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Life in a Wisconsin Wind Project
Author: Life in a Wisconsin Wind Project
lifeinawisconsinwindproject.tumblr.com This photo show the large crane lifting the second of three pieces to the turbine tower base. This is in the same Invenergy project I live in. This photo is also in the Invenergy project that I live in about two miles to the west of my house. You can see how the farmer’s fields are being cut up by the access roads to the turbines. What you do not yet see is the wide stripping of the farmer’s . . .
More »Unvarnished Truth: Shirley Wind Project Health Impacts
Author: Forest Voice
At least eight families in Shirley, WI, in the Town of Glenmore just south of Green Bay, are reporting health problems and quality of life issues since the Shirley Wind project went online in December of 2010. Six families have come forward, five of them testify on the video, and at this time two of them have vacated their homes. STAND UP to protect people, livestock, pets, and wildlife against negligent and irresponsible placement of industrial wind turbines. Click here . . .
More »Wisconsin Citizens Safe Wind Siting Guidelines
Author: Wisconsin Citizens Coalition
Created by the following organizations: BCCRWE, Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Energy – Brown County CCCRE, Calumet County Citizens for Responsible Energy – Calumet County Concerned Citizens of Smelser & Paris Township, Grant County residents – Grant County Concerned Citizens of Trempealeau County – Trempealeau, Monroe, Rock, LaCrosse, and Dane counties Forest Voice – St Croix County Forward Wind Factory Victims Coalition – Fond du Lac County Glenmore Constitutional Coalition – Brown County Western Wisconsin Landowners Alliance – Monroe . . .
More »Field fragmentation
Author: Bembinster, Jim
Wisconsin farmers sign on with wind developers because it seems like easy money. They are told they can farm right up to the turbine foundations. They are told about a quarter acre of land will be taken out of production for each turbine. What they are not told is there will be access roads and trenching for each turbine that will go where the developer wants them to go, crossing at diagonals in the middle of fields, and in some . . .
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