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Planners for Long-Proposed Industrial Nimbus Wind Farm in Rural Carroll County Finally Go Public

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Early draft of a confidential Nimbus project map submitted to federal environmental regulators shows array of wind turbines built high atop mountain ridges south of Green Forest.
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Construction of the 9,500-acre Nimbus wind energy facility, the first like it on the Ozarks Plateau, could begin in eastern Carroll County, Arkansas as soon as next year. A team from Scout Clean Energy based in Boulder, Colorado staged two public information gatherings for the first time last month in Berryville after six years of project development drawing both support and criticism.

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