectmen will continue work Thursday, Jan. 27, to develop an ordinance to regulate wind farms on town ridges.
According to the agenda for the 6 p.m. meeting, topics include shadow flicker, safety setback, decommissioning, and a request to hold a forum with Boston-based wind developer First Wind.
Representatives from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection will give presentations on the first three topics, as requested by selectmen at the Jan. 13 workshop.
The workshop will be held in the Rumford Falls Auditorium in the municipal building.
At previous meetings, only Rumford residents were allowed to speak.
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Hopefully, First Wind can explain the funding snag that occurred on the Lincoln project, or why they had to pull out of offering sale of their stock to the public, or how they helped devise the Oakfield wind ordinance then changed the scope of the project, or why the Somerset County Commissioners withdrew from their impending TIF offer on a project in that county, or how any project they propose would succeed without generous taxpayer subsidy, or how they would answer Governor LePage about 6 cent per kilowatt electricity, or why the Rumford project would be beneficial to the gas plant, the hydro plant or the co-gen plant, or how they plan to campaign for public support to vote in what obviously become a First Wind wind ordinance. Sharpen up your sales approach, First Wind.
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