First Virginia wind project survives historic site challenge

Highland New Wind Development can go forward with the first wind energy project in Virginia after regulators denied a complaint by the commonwealth’s Department of Historic Resources (DHR) that the project would encroach on a nearby Civil War site.

In 2007, the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission approved the project, consisting of 20 2 megawatt (MW) wind turbines on private cow pasture covering parts of Allegheny Mountain near the West Virginia border.

Last summer, the director fo the Virginia DHR compained that the project did not comply with a condition placed on the project by Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the lead agency that coordinated its review. At issue is the visual impact of the project on Camp Allegheny, an historic Civil War site, just across the Log in to read complete article.

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