First Wind’s Maine Wind Farm Rejected

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State regulators in Maine rejected a wind farm project being developed by First Wind.

The company is Hawaii’s main wind developer, with wind farms on Maui and Oahu. 

The project was supposed to provide a big capital boost to the cash-strapped company, which had tried to go public in 2010, the Sun Journal reports. 

The case was embroiled in a legal suit: 

At last count, there were 312 legal filings in the case, a brigade of lawyers from Maine’s top law firms and state agencies, briefs, motions and documents that referenced Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lady Gaga and a subpoena served on an Emera official by a retired Canadian Mountie.

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