Paul’s Moor Appeal Decision

1. I dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission for the erection and operation of nine wind turbines and provision of ancillary wind farm infrastructure at land at Paul’s Moor, Wester Bullaford, West Moor, north of Knowstone, South Molton EX36 4QH.

Bickham Moor Appeal Decision

1. I dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission for the construction and operation of a four turbine wind farm for electricity generation, including ancillary buildings and activities, with a maximum rated output of 12mw at Bickham Moor, Kirkton Lane, Oakford, Devon EX16 9HB.

Sillfield Appeal Decision

The appeal is made under Section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 against a failure to give notice within the prescribed period of a decision on an application for planning permission.The appeal is made by Sillfield Wind Cluster Ltd against the decision of South Lakeland Distr...

Three county energy projects debated; Border-town residents still smarting over Powerlink

A battle between backers of wind projects in the mountains east of San Diego and those who say big windmills don’t belong in rural communities because they damage the environment is being taken up by state and federal agencies working on a tight deadline. Opponents and supporters of three...

Commission approves power line agreement

The Brookings County Commission on Tuesday approved a revised franchise agreement for the Buffalo Ridge II wind project. The agreement allows Buffalo Ridge II LLC to “construct , maintain and operate electrical transmission lines and facilities in Brookings County” for the Buffalo R...

FAA approves 3 wind turbines for Providence wastewater facility

PROVIDENCE — The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the installation of three, 360-foot-tall wind turbines at the Fields Point Wastewater Treatment Facility on the Providence waterfront. The Narragansett Bay Commission, which operates the plant, still needs approvals...

Salazar to visit wind farm site

It is not exactly the best time of year for a boat ride, but the chilly weather is not stopping U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Salazar is scheduled to visit the area Tuesday to meet with representatives from the region’s two Indian tribes and to see firsthand the location for the propose...

Council welcomes wind farm decision

North Devon Council has welcomed the decision to dismiss plans for a wind farm at Knowstone. The council originally opposed the application, for nine wind turbines at Three Moors in Knowstone, in 2008. However, the applicant then lodged an appeal, which resulted in a public inquiry last J...

Wind farms: Financial windfall, or destruction of rural land?

The topic: Construction of wind turbines in Newtown, Sunbury and Nevada townships What happened? Iberdrola Renewables plans to construct a minimum of 150 approximately 400-foot tall turbines within a rural area of Livingston County called Cayuga Ridge. This area includes Newtown, S...

An ill wind for turbine protestors

People in Lower Earley need to “wake up” to the reality of five wind turbines on their doorstep, according to a newly-formed campaign group. Plans for the windfarm at the Rushy Mead site south of the M4 have been on the cards for years but developer Partnership for Renewables (PfR) is now pot...

Wind power capacity grows at record pace, but industry jobs actually fall

America’s wind energy industry enjoyed a banner year in 2009, thanks largely to tax credits and other incentives packed into the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. But even though a record 10,000 megawatts of new generating capacity was created, the number of workers employed in manu...

West Grey Seeks Moratorium on Industrial Wind Turbines

As Mayor of the Municipality of West Grey, on behalf of the Council and citizens of West Grey, I am calling upon the Province of Ontario to place an indefinite moratorium on industrial wind turbines in the Municipality of West Grey and other Ontario municipalities. The Council of the Munic...

Residents voice concerns about wind turbines

KINGS — Ogle County residents and public officials have a lot to consider regarding wind turbine projects after hearing about first-hand experiences with them Tuesday night at Kings School. A gym full of about 80 residents, including several locally elected officials, heard from DeKa...

Middleburg Heights council continues to question fairground wind turbine

MIDDLEBURG HTS. — City Council continues to ask questions about the proposed wind turbine at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds. It was expected to vote Tuesday to accept the proposal of CBLH Design, Inc. to provide a visual analysis of the application of the Cuyahoga County Commissioners an...

Plan for Berrier wind farm should be rejected, expert tells inquiry

An international environment specialist has urged the inquiry into a windfarm on the edge of the Lake District to reject the plans. Sir Martin Holdgate, who was director general of the International Committee for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources between 1988 and 1994, s...

Famous quotes from former wind advocates

The following are famous quotes from former wind advocates: “Wind turbines don’t make good neighbors,” Enxco’s John Zimmerman admitted at a meeting in Lowell, Vt. “The noise from the 11 550-kilowatt Searsburg turbines is significant a mile away,” said Rob Ide, the director of Energy Ef...

