Digging for a Solution

Here's a few articles I've collected from the VT Digger on Kingdom Community Wind and Vermont's opinion to renewables as a whole.

The first article is just an update on the prjoect (as of 1/11/12). It just gives the specs of the project and describes what new jobs have been created as a result. Although construction slowed down in the winter months, activity will be increasing with the arrival of the spring weather. The project is still on track to be complete and operational by the end of the year.

The second article explains that Green Mountain Power will be conserving over 2,700 acres of land to mitigate the impacts of the project. This is a big deal since the footprint of the project itself is only 159 acres, which means that GMP has made substantial steps to assure that wildlife impacts will be fully minimized. One of the key oppositions to wind turbines is habitat fragmentation, which GMP promised to address if the project was approved. So far it looks like the company is actually following through.

The third and final article talks about how recent weather patterns have really alarmed Vermont residents to climate change. Overall residents are all for conservation, renewables and such as a means of addressing climate change. However Vermont residents have heavily opposed deals with VT Yankee, Hydro-Quebec, and even the Lowell wind farm. The writer calls for community scale energy as an alternative to the same old crap that industrial size energy corporations have been pushing for years, now just in a different wrapping.