[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, ENERGY: "Wind power foes fear impact on [Niagara Falls, NY] air base"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wind power foes fear impact on Falls air base

by Thomas J. Prohaska  
Buffalo News (NY)
January 6, 2016

TOWN OF NIAGARA - Opponents of a planned wind power project on the shores of Lake Ontario asserted Wednesday that the presence of the turbines might be a black mark against the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station in any future round of threatened base closures, even though the turbines would be about 25 miles away.

Save Ontario Shores, a citizen group that is fighting Apex Clean Energy, a Virginia company that wants to build as many as 70 wind turbines in the towns of Somerset and Yates, released a letter from three retired colonels from the Falls base saying the lack of “encroachment” in the base’s military operating area was a major positive in preventing the closure of the base when it was placed on a Pentagon hit list twice before.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/all-niagara-county/wind-power-foes-fear-impact-on-falls-air-base-20160106

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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