http://www.windaction.org/ facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts en-us Windaction hourly 1 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.windaction.org/articles/8741 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:57:42 GMT Joyce Manley, who lives in the Painted Hills neighborhood near Desert Hot Springs, Calif., has been fighting nearby wind turbine projects for six years. ‘It’s like having a disco going all night long,’ she says. http://www.windaction.org/articles/8741 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8449 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:32:28 GMT Maori have attacked plans for more wind turbines in the Tararua Ranges, saying turbines are weakening the mauri (life force) and mana of the hill tops. http://www.windaction.org/articles/8449 http://www.windaction.org/articles/7985 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:23:26 GMT "People bought property here specifically for the silence," said Wendy Todd (with her husband, Perrin), in Mars Hill, Maine. http://www.windaction.org/articles/7985 http://www.windaction.org/articles/684 Fri, 01 Nov 2002 05:00:00 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/684 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24164 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:25:23 GMT Another 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24164 http://www.windaction.org/articles/23411 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:29:23 GMT With 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/23411 http://www.windaction.org/articles/23280 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:06 GMT Opponents 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/23280 http://www.windaction.org/articles/21244 Sat, 16 May 2009 08:58:32 GMT It'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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/21244 http://www.windaction.org/articles/20947 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:49:05 GMT Officials 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/20947 http://www.windaction.org/articles/20839 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:07:32 GMT A 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/20839 http://www.windaction.org/articles/20563 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:01:26 GMT Blair 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/20563 http://www.windaction.org/articles/19995 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:41:26 GMT As 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/19995 http://www.windaction.org/articles/19917 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT Should 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/19917 http://www.windaction.org/articles/19717 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:28:33 GMT A 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 ... http://www.windaction.org/articles/19717 http://www.windaction.org/articles/19212 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:59:16 GMT Bill 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." http://www.windaction.org/articles/19212 http://www.windaction.org/articles/19080 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:37:51 GMT The 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/19080 http://www.windaction.org/articles/18703 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:30:38 GMT Wind 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/18703 http://www.windaction.org/articles/18504 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:09:19 GMT [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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/18504 http://www.windaction.org/articles/18501 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:43:13 GMT In 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/18501 http://www.windaction.org/articles/17722 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:42:26 GMT Rural 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/17722