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Wind Power News: July 2005
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.
Wind direction changes
For Peter Carruthers, even the name “wind farm” is an Orwellian attempt to make vast industrial developments sound cuddly, playing down the image of huge whistling turbines and encouraging the image of beaming farmers in wellies watching green energy being generated. Living by the shores of Loch Awe in Argyll, Carruthers – who runs a bed and breakfast in the village of Kilchrenan – believes that the local economy is under threat from the invasion of the turbines, which recall . . . Complete story »
Ridges under siege
Vermonters cannot let such a blatant take-back of the public trust succeed. They must not stand idly by while the state's ridgelines are sacrificed to wind development. Complete story »
Towers on public land
Do we now want to see pristine ridge lines turned into pincushions with enormous white turbines whirring along the skyline? Most people support clean energy sources, but at what price? Is this the vision Americans had of its national forests when these wild places were set aside for our children and their children to enjoy? Complete story »
“Going [Nowhere] With The Wind”
In “Going With The Wind” (July 21), George Sterzinger [executive director of the Renewable Energy Policy Project] writes, “Every kWh of wind avoids on average 1.3 pounds of CO2 emissions from natural gas generation and is therefore at least a step towards a prudent climate stabilization policy.” There are a number of unmentioned considerations in this example that mitigate wind power as “prudent.” According to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, natural gas is the source of only about 21% of . . . Complete story »
“Going [Nowhere] With The Wind”
In “Going With The Wind” (July 21), George Sterzinger [executive director of the Renewable Energy Policy Project] writes, “Every kWh of wind avoids on average 1.3 pounds of CO2 emissions from natural gas generation and is therefore at least a step towards a prudent climate stabilization policy.” There are a number of unmentioned considerations in this example that mitigate wind power as “prudent.” According to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, natural gas is the source of only about 21% of . . . Complete story »
Utilities resist wind power farms
BOISE – Jared Grover wants to lasso southern Idaho wind – with a little help from a federal law. Grover, a southern Idaho farmer, is developing two wind farms near Hagerman, along the Snake River about 130 miles east of Boise, to generate 30 megawatts of power, or enough to light as many as 30,000 homes. He hopes to benefit from the 1978 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, which requires regulated electric utilities to buy renewable power from small power . . . Complete story »
Wind farm plan 'breach of human rights'
A Welsh local authority is considering using the Human Rights Act to fight plans for wind farms in the area under the Assembly’s TAN 8 policy on renewable energy. The Assembly has announced seven strategic areas in Wales where large-scale wind farms will be concentrated and two of these are centred on Neath Port Talbot. Now Neath and Port Talbot County Borough Council is considering legal action to resist the plans. The authority is concerned that if the huge offshore . . . Complete story »
An unbalanced case for wind turbines
Two of the three Highland County supervisors seem to have dismissed one of life's cardinal rules: There's no free lunch.
A turn for the better
A turn for the better Wind turbines are ugly and no one wants to live near one. Right? Wrong. Steve Rose on the new architects of spin Complete story »
In the Wind
It raises a question Virginia and the nation must face: Should the wind industry continue to enjoy generous subsidies? Complete story »