Planning inspector rejects South Molton windfarm appeals

Planning permission for two proposed wind farm developments near South Molton has been turned down by the Planning Inspectorate, it has been announced today (Friday). The proposals for nine wind turbines at Paul’s Moor, Knowstone, and four wind turbines at Bickham Moor, Oakford, have...

Windfarm noise levels challenged

Noise level claims about a possible windfarm development have been challenged. A pressure group said clarification was needed after a community council was told people would only hear the turbines if they were “standing underneath them”. Galloway Landscape And Renewable Energy highl...

Orleans wind project loses out on grant

ORLEANS — The town’s plans to get a turbine up and running in the watershed was dealt another blow this month when the project didn’t receive grant funding. “It’s unfortunate,” said Assistant Town Planner John Jannell. Jannell said he would go before selectmen in the coming weeks to see if t...

Setbacks slow wind-harnessing effort in Provincetown

PROVINCETOWN — The challenges facing wind energy here got a little steeper Monday when selectmen were informed that a developer interested in erecting a wind turbine next to the Mt. Gilboa water tank had pulled out. Blair Galinsky, a principal with Mass. Wind, a private development compan...

Barnstable denies college wind project

WEST BARNSTABLE — The turbine’s parts have arrived from India and sit quietly in an unused hangar at Otis Air National Guard Base. Materials to construct a platform for the 600-kilowatt Elecon Turbowinds turbine intended for Cape Cod Community College have been stored away on the school...

Wind turbine talks continue to sputter in Framingham

FRAMINGHAM — Yaakov Cohn stood before the Planning Board last night , vigorously whipping his jacket in a circle just in front of a mike stand. “You can’t tell me you don’t find this disturbing,” said Cohn, eliciting laughs and heckling from the handful of people inside the Memorial Buildi...

Federal offshore energy plans dwarf Cape Wind

Federal authorities plan to open up almost 4,000 square nautical miles of ocean near the Vineyard for potential wind power generation. A draft Request for Interest (RFI) map presented to a renewable energy task force meeting of state, local and federal representatives on Wednesday ide...

Joy as wind farm plans blown out

Plans to build a wind farm on a Cold War missile site in the county have been turned down following overwhelming public opposition. Residents from Maidwell, Draughton and Harrington packed the chamber for a meeting of Daventry District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday to prot...

OKH denies OK for turbine; College wind tower is deemed inappropriate

By a vote of 3 to 1, the Barnstable Old King’s Highway Historic District Committee decided Jan. 27 that Cape Cod Community College’s proposed wind turbine is not appropriate for the district. The decision can be appealed to the regional commission, and then to district court. “I understand...

‘Serene and remarkable’ Duddo Stones saved from turbines

Duddo stones, a ’serene and remarkable place’ according to the Government’s planning inspector, has been saved from being overshadowed by giant wind turbines. The secretary of state’s decision to agree with his inspector’s recommendation to refuse planning permission for seven 112...

Moorsyde plan ’seriously harmful to Cheviot views’

Moorsyde Action Group has been celebrating the Secretary of State’s ‘emphatic’ decision to refuse Your Energy’s wind farm proposal. The decision comes nearly two years after the former Berwick Borough Council initially rejected the proposal for seven turbines, each 110m tall, on lan...

Hills and woodland would ‘contain’ Barmoor scheme

Six wind turbines are to be erected on land near Barmoor following the secretary of state’s decision to approve a scheme put forward by developers Force 9 Energy. John Denham MP, secretary of state, agreed with planning inspector Ruth MacKenzie that the surrounding hills and woodland wo...

New wind turbine regs stall; Board not sold on Planning Commission’s proposals

The Estes Park Board of Trustees opted not to act Tuesday night on a set of recommendations for new regulations for wind turbines that the Estes Valley Planning Commission approved last month as Trustee Eric Blackhurst wondered if there was really a need for additional rules at all. By the...

ESB rules out involvement in ‘more expensive’ offshore wind-generation

The ESB believes offshore wind-generated electricity is more expensive than even nuclear technologies and will not enter that sector in the medium term. Commenting on the ESB’s strategy, Mr McManus said the group planned to have its third power station open in Manchester in 2013. He has r...

Governor: Wind farm’s in

Officially, feds must still OK massive Cape project The fix is in for Cape Wind, the controversial plan to build 400-foot-tall wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, and you can take Gov. Deval Patrick’s word for it. “We expect to have federal approval in the next few weeks,” Patrick told repres...

