Mountaintops are not inherently well-suited for industrial wind turbine construction. Very large, high weight capacity roads must be constructed to withstand the huge industrial equipment that will be brought into the mountains. To get the necessary grades and to level the sites for the turbines requires extensive excavation of the mountaintop using explosives and heavy machinery. Most of the photos below were taken during the construction of the roads and foundation pads for TransCanada’s Kibby Mountain project in western Maine. As if this weren’t bad enough, the proposed Highland Plt. project will require approximately 60% more cut into the mountaintops than did the Kibby project. The mountains will never recover from this destruction. Look now, and you could be the last to ever see them unspoiled, the way nature made them.
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Kibby Mountain, Maine |
 Mars Hill, Maine |