http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071104/NEWS01/71105006/1009TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON, N.Y. — While Vermonters fight over proposals for a few wind farms, the largest concentration of wind turbines in the eastern United States has begun to rise just 60 miles from Burlington.
White, needle-like towers spike the scrubby landscape along U.S. 11 as it parallels the Canadian border through this sparsely populated stretch of farm country northwest of Plattsburgh.
Huge trucks inched along local roads late last month, delivering turbine blades like giants’ pinwheels and generator housings the size of mini-buses. In half-cut cornfields, cranes and crews assembled towers taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Noble Environmental Power, a Connecticut company, plans to turn on the power from its 120-turbine project in Clinton and neighboring Ellenburg this winter. A second developer, Texas-based Horizon Energy, is awaiting permits to erect 109 turbines next summer in the two towns.
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