The AMC is committed to promoting clean alternative energy sources to reduce air pollution and stop the demise of the region’s alpine ecosystems from climate change. Wind power is clean of air pollutants and greenhouse gases, but its commercial development in the Northeast is not without impacts on some of the very resources we are seeking to protect.
Large scale development of miles of mountain ridges and the coastline could result in fragmentation of undeveloped lands, scenic impacts and impacts to plants and animals. AMC is developing, testing and advocating for much needed wind power siting guidelines that would direct its development to appropriate areas with the least impacts on critical natural and ecological resources of state or national significance.