Wind farm plan relies on power link

A global wind energy development company says there is potential for a $1.5 billion wind farm to be built near Hughenden in Queensland’s north-west. The general manager of Windlab Systems in Australia, Richard Mackie, says the project is still in its very early stages and will only procee...

North Carolina wind energy article misinforms readers

The recent article “N.C. Senate reviews wind energy ban” contained a great deal of misinformation. The article claimed Senate Bill 1068 banned wind energy and the 1983 Ridge Law exempted wind turbines–those claims are false. The Ridge Law exempts single windmills attached to a parent buil...

Harnessing the wind

Residents are divided about a proposal to build up to 200 wind turbines in southern Albany County. The proposed Hermosa West Wind Energy Project would be located on 11,000 acres of private and state land near Tie Siding on the western side of U.S. Highway 287, running from Sportsman Lake Road...

Objections to new wind turbines plan

People from across West Cumbria and beyond have objected to plans for three wind turbines on the former Broughton Lodge opencast mine at Great Broughton. Manchester company Peel Energy is seeking permission for the turbines, which would be up to 410ft tall to the tips of the blades. The dev...

Newry mulls options on wind-power ordinance

With an eye to Newry‘s many ridgetops, the Planning Board last week pondered how to deal with wind power projects. Ideas ranged from surveying residents’ opinions to recommending a moratorium on such projects until an ordinance can be written. Maine has set a goal of developing 2,000 mega...

Mast application for Coltishall

A planning application for a 70 metre high wind monitoring mast on land at former RAF Coltishall has been submitted for consideration to North Norfolk District Council. The meteorological mast, often called a ‘met’ mast, measures wind speeds to assess the suitability of a site for a wind...

Details emerge about Consumers 40-70-tower wind park for Mason County

Consumers Energy has named its proposed Mason County wind park, stated its capacity and issued requests for proposals to wind manufacturers. The Mason County wind park will be called the Lake Winds Energy Park and will have 100 megawatts of capacity. Consumers Energy spokesman Jeff Holy...

Big Wind: How Many Households Served, What Emissions Reduction? (A Case Study)

Contributing to Capacity: The Sine Qua Non of Power Generation Investments The foregoing illustrates the complexity of determining the impact of wind plants on fossil fuel and CO2 emissions reductions in electricity systems. The following completes the application of this to the new...

Wind turbines targeted in Minnesota; Report advises bigger setbacks, noise monitoring

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission staff members recommend longer setback requirements and noise monitoring of wind turbines in response to growing health concerns. The recommendations, made in a report released this week, will be considered by the five-member commission when...

Wind farms can cause noise problems finds study

The noise caused by wind farms can make some people ill, according to experts. The study by a panel of independent experts found that the irritation caused by the noise around wind farms can effect certain individuals. Scientists dismissed the idea of a “wind turbine syndrome” where the vi...

West Tisbury is too quiet for turbine

A wind turbine project proposed by the Up-Island Regional School District (UIRSD) recently came to a noisy end. For more than two years, the UIRSD, which serves the towns of Chilmark, Aquinnah, and West Tisbury, has been considering the feasibility of installing a 250-kilowatt (kW) win...

Gravely wind farm fight continues as developers appeal

Campaigners against an eight-turbine wind farm on the site of the former Graveley airfield have vowed to take their fight to a public inquiry. Developers npower renewables is appealing Huntingdonshire District Council’s refusal of planning consent for the scheme late last year. Plann...

Report: Setback for turbines too strict

NEWBURYPORT — A mayoral advisory committee is recommending the city look at reducing proposed setbacks for future wind turbines in a report issued this week. The Energy Advisory Committee, which was first formed by former Mayor John Moak to come up with solutions to reduce energy usage i...

Campaigners reeling after losing Bradwell turbine farm plan row

The winds of change are sweeping through Essex. A ten-turbine wind farm in Bradwell has been given planning permission. It will be the second in the county, after a five-turbine farm on the outskirts of Clacton was granted consent on appeal. Southminster could get 22 turbines. An applicatio...

Council mulls twin turbines

The Jamestown Town Council is poised to consider the financial benefits of building not one, but two wind turbines on the island. The unexpected twist in the town’s two-year assessment of potential wind energy benefits arose during a Jan. 25 workshop held by the council, which had asked th...

Turbine breakdown in Provincetown

PROVINCETOWN — Harbor authorities’ experience over the last several months with a wind turbine installed on MacMillan Pier has demonstrated that the turbine is not suitable for use in that location, reports Harbormaster Rex McKinsey. The Pier Corp. is now looking for a different system...

