Wind Power News: Israel
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.
Israeli environmental group: Wind turbines endanger birds, threaten open areas
Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel says that if plans go through to build turbines in the Golan, northern Negev and Eilat mountains, they will place the open areas there at risk and dramatically change the landscape. Renewable energy has found itself an unexpected enemy: one of Israel’s largest environmental groups. Though wind turbines may be helping the environment by providing a clean energy source, they also endanger birds and bats, the Society for the Protection of Nature . . .
‘Threats to open space ever-increasing’
SPNI decries planning and building hazards to country’s land that endanger local wildlife. Threats to open areas are ever increasing as the government’s inclination to protect the public interest simultaneously decreases, according to a report released by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel on Tuesday. This year, SPNI identified 110 such threats – 12 more than last year – of which 22 are brand new issues that emerged in 2011, according to the fifth annual report on . . .
Large Golan wind farm to be nat’l infrastructure priority
155-megawatt wind turbine farm awarded priority planning status this week by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. A 155-megawatt wind turbine farm set to be constructed in the Golan Heights was awarded priority planning status this week by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the urging of the Ministry of National Infrastructures. The Clean Wind Farm company has been pushing for permission since 2005 to erect 80 large 2.5-megawatt wind turbines. Three years ago, the company applied for a license to build the . . .
