Resource Library Category: Property values
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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.
Tazewell County Zoning Board of Appeals Hearing, May 1, 2008
Author: James, Richard; and McCann, Michael
The testimony of Rick James, noise control and acoustical consultant, begins on page 22, and that of Mike McCann, real estate appraiser, begins on page 105 of this transcript.
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Wind Power Siting Issues — Overview
Author: Hewson, Tom
Presented at: National Association of Attorney Generals, Wind Energy Facility Siting Issue Panel, Manchester, NH, April 21, 2008
Extracted text:
Wind Project Siting Issues
• Need high quality wind resources
• Large footprint, small power output
• Wind power — Green but high cost alternative
• Tall Structures — Highly Visible
• Impact on local property values
• No air/water emissions but may pose other environmental health & safety challenges
• Wind generation environmental/economic benefits
Wind Project Development Issues
• Large footprint, small power output
– Industry rule of thumb has . . .
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Environment, New York, Property values, Regulations, Safety, Siting, Tourism
Comments to the Moresville Energy Project DEIS
Author: Western Catskill Preservation Alliance
In addition to the comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), the large file below includes graphics and signed Declarations of Opposition to the Moresville Energy Project in the towns of Stamford and Roxbury, N.Y..
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Re: Proposed Sale of The Farm House, Grays Farm, North Drove, Spalding
Author: Mutton and Russell, Estate Agents
An estate agent declines to list Jane and Julian Davis’s property:
“Further to your letter dated 26th April 2008 regarding the proposed selling of the aove mentioned property. Whilst I understand the difficulty of the situation you are placed in with the problems caused by the wind turbines, until such problems have been resolved I am not able to place a current market value on the property as I do not believe any prospective purchaser would want to inhabit the property, . . .
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Northwest Oklahoma — Last Great Place To Ruin
Author: Selman, Sue
Rotary Club Speech, November, 2007, by Sue Selman, President, Save the Prairie, Woodward, Oklahoma, savetheprairie@hotmail.com
Will Rogers once said, “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” That is what I feel will happen to all of us if we don’t pay attention to what is going to happen here with the wind industry.
I want to thank you for inviting me here today. This tells me you are interested in being . . .
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Government disregard for wind turbine noise and health problems
Author: Davis, Jane and Julian; Arp, Jyette; and Nilsson, Lotta
A Christmas update from the Davises of Deeping St Nicholas about the wind turbine noise that drove them from their home, followed by a 1994 letter from Denmark and a 2001 letter from Sweden (thanks to Angela Kelly of Country Guardian in the U.K.) showing that nothing has changed. Noise, and flicker, remains a serious problem (how could a 90-meter-across propeller with a blade assembly weighing 40 tons be otherwise), and it is still officially ignored.
From Deeping St Nicholas, England, . . .
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Wendy Todd's Sept. 26, 2007, testimony to Maine wind energy task force
Author: Todd, Wendy
“… the land that was once known for its remote nature, wildlife and solitude is now home to an industrial power plant. For anyone to say that a wind turbine facility has a low impact on the local environment is irresponsible. Yet the industry and the media surrounding it seem insistent on making light of the problems that exist. The problems are real and they are hurting families emotionally, physically and economically. …”
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Testimony of Wendy Todd to Maine legislature, April 30, 2007
Author: Todd, Wendy
Senators, Representatives, and Committee Members,
Thank you for allowing me to speak. My name is Wendy Todd. I am from Aroostook County. I am a resident of Mars Hill and live approximately 2600 feet from the Mars Hill Wind Project. I am here today to offer testimony that residents around the project are suffering. There are 18 families that I know of that are negatively impacted on a regular basis from the noise, strobe effect and shadow flicker from the turbines. . . .
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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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Ruling lets stand prohibition of wind farms in Wabaunsee County, Kan.
Author: Ireland, Michael
Wabaunsee County in Kansas prohibited large wind turbines (more than 100 kW or 120 feet total height) throughout the county. Landowners who wanted to lease their land for them sued. This is the final district court ruling, dismissing the landowners’ complaints. The county also limited small wind systems to one per 20 acres, and only on parcels of at least 20 acres.
“The concept of public welfare is broad and inclusive. … The values it represents are spiritual as well as . . .