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Wind Power News: March 2015

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.


March 31, 2015 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

Turbine neighbors oppose town’s Supreme Court petition

Plaintiffs in a wind turbine zoning lawsuit filed opposition recently in response to the Town of Falmouth’s request for further judicial review, stating the case lacks substantial public interest. “I don’t think an issue that does not go beyond one town’s bylaw requires Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court review,” said Christopher Senie, attorney for the plaintiffs. He wrote in his opposition that the issue does not extend beyond a correction of an erroneous interpretation of a local zoning bylaw. Mr. Senie, . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • EnglandPrint storyE-mail story

Councillors set to call for refusal of South Cumbria turbine scheme

A county-wide committee is recommending the refusal of a divisive windfarm application. Copeland Borough Council will decide upon proposals to install five 100m-high wind turbines on land south of HMP Haverigg. But Cumbria County Council’s development control and regulation committee is expected to object to the plans when it holds its next meeting in Kendal tomorrow. The application has split the Haverigg and Millom communities due to fears the height of the turbines will damage the look of the landscape, . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • ColoradoPrint storyE-mail story

Wind turbine project approved

The five members of the Prowers County Planning Commission, following a March 31st public hearing on a proposed addition to a wind turbine project, voted in favor of approving a special use permit allowing for construction to begin within a year. Pacific Wind Development, LLC, a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, LLC, has plans to construct 38 wind turbines on 11,000 acres of land 23 miles south of Lamar to the east of Highway 287. The Pacific Wind Project, known as . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • Letters, MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

No desire to leave homestead – Letter

Besides the chronic stress and anxieties heaped upon us by the too-close turbines themselves, we continue to be lambasted by a contingent of Falmouth citizens who stubbornly refuse to accept the reality of the wind turbine situation in our town. Many of us turbine neighbors are bothered and highly annoyed by both the audible noise and inner body disturbances resulting from the inaudible low and infrasonic sound pressure emissions of these mammoth machines. The adverse effects multiply over time with . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • HawaiiPrint storyE-mail story

Kahuku wind farms bring up environmental concerns

Residents in Kahuku could see 10 new wind turbines as early as the end of this year. But, before the plan is put in place, the Department of Land and Natural resources needs to check its environmental impact. “My big concern is that they are going to be close enough at 50 some stories high, they will be larger than life and extremely close to the kids in that school,” said Kahuku resident Ali’i Tasi. Tasi doesn’t like the idea . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • New YorkPrint storyE-mail story

Future of wind power uncertain in New York

New York is drawing more and more power from wind and solar, but its renewable energy standard is set to expire at the end of the year. New York’s first wind farm began producing and delivering electric power in 2000. Between 1 and 2 p.m. on March 2nd, wind power set a new record of contributing to the state’s electricity needs: 7 percent. Kit Kennedy is the director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s energy and transportation program. She says . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • AustraliaPrint storyE-mail story

Senate inquisition blows away the wind farm spin

Evidence of suppression and spin is an ominous start to a senate inquiry into Australia’s renewable energy industry that goes well beyond whether some people living in the shadow of giant windmills report feeling unwell. This is a senate inquiry the renewable industry did not want, but independent senator John Madigan was determined to make it happen. Portland and the Victorian coastal town of Cape Bridgewater provided a fitting backdrop for the inquiry’s first public hearing. It is where acoustics . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • U.S.Print storyE-mail story

Access denied: Reporters say federal officials, data increasingly off limits

When Dina Cappiello, until recently the national environment writer for the Associated Press, asked the Interior Department for federal data about bird deaths on wind-energy farms in 2013, she says, she met a stone wall. The industry-supplied information, the agency told her, was “protected” and couldn’t be released because it would harm a private interest. Cappiello suspected a political motive for the department’s silence: The Obama administration supports the development of wind power, and release of the data might undercut public support if it showed that wind farms kill large numbers of protected species, such as eagles and falcons. She filed a FOIA request for the records. No dice. “I still haven’t gotten an answer,” she said recently. Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • Nova ScotiaPrint storyE-mail story

Wind farm foes get green light to carry on appeal

A Bible Hill-area community group has gotten the go-ahead to continue its appeal of an Energy Department approval of a Colchester County wind project. The province’s Utility and Review Board ruled last week that it will hear the case, which was filed by the Friends of Harmony, Camden, Greenfield and Surrounding Areas. The group launched the appeal in January of a Nov. 24 decision by then-energy minister Andrew Younger to approve a change in the two-turbine venture. The province and . . . Complete story »


March 31, 2015 • ArkansasPrint storyE-mail story

Wind farm near Elm Springs up for debate

The Mayor of Elm Springs is hosting a town hall meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. to allow people to talk about any problems they may have with a new wind farm being built near their town. The CEO of Dragonfly wind turbines will be there to also share more information about the farm. A group called Stop Elm Springs Wind Farm said on their Facebook page they are worried that the sound from the wind farm may be hazardous to . . . Complete story »


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