Alerts and Events: Energy
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.
Advertisements, Aesthetics, Economics, Energy, Impacts, Maine, Publications •
Source: Friends of Maine’s Mountains and Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power
It’s Time to Reconsider
If you can’t see grid scale wind turbines from your home and don’t think they affect you, it may be time to reconsider. Maine is being permanently scarred and its “Quality of Place” jeopardized by industrial wind projects. Wind industry advertising and PR tells us that wind power is high benefit and low impact. But the very opposite is true. Calling them “wind farms,” wind developers promote a warm, soft image. But reality paints a different picture. The turbines being . . .
Scottish National Wind Farm Conference – Friday 11th November 2011
Communities Against Turbines Scotland invite you to the SCOTTISH NATIONAL WIND FARM CONFERENCE AYR RACECOURSE FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2011 AGENDA Graeme Pearson MSP will chair the conference. Exhibition Stands are available for display and networking – please contact Kim [see below] to reserve yours. A full question and answer session with the panel will follow the morning and afternoon session. 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.30 Opening of the conference by Graeme Pearson MSP – Chair 10.45 Professor Iain MacLeod, Vice-President, . . .
“Con with the Wind” trailer
Announcements, Economics, Energy, Impacts, Law, Ontario, Publications •
Source: Wind Concerns Ontario
Dirty Business: the reality behind Ontario’s rush to wind power
Book to be released September 12, 2011 Ontario’s government has looked to “renewable” sources of energy such as wind and solar to create jobs in the wake of the failure of the auto sector. But at what price? Wind power generation is now being seen around the world as an expensive boondoggle, in which money is spent by the billions to create an unreliable, inefficient and expensive source of power. What is the situation in Ontario? Why didn’t the lessons . . .
Industrial wind turbines: What a SwindLE!
Click here to download original flyer.
Ontario hourly wind energy production
Economics, Energy, Environment, Publications, U.S., Videos, Wildlife •
Source: Peña Productions
They’re Not Green: Uncovering the Secrets of the Wind Farms
The documentary They’re Not Green takes the viewer from the wind industry in Palm Springs, California, where it all began, to the larger national canvas where it has evolved into the most highly subsidized, and one of the least productive forms of energy in the U.S. today. This thoroughly researched documentary examines the environmental effects of wind power, including its limited impact upon reducing CO2 emissions, its potentially negative health implications “Wind Turbine Syndrome”, the killing of thousands of birds . . .
