Monday, March 8, 2010

Cities and towns seek to standardize wind turbine rules.


Cities and towns seek to standardize wind turbine rules. Middletown has passed a new ordinance.“We as a company have to go where we have the best opportunity to sell our products and a lot of times that, unfortunately, is not Rhode Island,” said Bob Chew, who works in the Bristol office of Alteris Renewables and is founder and president of the company.

Chew called for the RI General Assembly to adopt universal rules regulating wind turbines or force municipalities to adopt their own – within certain parameters – in a reasonable time frame. Read the full article from Providence Business News by Chris Barrett http://www.pbn.com/detail/48398.html Photo shows Portsmouth High School wind turbine erected a year ago.

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