VtSkier wrote:
This winter, the Okemo Mountain resort here became the first New England
ski resort to get all of its electricity from wind turbines, including
the power used to run its arsenal of 1,000 snow-making guns.

Everybody is hustling to claim green power (including the local) but
it's all bull****. They're not building new wind farms; they're
"transferring" power from utilities that already have wind farm sources
and would sale that power into the market anyway. It's a shell game
played because of a perceived greenish patron base who will be (easily)
impressed. They have ridges with wind, they have ponds, they could build
their own wind farms and use pumped storage hydro power for calm days
and really make an impact (primarily an impact on the beauty of their
wilderness ridges, but what the hey!)