Hikers have a new Michigan favorite: Mount Arvon Sept. 18 2017 | CARL STODDARD - CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE | Lansing City Pulse LANSING — You won’t find Mount Arvon listed in many Michigan tour books, despite the peak’s lofty status as the highest point in the state. And until a few decades ago, it wasn’t even … Continue reading Hikers have a new Michigan favorite: Mount Arvon
Will Wind Turbines Ever Be Safe For Birds? |Audobon
Sure, it’s green energy—but it also results in hundreds of thousands of bird deaths each year. Emma Bryce | March 16, 2016 | Audubon In 2010 David Newstead, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field biologist, visited the Gulf shoreline of Laguna Madre, Texas, to survey skimmers, terns, and egrets. But it was a flock … Continue reading Will Wind Turbines Ever Be Safe For Birds? |Audobon
To Get Wind Power You Need Oil
Each wind turbine embodies a whole lot of petrochemicals and fossil-fuel energy 29 Feb 2016 | Vaclav Smil | IEEE Spectrum Wind turbines are the most visible symbols of the quest for renewable electricity generation. And yet, although they exploit the wind, which is as free and as green as energy can be, the machines … Continue reading To Get Wind Power You Need Oil
Cold Air: Vampire Turbines In July
Vampire Turbines In July Monday, August 6, 2012 I decided to investigate the performance of an industrial wind turbine project in Ontario comprised of 110 of the Vestas V82 turbines; Enbridge's Underwood turbines in Bruce County. 110 turbines potentially each drawing 50kW means that at times when all Enbridge's turbines are still, the draw would be … Continue reading Cold Air: Vampire Turbines In July
Minnesota is blowing billions on wind power – Video
Minnesota is blowing billions on wind power—not to mention billions more from taxpayers across the country. The state began erecting wind turbines to lower electric bills and CO2 emissions. But the result is HIGHER electricity rates and dubious CO2 reductions. When it comes to energy, Minnesota is blowing it! via MN Blows Billions! - YouTube
Video: RES Project Protests – Arkwright, New York.
Arkwright ,New York | October 2017 Residents speak out at a series of protests. New York's forests and open lands are being turned into highly subsidized industrial parks. Arkwright Besieged: destruction protested.
Sales Pitch: The roads will be as good or better.
Several Issues have been reported on from wind industrial construction. The sales pitch from RES or other wind industry is that they leave the roads as good or better. What is Better? When or who determines as good. This is a good example of issues with roads: Roads are impassable by many cars, can not … Continue reading Sales Pitch: The roads will be as good or better.
Main impact wind farm development has on local a economy relates to tourism.
2002 TOURISM The main adverse impact that wind farm development is likely to have on the economy of an area relates to tourism. If wind farms threaten to destroy jobs in the tourist industry, they create few if any compensating jobs elsewhere. A typical turbine requires less than one day's maintenance per year - A … Continue reading Main impact wind farm development has on local a economy relates to tourism.
Wind power is an attack on rural America
Wind power is an attack on rural America By ROBERT BRYCE FEB 27, 2017 | 4:00 AM Urban voters may like the idea of using more wind and solar energy, but the push for large-scale renewables is creating land-use conflicts in rural regions from Maryland to California and Ontario to Loch Ness. Since 2015, more … Continue reading Wind power is an attack on rural America
Windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought
Save the Eagles International Wind turbines are actually slaughtering millions of birds and bats annually By chance (if you believe in coincidences), a timely government study claims wind farms will kill “only” 1.4 million birds yearly by 2030. This new report is just one of many, financed with taxpayers’ money, aimed at convincing the public … Continue reading Windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought