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Alerts and Events: Property values
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, Environment, Ireland, Property values, Protests, Wildlife •
Source: Gweebarra Conservation Group
Gather on the Gweebarra – Protest Vigil on the Gweebarra Bridge
A Chara/ Dear Friends, Coiste Timpeallachta Ghaoth Bearra, the Gweebarra Conservation Group, is holding a ‘Gather on the Gweebarra!’ at the Gweebarra Bridge from 11.00am to 2.00pm on Saturday, July 10th, 2010. The Gweebarra River Valley and Estuary and the surrounding townlands is a unique landscape which supports many protected species and habitats. These include wild deer and salmon, a 500 strong common seal population and several protected bird species like Golden Eagles, Northern Bullfinches, Grouse and Corncrakes. As such . . .
Action alerts, Aesthetics, Environment, Noise, Ontario, Property values, Protests, Wildlife •
Source: Say No to the Wind Farm at Scarborough Bluffs
Join Us – April 28, 11:00, Queen’s Park
Dear Friends, I am writing to enlist your help. Over the past three years, many groups have expressed their growing concern about the lack of proper planning, siting, and setbacks for proposed wind turbine projects. Over fifty municipalities have written to various cabinet ministers, petitions have been submitted, requests for environmental studies have been meticulously prepared, urgent requests for health studies from physicians and concerned citizens have been submitted. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture has repeatedly expressed concern about the . . .
Action alerts, Aesthetics, Economics, Events, Noise, Ontario, Property values, Protests •
Source: Manvers Gone With The Wind
Queen’s Park Rally
Greetings! WE NEED YOU TO SHOW THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT HOW WE REALLY FEEL. LET’S SEE RICK JOHNSON FIRST HAND AT QUEEN’S PARK. There are 8 buses going from Eastern Ontario. Media GALORE will be there!! We are arranging car pools and if we have enough from Manvers we will arrange a bus from here. We need to pack the gallery at Queen’s Park on Wednesday, April 28th at 3:30 p.m. The rally at Queen’s Park is finding more and more . . .
Health, Meetings, Noise, Presentations, Press releases, Property values, Vermont •
Source: Lowell Mountain Group
Information Meeting on Industrial Wind Turbines, February 18
(Lowell, VT) The Lowell Mountain Group is hosting an information meeting on industrial wind turbines on February 18 at the Lowell Graded School, from 7 to 9 pm. This is a rescheduling of the meeting planned for January 28th that was cancelled because of weather. The meeting includes a panel of speakers and the opportunity to ask questions about issues that keep coming up in rural communities where industrial wind projects have been sited or proposed. There will be four . . .
Action alerts, Environment, Law, Noise, Property values, Setbacks, U.K., Wildlife •
Source: Country Guardian
National Policy Statement concerning renewable energy
One of our supporters has brought the following to my attention and it would be good if you could respond with your comments. The Government has published a draft set of National Policy Statements concerned with various large infrastructure projects. Of these, No.3 is concerned with Renewable Energy including onshore wind farms. http://data.energynpsconsultation.decc.gov.uk/documents/npss/EN-3.pdf This section on onshore wind farms includes a number of points which we would consider to be undesirable or plain wrong: There is a section on “proximity . . .
Dixmont Turbines
Turbines may soon be on Dixmont’s Hills.
Advertisements, Health, Noise, Ontario, Property values, Setbacks •
Source: Preserve Grey Highlands
Wind company spends $1.75 million to buy out and gag its victims
