The Pendleton Times, 3 March 2005, p. 4

A letter from Linda Cooper quotes a resident of Tucker County, WV, as follows:

"I live in Tucker County approximately 1.5 miles from the Backbone Mountain 
wind turbines and have tried everything to get used to them.  A brief visit to 
one of the viewing areas certainly gives no true impression of what it is like 
be forced to live with them.  We have now suffered for three long years under 
their hideous shadows.  They have taken over the entire landscape and are in 
our sight no matter where we go day or night, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  
The movement is impossible to ignore no matter how hard we try and the noise 
they make travels miles and miles down the mountains and hollows disturbing 
people who cannot even see them from their homes.  I compare the noise to 
Chinese water torture or fingernails on a chalkboard or water dripping in a 
pan.  Even on the calmest nights the endless drumming goes on; windows closed, 
pillows over the head, it is still inescapable.  While we were led to believe 
this would be a clean, quiet, pristine, and environmentally-friendly way to 
address energy problems and give a huge boost to our ailing economy, I feel we 
have been tricked.  There appears to be no recourse or plan to compensate us 
for property value losses, erosion of our quality of life, or mental anguish.  
Besides these 44 wind turbines, thousands more are in the pipeline!  God help 
us!"