| Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005. |
Wind turbines are threatening Travis
Credit: The Reporter | 12/01/2013 | www.thereporter.com ~~
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Alas, Travis AFB still needs protecting. This time, it’s not from home developers, it’s from wind turbine builders.
Already much of the distance between Rio Vista and the base has been covered with turbines. Now turbine builders want to breach the Highway 12 line to the north and come even closer to the base.
It’s important to remember that the training of air crews is a fundamental mission of Travis.
Young pilots come here with only a few training flights. This is where they find out how to fly the big birds. Much of that training should be realistic, low-level landing training – especially for the C-17 and its new assault landing strip. Five hundred-foot-high approaches are required in C-17 training. Yet new wind turbines reach up to 450 feet.
This is a clear safety problem. It will push approach landings higher, making for much less realistic training. Does the turbine company, EDC in this case, care about realistic training? Of course not.
Encroachment occurs in nibbles. This is a huge nibble. Supervisor Skip Thomson is correct in his insistence that the Board of Supervisors study this problem, looking seriously at a moratorium on further encroachment. But there’s really not much to study. All you need to know are the basic facts above.
Jack Batson,
chair Citizens’ Committee to Protect Travis AFB
Fairfield
This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.
The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.
| Wind Watch relies entirely on User Funding |
 (via Stripe) |
 (via Paypal) |
Share:
[ Short URL: https://wind-watch.org/news/?p=59250 ]
