See article below...
Recently there was a thread about possibilities for local energy generation..
Freeland PA is a small former coal town in the mountains about 30 miles south
of Wilkes-Barre.
Maybe they are looking at the wind farms being developed around them by the
Spanish multi-national corporations Gamesa and Iberdrola, and asking themselves
"Hey, why can't we do this too?"
George Frantz
Freeland officials eye wind energy
Published: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:12 AM EST
Freeland Borough Council and the Freeland Municipal Authority are thinking
about getting into the wind business.
“It’s just an idea,” Freeland Councilman Dave Mahon said recently. “We have 300
acres in Upper Lehigh, and we are looking for ways to raise revenue. We haven’t
done anything.”
Mahon said council members have not formally discussed the idea with anyone
else but plan to do so during a joint meeting that council will hold with the
borough’s water and sewer authority at 10 a.m. Dec. 31.
Freeland borough solicitor Don Karpowich said researchers at Penn State
University have been asked to study whether such a wind project could work.
“We don’t want to make any mistakes,” he said.
No formal discussions have yet been held with officials from Foster Township,
where the borough’s 300-acre parcel is located, Karpowich said.
Several local municipalities, including Foster, are considering and adopting
ordinances regulating windmills, due to interest in large, commercial turbines
and smaller, household windmills.
— Jim Dino
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