Eastbrook reviews wind power options

EASTBROOK, Maine — A handful of local municipal officials and a few residents got an advance look Tuesday night at what kind of effect a large-scale wind farm might have on their town, which has fewer than 400 year-round residents. One scenario floated at the meeting, which included attor...

Proposed wind farm encounters resistance from City of Union

UNION — Horizon Wind Energy has a long way to go to convince the City of Union that the proposed Antelope Ridge Wind Farm is a good thing. A city-appointed committee recently completed a 10-page study of impacts the proposed 300-megawatt facility might have on the community. The bottom line...

Wind farm opponents may challenge court’s consent

Opponents of a $400 million wind farm planned for the central North Island may appeal against an Environment Court decision allowing the project to go ahead. The court approved Meridian Energy’s 130-megawatt Central Wind project between Taihape and Waiouru. Meridian will build 52 wind...

Md. wind farm developer to forgo 24 turbines

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Maryland developer has agreed not to build 24 turbines and will abandon 31 proposed sites at a West Virginia wind farm, settling a lawsuit by environmental groups worried about potential harm to the endangered Indiana bat. Under the deal announced Wednesday, Beech Ri...

Windmill moratorium proposed in Aurora

The Aurora Town Board is considering a six-month ban on wind-powered turbines because its code lacks any provision to govern wind-energy conversion systems. The board set a public hearing for Feb. 8 and said it has a resolution drafted for the moratorium proposal. The issue also will be dis...

Eagle might have been chopped up by wind farm rotor blade

Viennese wild animal experts are investigating after an imperial eagle was discovered cut to pieces close to wind turbines in Burgenland last weekend. Burgenland People’s Party (ÖVP) Agriculture Secretary Werner Falb-Meixner today (Weds) announced in reaction to the incident near...

Communities come together to oppose wind-tower project

More than 100 residents from Oswego, Jefferson, and Lewis counties met at the H. Douglas Barclay courthouse in Pulaski Saturday to discuss their opposition to a proposed wind farm and to explore solutions to what they refer to as a detriment to their communities. Upstate Power has propose...

Airport airing concerns ahead of windmill vote

BLUEFIELD, Va. — With a decision on a controversial wind turbine farm for East River Mountain now only days away, the chairman of the Mercer County Airport Authority said Wednesday that he will personally hand-deliver a letter of opposition to Tazewell County Administrator Jim Spencer...

Conference over claims wind farms are health risk

Claims that wind turbines cause health problems will be discussed at a conference in Cardiff later. “Wind turbine syndrome” was dismissed last year by a panel of experts, commissioned by the American and Canadian Wind Energy Associations. They said headaches, nausea and panic attacks “...

Dartmouth turbines get final OK

DARTMOUTH — Town Meeting decided Thursday night that the town will indeed get into the wind generating business. After a calm, two-hour discussion, the special Town Meeting voted 182-44 to to spend $9.5 million for two wind turbines. The civil tone of the debate was in stark contrast to many...

Meeting on wind turbines in the works

South Bristol, N.Y. — A coalition of groups concerned with industrial wind turbine development in the Finger Lakes region will bring together state and federal elected officials at a conference next month at Bristol Harbour Resort. Hosting the event will be Naples Town Supervisor Frank D...

Residents, council want more answers on wind turbines

AMHERSTBURG — Several residents living near the proposed five-turbine South Side Wind Farm are looking for answers and it appears town council is also seeking more information on the project. Mick MacCorquodale, accompanied by his wife and several other neighbors of the proposed wind...

Why does anybody support wind turbines?

I have a confession to make. Sometimes I have a hard time keeping a straight face while I listen to our elected politicians debate certain issues. On January 18 I was almost bursting at the seams listening to Meaford council debate wind turbines. The issue was simple. Some councillors wanted t...

Wyoming group studies tying wind farms to grid

Transmission developers with plans to send Wyoming wind power to western states hungry for renewable energy are trying to figure out how to connect scattered wind farms with proposed export power lines. The Wyoming Infrastructure Authority formed the Wind Collector and Transmission...

Wind farm project for Leicestershire is rejected

Green power company bosses have vowed to appeal after a three-turbine wind farm project was rejected unanimously last night. The scheme next to Gartree prison, near Market Harborough, was thrown out because the 410ft high turbines would dominate the skyline. Planners also felt it could...

