Alerts Archive: April 2009
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.
News for Minnesota Residents concerned with the regulation of Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Representative Andrew Falk is trying to unravel the County’s authority to delineate more stringent standards and abolish a key PUC Order that is used by counties through introduction of a Bill titled: H.F No. 2019. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2019.0.html&session=ls86 On 1/11/08 the Minnesota PUC issued an Order, DOCKET NO. EG-999/M-07-l-102 PUC ORDER ESTABLISHING GENERAL WIND PERMIT STANDARDS. http://energyfacilities.puc.state.mn.us/resource.html?Id=19461 This document was created in collaboration with many private citizens, local Planning and Zoning Administrators and the technical folks within the Department of Commerce. This . . .
Environment, Impacts, Law, New York, Petitions •
Source: Wind Power Ethics Group
New York Petition: Moratorium on Wind Energy Development in Northern NY
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/moratorium-on-wind-energy-development.html To Governor Paterson: We, the undersigned, • Request that an immediate moratorium be placed on wind energy development for two years to sort out all the evolving and constantly changing issues surrounding this new technology which carries so many potential negative impacts. • Request that you direct the Attorney General to modify his wind ethics code to mandatory from the current voluntary participation, and be unyielding in its enforcement. • Request that you direct the Attorney General to immediately . . .
Action alerts, Canada, Europe, Health, Law, Noise, Oceania, Petitions, U.S. •
Source: Eric Rosenbloom
Worldwide Petition: 2-km Wind Turbine Setbacks for Health and Safety
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/wind-watch.html We, the undersigned, request, for reasons of safety and health, that: 1. No large wind energy turbine shall be erected closer than 1,500 meters or 12 times its total height (hub height plus rotor radius), whichever is greater, from a neighboring property line or public road or path; and 2. No large wind energy turbine shall be erected closer than 2,000 meters or 15 times its total height, whichever is greater, from a residence, school, place of business, or . . .
U.K. petition for 2-km wind turbine setback
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Establish an automatic buffer zone of at least 2 km between any new industrial size wind turbine and any home.” U.K. residents: sign this 10 Downing St petition — deadline 29th April, 2009: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/2000metres/
Windfarms in the Highlands
The epilogue of Hutton’s Arse: 3 billion years of extraordinary geology in Scotland’s Northern Highlands concerns itself with the threat of windfarms: The Highlands are being humiliated by windfarm developers who insist they are saving the environment. How can the blade of a bulldozer ripping up 6000 years of beautifully preserved archaeology be saving the environment? How can the turbine blades smashing a Golden Eagle to bits be saving the environment? Buy this book. I hope you enjoy it. Your . . .
