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Alerts and Events: Action 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.
Action alerts, Economics, U.S. •
Source: Industrial Wind Energy Opposition
Stop the PTC in the U.S. Senate
Contact your Senators! Call the congressional switchboard at: 202-224-3121. Sample letter/telephone message: Please vote AGAINST S.2204, the bill submitted by Senator Menendez which extends the Production Tax Credit, Investment Tax Credit, and “Section 1603” Treasury Grant Program for wind energy for 1 year. Together, these programs cost taxpayers more than $14 billion annually. In return, communities have been left divided, landscapes degraded, and natural habitats destroyed – with no measurable positive change in our energy situation. Again, I urge you to . . .
Please help protect the health of people living near wind turbines!
RECOGNIZING THAT YOU HAVE A VERY BUSY SCHEDULE… PLEA: Your presence is urgently needed tomorrow, Tuesday, February 14th, at the State House in Boston, to protest the government’s attempt to permit wind turbines too close to people’s homes. This in an indoor event. [Also Thursday, February 16, in Bourne and Tuesday, February 28, in Lee:] DEP MEETINGS: Please attend any and all of these meetings. The one tomorrow on Beacon Hill is most important. Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:00 a.m. . . .
Action alerts, Protests, Scotland •
Source: Stop Highland Windfarms Campaign
Stop Highland Windfarms – March!
If you are opposed to the continuing proliferation of windfarms in Scotland COME AND JOIN US ON 3rd MARCH IN INVERNESS to lobby at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference Westminster MPs are expected to be there. Westminster makes the policy regarding funding wind farm development and is directly responsible for what is happening to our communities and environment. YOU are paying for it all via YOUR electricity bill and electricity costs passed to YOU by industry. ASSEMBLE AT INVERNESS CASTLE . . .
Stop wind energy subsidies TODAY
We are at a CRITICAL crossroads. The future of the main wind energy subsidies – primarily the Production Tax Credit (PTC), but also the 1603 Treasury Grant program – is likely to be resolved (for now) as part of a payroll tax deal. The payroll tax cut was extended at the end of last year for 2 months, so a deal, if one is to be made, must be worked out by Wednesday, February 29. [Feb. 15: The PTC was not included . . .
Action alerts, Comments, Health, Oregon •
Source: Oregon Public Health Division
Oregon Wind Energy Health Impact Assessment
Draft report released January 3, 2012 The Oregon Public Health Division spent the last year responding to questions from the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), local health departments, and community members in Eastern Oregon about the potential health impacts of wind energy facilities on Oregon communities. The draft Wind Energy Health Impact Assessment is a tool to help community members, elected officials and ODOE understand and respond to health-related questions about wind energy developments in Oregon. This initial HIA on . . .
Action alerts, Aesthetics, Campaigns, Economics, Fundraisers, Impacts, New York, Noise, Property values •
Source: Protect Richfield
We Have 20 Days to Stop Industrial Wind Turbines in Our Area!
We Have 20 Days to Stop Industrial Wind Turbines in Our Area!!!! 492 ft. Industrial Wind Turbines Do Not Have To Be Our Future Our area will be forever changed if we allow this project to go forward We don’t have to have it – and we don’t need it Turbines today – Fracking tomorrow We believe town laws have been disregarded – and we won’t stand for it! Remember 6 turbines will be only the beginning – Don’t let . . .
Oppose Extension of Production Tax Credit (and 1603 Grant Program)
H.R.3307, “American Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011”, was introduced in the House of Representatives on Nov. 2, 2011, and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The Production Tax Credit (PTC) currently provides 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity production for 10 years and is the primary means of tax avoidance that makes wind development so lucrative for big energy companies and investors. It is scheduled to expire for wind at the end of . . .
