copyright the Chronicle 3-27-13 by Paul Lefebvre MONTPELIER — A legislative push to give towns and regional planning commissions more say in the siting of industrial wind towers appears to be dead, following a preliminary vote here Tuesday in the Senate. The ... More »
This wording is as of 2-28-2013. – 131 – NOTICE CALENDAR Second Reading Favorable with Recommendation of Amendment S. 30. An act relating to siting of electric generation plants. Reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Snelling for the C... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle 1-9-2013 The legal fight between Green Mountain Power (GMP) and Chronicle publisher and reporter Chris Braithwaite has shifted from criminal to civil court. Defense attorney Phil White filed a civil complaint late last... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle 12-12-2012 NEWPORT — A utility wind developer company that tried to do the right thing by the press appears to have shot itself in the foot when it allowed the arrest of a reporter and then failed to step forward and re... More »
by Chris Braithwaite copyright the Chronicle 11-28-2012 LOWELL — All 21 turbines of the Kingdom Community Wind project have generated power, a spokesman for Green Mountain Power said Tuesday. And with the project making power, it has beaten the December 31 de... More »
by Richard Creaser copyright the Chronicle 11-21-2012 ISLAND POND — Within the next few days every registered voter and property taxpayer in the town of Brighton can expect to receive a ballot in the mail. That ballot asks the recipient whether or not they fa... More »
Editors, The citizens of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and Vermont as a whole are embroiled in a seriously divisive battle over the region’s ridgelines and the mountaintops, as big business attempts to line them with industrial wind turbines. Neighbors and... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle 8-22-2012 NEWPORT — It took a jury of nine women and three men four hours to find wind opponents known as the Lowell Six guilty of unlawful trespass, following a one-day trial here in Superior Court. The verdict appeare... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 25, 2012 by Chris Braithwaite The bottom section of a massive wind turbine bound for Green Mountain Power’s Lowell Mountain project tipped over Thursday, July 19, when it encountered a paving crew on Interstate 91. The interstate w... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 18, 2012 by Chris Braithwaite LOWELL — Though it was billed as just a “rally” and an opportunity for opponents of the Lowell Mountain wind project to “greet the turbines” as they arrived, Monday’s confrontation here turned into a b... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle March 15, 2006 MONTPELIER — The long shadow of the former Champion lands appears to have sealed the fate of a proposed wind farm on East Mountain in East Haven. Encumbered by conservation and public access easements, th... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright June 14, 2006 SHEFFIELD — Sheffield Selectmen and UPC Vermont Wind have come to an agreement. If the 20 wind generators proposed for Sheffield are built UPC will make an annual payment to the town of between $400,000 and $550,000... More »
