Wind Power News: Arkansas
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch.
Wind ‘energy’ just a lot of hot air
The environmental impact of the alternatives seem to make the burning of fossil fuels the better alternative. Recently, we drove from Mountain Home to San Diego, Calif. Traffic was easily negotiated, allowing for cruising speeds of 70 to 75 mph most of the way, and except for a few places (with series of huge ugly billboards) views of the expansive western landscape were impressive. But from the Texas panhandle, across New Mexico and Arizona these once-impressive vistas began to be . . .
Bats scuttle plans for NW Arkansas wind farms
An endangered species of bat living in northwest Arkansas has scuttled plans to build wind farms in the region. Invenergy, a Chicago-based company, has told Washington County residents the presence of the Ozark big-eared bat means it has to halt development of the wind farms. Washington County planning director Juliet Richey tells the Northwest Arkansas Times that Invenergy already had approached several landowners about the planned project and had set up two meteorological towers in the area to collect data. . . .
Wind-turbine plans up in the air
MARSHALL — Bradley Ragland and Charles Baker agree that the proposed installation of more than 100 wind turbines on Star Mountain and South Mountain would change Searcy County. However, Ragland and Baker have widely divergent opinions on what that change would be. Ragland sees new jobs and landowners’ profits igniting the stagnant economy of Searcy County, with per capita income of $20,488, the lowest in Arkansas, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. . . .
