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Alerts and Events: Press releases
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, France, Press releases, Protests •
Source: Fédération Environnement Durable
Marche internationale de protestation contre les éoliennes du Mont Saint Michel
Une marche internationale est organisée le 26 septembre 2009 à partir de 13h30 au pied du Mont Saint Michel. Des éoliennes industrielles vont dénaturer ce site classé au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco. Visibles à 20km, ces éoliennes culmineraient à 250 m sur les crêtes des rivages qui bordent la baie. La pollution visuelle d’un des sites les plus visités au monde, par une cinquantaine d’aérogénérateurs tournant et émettant des flashes, confirme l’envahissement systématique de tout le territoire par des projets . . .
Mexico, Press releases •
Source: Asamblea en Defensa de la Tierra y el Territorio
Comuneros recuperan más de 350 hectáreas al Mega Proyecto Eólico Trasnacional
[Comuneros recovered more than 350 hectares from transnational wind energy megaproject – scroll down for partial English translation] Por este medio, la resistencia al Mega Proyecto Eòlico Trasnacional en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. México, informamos, que en significativa fecha, es decir el 15 de septiembre de 2008, a 198 años de la masiva insurrección del Pueblo de México contra el invasor, la trasnacional empresa española, Energías Renovables Preneal, decidió cancelar otros 30 contratos mas de arrendamiento de tierras en el . . .
Announcements, Environment, Press releases •
Source: People Only Wanting Energy Responsibility (POWER)
New Alliance Formed: People Only Wanting Energy Responsibility
New Alliance Formed: POWER! is an alliance of organizations and individuals that supports sustainable, local energy that contributes to social, economic, and ecological health. PEOPLE ONLY WANTING ENERGY RESPONSIBILITY ! Snow Creek, Calif., Oct. 29, 2008 – This summer, environmental justice organizations, environmental organizations, grassroots groups, residents, businesses, and individuals from around the state met at Snow Creek to form an alliance to support renewable energy and to influence the misguided policies that are being presented to the public regarding renewable energy. . . .
Announcements, Impacts, Ontario, Press releases •
Source: Wind Concerns Ontario
Industrial wind development faces gale-force resistance across Ontario
Innisfil, Ontario, October 25, 2008 – Twenty-two wind action groups representing thousands of concerned Ontario citizens have joined forces to create Wind Concerns Ontario. This province-wide coalition promotes awareness of the true impacts of industrial wind power facilities on our health, environment, economy and quality of life. Wind Concerns Ontario provides a strong, unified voice of opposition to the unchecked rush to locate over six hundred forty massive industrial wind turbines across the province in the last 5 years without the . . .
Public Service Board grants citizens' request to postpone hearings on the Deerfield Wind Project due to gross abuse of process by project owner
Vermont (September 23, 2008) – At the start of Public Service Board hearings on Monday, September 22, regarding the proposed Deerfield Wind Project (Docket #7250), a motion to suspend hearings was filed by Save Vermont Ridgelines, Inc., Industrial Wind Action Group, Inc., Thomas Shea, Duncan Cable TV, and Cliff and Diana Duncan, all of whom are pro se intervening parties in the Deerfield proceedings. The basis of this emergency motion was the gross abuse of discovery procedures in producing an enormous . . .
Energy, Environment, Impacts, Law, Press releases, Vermont •
Source: Green Mountain National Forest
Forest releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement on wind project
RUTLAND, VT (Sept. 11, 2008) – The Green Mountain National Forest released, for public comment, their Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Deerfield Wind Project in the Towns of Searsburg and Readsboro. The Deerfield Wind Project is a proposal to construct and operate a wind energy facility on public lands adjacent to the existing Green Mountain Power facility currently operating on private land. “Our role is to determine the environmental impacts of the project and decide if this is . . .
Protesta en Juchitan (Oaxaca) en contra de las empresas eólicas
Ante la irresponsabilidad del juez de lo civil de Juchitan de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, quien a mas de siete meses de que nosotros, comuneros y comuneras de Juchitan de Zaragoza, Union Hidalgo y Xadani interpusimos mas de 120 demandas de nulidad de los contratos que firmamos por medio de engaños con las empresas transnacionales de generación de energía eolica. Demandas las cuales el juez no ha dado atención oportuna y si ha filtrado información a las empresas transacioanales para que visiten . . .
