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Residents oppose windmill plan.241642009-11-18T17:25:23Z2009-11-18T17:25:23ZAnother wind farm is planned for Schuylkill County. The proposal will come up Wednesday night at a zoning meeting at the North Schuylkill High School.
There is opposition from people who live near the proposed site for the giant windmills.
Even from a few miles away wind farms are hard to miss. They're usually located on mountaintops.
Wind event draws crowd .234112009-10-02T20:29:23Z2009-10-02T20:29:23ZWith the very audible rapid whirring of two ceiling fans overhead a constant reminder of the issue, about 500 people jammed into the centre to learn more about proposed industrial wind turbines in the area.
Ward 16 Coun. David Marsh told the audience he was holding the town hall meeting as a means to get clarification from the private company Energy Farming Ontario about its intention to build up to 30 of the turbines. He also raised concern that the provincial government's new Green Energy Act ...removes residents' and the city's right to appeal the towers going in to their neighbourhoods.
Opponents of Roxbury wind farm appeal DEP licensing permit.232802009-09-24T13:32:06Z2009-09-24T13:32:06ZOpponents of a wind farm project approved last month by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection are appealing that final order.
Through attorney Rufus Brown of Portland, Concerned Citizens to Save Roxbury, 37 individual camp or property owners, and the Silver Lake Camp Owners Association filed the appeal on Monday.
Roxbury Pond is also called Silver Lake.
Wind project not without its controversy.212442009-05-16T08:58:32Z2009-05-16T08:58:32ZIt's either a great blessing or a total mess, depending which side you talk to.
For every argument supporting or against local wind energy development, there's seemingly an equally strident counterpoint.
It's been no different over the past four years regarding the High Sheldon Wind Farm. The sparring included vocal debate and a failed lawsuit by some residents opposing the project.
Comment period extended on powerline project.209472009-04-27T07:49:05Z2009-04-27T07:49:05ZOfficials got an earful when they visited Redding earlier this month. Nearly 200 Shasta and Tehama County residents packed the Red Lion Hotel ballroom asking skeptical and sometimes hostile questions about the proposed project. ...The new line would also allow TANC members access to wind, solar and geothermal energy that may one day be developed in Lassen County and other rural areas. Citizens launch investigation into info from Shear Wind .208392009-04-20T14:07:32Z2009-04-20T14:07:32ZA group of concerned citizens in the Merigomish area have launched an investigation into the information Shear Wind has provided to the province as part of its environmental assessment.Judge upholds most of suit against Gamesa.205632009-03-30T15:01:26Z2009-03-30T15:01:26ZBlair County Judge Daniel Milliron in a 20-page ruling dismissed claims of negligence and conspiracy made by Jill and Todd Stull against Gamesa, producers of the windmills and developers of phase one of the windmill farm at the Cambria-Blair County line.
Six other objections filed by Gamesa or Allegheny Ridge in response to the Stull's lawsuit were overruled by Milliron.
Troubled wind?.199952009-02-15T14:41:26Z2009-02-15T14:41:26ZAs Maine preps for wind power, medical staff at Rumford Hospital say turbines may make people sick. Others beg to differ.
The phrase "vibroacoustic syndrome" started him Googling.
The worrisome set of symptoms - allegedly caused by exposure to low-frequency noise and linked by some to wind farms - sent him on a mission he didn't anticipate.
This week Dr. Albert Aniel, an internist at Rumford Community Hospital, mailed a letter to Gov. John Baldacci. He visited the Mexico Board of Selectmen. He's contacting every town manager in the River Valley.
Don Quixote fights the windmills - and so do the folks in Boulevard.199172009-02-01T00:00:00Z2009-02-01T00:00:00ZShould wind turbines hundreds of feet tall -higher than the existing Kumeyaay wind farm turbines- be allowed in the rural McCain Valley/Boulevard region in East County? Does the nation's critical need for "green" energy outweigh the concerns of residents seeking to preserve the rural character of their backcountry communities? With new industrial-scale wind farms proposed across America, East County Magazine's Gayle Early set out on a quest to explore these issues in depth for our three-part series on wind energy.Proposed wind farm near Searchlight worries some residents.197172009-01-28T06:28:33Z2009-01-28T06:28:33ZA wind farm that would be Southern Nevada's first could sprout 30 miles south of Boulder City near Searchlight as soon as 2011.
