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Wind Power News: May 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.
Let’s keep the gift of the Flint Hills alive
Money will not purchase balm for our eyes or salve for the spirit: a place of beauty provides these. The Flint Hills provides. Complete story »
Let’s keep the gift of the Flint Hills alive
Places we live in and grow to love need our attention, but they are indifferent and suffer at our hand like resigned prisoners of war. They show no emotion, only the scars that gross indifference and arrogance inflict. They can’t bare their teeth or run away. They simply are, and exist either due to our benign neglect or the utmost care. The Flint Hills is such a place. And this is where we make our home. In fall and winter, . . . Complete story »
State streamlines rules to boost wind power- Updates noise regulations to remove unintended barriers
The streamlined rules establish new procedures for demonstrating wind energy facility compliance with existing noise control standards. These standards are used by the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council to evaluate the location of new energy facilities. Complete story »
The down side of commercial wind power
We should not let wind power’s “green” image trick us into accepting the argument that everything must be “useful,” that every place and every aspect of life should be commercialized. 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 . . . Complete story »
Wind Power Is Not Dependable
In Vermont, wind power will not dependably replace any of the conventional power generating systems currently employed. It will, however, convert the only remaining quasi-pristine natural areas in Vermont into stony mesas with high-tech whirligigs as monuments to our collective gullibility. Complete story »
Wind Power- The Battle of Acronyms
A NIMBY, of course, is the ultimate pejorative as it suggests we’re hypocrites, i.e. individuals who are for a ‘good thing’ in principle (in this instance wind power as a source of clean and renewable energy) but not if it comes to our neighborhood. Complete story »
