{"id":12024,"date":"2015-09-09T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2015-09-09T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:16:44","slug":"bitter-wind-a-town-divided-over-a-controversial-maine-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12024","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Wind: A Town Divided Over A Controversial Maine Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/bitter_wind_a_town_divided_over_a_controversial_maine_wind_farm\/2907\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitter Wind: A Town Divided Over\u00a0A Controversial Maine Wind Farm<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/138030164\" width=\"794\" height=\"447\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div>The proposal seemed straightforward: Erect 16 wind turbines on hilltops in rural Maine and generate enough electricity to power 25,000 homes and enough tax revenue to help a struggling local government in a depressed region. But the 450-foot turbines of the Bowers Wind farm would be seen from miles away in the picturesque<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageright\">\n<div class=\"imagecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/images\/features\/video-award-first-2015.png\" alt=\"Video Award First Place\" width=\"145\" height=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grand Lake Stream area, and objections to their presence set up a conflict that pitted neighbor against neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>In this nine-minute video, winner of the 2015 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest, videographer Roger Smith presents the viewpoints of the local proponents and opponents of the $100 million project. Those in favor see a revenue-generating, job-producing, green-energy boon for the region, with minimal environmental impact. Those opposed \u2014 including owners of the fishing, hunting, and tourist camps \u2014 see an eyesore that would mar Grand Lake Stream\u2019s scenic vistas and drive away visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, class divisions emerge, with some locals who support the project saying that the camp operators and owners of vacation homes were edging out longtime residents. \u201cWe\u2019re in a different class from them \u2014 they got money and a big camp on the lake,\u201d says Travis Worster. \u201cWe\u2019re just the people that used to live here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/bitter_wind_a_town_divided_over_a_controversial_maine_wind_farm\/2907\/#video\"><strong>Watch the video<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitter Wind: A Town Divided Over\u00a0A Controversial Maine Wind Farm The proposal seemed straightforward: Erect 16 wind turbines on hilltops in rural Maine and generate enough electricity to power 25,000 homes and enough tax revenue to help a struggling local government in a depressed region. But the 450-foot turbines of the Bowers Wind farm would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6004,1103,8835,998,7163],"class_list":["post-12024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-controversy","tag-electricity","tag-maine","tag-wind-turbines","tag-yale-environment-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}