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Environmental

Mar. 19, 2007

Winds of Change

Forum Column - By George Caplan and Kristopher Davis - The Altamont Pass wind turbines produce a lot of energy, but they also allegedly harm birds. A court recently dismissed an environmental group's unfair-competition suit against the turbines' owners.

FORUM COLUMN

By George Caplan and Kristopher Davis
     
      In a case of first impression, Judge Bonnie Lewman Sabraw of the Alameda County Superior Court dismissed with prejudice an environmental group's lawsuit seeking to shut down the wind turbine projects in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area in Northern California. This case has broad implications for private lawsuits brought under California...

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