Article: Alameda County, Calif., delays hearing on wind turbines.

Byline: Sophia Kazmi

Sep. 1--The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has delayed until at least October a hearing about future operation of Altamont Pass' wind turbines.

It is the second such delay for hearing appeals of conditional use permits issued to allow energy- producing turbines to turn in the hills of unincorporated east county. The rescheduled hearing had been set for Thursday morning; it had originally scheduled for June, but was pushed to Sept. 2 because of an overbooked supervisors' agenda.

Twenty-nine conditional use permits for turbines in the Altamont Pass were renewed -- some for 20 years, some indefinitely -- in November 2003 ...

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