ALERT – Proposed Pantego Wind Facility
Pantego Wind Energy, LLC (EMP-61 Sub 0)
Pantego Wind Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Invenergy, in September 2011, filed an application with the commission for permission to build forty-nine, 492-foot-tall, industrial wind turbines on 11,000 acres near Terra Ceia and Pantego.
Location: Near Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Concern: Location – Major Foraging Area for Migratory Waterfowl especially for the Tundra Swans
U.S. Dept. of Interior/US Fish and Wildlife Service's Comments to N.C. Utilities Commission
Map -- Proposed Wind Turbines
Map from the supplemental EIS for the Navy’s proposed outlying landing field. It depicts the wildlife refuge, the proposed OLF site, and farm fields within 20 miles of the refuge that provide forage for geese, swans and other waterfowl.
note: black lines - proposed wind turbines; orange – farm fields where waterfowl forage and feed
Map -- Audubon Pungo-Pocosin Lakes Important Bird Area (IBA)
Proposed Pantego Wind Facility Brochure
Proposed Pantego Wind Facility Brochure Sample Letter
Is It The OLF All Over Again? STOP AND THINK! 11-13-2011
Bound to tangle with a turbine? 11-16-2011
North Carolina’s Serengeti 12-01-2005
Urgent – N.C Utilities Commission
please send written comments, express your views and request them to delay the ruling concerning the application of the -- Pantego Wind Energy, LLC -- (sample letter)
Written Statements: include Docket No. Emp-61 Sub 0
Chief Clerk
N.C. Utilities Commission
4325 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4325
Project: PANTEGO WIND ENERGY, LLC (EMP-61 Sub 0)
Docket No. EMP-61 Sub 0
Docket Search, N.C. Utilities Commission
http://ncuc.commerce.state.nc.us/docksrch.html
Urgent – Governor Bev Perdue's Office
please call, email and express your concern: (800) 662-7952 or
(919) 733-2391 or (919) 733-4240
governor.office@nc.gov
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