Reposted here from the Valley Reporter. The Waitsfield Planning Commission is working its way through draft language to update the Town Plan’s treatment of how alternative energy installations, including wind turbines, should be sited.
Great news! The excellent documentary Windfall is coming to Waitsfield, VT. The documentary tells the story of one small town in upstate New York and its struggle to decide whether or not to accept industrial wind turbine development amidst their homes. The Friends of Northfield Ridge worked to bring the film to Vermont. Their release [...]
Letter reposted here from the Times Argus website. Truth about big wind Published: November 19, 2010 As an enviromental historian, I see a tragedy unfolding right here in Vermont. The Green Mountain State, which managed to dodge the bullets of the CCC roads along our ridgelines, mountaintop strip removal mining in West Virginia,
WMRW features a show called Politics & Science. On November 3rd, the show interviewed Peter Boynton of the Friends of Northfield Ridge on the topic of utility scale wind in Waitsfield. Below is the complete show.
The Friends of Northfield Ridge hosted a great event on Wednesday October 27th. The complete event was captured in audio format and you can play below or download. There is about two hours of presentation and about an hour of question and answer.
Reposted here from the Valley Reporter. Members of the Waitsfield Planning Commission discussed the potential for a community member-owned solar orchard with Friends of the Northfield Ridge representative Peter Boynton at their October 14 meeting.
Below is a commentary published in the Valley Reporter from Ben Luce in response to a recently published note from the wind industry.
Two great letters were recently published in Vermont newspapers. The first below is by Jock Gill, a Peacham resident and was published in the Caledonian Record on October 13th, 2010. The second is from Peter Boynton, a resident of Waitsfield and was published in the Valley Reporter.
