Gov. Dannel Malloy expressed frustration that the wind turbine regulations have not been approved after five tries. “I think people have wrestled with this issue. I am not being critical at this moment. People have to have their discussions, but, you know, the regulatory process in Connecticut is convoluted, takes a lot of time even with respect to technologies that have existed over long periods of time. I just hope we will eventually adopt appropriate regulations,” he told reporters. The legislature’s Regulation Review Committee remained unable Nov. 26 to break an impasse that has held up proposed regulations for siting wind turbines for two years. The 14-member, bipartisan committee voted to permit the Connecticut Siting Council to withdraw its recommended regulations. The committee’s co-chairs will now meet with council leaders to try to satisfy outstanding concerns and issues. Some supporters of wind power suspect that a small faction on the Regulation Review Committee is trying to block passage of regulations to keep power-generating turbines from being built. In advance of the meeting Nov. 26, representatives from the governor’s office had lobbied lawmakers on the Regulation Review Committee to finally approve the proposed regulations. “The governor’s office was really pushing to get a vote on it,” Noujaim said He said he was not going to vote to approve the same set of regulations that he and other members had voted to reject without prejudice in September. He also questioned why the administration waited until just before the meeting to reach out to committee members.
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