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Article: Turbine poll blows lukewarm.
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- Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2007
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Byline: Kelly Vadney
Sep. 27--CHAUMONT -- Most Lyme residents welcome wind farms, but not necessarily in their own backyards.
According to recent survey results, 52 percent of property owners in Lyme say industrial wind turbine development in town is acceptable, but only 37 percent want turbines in their own neighborhoods.
The town sent out 2,300 surveys to property owners concerning wind power development in August, and saw about a 40 percent rate of return. Of the 916 surveys returned, 913 were complete enough to be used in compiling results, according to Paul E. Carr, a Lyme resident and professor of engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca. ...