Mega-wind power project to affect largest number of homes in Vermont

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Watchdog.org:

The 28-turbine Stiles Brook Wind Project proposed by Spanish company Iberdrola Renewables, were it to go forward, would not only be the largest in the state but also the most intrusive.

 

Lynn Barrett, spokesperson for the Grafton Woodlands Group, sent this graph illustrating that many more homes would be within close range of the Stiles Brook turbine project than other existing projects.

 

Lynn Barrett, spokesperson for the Grafton Woodlands Group, told Watchdog that there are 94 homes in Windham and nine in Grafton between a half mile to one mile of at least one of the proposed 500-foot turbines. She added that over 50 percent of Windham’s homes, or 235 homes, would be within 1.5 miles. In Grafton, 22 dwellings would be within 1.25 miles.

 

Graphs that Barrett provided to Watchdog seem to indicate that’s roughly four or five times the number of homes with a similar range at existing mega-turbine projects in Sheffield and Lowell.

 

In extreme cases, as in Sheffield, families within one mile of a turbine project have had to leave their homes due to extensive noise and vibration disturbances.