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Wind Power News: July 2010
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.
Quarrel and shooting at Cogealac wind farm in Dobrogea
The wind farm frenzy in Dobrogea has gone wild when five people where shot with rubber bullets on the premises of one of these wind farm projects in the area earlier today. The shooting followed a conflict between the inhabitants and the mayor in Cogealac locality, on one hand, and the body guards protecting the wind farm project which is being built there. The mayor was planning to fine the company which owns and builds the wind park in Cogealac- . . . Complete story »
Energy efficiency? I don’t think so
Have you looked at your electric bill lately? Everyone wants to be “green,” but this is too much. Like many, I believe in taking care of our earth, doing my part. However, government initiatives should not be a hidden tax on utility bills. I recognize companies are not going to bear the costs of programs they are forced to administer, but making them the tax collector is wrong. Scant details for these charges are out of sight on the back . . . Complete story »
Wind battle roars in Ulysses
No resolution is expected any time soon in the first of what could be multiple plans to build electrical generating facilities in northern Potter County using wind turbines. An international energy giant, AES Corporation, has fired the first volley. AES has been navigating a series of regulatory hurdles in pursuit of a plan to erect 55 of the massive white towers with long, rotating blades on property leased from approximately 20 landowners. At a public hearing last week, the Ulysses . . . Complete story »
Delinquent $1.5 million tax bill lost in paper trail
WAILUKU – Taxpayers, include “concerned citizen” in your prayers tonight. He just added $1,529,506.94 to Maui County’s strained treasury. Every week, the county Real Property Tax Division updates its Internet posting of the 25 biggest delinquent taxpayers. According to Tax Division administrator Scott Teruya, the list doesn’t change often. But it did last week, and an anonymous resident called The Maui News to wonder if Kaheawa Wind Power LLC, which held the top spot, was “out of money.” No, but . . . Complete story »
A growing debate on the wind in Ashfield
“Ashfield has the most privately owned, commercially viable land in Franklin County, so we’re going to be the epicenter of the wind ‘gold rush.’” – Ashfield resident Harry Dodson ASHFIELD – Initially an advocate for the potential benefits of electricity generated by wind power, with further study Mount Washington resident Eleanor Tillinghast underwent a sea change. Speaking to an assembly of some 90 area residents on July 8 at Ashfield Town Hall, she explained her conversion. “I started off very much in . . . Complete story »
Wind project mulled
LONDONDERRY – A German firm – Volkswind – that specializes in the planning, developing, constructing and operating of wind farms has expressed an interest in possibly constructing wind turbines on Glebe Mountain. According to Michael Easton, a project manager for Volkswind, he noticed the mountain as a potential site for wind energy when he was in Vermont skiing in December of 2009. Though there may be interest in a project, Easton said Volkswind was in the preliminary stages of exploring . . . Complete story »
Turbine effects would have a broad reach
This is to dispute recent propagandized information provided to area citizens from a green money-motivated industry posing as a green energy hero. A Chicago-based corporation, Invenergy, proposes to lay claim to our area mountain winds, beginning with 18 industrial-sized wind turbines on Roanoke County’s Poor Mountain. Wind energy is best captured with the latest technology that uses battery storage for this sporadic energy source: residential-sized wind generators – not the 443-foot, industrial-sized turbines proposed for Roanoke County, a height much taller . . . Complete story »
Northfield Ridge is not the appropriate site
We can all agree on the urgency to develop and use more renewable energy sources in this country. However, in our opinion, the Northfield Ridge is not the appropriate site for a utility-scale, industrial wind turbine installation. While this might initially sound like an appealing part of the solution, projects like the one proposed come with enormous environmental damage to irreplaceable natural resources and negative impacts for the entire community, especially on those who live within two miles of the . . . Complete story »
Big Wind fuels a torrent of big questions — Part 2
Big Wind, the largest renewable energy project proposed for Hawaii, has raised a torrent of questions. In Part 1 of this series, we gave an overview of the project and explained why it’s being studied. Today, we analyze each of the four components of the project, summarize what needs to be resolved and explain how that might happen, if it’s to go forward. Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) To give a sense of the scale of the challenge for Hawaiian Electric . . . Complete story »
Big Wind fuels a torrent of big questions — Part 1
It sounds simple. Towering wind turbines on Molokai and Lanai send electric power via undersea cable to Oahu. The technology has been tested elsewhere. We know it will produce clean, renewable energy. And it would reduce Hawaii’s dependence on foreign oil. Just what government leaders say they want. But it turns out that the state’s most ambitious renewable energy project, called “Big Wind,” has raised a torrent of big questions. Big Wind, also known as Interisland Wind, would produce 400 . . . Complete story »
