A few years ago, a civil engineer, a man who builds wind power installations in the Midwest, spoke at a public hearing in Dixfield. He said the people of Maine should fight industrial wind as hard as they could. He said, “You can’t live near these things.”
You also can’t live near the high-tension power lines. They’re ugly and intrusive, and some people suspect them of causing cancer.
Don’t let them kid you that their wind “farm” has something to do with “green energy.” Wind energy is all about corporate profits. There is nothing “green” about mountaintop removal, big roads into the back country and turning Maine’s mountains into an industrial zone.
Furthermore, wind generation is a very rapidly evolving field and the new generators aren’t noisy, don’t kill wildlife and don’t require intrusive placement and massive public subsidies. What is proposed for Dixfield and other Maine communities is basically dinosaur technology.
It is time to stop this blight on Western Maine.
I hope the residents of Dixfield will vote “yes” for the proposed ordinance regarding wind power.
Sally McGuire, Carthage
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