Alerts Category: New York
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.
Action alerts, Aesthetics, Campaigns, Economics, Fundraisers, Impacts, New York, Noise, Property values •
Source: Protect Richfield
We Have 20 Days to Stop Industrial Wind Turbines in Our Area!
We Have 20 Days to Stop Industrial Wind Turbines in Our Area!!!! 492 ft. Industrial Wind Turbines Do Not Have To Be Our Future Our area will be forever changed if we allow this project to go forward We don’t have to have it – and we don’t need it Turbines today – Fracking tomorrow We believe town laws have been disregarded – and we won’t stand for it! Remember 6 turbines will be only the beginning – Don’t let . . .
Big sWINDle
Response to Orangeville Supervisor, Susan May, Re: “Stony Creek” Swindle. (click image to enlarge)
Aesthetics, Environment, New York, Publications •
Source: Great Lakes Wind Truth
Not here! Not anywhere!
The answer is not blowing in the wind! Not here! Not anywhere! Not for our body & soul Not for the water we drink Not for birds, bats and fish Not for our shoreline Not for our dollars and cents Not for our property values At risk: health – water safety – aesthetics – economics – birds/bats – vibration – noise Wind turbines cause huge environmental damage – They will not save the planet – Say NO – Contact your . . .
Film, Impacts, Ireland, New York •
Source: Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival
Windfall at Guth Gafa, Gortahork, Co. Donegal
Synopsis: Wind power… It’s green… It’s good… It reduces our dependency on foreign oil. But does it? Or, is it merely a highly profitable financial scam for the many wind energy developers looking to erect industrial wind turbines in a town near you? WINDFALL, looks at both sides of wind energy development when the residents of a rural upstate New York town consider going green. Attracted at first to the financial incentives that would seemingly boost their dying economy, the . . .
Aesthetics, Economics, Energy, Impacts, New York, Petitions •
Source: Town of Greece, NY, concerned citizens
STOP Great Lakes Wind Turbine Development
We, the undersigned, oppose the “Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW) Project” and disapprove of ANY construction of wind turbines in our Great Lakes. Sign petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-great-lakes-wind-turbine-development/361784891/ On December 1st, 2009, The New York State Power Authority submitted a request for a proposal to potentially build an industrial wind farm off the shores of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, or both. This proposal would see the construction of 40-166 450-ft industrial wind turbines 2 miles off shore at depths not to exceed . . .
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 . . .
Action alerts, Health, Meetings, New York, Noise, Ontario •
Source: Great Lakes Regional Wind Energy Institute
Wind Turbine Syndrome: Myths and Facts
Webinar presented by the Great Lakes Regional Wind Energy Institute with support from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [Colby and Leventhall and the audience of this webinar need to hear from the people they say don't exist about the symptoms they say aren't real.] Please join us Thursday February 11th at 11am EST for a discussion of the myths and facts behind wind turbine syndrome and how scientific research is used to both support and deny the claims made. Attendees . . .
