LOWELL — Town Meeting Day voters in Lowell voted against an article opposing Green Mountain Power’s Kingdom Community Wind project.
The anti-wind resolution was passed over in 2012, and was brought back this year after resident Ed Wesolow took the issue to the Vermont Supreme Court.
In a vote of 110 to 27, voters showed their support of the 21 turbines of the Kingdom Community Wind project that are producing electricity. The taxes paid by Green Mountain Power are supplementing the town budget.
Before being built in 2010, 75 percent of residents at Town Meeting Day voted in favor of the project.
The Lowell wind project generated opposition from opponents who felt it would take away from the beauty of the ridgeline. They also felt that it did not provide any real environmental benefit.
In 2010, Wesolow and others petitioned to place an anti-wind article on the Town Meeting Day agenda. The proposed article accused the wind project of violating private property rights, destroying stream headwaters and depressing real estate values.
