Name: Windfall
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012
Duration: 1 min 23 s

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Genre

Documentary

Release Date

2012

Distribution Company

First Run Features

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 23m

Synopsis

Wind power is sustainable, burns no fossil fuels and 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. The film documents how this proposal divides Meredith's residents as they fight over the future of their community. Attracted at first to the financial incentives that would seemingly boost their dying economy, a group of townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discover the impacts that the 400-foot high windmills slated for Meredith could bring to their community as well as the potential for financial scams.