Windfall

2011 FESTIVAL
83 min.
Filmmaker: Laura Isreal.
Wind power… it’s sustainable… it burns no fossil fuels… it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own — that of 40 industrial wind turbines. Attracted at first to the financial incentives, a group of townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discover the impacts that the 400-foot high windmills could bring to their community as well as the potential for financial scams.
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