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Why doesn't the Town Council share its concerns about the wind turbine with the general public ? The current location of the wind turbine has serious setback issues to the town water tank, high school field, local homes and the highway.

I haven't seen any public meetings that address the Senate Bill S 0260

http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText07/SenateText07/S0260.htm

There are two major problems with the turbine right now.

First -the turbine is as you know a total failure. The gear box as well as the three blades are no good.

Second - The turbine is an asset of the town purchased with a 0 percent bond and voted for by the public for both the bond and the turbine in one single vote. Along with being broken the turbine is a financial legal mess and the public needs to understand why the legal mess .

The Town Council needs to share the financial knot that the turbine is wrapped up in . Sooner or later people will catch on to how much more bad news is down the road about this turbine.

The turbine originally on National Geographic in 2009 now it's on the websites of every wind action group in the world on how not to build a wind turbine.

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From: Portsmouth council to hear wind turbine update Monday

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