Friday, April 22, 2011

MONTHS-LONG STUDY ON WIND FARM BEGINS

CLAYTON — The joint town and village Planning Board will take months to review the draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Horse Creek Wind Farm in public sessions.

The board held its first workshop on the statement on Thursday night.

"My schedule is whatever it takes for us to feel comfortable with what we see," Chairman Roland A. "Bud" Baril said. "We have an agreement between the wind company and us to waive the 45-day requirement. We will move forward in a timely manner, but we're not set to a time."

Downsized a little more since the project's reintroduction in January, Horse Creek Wind Farm will include up to 48 wind turbines with a rated capacity of 96 megawatts. Each turbine is 476 feet tall. The $230 million project would sit on 9,450 acres of leased land in the southeastern part of Clayton.

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