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Alerts and Events: U.S.
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.
Economics, Iowa, Law, Publications •
Source: Coalition for Rural Property Rights
Advice on signing a wind turbine contract
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Environment, Presentations, Vermont •
Source: Grafton Woodlands Group and Friends of Windham
Wind versus Water: the impact of ridgeline wind on water resources
Civil and environmental engineer Geoffry Goll of Princeton Hydro will discuss the Saxtons River watershed and the potential impact of industrial wind. The focus will be based on his direct relevant experience with other wind projects and the impacts of Vermont’s high-elevation headwater sources of water for people and the ecology. Friday, March 18, 6:30 pm Grafton (Vermont) Elementary School gymnasium Goll will highlight the extreme difficulty of controlling stormwater run-off from the high-impact, high-elevation construction sites. He will describe . . .
Health, Massachusetts, Noise, Protests •
Source: Falmouth wind turbine victims
Sick and Tired — Demonstration
Please help us “TAKE A STAND” to help wind turbine victims everywhere. COME to Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Saturday February 27, 2016, at 8 am. ASSEMBLE at 59 Falmouth Town Hall Square, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA This DEMONSTRATION is intended to send a message to Local, State, Federal and international Governments that it is their duty and responsibility to protect and safeguard the people of the world . The wind industry and the industrial wind turbine agenda through unrealistic government mandates has . . .
Marly, by Peter Gould
Aesthetics, Environment, Information, Maine, Noise, Property values •
Source: Posted by Brad Blake on August 13, 2015, windtaskforce.org
Oakfield ruined by First Wind (SunEdison, whatever!) turbines: latest photos
An erstwhile wind warrior grabbed his camera this week and sent in these sad photos of the Oakfield Wind project, still under construction, but with enough turbines up so the impact is clear. First Wind bamboozled the Town of Oakfield with a so-called collaboration with a poor town that was eager for tax revenues and landowners eager to get leasing income. Again, First Wind laughs all the way to the bank, having taken over the town at a cheap, rock-bottom . . .
Aesthetics, Announcements, Economics, Maine, Publications •
Source: Meryl L. Moss Media Relations
Killing Maine, a novel by Mike Bond
Winner, General Fiction, New England Book Festival, 2015 Buy at Amazon. Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the windswept wilds of Maine. The Pine Tree State rates next-to-last in citizens’ trust of their legislators according to the Gallup Poll (April 4, 2014), and the Center for Public Integrity gives the state an F for corruption. Maine politicians appropriate taxpayer funds for their own companies, while governors pass legislation for huge energy projects which they then create . . .
Shirley wind turbines “a human health hazard”
Numerous residents living in, or in the environs of, Duke Energy’s Shirley Wind project in the Town of Glenmore, Wisconsin, are now displaying 4′ × 4′ yard signs stating what the Brown County Board of Health officially declared, namely, that the Shirley Wind turbines are “a human health hazard”. There are now 20 families displaying the signs, many of which are shown below. All photos by courtesy of Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Energy, from whom high-resolution copies are . . .
