Alerts Category: Information
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, Information, Massachusetts •
Source: Barbara Durkin
The Cape needs your help
We are all in a battle to preserve the historic integrity of the Cape and islands. Tribal rights to Nantucket Sound deemed eligible to listing to the National Register of Historic Places is a key issue under consideration by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. The single most important comment you can make to assert the value of the historic integrity of Nantucket Sound exists before 5 PM tomorrow. This issue parallels your successful effort to retain the historic character . . .
NYISO interconnection queue wind projects
As of April 8, 2009, seventy wind projects are in the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) interconnection queue [click here for latest information from NYISO], accounting for (summer) nameplate generation capacity of nearly 9,200 megawatts (1,400 of which result from the offshore LIPA project). Of these projects: 11 are in service (See NYISO press release of 4/22 indicating that over 1,200 MW are in operation, having grown by 300% over the last year) the average size is 131.4 megawatts . . .
Map of wind energy facility, DeKalb County, Ill.
Map of the 151-turbine wind energy facility in DeKalb and Lee Counties, Illinois, proposed by Florida Power & Light (now called “Nextera”), showing parcel owners, transmission lines, roads, and construction easements. Download “Map of proposed FPL wind energy facility, DeKalb County, Ill.” (5-MB PDF)
Photomontages and simulations
The main problem with photo simulations is that they equalize every element in the frame and thus inherently minimalize the presence of the turbines. They are also generally wide views from a distance. What photo simulations lack is motion, noise, and the human eye’s natural distraction by moving objects and reaction to incongruous aspects of the view. We immediately see, for example, a small smudge on the wall and then it no longer matters that 99.99% of the wall is . . .
Environment, Information, Puerto Rico •
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
En torno al proyecto windmar
[Extracts of opinions given in opposition to the Windmar project proposed for construction in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico] A continuación, extractos de expresiones vertidas en oposición al proyecto Windmar propuesto para ser construido en Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Recopilado por José F. Sáez Cintrón, Portavoz Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco Dr. Edwin Irizarry Mora, candidato a gobernador por el PIP Marcha Contra el Proyecto Windmar Guayanilla, sábado 2 de agosto de 2008 La AEE pretende no solamente privatizar la producción de . . .
Emissions, Information, Law, North Carolina, Technology •
Source: Don Hendershot
Answers to a few questions
The air went out of the sails of the “Wind Power Forum” for a bit because we hope to make it Web based and have some technical tinkering to do to prepare The Smoky Mountain News’ Web site. To whet your appetite and perhaps inspire wind-power proponents to respond, I will give you a glimpse from the most complete response (answering all the reader-inspired questions) we have received to date. The response is from Eric Rosenbloom, a science editor and . . .
Destruction of Moore Rd, Cohocton, N.Y.
A troubling set of 33 photos:
