Categories

View titles only
View by source
Archives

  • January 2024
  • October 2023
  • March 2023
  • October 2022
  • July 2022
  • March 2022
  • ALL
    RSS

    Add NWW Alerts to your site (click here)

    Get weekly updates

    WHAT TO DO
    when your community is targeted

    RSS

    RSS feeds and more

    Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

    Donate via Paypal

    Donate via Stripe

    News Watch

    Selected Documents

    All Documents

    Research Links

    Press Releases

    FAQs

    Campaign Material

    Photos & Graphics

    Videos

    Allied Groups

    Alerts

    These postings are provided to help publicize and provide examples of 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.


    posted:  January 8, 2024
    Action alerts, Energy, Environment, Massachusetts, Meetings, SafetyPrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  Save Greater Dowses Beach

    “Close to the Wind” Summit — January 4, 2024

    “Close to the Wind” Summit to Convene at the Hyport Conference Center in Hyannis, Massachusetts, Barnstable, Massachusetts – January 4, 2024

    The “Close to the Wind” Summit, a gathering to bring together concerned voices to discuss the technology, wisdom and risks of offshore wind development. Guest speakers will discuss offshore wind power development, interconnection and better approaches to the transition to renewable energy. The conference will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at the Hyport Conference Center, 35 Scudder Ave., Hyannis, Mass.

    Organized by the group Save Greater Dowses Beach, East Coast activists, energy and environmental experts will discuss offshore wind energy construction, transmission and its onshore impacts. The conference will focus attention on less harmful and costly ways to develop offshore wind energy while minimizing the damage and disruption to residents and businesses that operate offshore and onshore.

    Event Highlights:

    1. Speakers: Local and regional thought leaders from the fields of renewable energy, commercial fishing and community activism will deliver inspiring addresses. Speakers to include:

    2. Q&A: Attendees will have ample opportunity to ask questions and express their own viewpoints on offshore wind development and its impacts.

    Registration and Details:


    posted:  October 23, 2023
    Economics, Environment, Flyers, Massachusetts, Publications, Rhode Island, VideosPrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  Green Oceans

    Wind energy facilities planned off coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts

    INDUSTRIALIZATION DETAILS

    1,000 or more wind turbines.

    800- to 1,000-foot tall turbines, taller than any building in Boston. 12.9 miles from RI and 8.2 from MA.

    1,400 square miles of ocean, 1.5 times the size of RI, will be industrialized.

    Pile driving into the seabed, heavy diesel vessel traffic, sediment plumes, and detonations of ordinances will harm whales, kill plankton, and reduce fishery stocks.

    CLIMATE CHANGE

    “No measurable influence on climate change” will result from these projects, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

    CO₂ emissions from construction front loads the carbon cost. None of the projects’ websites claim they will help reduce CO2 emissions or help climate change.

    Wind power without battery storage requires 100% backup and will therefore never reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.

    SF₆, a greenhouse gas 23,500 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and millions of gallons of oil and lubricants are contained on site and may leak.

    Biodiversity loss threatens human health and contributes to climate change. One project alone will imperil fourteen endangered species.

    ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

    Significant, irreversible environmental damage to the marine ecosystem will result. 11-14

    Cod, squid, tuna, and shellfish fisheries will all suffer.

    Major Longterm adverse impacts on commercial fishing will result from the developments according to the Final Environmental Impact assessment for Revolution Wind.

    The North Atlantic right whale may become extinct. Sean Hayes, division chief of NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, stated that “impacts from installed and operating turbines cannot be mitigated.”

    More than 700,000 marine mammals may be harmed. NOAA has or is in the process of granting offshore wind companies permission to harm and/or disturb 716,978 marine mammals, including more than 23,000 whales.

    EMFs and temperature elevations from the high-voltage cables and substations will adversely affect marine animals from plankton to apex predators.

    410+ whales have died along the eastern seaboard since 2016, when offshore wind companies began their seismic surveys in the region.

    Microplastics will contaminate the marine food web from blade erosion.