Wind turbine plan gets the thumbs-down

A controversial planning application for a three-turbine wind farm was thrown out by Harborough District Council last night (Tuesday). About 100 people filled the council chamber to hear the specially-convened meeting of the council’s planning committee. The Energy4All applicatio...

Turbines bid draws objections

A Mearns resident has spoken out against plans for a windfarm which he says is helping to turn the picturesque landscape into a “rural factory”. Drumlithie Feed Mill hopes to build three wind turbines at Jacksbank, near Drumlithie, to supply the business with electricity. John Stevenson...

Opposition group makes presentation to school board

A citizen’s group has asked the Lakehead Public School Board to join the fight against the proposed Big Thunder Wind Park. Nor’Wester Mountain Escarpment Protection Committee health and safety co-chair Margot Freitag, who is also a school board employee, made a presentation to the boa...

Stormy public meeting held over West Huntspill wind farm plans

The boss of green energy company Ecotricity has this week defended his plans to build a new wind farm on land at West Huntspill, near Burnham-On-Sea. Dozens of residents attended a public meeting where Ecotricity formally unveiled its plans to construct five wind turbines on land next to...

Lawmaker questions higher-than-expected costs for renewable energy

A lawmaker wants more scrutiny of state deals to pay more for electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. The Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday that major state agencies now get 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources like wind farms but paid a prem...

Windfarm fears raised for hamlet near Carlisle

Residents of Brisco, on the southern outskirts of Carlisle, fear the hamlet could be earmarked for a windfarm. Esk Building Products wants to put up a 230ft meteorological mast next to its Brisco brickworks. This would monitor wind speeds for two years to see if the site is suitable for a sin...

National Policy Statement concerning renewable energy

The Government has published a draft set of National Policy Statements concerned with various large infrastructure projects. Of these, No.3 is concerned with Renewable Energy including onshore wind farms. This section on onshore wind farms includes a number of points which we would con...

Neighbors file lawsuit to block wind turbines in Dartmouth

DARTMOUTH — On the eve of tonight’s special Town Meeting vote to fund two wind turbines, neighbors of the controversial project filed a lawsuit hoping to block it. In a nine-page complaint, filed Monday in Fall River Superior Court, attorney Philip N. Beauregard, contends the Select Boar...

Wind farm foes back bylaw

Residents opposing a $25-million wind turbine project along Con. 6 want to know which rules apply — the town’s tougher zoning bylaw or the new guidelines of Ontario’s Green Energy Act. Town council didn’t have clear answers for them Monday on the future of GenGrowth’s 10-megawatt South Si...

More tribes join bid to derail Cape Wind

With the clock ticking on the Cape Wind decision, American Indian tribes across the nation are lining up in support of the Wampanoags. The San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona and the 25-tribe coalition known as the United South and Eastern Tribes Inc. have both asked U.S. Interior Secretary Ke...

Comments sought on Sound’s historic value

The U.S. Minerals Management Service is accepting public comment on the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm until Feb. 12. Comments are to focus on historic preservation, the latest hurdle faced by Cape Wind Associates LLC in the company’s nearly decadelong bid to become the country’s firs...

Examiner: Toss wind farm complaint

A complaint that a proposed wind farm in Highland County will ruin the view from a nearby Civil War battlefield should be dismissed, a hearing examiner with the State Corporation Commission ruled Monday. The recommendation, which now goes to the full SCC, appears to give a green light for...

US wind power capacity up in ‘09, but jobs stalled

U.S. wind power capacity soared 39 percent last year but job growth stalled as uncertainty about renewable energy policies and the recession slowed manufacturing, an industry group said. The combined power generating capacity of new U.S. wind turbines installed last year hit more than 9,9...

Wind farm in provincial hands now

The fate of a proposed wind turbine farm in central Innisfil will be decided by the provincial government under the new Green Energy Act. Schneider Power had applied to build five turbines on Conc. 5 near Hwy. 400 in 2007 through the town under the provincial Planning Act. But since then, the pr...

Rethinking wind power

For the first hundred years or so of commercial electric power, there have been six over-riding concerns about commercial electricity generators: Could they provide large amounts of electricity? Could they provide reliable and predictable electricity? Could they provide dispatc...

Step forward for Lowell wind project

Vermont utility regulators continue trying to balance the state’s interest in generating more renewable energy with the undeniable impact of tall mountaintop towers on the state’s iconic mountain views. A Public Service Board hearing officer recommended this month that Green Mount...

