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Alerts and Events: Impacts
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.
SOUL of Wisconsin newsletter
View at: campaign-archive.com Contents: Getting Serious about CO₂: Part II (click here for Part I) Citizen Intervenors Put Goals of Regional Utilities on Hot Seat Where Do Midwest States Currently Stand in Terms of CO₂ Reduction? What Measures Can Achieve 1.8% Per Year Reduction in Energy Use? How Does $4.26 per Month for Accelerated Energy Efficiency Compare to Spending $11.62 per Month for New Power Plants and Transmission Expansion? Set Your Own Household Standards. Inform Your Wisconsin Lawmakers About Your . . .
Action alerts, Economics, Emissions, Hearings, Iowa •
Source: SOUL of Wisconsin
Utilities Strive to Stifle Citizen Intervenors
Iowa Cardinal Hickory Creek Hearings PUBLIC ATTENDANCE VITAL December 10, 11 and 12, 9am-5pm Hotel Julien, 200 Main Street Dubuque, Iowa Your presence is needed to support the efforts of public intervenors at the upcoming hearings in Dubuque. If successful, legal obstacles laid down by transmission builders ITC-Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative would remove Ms. Chris Klopp and three other public intervenors from impacting the technical proceedings and: Eliminate the only arguments challenging need for the proposed Cardinal Hickory Creek . . .
Eoliennes : la face noire de la transition écologique
Elles sont partout, incarnant le symbole de la transition écologique : sur les sites internet institutionnels, dans les livres scolaires, les publicités, les films, les médias… Les éoliennes ont envahi les campagnes et les littoraux et sont devenues dans le monde entier, par une propagande systématique, le symbole de l’écologie et de la lutte pour le climat. Et pourtant, derrière cette image verte… Contestation populaire, pollution, émissions de CO2, atteintes à la santé et à la biodiversité, détournement de fonds publics, . . .
Manifestation a Chartres contre les éoliennes
Malgré l’opposition croissante des habitants, des élus, des défenseurs de l’environnement et des acteurs du tourisme, les territoires, paysages et économies locales de la Région Centre Val de Loire sont plus que jamais menacés par les prédateurs financiers de l’éolien. Même le site emblématique de la Cathédrale de Chartres, premier site classé au patrimoine mondial de l’humanité par l’UNESCO, est menacé d’encerclement par des éoliennes industrielles. L’apport énergétique des éoliennes est pourtant inutile (1), ruineux, dévastateur, nocif pour l’environnement et . . .
8th International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise – Draft List of Papers
Draft List of Papers at 30th April 2019 for Wind Turbine Noise 2019, June 12-14, 2019, Lisbon [full schedule now available (click here for PDF)] Ethan: Wind Farm Environmental Noise and Vibration Impact Analyses: Background Sound, Project Construction, and Assessment of Final Project Vibration Immissions (United States) Mranal: Advancements in continuous learning for tonality free turbine design (Denmark) Tomohiro: A comparison of standardized methods for prominence analysis of tonal components (Japan) Lars Sommer: Prominent tones in wind turbine noise – . . .
Between Wind and Water (in a vulnerable place)
Published in Australia in October 2018 by Spinifex Press, Berni Janssen’s powerful expression of the traumas wrought by industrial wind turbines on the land, its life, and human neighbors is now more widely available: in April via IPG and in June at Amazon. Reviews have been glowing. Janssen uses a variety of forms that convey the many voices she presents. She masterfully weaves life and politics and nature in all its complexities. This book, its poetic language, its emotional intensity, . . .
Announcements, France, Impacts, Press releases •
Source: Collectif Énergie and Vérité
« Energy & Truth » wants to influence the debate on energy.
The Collective « Energie et Vérité » (Energie & Truth) was launched on February 22 in Paris, on the initiative of personalities, scientific experts, economists, environment officials. Those persons share the same values concerning the truth about energy, which is one of most important sectors for development in France. This group is determined to put forward arguments free of any ideology, to analyse the studies published, to sort the truth. And to let it be known. The statement assessed by this group . . .
