âIt has got poisonous,â said Peter Van Scoyoc, East Hampton town supervisor, whose support for the wind farm has been castigated in vitriolic Facebook posts and now a new lawsuit. âWe are a tight-knit community and there have been disagreements in the past, but they havenât been personalized like they are now.â
Others keep a more stoic silence when faced with the issue that has divided this affluent coastal community. âOne guy I play tennis with wants to stop the project,â said Jerry Mulligan, a retired lawyer who is in favor of it. âWe try to not talk about it at all.â
They aren t used to losing : wealthy New York enclave battles over offshore windfarm
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Van Scoyoc rejects application by group seeking to incorporate Wainscott as a village
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A group of residents say local officials failed to properly assess environmental and safety hazards in granting an easement to build a power line through the town of Wainscott on Long Island.
A wind farm like this one in the North Sea could be built off the coast of New York.
LONG ISLAND (CN) Plans to build the country’s largest wind farm off the coast of Long Island stumbled Tuesday after residents filed a petition to stop construction of a route to carry power from the turbines.
Residents of the hamlet of Wainscott claim the East Hampton Town Board approved a transmission cable running through the town, which would connect to the $1.6 billion wind farm, without first doing a full environmental or safety review.