Some Searchlight residents, though thankful planners have already moved turbines because of their concerns, worry that the wind-powered energy plant would be ugly, noisy and deadly to wildlife.
Yesterday, about 60 Searchlight and Cal-Nev-Ari residents met with planners ...
Farmers worried about wind farms' impact on crop dusting.192122008-12-17T19:59:16Z2008-12-17T19:59:16ZBill Durdan has farmed northeast of Grand Ridge for 43 years and often relied on crop dusters.
Now, however, he has been told his proximity to wind turbine towers will prevent him from receiving that service.
The cost to him could be lost crops and lost revenue, he told the La Salle County Zoning Board of Appeals Tuesday evening. ...Kim Schertz of Hudson, who works in her husband's crop dusting business, said the problem is pilots simply can not safely pull up and make the necessary turns in a wind farm area.
"These guys are good, but they're not kamikazes."
Wind farm plan divides opinion.190802008-12-04T04:37:51Z2008-12-04T04:37:51ZThe company behind plans to build a wind farm at Podington has challenged the result of a public consultation.
Bedford Borough Council has just finished asking residents about the proposal at Airfield Farm, and received just 216 comments in support compared with 441 objecting.
But energy firm Nuon Renewables has released a report of its own, claiming a majority of local residents - 66.5 per cent - support the bid to create a three-turbine wind farm at Airfield Farm.
Wind chill: Losing the PR battle over wind power.187032008-11-07T06:30:38Z2008-11-07T06:30:38ZWind power is easy to set up and creates no greenhouse gases. So why are so many communities rallying against them? ...Residents complain that straight answers are scarce, with towers designed to measure wind speed popping up across the valley, even as local officials say they have not received any applications for zoning bylaw changes. A community group called Save Our Skyline, or S.O.S. Renfrew County, has formed to fight at least four separate proposals along the Madawaska Valley. Two weeks ago, S.O.S. joined with 23 other local groups to create Wind Concerns, an umbrella organization dedicated to "protecting rural Ontario for future generations."
Similar fights are underway across the rest of Canada.
The turbine turmoil: South Berwick residents, officials discuss pros and cons of wind energy.185042008-10-23T20:09:19Z2008-10-23T20:09:19Z[T]here are some negatives associated with the increasingly popular form of alternative energy, according to a University of New Hampshire expert.
But the cons - mainly noise and vibrations from the rotating turbines - are generally things people can live with, UNH assistant professor of geography Mary Lemcke said.
In South Berwick, a 300-foot-high ridge across from Marshwood High School is being eyed as a possible location for a wind farm. A Cape Neddick-based alternative energy company is conducting a yearlong wind study there with the hopes a wind farm would be viable.
For Wisconsin resident Gerry Meyer, however, the sound of five 400-foot-tall wind turbines located within three quarters of a mile of his home is simply unbearable.
Embrace wind farms, Peter Garrett tells NIMBYs.185012008-10-23T18:43:13Z2008-10-23T18:43:13ZIn an interview with The Australian in Canberra yesterday, Mr Garrett [the Environment Minister] said he was worried by the number of wind farm proposals that had been refused because of objections by the local community.
"Australians have got to realise the time has come to embrace wind and wind farms in appropriate locations, bearing in mind they are going to be visible on the landscape -- that a 'not in my back yard' kind of mentality won't see us rolling out the deployment of wind that we need," Mr Garrett said.
Wind turbines have farmers spinning out.177222008-08-30T16:42:26Z2008-08-30T16:42:26ZRural communities are splintering over plans to build dozens of wind turbines in southern NSW.
Landowners opposed to the 132-metre high turbines are devaststed their lifestyles, landscape and land values could be destroyed by neighbours allowing turbines on their farms.
At Conroy's Gap, north of Yass, 15 turbines are planned. ..."It's split the community down the middle.
"My mother is dead against these things and her brother, my uncle, has been promoting them," Mr McGrath said.
