Payments promised Vermont town residents if voters OK wind project
GRAFTON, Vt. — Political style yard-signs with the giant word “NO” over the image of a wind turbine pop up on roads leading into the southern Vermont town of Grafton, evidence that yet another community in the state is debating whether to become home to an industrial wind farm. But added to an already emotional debate in Grafton and neighboring Windham is the developer’s promise of direct payments to residents of the two towns if voters approve the project Nov. 8. Some are calling that offer, first made public this month, an outright bribe. The Vermont attorney general’s office has found nothing improper about the proposed payments and nothing that would violate state election laws, but...
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