Canadian community's dealings with wind farms may give idea of what's coming
| July 21, 2008 |  View for printing |
A single wind farm located in a scenic setting outside this rural Canadian town was featured on a postage stamp three years ago.
Today, the cumulative stamp of hundreds of turbines on the views of wide-open farmland and majestic mountains here is an increasingly sticky issue.
"How many is too many?" asked Rod Zielinski, a municipal district councilman in Pincher Creek, 250 miles north of Great Falls.
Last year, the district unsuccessfully tried to create a wind development-free zone in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Now it's proposing changes to its bylaws to address "cumulative effect."
KARL PUCKETT Tribune Staff Writer
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