Alerts Category: Press releases
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.
First Run Features to release award-winning documentary: WINDFALL
Opens Friday, February 3rd, 2012, at New York’s Quad Cinema and other cities nationally as well as on select VOD platforms Wind power: it’s clean; it’s green; it’s good. Or is it? Wind power … it’s sustainable … it burns no fossil fuels … it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the residents of Meredith, New York, first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s . . .
Announcements, Australia, Campaigns, Impacts, Meetings, Press releases •
Source: Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges Landscape Guardians and Stop Keyneton Wind Farm
Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges Landscape Guardians and Stop Keyneton Wind Farm
There is a new organisation of concerned residents and landowners from the Keyneton, Eden Valley and Cambrai districts of South Australia. This group has been formed in response to a 57 turbine wind “farm” planned for the area. We have formed The Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges Landscape Guardians whose primary task is to ensure that all those that will be affected by the Keyneton and Eden Valley wind “farm” will have the full picture of the personal and environmental consequences. . . .
Fundraisers, Health, Law, Ontario, Press releases •
Source: Chatham-Kent Wind Actiion
‘David and Goliath’ legal challenge underway against the global wind industry
The international wind industry will face one of its biggest challenges beginning on February 1, 2011. Canada will be at the centre of a legal battle of global proportions. In response to a recent approval of an industrial wind development, an appeal has been submitted to a Tribunal (ERT). The appeal is based chiefly on the issue of serious harm to human health from noise and low-frequency sound. The appeal raises other issues such as the government’s apparently admitted inability . . .
Health, Meetings, Ontario, Press releases •
Source: Society for Wind Vigilance
First International Symposium on Adverse Health Effects and Industrial Wind Turbines
Picton, Ontario, July 17, 2010 — The First International Symposium on the adverse health effects of industrial wind turbines will be held October 29-31, 2010 in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Hosted by The Society for Wind Vigilance and supported by the County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy, this groundbreaking two day event will feature prominent expert speakers from the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada who will provide important information relating to health issues reported . . .
Environment, Ireland, Meetings, Press releases •
Source: Gweebarra Conservation Group
Gweebarra Conservation Group
The Gweebarra River Valley and the surrounding townlands in South West Donegal is a unique landscape which supports many protected species and habitats. These include wild deer and salmon, a 500 strong common seal population and several protected bird species like Golden Eagles, Northern Bullfinches, Grouse and Corncrakes. As such the Gweebarra is a Natura 2000 site and an EU Designated Area of Conservation which means it is supposed to be protected by law from developments which would have a . . .
Doctors to Discuss Turbine Health Impacts at Wind Energy Forum
May 6th Rutland Regional Medical Center Event First of Its Kind in the United States Rutland, VT – For the first time ever, an upcoming community wind forum will allow two doctors to publicly discuss the issue of health impacts created by industrial wind turbines. The Rutland Regional Medical Center will be hosting the Community Forum on Wind Energy on Thursday, May 6th, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the CVPS/Leahy Community Health Center. This forum will feature two physician . . .
Energy, Environment, Ontario, Press releases, Protests, Quebec •
Source: Quebec citizen’s movement
Quebec solidarity with Ontario against wind industry
Ontario, April 28, 2010 The citizens of Quebec, involved in many different groups to protect their territory, are united in their effort to stop the intrusion of the wind mill industry in our communities without our consent. We are united in denouncing the invasion of that industry and support each other all over the world. We know that the wind mill industry, as developed, is not the solution to reduce our environmental footprint nor to provide us with the energy . . .
