Wind+Project+Advancing

=** Wind Project Advancing **= By Eileen M. Adams Sun Journal Lewiston Maine USA **
 * February 19, 2010

The article "Wind Project Advancing", was mostly informative but with a somewhat positive outlook on the idea of wind energy. The article talked about the company, Patriot Renewables of Quincy Mass. proposing to build up to 13 wind turbines on a 2 to 3 mile section of the Saddleback Mountain Ridge on privately owned land in Carthage. The company will have options to buy about 1,000 acres. Carthage residents would not have a say in whether the wind "farm" could be built. But the town could get tax incentives.

“Carthage residents would not have a say in whether It could be built. However, if the town lots are used, residents would determine whether to allow construction of wind turbines.” This quote is saying that if the land is owned by the town the towns people have a choice if the wind farm is put up, but if the land is privately owned the have no choice if the wind farm it put up or not. I think that the towns people should have a choice because they will have to deal with the sound and the sight of them. The wind mills aren’t the most natural thing out there. The wind farms sticks right out on top of a mountain destroying beauty of the world, but shows technology is advancing.
 * Justin D.**

“Patriot Renewables has proposed building 13 wind turbines on a 2-3 mile section of the Saddleback Mountain Ridge on privately owned land.The company has options to buy about 1,000 acres.” They should take the opportunity to build those wind turbines, because it would help the economy with jobs, help save power so we don’t need to import as many fuels.Yes there are some faults to them but the end result is worth it.
 * Misty S.**

“If the town allows use of its land for part of the wind farm, it could collect royalties from the energy produced.” This means if the town allows Patriot Renewables LLC to build the wind farm on town land, they could collect some of the money made by the turbines. I think this is a great idea because the town would receive extra money to spend on parks, roads, and other equipment. Also, taxes could be lowered because of the extra source of income.
 * Justin C.**

“Todd Presson, chief operating officer for Patriot Renewables, said the company had collected more than a year’s worth of data on such things as wind speed and abundance, bird species, wetlands and other environmental issues.” This is a good thing because it means that there will be no mistakes and confusion as to what will happen to the surroundings of the windmills once they are placed. The windmills won’t be a waste of time and money because they’ve researched how much wind there will be, they know roughly what kind and how many birds will be killed by them, they know how the rain and mud will affect the structure of the turbines, and they know mostly whatever the other factors could be.
 * Austin B.**


 * If the town allows use of its land for part of the wind farm, it could collect royalties from the energy produced .**

//think that it would be very good for the town to have its own power system witch would save alot of money for the town residents with the price of power very high right know so maybe it might cost them less to use the electricity and then they still got normal power and can be used just in case of one of the turbines failing or if there is no wind on the mountain for some reason .// //**Aaron l .**//