Alerts Archive: August 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.
Protesta en Juchitan (Oaxaca) en contra de las empresas eólicas
Ante la irresponsabilidad del juez de lo civil de Juchitan de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, quien a mas de siete meses de que nosotros, comuneros y comuneras de Juchitan de Zaragoza, Union Hidalgo y Xadani interpusimos mas de 120 demandas de nulidad de los contratos que firmamos por medio de engaños con las empresas transnacionales de generación de energía eolica. Demandas las cuales el juez no ha dado atención oportuna y si ha filtrado información a las empresas transacioanales para que visiten . . .
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False Claims by Horizon Wind Energy
In its August 11, 2008, edition, the Batavia (NY) Daily News published, in its commentary section, a letter from a Horizon Wind Energy [i] “Project Manager” under the heading: “In energy crisis, we need to harvest wind.”
The letter from the Horizon Wind official contains false and misleading claims. Contrary to assertions in that letter:
1. More wind turbines will NOT reduce US or NY dependence on imported oil.
According to official US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data for . . .
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Action alerts, Announcements, Impacts, Manitoba
Source: Manitoba Conservation
Public comments request for St. Joseph Wind Energy Project, Manitoba
Manitoba Conservation has received a proposal pursuant to The Environment Act from the following operation and invites public participation in the review process:
St. Joseph Wind Energy Project (File: 5353.00)
[Click here for the proposal, which was filed 24 July 2008. This public announcement was not published until 8 August, 3 weeks later, leaving only 5 weeks of an already very short period of 8 weeks for public comment.]
A Proposal for the St. Joseph Wind Energy Project has been filed by St. . . .
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Environment, Law, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
Electrical Authority denies missing permits, Natural Resources secretary lists them
El Secretario del DRNA desmiente a Jorge Rodríguez director ejecutivo de la AEE y confirma las denuncias hechas por la Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
[Natural Resources Secretary belies Electrical Authority claims and confirms charges made by the Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco]
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Guayanilla — En expresiones vertidas a la prensa por el Secretario del DRNA Javier Vélez Arocho donde justifica el “acuerdo” entre Windmar y su agencia por el que le condonan las serias violaciones . . .
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2nd National Demonstration Against Industrial Wind
Saturday, 4th October 2008, 2:00 P.M., Paris, place Denfert-Rochereau at boulevard Saint-Germain
Collectif du 4 octobre
On October 6, 2007, more than 1,500 French citizens, members of national federations and local associations, came from all over France along with local elected officials to demonstrate against unjustified and scandalous industrial wind. Received by the minister of the environment, a delegation presented their demands.
Despite its promises, the state has still not kept its commitments.
One year later, in contempt of the most elementary democracy, the . . .
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Miles of mountain ridges
The first sentence in the Washington Post article, Wind is Given a 2nd Look as Energy Needs Grow (Aug. 3, 2008), gets right to the point: the energy industry has targeted western Virginia’s forested mountains for industrial wind energy development.
“Wind is catching fire,” said L. Preston Bryant Jr. Virginia’s secretary of natural resources. “It is literally all the rage.”
Although the Washington Post article highlights the “conflict within the environmental community” concerning this development push, it fails to provide much in . . .
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