LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]



Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Hawley, too, has reason to worry about turbines 

Credit:  Letter: Hawley, too, has reason to worry about turbines | The Berkshire Eagle | September 15, 2017 | www.berkshireeagle.com ~~

I live in Hawley and on Aug. 24 I attended a hearing in Savoy. The stated purpose of this meeting was changing Savoy’s wind turbine bylaw to allow for larger blades on turbines that Minute Man Wind and Palmer Capital Corp. plan to build in Savoy. However, it became clear that many Savoy residents have doubts about living with these massive machines.

Lindsay Deane-Mayor, project manager for Palmer Capital Corp., and John Tynan, chairman of the Savoy Select Board, fielded most of the questions and concerns expressed. Ms. Deane-Mayer dismissed concerns about infrasound impacts, saying that there is no consensus about it. Meanwhile, there are more than 700 documented complaints about the turbines her father, Gordon Deane, built in Scituate and Fairhaven, but she does not seem to have heard of noise problems. She could give no information about the route that would be used to bring these huge blades into town. She said that they would not know until after the turbines were purchased.

An Eagle article stated that some townspeople complained that there were too many people from out of town at the hearing. The turbine site is right on Hawley’s border, so I felt that I and others had a right to be there. Michael Fairney and Nancy Shea spoke with feeling about their experiences with living near wind turbines. Nancy said that she was supportive of turbines until she lived with them. She and her husband have abandoned their home in Florida. “We need to hear this,” said a man behind me when attempts were made to to stop her from speaking.

I find complaints about people from “out of town” being at the hearing ironic. No people could be farther out of town than representatives of Minuteman Wind and Palmer Capital Corp. They won’t live with these industrial machines.

Kathryn (Trina) Sternstein,

Hawley

Source:  Letter: Hawley, too, has reason to worry about turbines | The Berkshire Eagle | September 15, 2017 | www.berkshireeagle.com

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
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon