Alerts Archive: March 2008
These postings are provided to help publicize the efforts of affiliated groups and individuals related to industrial wind energy development. Most of the notices posted here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch.
You couldn't make it up!
I know that many of your friends follow our story with interest, so here’s the latest “episode”.
The District Council undertook a period of monitoring at our home last October. They came to measure the noise for an hour a night on 26 nights. On the basis of this they decided that there was no statutory noise nuisance, and although there were three minor breaches of the planning permission they did not feel it appropriate to prosecute. This “result” then went . . .
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Action alerts, Press releases, Scotland, U.K., Wildlife
Source: David Bellamy and Mark Duchamp
Birdies bye bye
We have received the following message from Israel:
“Following a press release last week it seems that several of the leading industrial companies in Israel are going to enter the wind business. These are deeply connected to leading politicians. Our ministry of environment is quite hopeless. The future seems bleak.”
From Gibraltar, from Sicily, from the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and now from Israel, day by day more bad news comes in from the main bird migration flyways of the . . .
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Eight Reasons Why Renewable Tax Credits Should Not Be Extended
Congress will soon be back in session and the renewable industries are already making a big push to get the PTC extended. If you are inclined to urge your Senators and Congressman to oppose the extension, feel free to extract whatever you would like from the brief statement below (which I will be faxing to “my” representatives).
March 25, 2008
Eight Reasons Why Renewable Tax Credits Should Not Be Extended
1. The original purposes of tax credits for wind energy — i.e., to . . .
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Paysages en danger : la polémique des éoliennes
La multiplication de ces machines provoque des dissensions dans les campagnes.
Exemple au coeur du Massif Central.
[The multiplication of these machines provokes dissent in the countryside, as in this report from the heart of the Massif Central, with good footage of the severely altered landscape and recordings of the noise. Merci à l'Association Coûp de Vent.]
Hit “play” button below, or download for external player (Quicktime movie).
sur TF1, 16 octobre 2007 à 13 heures
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Announcements, Environment, Letters, North Dakota, Wildlife
Source: Marty Jorgenson
To current and former residents of North Dakota
Although our nation is thirsty for energy, you will see from links on my site, that wind power is not the answer in supplying energy needs. In fact, production of industrial wind energy does more harm than good.
Few laws currently govern regulation of wind farms. That is slowly changing and wind developers are in a big rush to build facilities before new laws are enacted.
Developers claim this is a “community based” project. That might sound good at first but just . . .
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Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
¡Exitosa! Vigilia por la conservación de Punta Ventanas Cerro Toro y Punta Verraco, en Guayanilla
[Success! Vigil for conservation]
Guayanilla – La Vigilia celebrada el pasado viernes 14 de en la cancha bajo techo del parque del Bo. Indios de Guayanilla, cumplió con las expectativas de la Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco. A pesar de que muchas personas no pudieron llegar desde el área metropolitana como la Senadora Maria de Lourdes Santiago y miembros de otras organizaciones ambientales además de otras en su carácter particular que se dirigían hacia Guayanilla, como consecuencia del accidente ocurrido . . .
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Environment, Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
El contrato entre la AEE y Windmar: un golpe al bolsillo del pueblo de Puerto Rico
[The contract between AEE and Windmar: a shock to the pocketbook of the people of Puerto Rico.]
Guayanilla – Sin permisos, sin vistas públicas para atender la Declaración de Impacto Ambiental Final, sin informe de las vistas públicas celebradas por la Junta de Planificación en junio y julio del pasado año, tanto el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica Jorge Rodríguez y el $r. Víctor González Brahona, presidente de Windmar Renewable Energy anunciaron con bombos y platillos que firmaron . . .
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Wind Powering America — Your Tax Dollars Working Against You
Ladies & Gentlemen:
I don’t want to spoil your day but you probably should be aware of a relatively new (February 2008) document issued by the National Renewable Energy “Laboratory” (NREL) and DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE). The title is “Wind Powering America FY07 Activities Summary” and you can find it at www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/42345.pdf.
This “document” illustrates several things:
It shows how far government officials and contractors — using their positions and your tax dollars — will go in . . .
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Wind Power Cartoons
Here are just two of the many cartoons at windtoons.com. Click the thumbnail to see full size.
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Advertisements, Publications, Wisconsin
Source: Rock County Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
Graphics from Wisconsin
From the creative department of Better Plan for Rock County, these graphics may be freely used and customized for other communities as necessary. They are shown here at 50% size (click on each graphic for the full size). Higher-resolution copies are available by request.
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