Energy; Sabra Field and Nrg Try to Recolor Wind Turbine Views
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Gray, who works from his home in Norwich, called the collaboration "ingenious.". He suggested that by placing the turbines in a work of art, developers might counter the "branding" done by opponents, who have labeled the towers "industrial." "Does it really look like a factory?" he asked rhetorically. He compared the turbines to "monuments" or "sculptures," like the whale tails visible from 1-89.
Sheffield farmer Greg Bryant, a member of Ridge Protectors, didn't attend the gallery event. But in a phone interview, he calls the 1000-acre, 35-turbine project proposed for his town "out of scale" with other area developments. It's a complaint the 6-month-old citizen group trumpeted with a full-page ad in Sunday's Burlington Free Press. "These are so massive," Bryant observes. "They're taller than the Bennington Battle Monument. The base of them is bigger than my house."See the full content of this document
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Energy; Sabra Field and Nrg Try to Recolor Wind Turbine Views
SOUTH BURLINGTON -- Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words on the op-ed pages of The Burlington Free Press. While the prospect of wind turbines on Vermon...
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