Community
Citizens still pushing for wind facility moratorium
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Chowan County citizens
last week continued to ask
county officials to impose
a moratorium on the per
mitting of large-scale wind
energy facilities.
The Perquimans Count\
Board of Commissioners
adopted a moratorium ear
lier tlus fall and a number
■ >f t howan residents have
asked county officials here
io follow suit.
Apex Cle;m Energy Inc .
a company based in Char
lottesville. Va.. has pro
posed the Timbermill Wind
lYnjeot along the Chowan
Perquimans line. The pro
posed utility-scale wind
energy generation facility
would he located on YVey
erhauser-owned timber
land and atfjacent farmland
in the Bear Swamp area.
During the public com
ment period at the Nov.
In meeting of the Chowan
Board of Commission
ers, Tyner resident Kristy
I*aLonde said she had been
told by some of her neigh
bors that she lives in a small
town and should keep her
opinions to herself and
keep her mouth shut.
But LaLonde was not
keeping quiet.
She mentioned having
heard about health con
cerns that had led county
health officials in Wiscon
sin to declare a wind farm
there a health hazard.
LaLonde asked Chowan
officials to follow the lead
of their counterparts in
Perquimans County by
taking time taking a rest
period to do research on is
sues related to wind energy
facilities.
The burden should be on
Apex, as the' developers of
the proposed Timbermill
Wind Energy Project, to
demonstrate to the county
that the project will he safe
and beneficial, she said.
“We don't need them,"
LaLonde said. “They need
us."
Harriet Delian said she
and her husband had re
cently visited a wind farm
in Wisconsin.
She said she would like
to be on the agenda for the
commissioners' next meet
ing in order to make a pre
sentation on what they had
learned.
James R. White, who
lives on Sandy Ridge Road,
said he believes the county
commissioners should take
time to learn more about
the proposed wind energy
facility.
He said his wife has
health issues and he would
not want his uife's health,
or tlu- health of anyone
else, to he negatively ef
fected by a wind energy
facility.
Mary White also asked
that the county commis
sioners do more research
on wind energy facilities. It
seems there are ha/ardims
things associati'il with the
facilities, she said.
Karl Willis said that if
lit' were seated where the
county commissioners are
seated, the proposed wind
energy facility would give
him room for pans*'.
Willis told the commis
sioners lie was eneourag
ing them to do just that
to pause and consider (he
mailer thoroughly.
Kihel ( opeland said she
wanted the county to re
tinue a one-mile setback
from an adjoining property
line for the construction of
a large-scale wind turbine.
A one-mile setback was
one of the provisions of a
proposed wind energy or
dinance amendment that
was put forward by the
county planning board in
I lie spring. The board-did
not adopt the proposed
amendment, opting instead
for a minor adjustment to
the ordinance following a
second planning board re
\ iew in late summer.
Winborne to
seek re-election
BY REGGIE PONDER
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have .liua mnccd they
will not be seeking re
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if' >m'• ■ r. a I leini a rat
a ho represents the :!rd
IhMnd vo far has not
made a si al ement on
'he record regarding
: 11' | ha:iv !oj next year's
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■a as unable to reach
lioniiei lor comment on
:his s11my
Tin I’rmiaiA will be
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h ding for ■ minty and
v'ale ( 11111 t • v begins at
noon . 111 Tuesday I >ec
I ! he filing per i>>d ends
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end of the
current
term he
will have
''I'RCll lh f
years as
a county
c n mini s -
sl<”1" WINBORNE
W i n -
borne said he wants to
put his experience to use
as the county confronts
declining revenues.
"I don't think the
county's financial crisis
is over." Winborne said.
"It is in check. But 1
w ant to continue my fis
cal conservatism on the
board."
He said lie's proud of
the Hotel Hinton project
and of debt restructure
ini’ that will pay big div
idends for the county,
t'howan ( utility is head
ed in the right direction
but still has a ways to
go. he said.
A lot of work lies
ahead in coining up with
a solution on the for
mer 1). H \\ alker School
building, lie said.
Winborne acknowl
edged he might lose
some votes because of
his position on wind
energy facilities. But he
added that most of the
time on any issue it's the
people who are against
something who will
speak init on the issue.
I m not a politician."
inborne said. "I'm just
a regular person out
hen- 11 v ing tii represent
the people
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