Wind power

The "Nimbus" wind-power project, planned for construction across a large swath of private land in eastern Carroll County, if built, will be the largest in Arkansas. As Ozarks at Large reporter Jacqueline Froelich reveals, the Colorado-based developer Scout Clean Energy is pressing for public support to countervail growing anti-wind facility sentiment.

On today's show, construction of the 9,500-acre Nimbus wind farm in Carroll County could start next year. Also, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders visits a Fort Smith Air National Guard Base, and the Northwest Arkansas Protects 200 Acres on the Middle Fork of the White River. Plus, looking back at the state law putting creation science on par with evolution in the classroom and more.

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.

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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