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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.
Mid-life crisis- The Agency of Natural Resources is feeling its age.
Every decision must be guided by one overriding principle -- to safeguard the uniqueness that is Vermont. Complete story »
Wind farmers’ may be having regrets
Farmers who have signed contracts have signed away rights to their land. The needs for the wind farm will come first. Complete story »
Wind turbines in forest
Speak out for your ridge lines and public land now before the opportunity passes and the Green Mountains become industrial wind parks. Complete story »
Prodigious wind farm planned for Oregon site
WASCO, Ore. – A California company plans to build the largest wind farm in Oregon, and perhaps the country – a project sprawling across thousands of acres in Sherman County that would have 225 turbines and a 450-megawatt capacity. Orion Energy’s Biglow Canyon project, which the company wants to build near Rufus and Wasco, could continuously light up more than 112,000 homes. “It’s a terrific site,” said Jim Eisen, Orion’s vice president. The company hopes to begin construction in 2007 . . . Complete story »
Letter to Londonderry (VT) Registered Voters
The proponents of this project claim that wind power is an effective and cost-efficient way to produce renewable, emission free energy. Our research has convinced us that this claim is false. Complete story »
A Practical Analysis of the Merits of Wind Power on Glebe (Magic) Mountain
Wind power is an idea that is appealing to the imagination. It sounds like a "free" source of energy that would be non-polluting and stable in cost. I am an optimist, and I love technology. If I thought for one moment that windmills would be a source of low cost energy, I would be building them. The reality is quite the contrary--wind power is wasteful of human and natural resources.
