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Remote Northern Community Thinks Wind

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One of the oldest settlements in Wisconsin is going to try to achieve energy independence.Residents of Madeline Island in the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior are drawing up plans to become a self-sustaining energy community.Mike Simonson reports….

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