Associated Press: A vote by Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection gives a Texas-based company the go-ahead to develop a 14-turbine wind farm atop Passadumkeag Ridge in Grand Falls Township. The board’s 5-1 vote Thursday reverses last November’s decision by the Department of Environmental Protection to deny a permit for the 42-megawatt wind farm. It means Quantum Utility Generation can move forward with construction once DEP writes the permit. The DEP had rejected the application, saying the array of 459-foot-tall…

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