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Nod for wind turbines near homes, school to be probed
The Gujarat high court on Friday directed the chairman of the Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) to inquiry into the permission granted and installation of windmills within 500 metres of a primary school and dwelling units in a Bhavnagar village. A public interest litigation (PIL) has challenged the construction of wind turbines near a primary school and houses in a wind park developed by KP Energy Pvt Ltd in Sakhvadar, Khanderi, and Sartanpar villages of Talaja taluka in Bhavnagar. The . . . Complete story »
Wind power expansion meets grassroots resistance in Brazil’s northeast
Cousins Nilson José dos Santos and Geremias da Cruz dos Anjos grew up together in neighboring rural communities in Brazil’s impoverished Northeast. The ruggedness of the land here and recurring drought make it unsuitable for the commercial farming that has transformed so much of the country. Yet energy companies have found something here to harvest: the wind. The changes to the land have been dramatic. Enel Green Power, an Italian energy company, has put up one of Latin America’s largest . . . Complete story »
Wind turbine workers at Hull’s Siemens Gamesa blade plant balloted for strike action over pay
Around 300 Siemens Gamesa wind turbine workers in Hull are being balloted for strike action over pay, the Unite union said today (Friday, July 12). The workers, who construct 108m-long wind turbine blades by hand, are angry at a 4.5 per cent pay offer plus an opaque incentive scheme, according to Unite. Since 2018, wages at the factory on the banks of the Humber estuary have dropped by 11.9 per cent in real terms, it said. Unite general secretary Sharon . . . Complete story »
Residents face moving decision
People living nearby Viking Energy Windfarm are leaving their homes after comparing the sound of the turbines to a motorway. Vincent Tonner who has lived in North Nesting for the last 12 years is “probably as close” as you can get to the windfarm. He has contended with the construction phase of the windfarm, but plans to move out of his home as a result of the noise pollution. “We’re going to move, we’ve decided we can’t put up with . . . Complete story »
Resident highlights extent of windfarm noise
Fears have been raised over the noise coming from Viking Energy Windfarm’s turbines – with some residents vowing to leave their homes. Vincent Tonner who has lived in North Nesting for the last 12 years is “probably as close” as you can get to the windfarm. He has contended with the construction phase of the windfarm, but plans to move out of his home as a result of the noise pollution. “We’re going to move, we’ve decided we can’t put . . . Complete story »
Inédit en France : en Bretagne, des éoliennes démontées pour “nuisances au voisinage”
Des grues montées pour des éoliennes démontées. Et un chantier au goût de victoire pour Jean-Jacques Péchard, vent debout depuis seize ans contre le projet de parc éolien dans sa commune de Guern (Morbihan), qu’il ne supportait plus de voir depuis son jardin. “Il y avait la vue, le changement du paysage, mais aussi le son, quand elles tournaient”, continue-t-il de pointer au micro de TF1, dans le reportage du JT de 13H à voir en tête de cet article. . . . Complete story »
After being ‘misled’ by appearance of wind turbines, seaside residents awake to nightmare as houses begin to shake
A wind turbine project off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is whipping up some trouble for local homeowners. Dominion Energy is in the process of developing a 176-turbine project off the coast of the vacation community. But residents say the project is not making life any better. “It’s interfering with our lives every day—2 a.m. the other morning, I was awoken by the room shaking,” Julie Brown of Virginia Beach said, according to WTKR-TV. “It wasn’t the noise, it . . . Complete story »
Offshore wind farm fined $42m after regulator probes excessive power prices
UK energy regulator Ofgem has fined an offshore wind farm £33.1m ($42.3m) for charging excessive prices while curtailing output to balance the grid. Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL), operator of the 588MW project of the same name off Scotland, will pay the money into the regulator’s redress fund for consumers after accepting it breached one of its licence conditions, Ofgem said. The regulator said BOWL’s “prices did not properly reflect the financial benefits of reducing its output related to avoided . . . Complete story »
Schoharie County towns file lawsuit against N.Y. over solar, wind farm tax methods
More than a dozen towns in Schoharie County are suing the state of New York, claiming they’re not only being low-balled by the state’s method of taxing solar and wind projects, but that the new rules are unconstitutional. In 2021, the state established new rules requiring solar and wind farms that generate over one megawatt of electricity be assessed using a model formula. However, the town supervisors, listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, contend that local assessors have the “ultimate . . . Complete story »
Cutting down trees for offshore wind project puts homes at risk, residents say
Dominion Energy is under fire from homeowners in one Virginia Beach neighborhood as residents say all the trees the company has taken down as part of its offshore wind project has put their homes in danger. Right behind John Rooney’s property line in the Pine Ridge neighborhood, Dominion Energy has cleared a 140-foot wide strip of trees to make way for power lines that will carry power from the offshore wind turbines to a substation in Chesapeake. Rooney said that . . . Complete story »