Resource Library Category: Pennsylvania
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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Tioga Preservation Group Land Use Appeal
Author: Tioga Preservation Group
Tioga Preservation Group, Dr. Stephen Ollock, and Patricia Ollock v. Tioga County Planning Commission
Land Use Appeal
On or about September 24, 2007, AES Armenia Mountain Wind, LLC (”AES”) filed a Land Development Application (”Application”) with the Tioga county Planning Commission proposing to construct a wind farm on properties located in eastern Tioga County as more fully described in the Application. The Application indicated the intent to construct 72 turbines; upon reasonable belief, AES has increased the proposed number o turbines to . . .
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Ecological impacts of wind energy development on bats
Author: Kunz, Thomas; Arnett, Edward; Erickson, Wallace; Hoar, Alexander; Johnson, Gregory; Larkin, Ronald; Strickland, M. Dale; Thresher, Robert; and Tuttle, Merlin
Thomas Kunz, of the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Boston University, with colleagues from Bat Conservation International, Western EcoSystems Technology, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Illinois Natural History Survey, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, reviews the state of knowledge about impacts of wind energy facilities on bats. Published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, August 2007.
Of particular concern is the cumulative effect of continuing wind energy development. Based on existing studies and the proposal queue . . .
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Review of Pennsylvania Game Commission Protocols to Monitor Bat and Bird Mortality at Industrial Wind Sites
Author: Wind Energy and Bats subcommittee, Mammal Technical Committee, Pennsylvania Biological Survey
Preamble: The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) has a responsibility to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its citizens to manage and protect the wildlife of Pennsylvania using the best science and information available at the time management decisions are made. To that end, the PGC entered into a memo of understanding with the Mammal Technical Committee (MTC) of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey (PBS, a non-profit scientific, educational, and advisory organization of professional biologists, incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of . . .
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Wind Industry: Making a Mockery of Environmentalism
Author: Folmont Property Owners Association
Wind salesmen mimic the memes of environmentalism to sell their industry, often in ways so deceptive or contrary as to mock the very movement they claim to promote. You will often hear wind salesmen, and politicians who want to look ‘green,’ make the following claims …
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Aesthetics, Economics, Environment, Health, Noise, Pennsylvania, Property values, Wildlife
Turbine Talk
Author: Save Our Allegheny Ridges
A series of ads by Save Our Allegheny Ridges that ran in the Bedford (Penn.) Gazette in March 2007.
Turbine Talk 1: No benefit
Turbine Talk 2: Noise
Turbine Talk 3: Low production
Turbine Talk 4: Watershed
Turbine Talk 5: Wildlife
Turbine Talk 6: Aesthetics
Turbine Talk 7: Property values
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Throwing Caution to the Wind
Author: Boone, Dan
Presentation by Dan Boone: Throwing Caution to the Wind: the Growing Threat of
Industrial Wind Development in Pennsylvania to Wildlife, Habitat and
Public Lands
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Relationships Between Bats and Wind Turbines
Author: Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative (BWEC)
An Assessment of Fatality Search Protocols, Patterns of Fatality, and Behavioral Interactions with Wind Turbines — A Summary of Findings from the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative’s 2004 Field Season
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