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Wind Power News: August 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.
Missing the point about industrial wind
The drive to develop our ridgelines is part of the same industrial arrogance, the same corporate piracy, that drives the war and poverty machine Newton calls attention to. Complete story »
Wind Power Discussion
The decision to drastically alter our landscape will affect our quality of life, our wallets, and our grandchildren. Complete story »
Residents Bring Lawsuit Challenging Town Of Sheldon’s Wind Energy Law
The Declaratory Judgment action...asks the court to nullify Sheldon's Wind Energy Law as inconsistent with the town's Comprehensive Plan. The lawsuit also claims that the Sheldon Town Board exceeded its lawful authority by granting itself, rather than the Town's Zoning Board of Appeals, the "sole and absolute discretion" to grant variances relating to set-back requirements, noise levels, and the total number of wind towers allowed. Complete story »
Residents Bring Lawsuit Challenging Town Of Sheldon’s Wind Energy Law
Five residents of the Town of Sheldon have commenced a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court, Wyoming County, challenging their town’s Wind Energy law. The Declaratory Judgment action, brought by Mark Moore of Thomas Road, Nadja Laska of French Road, Michael Peresan of Bloecher Road, and Cynthia and Kenneth Blair of Rt. 20A, asks the court to nullify Sheldon’s Wind Energy Law as inconsistent with the town’s Comprehensive Plan. The lawsuit also claims that the Sheldon Town Board exceeded . . . Complete story »
Misplaced Faith in “Wind Energy”
Challenging incorrect “popular wisdom” is difficult but, in this case, well worth the effort! Complete story »
Friction over forest
It's not easy to strike a balance, and that's where the friction arises. In Vermont, it is playing out as the U.S. Forest Service is faced with delivering a new management plan for the Green Mountain National Forest, a 400,000-acre parcel of public land in central and southern Vermont. Complete story »
A matter of scale–and local control
Hilltowns need to make sure their interests are taken into account when distant investors and persons advocating this technology, who won't be hosting it in their backyards, eye our ridgelines for their projects Complete story »
A matter of scale–and local control
The debate over wind power is sure to heat up soon in western Franklin County. As the recent flurry of articles and letters in local papers on a proposed cell tower in Shelburne attests, our ridgelines mean a lot to us. As I talk with friends and neighbors, I am aware of how few have contemplated the scale of wind-power projects or the possibility that they will be built here. Wind turbines are large and getting larger all the . . . Complete story »
The Uglifying of Paradise
16 August 2005 The Uglifying of Paradise I live in one of the most beautiful places in the country, in my opinion. Some people call it corn country, but there’s way more to it than that. It’s rolling farmland, punctuated with large patches of woods, prairies, and fallow pastures. Everything is green and alive. Most of the summer (except during a draught, like this year), the grass is as lush and vibrant as that on any championship golf course. Family . . . Complete story »
Wind is not the air apparent
We would all like to find a clean, renewable answer to our energy needs. Wind turbines don’t provide that answer. Complete story »