Alerts Category: Property values
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.
Health, Meetings, Noise, Presentations, Press releases, Property values, Vermont •
Source: Lowell Mountain Group
Information Meeting on Industrial Wind Turbines, February 18
(Lowell, VT) The Lowell Mountain Group is hosting an information meeting on industrial wind turbines on February 18 at the Lowell Graded School, from 7 to 9 pm. This is a rescheduling of the meeting planned for January 28th that was cancelled because of weather. The meeting includes a panel of speakers and the opportunity to ask questions about issues that keep coming up in rural communities where industrial wind projects have been sited or proposed. There will be four . . .
Action alerts, Environment, Law, Noise, Property values, Setbacks, U.K., Wildlife •
Source: Country Guardian
National Policy Statement concerning renewable energy
One of our supporters has brought the following to my attention and it would be good if you could respond with your comments. The Government has published a draft set of National Policy Statements concerned with various large infrastructure projects. Of these, No.3 is concerned with Renewable Energy including onshore wind farms. http://data.energynpsconsultation.decc.gov.uk/documents/npss/EN-3.pdf This section on onshore wind farms includes a number of points which we would consider to be undesirable or plain wrong: There is a section on “proximity . . .
Dixmont Turbines
Turbines may soon be on Dixmont’s Hills.
Advertisements, Health, Noise, Ontario, Property values, Setbacks •
Source: Preserve Grey Highlands
Wind company spends $1.75 million to buy out and gag its victims
Action alerts, Aesthetics, Law, New York, Noise, Property values, Safety, Setbacks •
Source: Association of Towns of the State of New York
Preserve local control of wind energy siting
Preserving Local Authority over the Siting of Wind Energy Facilities In keeping with the legislative resolution adopted at our Annual Meeting and Training School [see below], the Association of Towns ha been working to preserve and strengthen local government’s role in the siting of major electric generating facilities. Specifically, we have called upon Gov. David Paterson, the Legislature and state agencies to develop new laws and regulations that will preserve local authority over the siting of Wind Energy Facilities (WEFs) . . .
Petition: State Wide Moratorium on Industrial Scale Wind Turbines For Maine
Petition: www.gopetition.com/online/27942.html We the People of Maine feel that there is more than enough of an adequate level of findings in consideration of the value of one’s health, quality of living, devaluation of real estate, and level of monetary investment required to install turbines of this scale, to validate a state wide hold on Industrial scale wind turbine installations. This, together with Dr. Dora Mills’ (State Health Officer) recent authorization for further investigation by a university professor of proximity effects . . .
Noise, Property values, Setbacks, Videos, Wisconsin •
Source: Better Plan, Wisconsin
Wind Farm, Iron Ridge, Wisconsin
In our rush to put up as many wind farms as possible as fast as possible, are we putting them too close to homes and sensitive wild life areas? What happens when the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin gets to pick the setbacks? The PSC has already allowed wind turbines that are forty stories tall to be sited 1,000 feet from non-participating residents homes. This video is one in a series intended to help our legislators understand why the PSC’s . . .