    Forever chemicals (PFOAs), toxic metals and bisphenols (BPAs) will be resuspended by jet plowing for the cable installations. No sediment samples have been tested for PFOAs.

    ECONOMIC CONCERNS

    Major adverse impact on employment according to the Revolution Wind Final Environmental Impact statement.

    Decommissioning has not been factored into either total expense or environmental impact and may cost 70% of the installation price.

    Reduced fishing, tourism, property values, and elevated electricity costs will decrease state tax revenues and cause economic hardship while foreign-owned wind companies will profit (Ørsted, Avangrid, Equinor, Shell).

    Wind developers have donated $millions to environmental groups, universities, and research organizations.

    1,000 turbines will cost $50 billion. US taxpayers are currently expected to shoulder 30% of this cost.

    Destruction of natural beauty in our public spaces. These 873-1000 foot structures will be visible from nearly every public beach in RI.

    Hidden impacts and costs. The developers of Revolution Wind will not allow the public to access 25 out of 51 appendices, including the emergency response plans.

    Navigation safety and radar will be compromised. The projects will deter search and rescue operations within the 1,400 square miles of development.

    Download this one-page fact sheet.

    (Download full paper with references.)

    Green Oceans: Protecting the ocean and preventing the industrialization of our coastal waters

    To contact us: info@green-oceans.org

    To donate: https://green-oceans.org/donate


    posted:  March 25, 2023
    Environment, ProductsPrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  Long Beach and South Shore Residents Opposed to Turbines

    Save Our Seas – artwork by Marion Chapman

    Buy shirts here.

    PDF of artwork.


    posted:  March 8, 2023
    ProtestsPrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  National Wind Watch

    Yellow Vests

    (PeerBasics)


    posted:  October 14, 2022
    Advertisements, Campaigns, Environment, Health, Noise, Ohio, Property values, WildlifePrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  Crawford Anti-Wind

    Crawford Anti-Wind campaign spots

    Crawford Anti-Wind


    posted:  October 4, 2022
    France, PublicationsPrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  Sioux Berger

    Les Pentes [The Hills]

    Septembre 2050. À Paris, une jeune fille ose encore écrire des lettres avec de l’encre et des feuilles. Sans trop éveiller les soupçons, elle a pu constituer un stock de papier. Un discret réseau se charge de transporter les missives à travers les plaines, là où les usines électriques ont remplacé les forêts. Pourquoi et à qui écrit-elle, puisqu’il n’y a plus âme qui vive en dehors des villes ? Un employé du gouvernement s’en étonne. Il décide de mener l’enquête et fait alors une découverte étonnante.

    Sur les Pentes, bien au-delà des usines électriques, aux confins des décharges et des champs de maïs, se cache un secret qui pourrait bien sauver les habitants des villes.

    Entre espoir et désespoir, alors que l’avenir semble si sombre, la joie de vivre va peu à peu se frayer un passage.

    Éditions de Borée


    posted:  October 4, 2022
    France, PublicationsPrint storyE-mail story

    Source:  Sioux Berger

    Le Prix du Vent [The Price of Wind]

    Le prix du vent: Des éoliennes, des bêtes et des hommes

    Maxime Poisot, Sioux Berger, Baptiste Chouet

    L’intérêt général ne peut s’affranchir de l’intérêt des particuliers au seul nom du progrès.

    [The general interest cannot ignore individual interests in the name of progress.]

    Sioux Berger est auteur et journaliste spécialisée dans les sujets d’écologie et de bien-être. Originaire d’Auvergne et vivant en région parisienne, elle a été confrontée à l’installation d’éoliennes dans le village familial et a dans ce contexte entamé un travail d’enquête et de mobilisation citoyenne. Elle a publié le roman Les Pentes sur le même thème.

    De la scène à l’édition en passant par la communication, Maxime Poisot est un auteur à la croisée des écritures contemporaines.

    Baptiste Chouët, illustrateur installé à Nantes, publie sur des sujets de citoyenneté et de politique dans Ouest France.

    Éditions de Rocher


    Earlier Page »

    Get the Facts
    CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
    © National Wind Watch, Inc.
    Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
    "Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

     Follow:

    Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

    Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon