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Windaction News Issue: July 6, 2013
By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- July 6, 2013Windaction.org’s periodic newsletter keeps readers updated on the latest news in the wind energy industry!
facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy’s real impacts
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News
by Alex Kuffner in Providence Journal — Rhode Island
Owner withdraws wind turbine after opposition July 5
by Caleb M. Soptelean in Bigfork Eagle — Montana
Fairhaven Wind suggests shutting one turbine at night July 4
by Peggy Aulisio in South Coast Today — Massachusetts
Rural landscape ruined by wind turbines say locals July 4
by Lucy Barbour in ABC Rural — Australia / New Zealand
Hanover calls technicians from India to fix troubled turbine July 4
by Neal Simpson in The Patriot Ledger — Massachusetts
The Incompatibility of Wind and Crop ‘Farming’
By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- July 1, 2013“Absentee landowners may be gaining financially from [wind power] development, but the idea that ‘wind farming’ is a compatible agriculture use is more myth than reality in Illinois…. In fact, those Illinois farmers who have leveraged their operations conservatively tell us that they’re not interested in the ‘windfall’ of wind farming.”
The wind industry continues to claim that wind “farming” and agriculture are compatible land uses. Here it is again in a recent letter in the Wall Street Journal by the American Wind Energy Association defending the economics of wind power.
For years, politicians and urban/suburbanites have been treated to heaping doses of win-win business tales of family farmers leasing sections of their crop land for wind development, while working the soil right up to the towers and earning extra revenue to keep the land open.…
American Lung Association’s Misguided Support for Wind Power
By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- June 19, 2013“Obviously, nobody wants dirty air, but the American Lung Association’s knee-jerk renewables advocacy is mainly emotional and not grounded in fact.”
Last month, New Hampshire’s Site Evaluation Committee (SEC)[1] disapproved Antrim Wind, a 30-megawatt wind energy facility proposed along a remote and environmentally sensitive ridgeline in rural Antrim, NH. After eleven days of evidentiary hearings and three days of public deliberations, the Committee ruled that the ten monster turbines, each standing 492-feet tall, would pose a significant impact on aesthetics with no satisfactory means of mitigating the effect.
The Committee’s ruling surprised New England wind proponents who wasted no time calling the decision a serious setback for clean energy and urging the SEC to reconsider its decision.
Among those objecting was the American Lung Association. In a letter to the SEC, Edward Miller, Senior Vice President of Public Policy for the American Lung Association in the Northeast, wrote:…