Officials of Texas-based company negotiating with landowners (800 MW wind farm, Maine)

[jpak]

http://www.bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=168497&zoneid=164

FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine - For the past 150 years, residents of this small border town have scratched out a living harvesting two things well-suited to the long winters and fleeting summers of far northern Maine: pine and potatoes.

Even today, every road out of Fort Fairfield is dotted with century-old farmhouses flanked by rolling hills of spuds, broccoli, canola or similarly hardy crops.

But that bucolic view soon could be altered by the arrival of a new type of "farm," one that the town’s settlers and many current residents likely could never have fathomed.

One of the nation’s largest wind-power developers is eyeing Fort Fairfield and several other Aroostook County towns for the most ambitious energy projects in state history.

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[madokie]

1. I'm sure liking reading all these stories about wind farms

seems like everytime I'm on the hiway I pass some turbine blades in transit.