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Plans for Long-Rumored Industrial Wind Energy Facility in Eastern Carroll County Revealed

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Scout Clean Energy, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, has secured a sufficient number of private property easements along a rugged mountain ridge in eastern Carroll County to build a 180MW wind energy facility called the Nimbus Project. Quietly under development for well over six years, the $300-million-dollar industrial wind array will include more than forty 500-foot tall towers affixed with massive triple-blade turbines. But as more county residents catch wind of the unconventional-sited wind-power plant, opposition is circulating.

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Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for <i>Ozarks at Large.</i>
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