Alerts Category: Videos
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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 . . .
“Too Close”
A look into the siting of industrial wind turbine projects in residential areas. You’ll hear from those who experience the shadow flicker and ill health effects of the Hull and Falmouth Massachusetts turbines. You’ll see how another small town is gearing up for a fight against government and the goliath that is the big wind industry.
“Con with the Wind” trailer
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Windfarm Wars – Episodes 3 and 4
The observational documentary series with remarkable access that follows a global developer’s controversial six-year battle to build a windfarm in the heart of some of Devon’s most sensitive landscape. Broadcast schedule (BBC2): Episode 3: Fri 27 May 2011, 19:00 England & Northern Ireland; Sat 28 May 2011, 18:30 Scotland; Tue 31 May 2011, 19:00 Wales Episode 4: Fri 3 Jun 2011, 19:00 England & Northern Ireland, 19:30 Wales; at 4 Jun 2011, 17:40 Scotland Episode 3: Following the local authority’s . . .
Windfarm Wars – Episodes 1 and 2
A revealing observational documentary series (in 4 episodes) that follows what happened when a global windfarm developer tried to build a windfarm in the heart of some of Devon’s loveliest landscape. Broadcast schedule (BBC2): Episode 1: Fri 13 May 2011, 19:00 England & Wales, 21:00 Northern Ireland; Sat 14 May 2011, 17:15 Scotland Episode 2: Fri 20 May 2011, 19:00 England, Northern Ireland, Wales; Sat 21 May 2011, 18:40 Scotland Episode 1: Passionate developer Rachel Ruffle puts forward plans for . . .
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Source: Peña Productions
They’re Not Green: Uncovering the Secrets of the Wind Farms
The documentary They’re Not Green takes the viewer from the wind industry in Palm Springs, California, where it all began, to the larger national canvas where it has evolved into the most highly subsidized, and one of the least productive forms of energy in the U.S. today. This thoroughly researched documentary examines the environmental effects of wind power, including its limited impact upon reducing CO2 emissions, its potentially negative health implications “Wind Turbine Syndrome”, the killing of thousands of birds . . .
