Alerts Category: Environment
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.
Tell Maine DEP: Stop Oakfield Wind!
First Wind of Boston is seeking to drastically change the size and scope of the proposed Oakfield Wind Project. First Wind (Evergreen Wind Power II, LLC) is seeking to build 50 wind turbines, almost double the original number proposed in their original application. The new turbines will stand at 459 feet tall – the equivalent height of a 45 story building. The proposed modification amounts to an enormous change; and the differences in the impacts of noise and vibration between . . .
Economics, Energy, Environment, Events, Health, Noise, Scotland •
Source: Communities Against Turbines Scotland
Scottish National Wind Farm Conference – Friday 11th November 2011
Communities Against Turbines Scotland invite you to the SCOTTISH NATIONAL WIND FARM CONFERENCE AYR RACECOURSE FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2011 AGENDA Graeme Pearson MSP will chair the conference. Exhibition Stands are available for display and networking – please contact Kim [see below] to reserve yours. A full question and answer session with the panel will follow the morning and afternoon session. 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.30 Opening of the conference by Graeme Pearson MSP – Chair 10.45 Professor Iain MacLeod, Vice-President, . . .
Lowell Mountains Open House
You Are Invited! To attend an Open House to view Green Mountain Power’s crane path construction site on the Lowell Mountains. Meet in front of the Craftsbury Public Library at 11:30 am Sunday November 13. [Click here for map.] We will carpool to the base of the mountain and hike up. Details: Wear bright colors (it’s hunting season), hiking shoes or rubber boots; (the trail is muddy and steep). Bring warm layers, raingear, a wool or pile hat, daypack with . . .
Ridges Are Not Renewable!
Industrial wind projects are presented as a “green” way to produce energy. But standing on top of one of the world’s oldest mountains, watching forest and stone get blown away to make room for these behemoths — that tells a different story. There is no way to “un-blast” a ridge. Corporations of the world flock towards the capital these projects put in their pockets — they don’t care that they’re the most inefficient and expensive way to make clean energy, . . .
Aesthetics, Environment, Information, Scotland •
Source: Scottish Natural Heritage / Dualchas Nàdair na h-Alba
Windfarms in Scotland, July 2011
Windfarms installed or approved, under application, and in scoping (click picture to enlarge): Click here for current version.
sWINDle shopping tote
I have had these grocery-bag-size totess printed. Their below-cost price is $2.00/unit plus USPO postage determined by weight, zip, etc. Email me at marshsue/verizon.net for details. They are 13ʺW × 15ʺH × 10ʺD. The original art was inspired by Preston McClanahan and adapted to the bags by me. Marshall Rosenthal
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