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Wind Power News: June 2006
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 farm industry a fraud: McGauran
The Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has attacked the wind farm industry, describing it as a fraud relying on taxpayer subsidies. Mr McGauran made the comments while addressing a group of dairy farmers. He says wind farms are not a cleaner alternative to coal fired power stations and should only be allowed in places where the community wants them. “Wind farms don’t live up to the hype that they are an environmental saviour and a serious alternate energy source and . . . Complete story »
Debate over wind power creates environmental rift
OAKLAND, Md. – Dan Boone has no doubt that his crusade against wind energy is the right way to protect the Allegheny highlands he loves. Let other environmentalists call him deluded at best, traitorous at worst. He remains undeterred. For four years or more, Mr. Boone has traveled across the mid-Atlantic to make every argument he can muster against local wind-power projects: they kill birds and bats; they are too noisy; they are inefficient, making no more than a symbolic contribution . . . Complete story »
