Alerts Archive: May 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.
Urgent! — Petition to preserve local control over industrial wind turbine siting
URGENT! — PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION TO PRESERVE LOCAL CONTROL OVER INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINE SITING AT WWW.GREENBERKSHIRES.ORG The governor and legislature are moving quickly to pass a bill to promote industrial wind development in every community within the Commonwealth. It targets the Berkshires and Highlands of western Massachusetts, and the coastal areas. The legislation, titled the Wind Energy Siting Reform Act, will remove local zoning control and veto power over onshore wind power plants of 2 megawatts (MW) or more. . . .
Wind lobby disclosures, 2008-2009
These are a few companies found in the database at Center for Public Integrity American Wind Energy Association $460,379 2008 3rd Quarter Lobbyist(s): Tom Vinson, Gregory Wetstone $493,436 2008 4th Quarter $1,212,503 2009 1st Quarter $60,000 Lobbyist(s): Michael Andrews Vestas American Wind Technology Alston & Bird, LLP $50,000 2008 2nd Quarter Lobbyist(s): Jon Chase Cape Wind Associates Capitol City Group $10,000 2009 1st Quarter Lobbyist(s): Gerald Harrington, Christopher Vitale Horizon Wind Energy Alston & Bird, LLP $30,000 2008 2nd Quarter . . .
A concrete example
“19,500 ft. of roads, 43,000 ft. collection system and 20 foundations in 22 days … All it took was 17,000 tons of concrete … The 20-turbine Jeffers, MN Wind Farm project began in November and was completed before the ground froze.” –Carstensen Contracting, Inc., ad in April 2009 North American Windpower
Petition: State Wide Moratorium on Industrial Scale Wind Turbines For Maine
Petition: www.gopetition.com/online/27942.html We the People of Maine feel that there is more than enough of an adequate level of findings in consideration of the value of one’s health, quality of living, devaluation of real estate, and level of monetary investment required to install turbines of this scale, to validate a state wide hold on Industrial scale wind turbine installations. This, together with Dr. Dora Mills’ (State Health Officer) recent authorization for further investigation by a university professor of proximity effects . . .
Noise, Property values, Setbacks, Videos, Wisconsin •
Source: Better Plan, Wisconsin
Wind Farm, Iron Ridge, Wisconsin
In our rush to put up as many wind farms as possible as fast as possible, are we putting them too close to homes and sensitive wild life areas? What happens when the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin gets to pick the setbacks? The PSC has already allowed wind turbines that are forty stories tall to be sited 1,000 feet from non-participating residents homes. This video is one in a series intended to help our legislators understand why the PSC’s . . .
Wind Turbine Noise 2009: List of Accepted Papers
As of 25 April, papers accepted for the 3rd International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise, 17th-19th June 2009, Aalborg, Denmark: Monitoring, Analyzing and Adjusting Wind Turbine Systems– Allaei, Tarnowski (USA) Sound Emission and Sound Propagation for Wind Turbines in Forest Terrains– Almgren (Sweden) Long Distance Sound Propagation Over a Sea Surface– Andersson, Bolin, Cederholm, Karasal (Sweden) Design of Low Noise Airfoil with High Aerodynamic Performance– Bak, Bertagnolio, Madsen (Denmark) Seismic Effect on Residents from 3 MW Wind Turbines– Bakker, Bennett, . . .
New Yorker cartoons about wind energy
