Increased development of wind turbines does not reduce Danish carbon dioxide emissions.

… The intestinal tipping point came for me when a contingent of students from Middlebury College (annual tuition and fees $44,330) found both the gas money and the gall to drive to the town of Sheffield (annual per capita income $13,277) in order to lecture the provincials on their responsibility to the earth and its myriad creatures. …

Apparently, this place that has never had much use to the larger world beyond that of hosting a new prison or a solid-waste dump turns out to be an ideal location for an industrial “wind farm,” ideal mostly because the people are too few and too poor to offer much in the way of resistance.

It is like having a washing machine run constantly, or a car idling outside your window, or an aircraft overhead which stays in one position ... it is a constant drone which is quite disturbing.

These [wind] projects are very expensive and wouldn't happen without tax subsidies. Ordinary taxpayers are getting taken to the cleaners on this.

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines

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.

If we were to put an industrial turbine on every (suitable) location it doesn't add up to enough energy to justify impairment of our ridgelines. We need to maintain our tourist economy and our quality of life.

At times, it is almost unbearable. They [First Wind] never intended for us to have the peace and quiet they promised.

It's a constant grinding, whining noise. You walk outside the house and it sounds like planes are in the sky all the time. You wake up at two or three in the morning, and it's impossible to get back to sleep.

The current hype surrounding wind energy is just that and is a costly distraction from securing clean energy that is also reliable.

It is indisputable that this project [19, 2.5MW turbines along 3.7 miles of Glebe Mountain's ridgeline] would dramatically change Londonderry’s character, our environment, the quality of our lives and pose a threat to our tourist and second-home owner based economy. It makes no sense to sacrifice these first class assets for a second class energy source [industrial wind energy] that will have a negligible impact on emissions.

...as a Vermonter, I’m for preserving our ridgelines (as Act 250 was designed to do) and our natural landscapes. The integrity of our environment is not only a source of our strength and pride it is also critical to our economic well-being. It makes no sense to sacrifice who and what we are and what we have for no useful purpose.

Renewable plants have an enormous subsidy under the renewable (energy) portfolio laws. If they still can't compete, they probably shouldn't be built.

It seems we are now subject to a campaign that uses social rejection as a force to make us accept industrial-scale wind energy stations across the UK; to call them windfarms is disingenuous. As part of this campaign, the great and the good are hectoring on the moral need to embrace wind energy.

I wouldn’t be against them [large wind turbines] if they actually worked.

The local pride in our mountains is reflected in the recent naming of the newest high school: “Mountain Ridge”. Should it now become “Wind Farm High?”

It's not pretty when a bird hits a turbine. These [wind] companies need to clean up their act. As long as this situation is not addressed, people are going to associate wind power with killing birds.

Renewable power mandates merely accentuate the inefficiency and cost premiums attached to so-called renewable power sources. If renewable power saved consumers money, created jobs, or carried any of the other economic benefits so frequently claimed by environmental activists, then government would not have to pass a law to force power companies to purchase it or consumers to buy it.

Comparing 425 ft. tall wind turbines to power line poles demonstrates the utter stupidity and arrogance of the speaker. I have never seen a power pole move. They just stand there. The turbines have blades that look like knives slashing at the sky (and at whatever hapless creature that may be in the air space). A video with several in motion in the same scene gives the impression of violent chaos. They are not like serene, graceful ballerinas. At the very least, your eye is naturally drawn to them by their motion that resembles something waving its arms to get your attention. We don't want to see them. We don't want to look at them; but it is impossible to ignore them.