Lack of Support Spells Demise of Camden Wind Power Effort

10/27/10 06:19 pm  Updated: 10/27/10 06:22 pm

By Heather Steeves
BDN Staff

CAMDEN, Maine — Efforts to consider a wind project in town halted Tuesday night. After more than two months of soliciting applications for a wind committee to explore the possibility of bringing turbines to the top of Ragged Mountain, the town received a strong message that the project is unwanted.
At least seven of the eight applicants to the committee were opposed to generating wind energy on the mountain. After some discussion at a meeting Tuesday night, the town’s Select Board unanimously voted not to continue discussions of the project, and not to form a committee after all.
“I think what you are seeing — with only so-called anti-wind people who have applied — may be an indication of what is going on with this project,” said committee applicant Cindy Gagnon....

No one voiced support for a wind project on Ragged Mountain at the Tuesday night meeting.

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