Windmills split town and families

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Environment  Sat, 08/16/2008 - 18:03

John Yancey stands on his property with a wind turbine from the Maple Ridge Wind Farm in Harrisburg, N.Y.<br /><br />The $400 million Maple Ridge wind project, the largest in New York state, brought money and jobs and a wondrous sense of prosperity to a place that had long given up on any.<br /><br />John Yancy knows the futuristic towers are pumping clean electricity into the grid, knows they have been largely embraced by his community.

But Yancey hates them.


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