Cumberland County taking a six-month pause on wind farm development

“Our bylaws are 14 years old and were developed when wind turbines were 150 or 200 feet tall. There wasn’t as much development as there is today,” Scott said in a separate interview with SaltWire Network. “The industry has come a long way since then, but as the current bylaws are written, the community has virtually no say about where these turbines are located. These new turbines are 600 feet high.”

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