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Board denies permit for wind turbines

Turbines, trimmed from 8 to 2, shot down

By Christine Legere

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 23, 2012

A plan to build eight power-generating wind turbines on bogs in Wareham was whittled to two smaller wind machines over the past 16 months due to opposition from neighbors, but apparently those concessions still weren’t enough. In the latest example of how alternative-energy projects are meeting with considerable resistance in a number of communities south of Boston, Bog Wind failed to win the support of the Wareham Zoning Board of Appeals after seven public hearings.

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