would also hire local contractors to help prepare the land and build the towers.

(Editor's note: In the video below Firstwind describes the purpose of a Met Pole as the first step in a wind project)

Firstwind has also had preliminary talks with the selectmen about a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement where First Wind would pay the town $7,000 per megawatt of electricity produced, which could add up to $140,000 to $170,000 in annual payments to the town.

"This is a big deal for the town and it's a big deal for the state and country and you are at the leading edge of it."

Fearing said he came to the meeting because he had several questions, but they were not answering any. He said he objects to the whole project being in theend around an axis, a cylindrical coupling fixed to a second end of the other one of the driving shaft or the follower shaft, an outer rotary permanent magnet fixed to an inner circumference of the cylindrical coupling, opposite poles facing each other between the outer rotary permanent magnet and the inner rotary permanent magnet to allow rotation of the driving shaft to be transmitted to the follower shaft without contact by magnetic attractive force owing to the opposite poles between the outer rotary permanent magnet and the inner rotary permanent magnet, an annular support in the fixed scroll, and a fixed permanent magnet fixed in the fixed scroll to allow the driving shaft or the follower shaft to be rotatably supported around the inner rotary permanent magnet,