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• Position: Maine - Conservation Law Foundation - Brief article

In the final months of 2007, CLF's Maine Advocacy Center played a vital role in supporting the applications for three proposed wind farms: UPC's Stetson Mountain project, Endless Energy's Black Nubble wind farm and TransCanada's Kibby Mountain project. Combined, these three energy initiatives could power 100,000 Maine homes. The Stetson Mountain project, located in Washington County, was approved by the Land Use Regulatory Commission at the end of 2007. Of the other two, located in western Maine's mountains, the Kibby wind farm received tentative approval in early January, but Black Nubble was tentatively denied.

CLF supported all three projects, submitting testimony from Advocacy Center Director Sean Mahoney and Dr. Cameron Wake, a contributing author of the recent Northeast Climate Impact Assessment. The testimony...