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/19287 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:40:33 GMT Twenty 1.5-megawatt wind turbines at the Kaheawa wind farm owned by First Wind dwarf a pair of SUVs in the West Maui Mountains near Maalaea, Maui. http://www.windaction.org/articles/19287 http://www.windaction.org/articles/5125 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:32:47 GMT Hawaiian Electric built the state's first wind farm in the 1980s in Kahuku, but technical problems, common at the time, forced the company to abandon it in the early 1990s. Wind turbine technology has since improved, and developers are again turning their focus to the area. http://www.windaction.org/articles/5125 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4147 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:42:32 GMT The South Pointe wind plant was built in 1986 and later abandoned http://www.windaction.org/articles/4147 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4146 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:40:46 GMT The South Pointe wind plant was built in 1986 and later abandoned http://www.windaction.org/articles/4146 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4145 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:38:56 GMT The South Pointe wind plant was built in 1986 and later abandoned http://www.windaction.org/articles/4145 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4144 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:35:58 GMT The South Pointe wind plant was built in 1986 and later abandoned. http://www.windaction.org/articles/4144 http://www.windaction.org/articles/467 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/467 http://www.windaction.org/articles/514 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/514 http://www.windaction.org/articles/38090 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:01:14 GMT A resolution urging the governor to seek alternatives to wind farms and the proposed undersea cable to carry power to Oʻahu passed unanimously in a joint hearing of the House Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Consumer Protection and Commerce on April 10. ...Joann Tool of I Aloha Molokai said that many islanders have been working to conserve energy for years and shouldn't have to bear the burden of other islands' consumption. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38090 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37637 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:18:12 GMT Sources tell Pacific Business News that Cultural Surveys Hawaii Inc., which does archaeological cultural and historical research and field services throughout the state, has been conducting archaeological surveys in the area where the wind farm is supposed to be built. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37637 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37556 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:09:03 GMT It was one of the biggest cases the Department of Health's Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Office has ever had. But they left the air, water, and soil sampling in the hands of First Wind. ...Lawmakers aren't sure that should be the case. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37556 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37542 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:20:37 GMT Seven months after they started spinning, the Kahuku wind mills stopped because of a fire. ...under a 20-year contract First Wind could face sanctions if the project doesn't get going again. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37542 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37379 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:40:23 GMT People opposed to building a wind farm on the island of Lanai are trying to keep the pressure up to kill the project and some of them took their message to state lawmakers in Honolulu Wednesday.Last week, the owners of Molokai Ranch ended talks with the developer that was trying to build a commercial-scale wind energy project on Molokai. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37379 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37306 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:18:48 GMT Representatives in the House committee on the environment voted today to gradually decrease the solar energy tax credit to 15 percent by 2018. ...The credit is currently 35 percent of the cost of each solar energy system. Gov. Neil Abercrombie says the current credit is fiscally unsustainable. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37306 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37302 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:53:26 GMT The owners of Molokai Ranch have backed out of plans to lease thousands of acres of land to a large-scale wind farm developer. The decision likely spells the end for the Molokai portion of the Big Wind project, an ambitious plan to build about 70 wind turbines on both Molokai and Lanai and bring the electricity to Oahu via undersea cables. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37302 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37114 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:13:10 GMT More than 4,000 Hawaii Electric Light Co. customers were briefly left without power at about mid-day today when a North Kohala wind farm tripped off-line. ...Another outage at Hawi Renewable Development on Jan. 5 cut electricity to more than 6,500 HELCO customers. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37114 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36746 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:33:58 GMT Abercrombie, however, denounced the Sierra Club. "The Sierra Club is saying that they want to protect people who cheat. ...people are cheating and gaming the system and preventing other people from taking advantage of what is legitimately there to be done. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36746 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36704 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:07:15 GMT Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig was quick to counter Gotcher's assertion that firefighters failed to act in the best interest of the wind farm. He said the flames, toxic chemicals and unstable nature of the burning warehouse made it unsafe to use water, and deploying hand-held extinguishers was nearly impossible. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36704 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36674 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:17:26 GMT State senators pressed the developers of a North Shore wind farm on Tuesday about the safety of their technology in light of a major fire that destroyed their battery storage facility and sent toxic fumes into the air. ...The wind farm also experienced two previous fires that destroyed inverters after coming online in 2011. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36674 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36553 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:18:18 GMT Hawaiian Electric Co. says its interconnection facility inside the battery energy storage system warehouse at the Kahuku Wind Farm on Oahu's North Shore, which was destroyed by fire in August, will cost at least $8 million to rebuild and take about a year to complete. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36553