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Wind farm review tonight in Lincoln

LINCOLN, Maine — The planning board begins its review tonight of a proposed $130 million wind farm that, if approved, would deposit about 40 mammoth windmills on Rollins Mountain in four towns.

First Wind of Massachusetts hopes to build 40 1½-megawatt windmills, each more than 300 feet tall, in Burlington, Lincoln, Lee and Winn, creating as much as 60 megawatts of electricity through Evergreen Wind Power, a First Wind subsidiary.

The board will begin its review at Mattanawcook Junior High School at 7 p.m.

Under the plan, Lincoln would have 19 or 20 turbines; Winn, three; Lee, seven; and Burlington, 12. Two turbine sites are listed as alternates. The company would install a 115,000-volt transmission line from Rollins Mountain to a Mattawamkeag connection to the New England grid.

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Breaking from the herd to smalltown Maine

With the economy taking a nose dive, this seems like a smart time to explore do-it-yourself options: things we could make, raise, or grow less expensively than we can buy them. We thought it might be instructive, even entertaining, to spend a few days on a farm during fall harvest.

So we were delighted to discover Three Pines Bed & Breakfast and Farm. The off-the-grid solar home on 40 acres was recently named by the state a leader in environmentally responsible tourism – the perfect place, we thought, for recession-conscious ecotravel.

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Iran switches reserves to gold: report

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July.

Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, is under U.N. and U.S. sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme and is now also facing declining revenue from its oil exports after crude prices tumbled.

“With the plans of the presidency…the country’s money reserves were changed into gold so that we wouldn’t be faced with many problems in the future,” presidential adviser Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi was quoted as saying by business daily Poul.

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Why is Maine importing trash?

Maine a dumping ground for others’ waste

Recently, Maine Public Radio and the Belfast Republican Journal reported how the State Planning Office unilaterally modified solid waste policy to allow even more unsorted construction demolition debris to be transported into the state.

This is quite a change for a state that used to have progressive policies toward solid waste.

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