Alerts Archive: May 2010
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.
Invitation to join the ‘Save the Border Hills’ Walk
For many years now, Lammermuir residents and local Councils have campaigned furiously against North British Windpower’s (NBW) proposed Fallago Rig Wind Farm in the Scottish Borders. All objections to the proposed plans have been ignored by the Scottish Government and this must change. Please come and join our ‘Save the Border Hills’ Walk taking place on 12th June 2010 at Penshiel, Cranshaws, Duns. The event will be signposted from Cranshaws, Longformacus and Gifford. All welcome, including dogs on leads. Please . . .
Announcements, Fundraisers, Law, Letters, News, Ontario, Setbacks •
Source: Hanna, Ian
Ian Hanna v. Ontario – Legal Action update
As many are aware, in October 2009, with the support of a great many people, a major legal challenge was launched under my name to the Green Energy Act – specifically to the parts that deal with siting and setbacks of Industrial Wind Turbines (IWTs) in relation to people’s homes. This “Application for Judicial Review” seeks to have IWT development close to people placed on hold across Ontario until independent, epidemiological studies are completed to determine safe setbacks from places . . .
Windfall
What do we really know about wind power? We are told it’s “green energy” and reduces our dependency on foreign oil. That’s exactly what the people of Meredith in upstate New York thought when a wind developer offered to supplement this farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own — that of 40 industrial wind turbines. Attracted at first to the financial incentives, some of the townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they find out about side effects they . . .
France, Germany, Health, Italy, Japan, Noise, Poland, Publications •
Source: K-Selected Books
Translations of “Wind Turbine Syndrome”
K-Selected Books is pleased to offer an abridged (shortened) version of Nina Pierpont’s “Wind Turbine Syndrome” book in various non-English languages. You are welcome to download these translations, print them off, circulate them at will, hand them out, and post them on whatever websites you choose. They are a gift. What you will be reading is basically Chapter 4 (“Report for Non-Clinicians”) of the full-length English-language book, with several new pages added. Thus making “Wind Turbine Syndrome: Abridged” a complete . . .
Aesthetics, Economics, Energy, Germany, Impacts, Meetings •
Source: Gegenwind-Sylt
“Sündenfall Windkraft” conference, 26-27 March 2011
On the island of Sylt / Schleswig-Holstein will be a 2-Day conference on 26th-27th of March, 2011. Speakers will be: Prof. Dr. Ing. Helmut ALT, FH (UAS) Aachen „Options of a affordable energy supply” Dipl.-Soz. Ök. Thomas HEINZOW (Social Economics), Universität Hamburg „About the political economy of wind turbine delusion” Prof. Dr. Horst MALBERG, TU Berlin „About the solar influence on climate change” Prof. Dr. Gerhard GERLICH, TU Braunschweig „Greenhouse effect? About global climate models” Diplom-Meteorologe Klaus-Eckart PULS „Will Sylt . . .
S.O.S. MASSIF DU SUD! SAVE OUR REGIONAL PARK
GRAND GATHERING JUNE 21, 2010 AT THE RANCH DU MASSIF DU SUD IN CHAUDIÈRE-APPALACHES QUEBEC You are invited to join a gathering at the Ranch du Massif du Sud, where its owners, Aboriginal Metis People, invite you to its Grand Gathering on June 21, 2010, that coincides with National Aboriginal Day. Come to support the determination of the Ranch to protect the biodiversity of the Parc régional Massif du Sud, endangered by the wind industry; two wind farm projects totaling . . .
