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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.
2nd National Demonstration Against Industrial Wind
Saturday, 4th October 2008, 2:00 P.M., Paris, place Denfert-Rochereau at boulevard Saint-Germain
Collectif du 4 octobre
On October 6, 2007, more than 1,500 French citizens, members of national federations and local associations, came from all over France along with local elected officials to demonstrate against unjustified and scandalous industrial wind. Received by the minister of the environment, a delegation presented their demands.
Despite its promises, the state has still not kept its commitments.
One year later, in contempt of the most elementary democracy, the . . .
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Miles of mountain ridges
The first sentence in the Washington Post article, Wind is Given a 2nd Look as Energy Needs Grow (Aug. 3, 2008), gets right to the point: the energy industry has targeted western Virginia’s forested mountains for industrial wind energy development.
“Wind is catching fire,” said L. Preston Bryant Jr. Virginia’s secretary of natural resources. “It is literally all the rage.”
Although the Washington Post article highlights the “conflict within the environmental community” concerning this development push, it fails to provide much in . . .
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Photos: Destructive power of wind energy development
This book of photos is available from Blurb: Click here to preview and order.
Also see photo galleries at Fotopic (click here).
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Protect Beneficial Bats — Oklahoma Ad
Save the Prairie ran this half-page ad for two days in the Woodward News.
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Videos: burning turbine, washing turbine
Burning Wind Turbine (Portugal, 4.5 min.)
Washing Wind Turbine from Helicopter (Spain, 3 min.)
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Environment, Events, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
Oposicion al Proyecto Windmar
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Environment, Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
JCA encamina DIA-Final del proyecto Windmar a pesar de graves irregularidades
Guayanilla, PR — La Administración de Asuntos de Energía anunció el 27 de junio de 2008 mediante aviso público que la Junta de Calidad Ambiental (JCA) emitió ese día una Resolución Final para aprobar la Declaración de Impacto Ambiental Final (DIA-F) del proyecto industrial de molinos de viento propuesto por la empresa Windmar, en terrenos colindantes con la Reserva de la Biósfera de Guánica y el Estuario de la Bahía de Guayanilla. En dicha resolución, la JCA otorga 20 . . .
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Action alerts, Environment, Events, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
Marcha contra el proyecto Windmar
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Environment, News, Ontario, Press releases, Publications
Source: Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
Minister of Tourism approves Wolfe Island Wind Project
On June 4, 2008, the Minister of Tourism confirmed the province’s approval for the Wolfe Island Wind Project. Premier Dalton McGuinty asked the Minister to step in when the Environment Minister declared a conflict-of-interest on May 29, 2008.
Controversy over the Wolfe Island Wind Project centres on the location of a handful of the 86-wind turbines that Canadian Renewable Energy Corporation hopes to build on the island later this year.
The northwest part of Wolfe Island contains designated Important Bird Areas and . . .
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Beauty Corruption — Stop Benington Wind Farm
Click here to download an MP4 version of the “Beauty Corruption” video (23.4 MB).
Click here to download an MP3 audio file of the “Beauty Corruption” song (3.7 MB).
As you may know, there are plans to erect three huge wind turbines in the beautiful countryside of Benington.
These three turbines, reaching 400 foot each, will destroy the beauty and peace of such a serene area, and will be seen for many miles around.
I, myself, am not against wind energy. However, I feel . . .
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