While North Country officials supported a proposed 99-megawatt wind farm that will place 33 turbines along the ridgeline in Phillips Brook, residents had questions about it at Thursday’s public meeting on the project.
Granite Reliable Power has filed an application with the N.H. Site Evaluation Committee to construct the wind farm in Dummer and the unincorporated places of Dixville, Odell, Millsfield, and Erving’s Location.
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