Welcome to National Wind Watch!
National Wind Watch® is a coalition of groups and individuals working to save rural and wild places from heedless industrial wind energy development. This web site was created to document and promote awareness of the negative impacts of industrial-scale wind turbines on our environment, economy, and quality of life.
Energy security and the need to reduce pollutants and other emissions are serious issues. Therefore, we should not be distracted by symbolic or "feel-good" gestures that fail to meaningfully address these issues and in fact do substantial harm. We advocate an intellectually honest assessment of the benefits and costs of industrial wind development. Our objective is to be a resource of information and assistance for individuals and local groups seeking the facts about industrial wind power.
National Wind Watch provides a means for diverse groups to share information and strengthen each other. We are all unpaid volunteers with many other demands on our time and resources but consider this effort an important contribution to protecting our world.
We receive no support from any industry or political interests. Our funding comes only from concerned individuals, who represent every.
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History
In May 2005, citizens from ten states representing several regions of the U.S. met to share their concerns about the risks and related impacts of industrial wind power. National Wind Watch emerged from that conference with the goal of providing a central resource of information and helping to increase communication among "wind warriors". It is a 501(c)3 organization registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The original web site appeared in December 2005 at www.windwatch.org, but in May 2006 it was hijacked by parties who did not want NWW's efforts to succeed. The new, and better, web site appeared at www.wind-watch.org (with a hyphen) in July 2006.
Board of Directors
As of May 29, 2007, the President of National Wind Watch is Eric Rosenbloom (Vt.), the Vice President is David Roberson (Mass.), the Treasurer is Lloyd Crawford (Mass.), and Sue Sliwinski (N.Y.) is a member of the Board.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark of National Wind Watch, Inc.