Wind turbines: 15 jobs, five votes and a forever altered landmark

Hearings scheduled on wind turbine district

BARNSTABLE — The Cape Cod Commission will hold five public hearings next month on a proposed planning district for wind turbines off the coast. The commission voted unanimously last week to consider the planning district nominated last month by the County Commissioners in anticipatio...

Wind farms run into turbulence with the FAA

With the current emphasis on “renewable energy” and sustainability, along with a healthy dose of federal funding, many companies have been developing plans for wind farms to help move this nation from the grip of over-reliance on petroleum products for its energy needs. While barrier...

Swansea must follow officers’ advice and reject mountain top wind farm

The Open Spaces Society,(1) has welcomed the recommendation from Swansea’s planning officers to reject the application from N Power Renewables Ltd to erect 19 wind turbines on Mynydd y Gwair Common, a beauty-spot eight miles north of Swansea.. Says Kate Ashbrook, the Open Spaces Societ...

Hackney Marsh wind turbine backed by residents

Residents have backed plans for a wind turbine on Hackney Marshes. More than 87% of the 712 people who responded to a consultation on the the proposals for the east London playing fields were in favour of the turbine. A wind turbine is to be built in nearby Waltham Forest as as part of the 2012 Ol...

Turbine decision blows ill wind for Mersea

Ten wind turbines more than twice the height of Nelson’s Column are set to appear on the horizon for Mersea residents. A planning inspector has given the go-ahead for the wind farm at Bradwell, across the Blackwater Estuary from West Mersea. Town mayor Peter Clements said the decision rais...

Windmill designs will bypass planning board

During Tuesday evening’s workshop, the Windham Town Council directed Assistant Planner Ben Smith to eliminate the need for planning board approval of windmills less than 120 feet tall or generating less than 100 kilowatts of electricity, which would be the only allowed windmills in t...

Referendum to seek voter input about wind turbines in McLean, Livingston cos.

BLOOMINGTON — Voters in McLean and Livingston counties will have the chance to voice their opinions Feb. 2 on proposed wind farm projects in their areas. Ballots in White Oak Township in McLean County will carry three referendum questions concerning the White Oak Energy Center. The adviso...

Dales windfarm enquiry: an anxious wait

Opponents of plans to build a giant windfarm in the Yorkshire Dales face an anxious wait until the man who advises the Government walks a grid some two kilometres square around the proposed site near Gargrave. In the meantime, the Friends of the Craven Landscape (FoCL) are appealing for do...

How much efficiency is lost by putting HAWTs near one another in a wind farm?

The “wake effect” is the reduction of wind speed and increase of turbulence down wind of a turbine. The figure below shows there are some very nasty wind directions. This should be expected with a regular grid when the wind lines up with the grid.

Huron, NY, resolution against Great Lakes Offshore Wind Project

WHEREAS, the development of wind power in the waters of the Great Lakes may seriously impede the migration of birds through the Great Lakes area, in what is known as the North American Flyway; and WHEREAS, the development of wind power in the waters of the Great Lakes may negatively impact...

NASA-Langley Wind-Turbine Noise Research

3] Acoustical Criteria Applicable to Large Wind Turbine Generators K.P.Shepherd* & D.G. Stevens Inter-Noise 82, 17-19 May 1982 4] Effects of the Wind Profile at Night on Wind Turbine Sound. J.Sound & Vibration, G.P.Van den Berg Volume 277, Issue 4-5, p. 955-970, 2004

Don’t Assume. Get the Facts. Consider the Risks.

Wind Turbines in Hood River, Oregon Financial Risks A recent article in the Oregonian describes just how bad things can get when making revenue forecasts related to wind projects. Download original document: “Wind Turbines in Hood River, Oregon – Get the Facts”

Opinion: Wind Energy Industry Acknowledgement of Adverse Health Effects

There are many peer-reviewed studies showing that infra and low frequency sound can cause adverse health effects, especially when dynamically modulated. Modern upwind industrial scale turbines of the types now being located in rural areas of North America require study. The extent to...

New publications on bats and wind turbines

Cryan, Paul; and Barclay, Robert. 2009. Causes of Bat Fatalities at Wind Turbines: Hypotheses and Predictions. Journal of Mammalogy 90, 1330-1340. Abstract. Thousands of industrial-scale wind turbines are being built across the world each year to meet the growing demand for sustainable...

Podcast: Residents of Vinalhaven, Maine, speak about wind turbine noise

Vinalhaven residents discuss what it has been like living with the windpower project on the island. Produced by Mark Elwin. archives.weru.org/voices Weekend Voices 12/19/09 Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Hidden fuel costs of wind generated electricity

Germany. Wind and electricity In the introduction we mentioned the issue of wind supply variability and the lack of an acceptable method for electricity buffer storage to cope with this variability. That variability is a huge issue as is demonstrated in the figure.

