LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Year in review: Wind turbine battle continues 

Credit:  By Chris Reber | Times News | December 31. 2020 | www.tnonline.com ~~

A multiyear dispute over proposed wind turbines in Penn Forest Township continued in county and state courts in 2020.

County courts dealt two setbacks to the proposed turbines on property owned by the Bethlehem Authority. The company proposing the turbines appealed the decisions to a state appeals court.

In April, Judge Steven Serfass sided with two property owners who appealed the approval of Atlantic Wind’s first application for 37 turbines.

In May, Serfass again sided with property owners, upholding the zoning hearing board’s 2019 decision to reject Atlantic Wind’s second application for 28 turbines, which would be larger than the ones proposed originally.

In both cases, the court said that Atlantic Wind failed to meet two factors required to receive zoning approval.

The first requirement was that a piece of property can only have one principal use. Property owners Phillip C. Malitsch and Christopher Mangold argued that the property is already used for drinking water production and the wind turbines would be a second principal use.

The second requirement was proving that the wind turbines would not exceed a noise limit of 45 dBA.

Atlantic Wind’s appeal of the second application is still pending in Commonwealth Court. Their appeal of the first application has been discontinued.

A separate proposal for 21 wind turbines on the Broad Mountain in Packer Township is currently being heard before the Packer Township Zoning Hearing Board.

Source:  By Chris Reber | Times News | December 31. 2020 | www.tnonline.com

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon