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The dark side of wind energy along Gujarat’s coast
Manisha Patel still vividly remembers seeing students fall asleep in her classroom in 2011. When Patel woke them up, they would be irritable. A few were simply unable to focus on their studies. “Initially, I could not understand what was happening,” said Patel, a middle-aged, bespectacled woman who travels from a nearby village to teach science at a government primary girls school in Jangi, a windy village in Gujarat’s Kachchh district. Jangi is 10 km inland from the Gulf of . . . Complete story »
Internal email sheds light on wind-power bribery scandal
A former president of Japan Wind Development, currently at the center of a bribery scandal, told executives of the firm that he had asked a lawmaker to make a parliamentary statement in connection with the company’s operations, informed sources said Saturday. Masayuki Tsukawaki, 64, sent an email to multiple Japan Wind Development executives saying that he urged House of Representatives member Masatoshi Akimoto, 48, who was arrested for allegedly receiving bribes, to ask a question in the country’s parliament about . . . Complete story »
The quest for green energy filled my community with violence
The Tehuantepec Isthmus in Oaxaca, Mexico, is a territory shared among the Binnizá, Ikoots, Angpøn, and Ayuuk Peoples that produces 76.8 percent of the country’s wind energy. As of January 2020, 1,600 wind turbines had been installed here at 32 wind farms, and thousands more are in construction plans, in an effort to secure “green energy” to combat climate change. My generation has witnessed how our community and region went from being a quiet place to one where there is . . . Complete story »
Wind farms graft probe: Audit report finds ‘irregularities’ and big profits for Mauricio Macri, Carlos Tevez
Auditors in Argentina have identified “serious irregularities” in bidding processes for the construction and oversight of wind farms to produce renewable energy during the 2015-2019 Mauricio Macri administration. Investigators at the AGN General Auditing Office probing alleged insider trading allegations drew the conclusion after investigating the tender of six wind farms in Argentina’s south. Among the famous names indirectly involved in the probe are the Macri Group, owned and operated by relatives and former business associates of Mauricio Macri, along . . . Complete story »
Cloghan residents say local wind farm is affecting their mental and physical health
A number of residents living beside the nine turbines of Cloghan Wind Farm have told the Midland Tribune that the enormous turbines are having a negative effect on their mental and physical health. Several of the residents living on the one road in the townland of Stonestown said they are fed up with the noise and the flicker coming from the turbines, which have a maximum height of 169 metres and are located about 700 metres from their homes. Chairperson . . . Complete story »
Broome County’s new wind farm generating noise complaints
Some people who live near the turbines of a recently-constructed wind farm east of Binghamton are already fed up with the noise generated by the facility. The Bluestone Wind Project in eastern Broome County was commissioned in September. It consists of 26 turbines in the towns of Windsor and Sanford. Each 240-foot-long turbine is mounted to a 350-foot-tall post. Four of the turbines are in Windsor with most of the units of the 122-megawatt project in Sanford. The units are . . . Complete story »
Wind farm objector rages over forged document – ‘Isn’t it a criminal offence?’
A key name in the objections against Watten Wind Farm says she has had a fake document sent in under her name to remove her objection to the plan. Robianne (Bib) Harrold has property adjacent to the area where EDF Renewables intends to erect seven 220m high turbines – the tallest in the UK – and has been very vocal about her objection to the plan, having sent in an official objection to the Energy Consents Unit (ECU) and to . . . Complete story »
Vandals target Hawick wind turbine blade delivery
Vandals have targeted the delivery of wind turbine blades to a development in the Scottish Borders. Developers Energiekontor said a lifter vehicle involved in transportation to the Pines Burn project near Hawick had been damaged. It led to the cancellation of a delivery planned for Tuesday while repairs were carried out. The company said it hoped it would be able to resume on Friday once the lifter was fixed. The blade delivery was paused in a layby near Selkirk last . . . Complete story »
Sussex wind farm onshore works are ‘needlessly destructive’, charity claims
Proposals to build Rampion 2 – an extension to the existing Rampion wind farm – were the subject of a successful Development Consent Order (DCO) application. The plans will now be examined by the UK Government’s planning inspectorate. CPRE Sussex said it ‘backs an urgent move’ to renewable energy sources and, ‘in principle, would be supportive of the sensitive expansion’ of the Rampion offshore wind farm. However, it has raised ‘major concerns’ over how the public consultation ‘has been run’ . . . Complete story »
Sámi youth enlist the king of Norway’s help to fight an illegal wind farm
“What Nordic infrastructure projects in Sápmi call ‘green energy,’ to the rest of the world looks exactly like traditional colonialism.” Outside of the royal palace, in Oslo, seven Sámi youths waited to speak with King Harald V of Norway. They wore gáktis, their traditional clothing, and on the lawn, near the neoclassical building, a lávvu stood – a temporary Sámi dwelling that resembles a teepee. Just after noon, the youths were granted an audience with the king. The meeting was the . . . Complete story »
