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Article: Let voters decide on wind turbines
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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RE "STATE presses wind projects: Bill aims to ease gridlock
around appeals process" (Page A1, Nov. 3): If the Legislature is
unable to expedite the process, let the voters decide. Tell us how
much our utility bills will drop under wind power, and let us decide
how much we are willing to tolerate local obstacles to this form of
energy. If a community's voters were given the chance to pay so much
less, mightn't they overrule the not-in-my-backyard set in their own
backyards? If those living closest to the turbines paid the least
for utilities, mightn't they approve the projects?
As for people's fears that the turbines would blight a natural
landscape, these are not your father's unsightly ...