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Wind Power News: March 2004
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.
Don’t be fooled by wind power’s ‘green’ image
We should not let wind power's "green" image trick us into abandoning the principle that some places and some species should be saved for their own sakes. We should reject the argument that everything must be "useful," that every place and every aspect of life should be commercialized. Complete story »
Don’t be fooled by wind power’s ‘green’ image
Environmentalists urge farmers and ranchers in windy regions to let energy companies build rows of huge turbines for feeding our nation’s electricity demands. The environmentalists argue that clean wind power will boost rural economies as well as reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But some residents in areas targeted for wind “farms” fear that new high-tension lines and access roads crisscrossing prairie will destroy its spacious character and threaten finicky and increasingly rare grassland birds. Ranchers should not be prevented from putting turbines . . . Complete story »
Moratorium on wind power needed
This letter replies to Putney resident John Berkowitz’s letter entitled “Vermont can benefit from wind power,” which appeared in the Manchester Journal on March 12 [click here]. Mr. Berkowitz argues against a three-year moratorium on wind power in Vermont and in favor of wind power because it will (1) help Vermont and America stop and reduce global warming, (2) help our economy by providing construction and permanent jobs, (3) help secure our energy future, and (4) help our wildlife. Finally, . . . Complete story »
Tilting at windmills
The hostility aroused by the Parham project is not unusual either. Some locals complain that wind farms are noisy, ugly and (citing estate agents) that they reduce property prices. Others, like John Constable, who lives 700 metres away from the airfield, say they are just inappropriate. “I happen to like the Chrysler building,” he says, “but I don't want it near my house.” Complete story »
Memorandum to the Riley County Planning Board (KS) regarding the placement of industrial wind turbines in the Kansas Flint Hills
Although my research started with the visual and spatial aspects of WECSs, and continues to be focused on WECSs effects on “landscape character” i.e. impacts on the spatial environment, with implications for cultural values and social systems of our region. I am equally concerned about the predictable negative effects of WECSs on the natural systems of the Flint Hills. I am concerned about serious cumulative effects and the degradation of:
the visual character of our environment;
the social fabric of communities that are facing the prospect of WECS-C;
the health of biological, ecological components of our regional ecosystem; and the long term viability of our local, increasingly “nature-based” economy.
The Fight Against Industrial Wind Power- It is Simply Common Sense
The threat to Vermont posed by industrial wind power is real. Our cause is just. We will prevail. After all, it is simply common sense. Complete story »
