The Stonewall Hill Conservation Group has been fighting the Reeves Hill wind farm and hopes the Welsh government's decision over the access road to the site will help stop it being built.
Portugal has two motorways running between its two main cities, many fine bridges and a wind turbine on almost every hill.
Recently Capitol Hill was inundated with wind energy advocates eager to make their case to extend the Production Tax Credit (PTC).
Less than two years later, a fleet of three 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines started turning on a hill located near the center of the island.
Opposition to wind farms in the often striking mountain and hill areas of Wales is not uncommon.
Just then the son, who had come home from Bear Hill, asked his mother to wind up the gramophone.
Earlier this year, Gaelectric got planning approval for two other wind farms, a 15MW one in Carn Hill, Newtownabbey, and a 12.5 one in Cregganconroe, Pomeroy.
The largest wind farm east of the Mississippi is atop the Tug Hill Plateau, north of Syracuse, New York.
"It's a tough time these days to get legislation through, " says Wetstone, a former Hill staffer who, prior to joining American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), spent 10 directing advocacy efforts for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Change takes work and creativity, much like how a roller coaster needs to climb up that first steep hill, but the reward is the thrill of the speed and the wind in your face on the way down.
"We continue to tell everyone on Capitol Hill you need long-term policies to get long-term growth in the wind industry, " Kelley said.
But the leader of Lincolnshire County Council, Martin Hill, said many local people will be disappointed, and it was vital the number of wind farms was kept under control.
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