Opinion: Wind Turbine Syndrome: Executive Summary

1) Wind turbines cause wind turbine syndrome. We know this because people have symptoms when they are close to turbines and the symptoms go away when they are away from turbines. The study families themselves figured out that they had to move away from turbines to be rid of their symptoms, an...

Government suppresses noise protection expert advice

In 2006 the Government published a crucial report on wind turbine noise and its effects on nearby residents by Hayes McKenzie Partnership (HMP) . This study has been used to support the view that there is no reason to revise existing Government wind farm noise guidelines, nor that there ar...

Wind Integration: Incremental Emissions from Back-Up Generation Cycling (Part III: Response to Comments)

Apt, Jay, The Spectrum of Power from Wind Turbines, 2007. Sharman, Hugh, Planning for Intermittency: the Importance of Evidence from Germany and Denmark, (emphasis is Sharman’s), UK ERC Workshop – Imperial College, 2005. E.ON Wind Report 2004

Examination of ‘The Health Impact of Wind Turbines’, Published by Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit, June 2008

In June 2008 Dr. David Colby, in response to a request from the Chatham-Kent Council, produced a paper that purported to be a review of the literature regarding various health issues relating to wind turbines. From its introduction: “This report will enable the Chatham-Kent Board of Heal...

Industrial Wind Power in Maine’s Mountains Is Bad Policy (Testimony of Citizens Task Force on Wind Power)

2700 MW @ 25% average capacity factor = 675 MW electricity delivered on average to the ISO NE grid.675 MW divided by average ISO NE grid demand of 16,000 MW = only 4.5% of grid demand will be met by 2700 MW of wind turbines.Cost of Wind Generated Electricity2700 MW x $2 million per MW construction...

Opinion: Wind Integration: Incremental Emissions from Back-Up Generation Cycling (Part II)

The previous analyses assigned wind a capacity factor of 28 per cent, which may not be achievable for a number of reasons, for example: reduced availability of good wind sites as wind penetration increases and curtailment of wind production, particularly in high wind periods, by the sy...

What’s it like to live in a Wisconsin wind farm?

Harvey and Rita Freund live in the north-central section of the Blue Sky/Green Field 88 turbine wind project. Their home is surrounded by turbines on all sides. The closest turbines appear to be approximately 1500 feet away, with about 11 more turbines within a 2640 foot range of their hous...

Surrebuttal Testimony of Richard R. James on Behalf of the Coalition for Wisconsin Environmental Stewardship

Numerous studies have shown that wind turbines can be operating at nominal or higher power production during conditions when the ground level winds are calm and there is no noise from vegetation and turbulence around ground structures to mask the wind turbines. … I have also confirmed th...

A Conversation with Jon Boone – Toward a Better Understanding of Industrial WindTechnology

Ontario has long promised to retire (but has never been able to do so) all its coal plants. Officials tout that they will be replaced by “renewables.” To hedge its renewable energy bet, the Ontario government is building natural-gas facilities as insurance against new wind projects. In oth...

Opinion: Affidavit of Michael A. Nissenbaum, M.D. In Re: Record Hill Wind Project, Roxbury, Oxford County, Maine

3. I developed an interest in the health effects of wind turbine projects after becoming aware of and investigating the wide spread and serious health effects suffered by most of the residents of Mars Hill, Maine who live in proximity to a linear arrangement of wind turbines comprising a r...

Opinion: State agencies cooperating on wind project, Secretary says

RICHMOND — Scrutiny of the state’s first wind power plant has intensified, now that state agencies have had a chance to review its plans. Sept. 1, Virginia’s Secretary of Natural Resources Preston Bryant called a meeting with officials from agencies reviewing Highland New Wind Developm...

Health Canada’s response to the Digby Wind Power Project Addendum, Digby, Nova Scotia

Pedersen, E., and Halmstad, H. I. 2003. Noise annoyance from wind turbines – a review. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Report 5308. Pedersen, E. and Persson Waye, K. 2008. Wind turbines – low level noise sources interfering with restoration? Environmental Research Letters, 3: 1-5.

Migratory Bird Use of Delaware Bay with Respect to Risks of Wind Energy Development

I]n considering this issue, the Department has determined that we have, over many years of study and evaluation, developed sufficient information regarding the diversity, scope, and importance of avian resources in and around the Delaware Bay. Based on these data, we conclude that, a...

