Quotes
Nina Thorpe
Wind energy has again been shown up for what it is, an expensive way of saving a derisory amount of CO2. It is, frankly, a disgrace, that the wind turbine farce continues in the name of saving the planet. The [UK]Government should intervene immediately and stop these projects - they are a waste of our resources.
Dr. John Etherington
The landscape is being raped [by large wind turbines] with governmental collusion and fraudulent claims.
Richard C. Hill
Good winds coincide with neither the heating nor air-conditioning season. Wind is a willy-nilly source of electricity, and as such is not very useful.
Don Newman
Even if wind turbines were built in Hawaii, excess capacity would have to be built to handle peak loads in the event that the winds weren’t blowing or the islands would experience brown-outs or black outs. The fact that the periods of highest demands would coincide with a drop off in wind speed means wind turbines cannot be counted on the meet peak load demands in Hawaii. So electrical generating capacity would have to be built twice, first as wind turbines and second as backup peak capacity protection.
Gov. Jim Douglas
I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines
Shirley Nelson
These people are not as much [wind] developers as they are salesmen. Their product sounds good — and green — in theory, but it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Willard Phelps
Based on the facts I've seen is that it's [wind energy] not a very viable option because it's very expensive electricity and of course it's not reliable, it depends on the wind
Gov. Jim Douglas
For the power that would be generated from them [large wind turbines], it's that change in our ridgelines that most Vermonters don't support.
Linda Bly
The subsidies for wind are a misuse of public money. The "benefits" from industrial wind are a fantasy and an escape from our energy problems. For me, believing that industrial wind will solve our energy problems is a little like believing the Tooth Fairy will pay my heating bills this winter.
John Zimmerman
Wind turbines don't make good neighbors
James Lovelock
I wouldn’t be against them [large wind turbines] if they actually worked.
Rose Bacon
If you lease, chances are one or more of your neighbors is going to have to deal with eminent domain. Now these are private, wind development companies, however, once they sell that power to a power purchaser, they can go to the energy commission and as in Butler County, in two weeks and a little bit of paper work...they had the power of eminent domain to go across adjacent landowners' property with power lines, with trenches, with no public hearing
L. M. Schwartz
If present, politically-motivated, mandated, "renewable energy"
policies are pursued, based on the failed formulas of the past 35
years, Americans will see further distortions of the markets for
electrical power, increased costs to ratepayers and taxpayers,
decreases in base capacity and grid reliability, diversion of scarce
resources from research into promising energy production technology,
and enrichment of powerful, corporate special-interests.
L. M. Schwartz
A single 555-megawatt gas-fired power plant in California generates
more electricity in a year than do all 13,000 of the state's wind
turbines. The gas-fired plant sits atop a mere 15 acres. The
300-foot-tall windmills impact over a hundred thousand acres to
provide expensive, intermittent, insufficient energy
Fergus Smith
Wind power is an idea that is appealing to the imagination. It sounds like a "free" source of energy that would be non-polluting and stable in cost. I am an optimist, and I love technology. If I thought for one moment that windmills would be a source of low cost energy, I would be building them. The reality is quite the contrary--wind power is wasteful of human and natural resources.
Kristin Calkins Rowe
It doesn't take a genius to figure out there are more cons than pros in this debate.
Bobbie Bristol
If there is vandalism in any of this, it is on the part of those developers who would industrialize our ridge lines.
Robert M. MacIntosh
It's time for reality to replace ideology in energy policy
Robert M. MacIntosh
Wind Power's inadequacies are hidden by a veil of government subsidy and inadequate data on performance and cost
Carol A. Overland
What the wind gives, line loss taketh away