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/11591 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:10:49 GMT Turbine in Hull Massachusetts http://www.windaction.org/articles/11591 http://www.windaction.org/articles/10690 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:13:32 GMT The blades of the wind turbine ‘Zephyr’ are raised yesterday at Jiminy Peak. http://www.windaction.org/articles/10690 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9457 Thu, 10 May 2007 11:18:41 GMT A TALL ORDER: This wind turbine at the Mass Maritime Academy in Bourne towers over nearby houses. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9457 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9224 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:17:04 GMT A wind turbine next to the Hull, Mass., high school, located in the shadow of Boston, in 2006. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9224 http://www.windaction.org/articles/7628 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:42:01 GMT This 100 kilowatt Fuhrlander wind turbine, owned by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is located in Dorchester http://www.windaction.org/articles/7628 http://www.windaction.org/articles/5764 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:54:37 GMT New computer simulations of Cape Wind provide views of how the project will look from some of the state's favorite vacation spots. Here's a view from Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard. http://www.windaction.org/articles/5764 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4205 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:04:33 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/4205 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4164 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:46:31 GMT This 164-foot-tall wind turbine has stood at the tip of Hull since 2001. http://www.windaction.org/articles/4164 http://www.windaction.org/articles/3605 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:29:59 GMT This photo shows a representation of how 196.85-foot-tall wind turbines might appear at the former Tilcon site on Nauset Road in North Eastham. The proposed turbines for this site would be close to 400 feet tall. http://www.windaction.org/articles/3605 http://www.windaction.org/articles/2417 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:50:12 GMT This photo shows an artist's conception of the proposed energy-producing wind farm by Cape Wind Associates. http://www.windaction.org/articles/2417 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24162 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:12:17 GMT Salisbury officials have only recently become aware that 10 wind turbines could be built less than a quarter-mile off Salisbury Beach if the state's draft Ocean Management Plan were adopted. A serious concern of both Salisbury Selectman Jerry Klima and Planning Board Chairman Don Egan is that after only recently seeing a map showing the turbine area less than 1,500 feet from shore ..."I never saw anything like this before that from the state," Klima said yesterday. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24162 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24155 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:11:29 GMT Island officials differed over what was achieved at their meeting Friday with state Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles. A selectman from each Island town, as well as officials representing Dukes County, the Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC), and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay head (Aquinnah) attended the Boston session. But while they all heard the same message from Mr. Bowles, they brought home varying opinions about how much control the Island will have over large-scale wind power development in near-shore waters. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24155 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24172 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:37:39 GMT Two large masts have been cut down and a wind speed recorder stolen from the Flimby Hall Farm wind farm site. The masts were cut down last week, according to Maryport police. Samantha Crosby, West Energy's project manager for the Flimby site, said that the company believed the act was vandalism rather than a protest. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24172 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24173 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:39:28 GMT The Westport Alternative Energy Committee (AEC) has decided to hire an engineering consultant to conduct preliminary assessments of two parcels of town-owned land to determine if they would be suitable locations for a municipal wind turbine project. The AEC voted unanimously Thursday to ask Atlantic Design Engineers of Sandwich to look at two specific sites ...to gauge whether or not they would be suitable for a commercial-sized turbine installation. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24173 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24099 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:52 GMT The town will look at three locations as possibilities for a large wind turbine. Using $8,800 allocated to Newbury by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the town's Alternative Energy Committee will retain a Beverly consulting firm to conduct three energy workshops and prepare an application to the Technology Collaborative for a full-scale feasibility study on three possible turbine sites. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24099 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24074 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:08 GMT Six thousand years ago, according to native legend and scientific calculation, Nantucket Sound was dry land, and people probably lived and hunted and fished there. Until global warming caused the sea to rise and cover the place. Ironically, the fact of that long-ago drowning now has become the basis of the latest challenge to the Cape Wind proposal to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The big selling point of Cape Wind is that it would generate power without contributing to global warming, sea level rise and coastal flooding. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24074 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24047 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:52:17 GMT The November 5 decision by the Martha's Vineyard Commission to create a district of critical planning concern (DCPC) for wind energy projects across the Island, but excepting Edgartown, demonstrated unusual discretion on the part of the regional agency. Spreading, not restricting, its portfolio is the customary MVC practice. Several commission members were not happy about the exception, going so far as to suggest that heeding to the Edgartown selectmen's request that their town be left out of this particular DCPC was unwarranted. After all, their argument went, it was just three Edgartonians asking for the exception, not really the town. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24047 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24065 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:11:57 GMT The Cape's parade of wind power turbines has begun in earnest, as Harwich town meeting joined Wellfleet and Brewster fall town meetings Thursday night in authorizing the use of town land to build the towering turbines. Although the two parcels of town-owned land were relatively large at 72 acres for property off Westgate Road, and 19 acres off Headwaters Drive, setbacks to protect adjacent properties limited the possible number of turbines to just two. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24065 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24033 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:12:10 GMT A new state ocean management plan will likely leave control over the size of renewable energy projects in state waters in the hands of regional planning authorities such as the Cape Cod Commission and Martha's Vineyard Commission. In a letter sent yesterday ...Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles agreed to change the draft plan released in July. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24033 http://www.windaction.org/articles/24011 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:18:01 GMT When the Pilgrims arrived in America, it was the Wampanoag who greeted them peacefully so the newcomers could escape religious persecution. Now the tribe is having to fight for their own religious freedoms. The Wampanoag, also known as "The People of the First Light", have delayed the construction of America's first offshore wind farm, reports Associated Press. The Mashpee and Aquinnah Wampanoag practice sacred religious rituals which they say require an unblocked view of the horizon, in particular, the sunrise. http://www.windaction.org/articles/24011