Freedom (ME) clears way for wind farm

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http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/3998003.html

FREEDOM -- Voters put out the welcome mat for a wind turbine project on Tuesday when they tossed aside the ordinance that threatened it.

Residents voted by a 59 percent margin (159-112) to repeal the commercial development review ordinance that was developed and approved last August.

The ordinance was written in response to Portland-based Competitive Energy Services plans to install three 400-foot electricity generating wind turbines on Beaver Ridge.

The planning board approved the project late last year, but the board of appeals rejected the proposal in March after finding the project failed to meet the noise levels and bonding requirements spelled out in the commercial ordinance.

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