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Canadian community’s dealings with wind farms may give idea of what’s coming

A single wind farm located in a scenic setting outside this rural Canadian town was featured on a postage stamp three years ago.

Today, the cumulative stamp of hundreds of turbines on the views of wide-open farmland and majestic mountains here is an increasingly sticky issue.

"How many is too many?" asked Rod Zielinski, a municipal district councilman in Pincher Creek, 250 miles north of Great Falls.

Last year, the district unsuccessfully tried to create a wind development-free zone in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Now it’s proposing changes to its bylaws to address "cumulative effect."

KARL PUCKETT Tribune Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080721/NEWS01/807210301/1002

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