First Wind appeals state's denial of wind project
Boston-based First Wind is appealing Maine's decision to deny a $100 million, 16-turbine wind project on Bowers Mountain after it was rejected by a citizen board last month.
The Bangor Daily News reported that First Wind filed the appeal last week in Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
This is the second time the company has filed an appeal to challenge the state's rejection of the project, which had already reduced its 27 proposed turbines to 16 to appease concerns about the project's scenic impact.
The company's permit to build the wind project on Bowers Mountain, which stretches between Carroll Plantation and Kossuth Township, was denied by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection last year and then by the citizen-run Board of Environmental Protection last month, both saying the project would negatively impact the area's scenery.
First Wind has already signed an agreement to supply power to a Rhode Island-based company from Bowers Mountain by March 2017. That deal could be jeopardized if the wind project isn't operational by then.
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