Opinion: Preserve local control of wind energy siting

Why Wind? Whereas, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) adopted a new renewable energy policy which includes wind energy facilities (WEFs) on September 22, 2004 that requires 25 percent of the State’s electricity to be supplied from renewable energy sources by 2013; and

Podcast: Wind Turbine Syndrome

As deleted from Wikipedia: Wind turbine syndrome (WTS) is a cluster of clinical symptoms first formally identified by British physician Amanda Harry, MD, and subsequently given the name Wind Turbine Syndrome and a pathophysiological explanation by New York State behavioral pediat...

Opinion: Douglas ZBA approves wind turbine variances

DOUGLAS — The Zoning Board of Appeals, American Pro Wind LLC and their respective legal teams reached agreement on variance conditions late last night, and the Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved height and use variances for 13 wind turbines. The decision wraps up one of the ini...

Podcast: Interview with Dr. Robert McMurtry about need for wind turbine health study

Bryan Allen of The Talkshow, AM920 CKNX, talks with Dr. Robert McMurtry about wind turbine health concerns. From Tuesday, Apr. 28. Click here to listen (9 minutes). Bryan Allen of The Talkshow, AM920 CKNX, talks with Dr. Robert McMurtry about wind turbine health concerns. From Tuesday, Apr. 28. C...

Podcast: Wind Turbines - Health

We started this segment with some sound from a wind turbine… to some, it’s the sound of clean, quiet, renewable and cheap electricity. To others, it’s the sound of frustration, grief, sleeplessness and medication. Wind power is seen and sold as the answer to our energy problems. There are wi...

Podcast: Confessions of Energy Legends: Wind Power Technically, Economically Inefficient – Can’t Really Replace Natural Gas in Electricity Sector

A sharp-dressed Oil Billionaire breezed through Columbus, Ohio, yesterday as part of a US tour asking citizens and civic leaders to pressure lawmakers for a “new deal” scale transmission grid expansion “from sea to sea and border to border.” This grid overhaul idea has surfaced before,...

Sumner wind panel reviews proposal

SUMNER — The Wind Power Committee met Tuesday night to review a draft option agreement with KEAN Project Engineering Inc. of Turner. The company is seeking an agreement to allow it to test meteorological conditions on a 114-acre town parcel on Mollyockett Mountain off Redding Road. It also...

Podcast: Wind farm concerns

The message Marshfield Town residents gave the Town Board Monday night was clear; they don’t believe their concerns about a local wind farm are being addressed. WE Energies operates the 88 turbines of the Blue Sky Green Field Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County’s Calumet and Marshfield Townsh...

Podcast: Radio interviews from Cohocton, N.Y. — can’t sleep because of wind turbine noise

Brian O’Neil of WLEA AM 1480, Hornell, N.Y., interviews two Cohocton residents, first a farmer who leases his land to First Wind (formerly UPC) and “tells us that he has a turbine on his property and that there is a wind turbine next door, and because of the turbines [2.5-MW models from Clipper...

New wind project outlined for Jericho Mt.

BERLIN — The planning board Tuesday night heard a new proposal for a wind farm on Jericho Mountain. David Brooks came before the board for a conceptual review of his plan to install seven wind turbines on the property with a total capacity of four megawatts. One of the turbines will be a smalle...

Opinion: Companies silent on potential sites for SW Va. wind turbines

There is no timetable to review potential wind energy sites in Wise and Tazewell counties, a spokesman for Eastern Virginia utility Dominion said Monday. Dominion and its wind projects partner, BP Wind Energy North America Inc., are also mum on the number of sites under consideration or l...

SSEIS Review Comments for Jordanville Wind Power Project

• Incorrectly compares wind turbines and related features to other modern intrusions such as utility lines, concrete silos, and signs that are modern intrusions that have previously altered settings of cultural resources. Comparison is expressed without acknowledgement of the lar...

Help the Obama transition team understand the negative aspects of industrial wind

Furthermore, big wind is largely incompatible with other environmental interests. It requires giant (400-500 feet high) moving machines spread out over a great expanse (at least 50 acres per rated megawatt), thus severely altering the rural and wild places where it is built, destroyi...

Opinion: Ruahines threatened: Stop the destruction!

Entire species of birds are threatened, due to the (70 meter) blades of the wind towers. As of today we know of no environmental impact studies that have been done in this area in regards to the introduction of large scale wind farming in these mountains. Solar Power as an Alternative