Anne Murray tilts at E. Canadian wind farm

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Canadian folksinger Anne Murray is battling a proposed wind turbine farm near her summer home in Nova Scotia, which she says has lots of room elsewhere.

In a telephone interview with CTV News from her winter home in Jupiter, Fla., the 66-year-old Nova Scotia native said she's written local and provincial officials opposing the erection of as many as 12 wind turbines near the village of Pugwash.

The developers, Pugwash Wind Farm Inc., say the $85 million project would generate 33 megawatts of electricity if building commences in 2013. The site is about 1.5 miles from the picturesque coastal town that relies on golf and tourism for most of its income, CTV said.

"Nova Scotia is virtually uninhabited, you could put thousands and thousands of turbines all over Nova Scotia and you would never hear a peep out of anyone -- why would you pick a quaint little place like this? I just don't get it at all," Murray told CTV.

Advocates of wind power have long argued coastal areas with near-constant onshore winds are preferable to inland areas.

Developers originally filed to build 27 turbines in 2006, but scaled back the proposal to 12 towers.

March 7 is the deadline for public input into the project, the report said.