www.windaction.org | Windfarms threaten many bird species with extinction
Save the Eagles International (STEI) wishes to warn the international community about the threat that windfarms and their power lines represent for biodiversity. Unlike cars, buildings, and domestic cats, wind turbine blades and high tension lines often kill protected or endangered birds like eagles, cranes, storks, etc. Cumulatively and over the long term, 3.5 million wind turbines to be installed worldwide will cause the extinction of many bird species, some of them emblematic.
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Read MoreIn China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale | Mail Online
In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale
Read MoreThe Dutch lose faith in windmills
The new Dutch right-wing government has announced a radical overhaul of Dutch energy policy. It is cutting subsidies for most forms of renewable energy drastically, and is even putting an end to all subsidies for offshore wind, solar power and largescale biomass. It has also announced a warm welcome for new nuclear power stations – the first time a Dutch government has done so since the Chernobyl-disaster in 1986. However, not all is lost for the renewable energy sector: the cabinet is still brooding on a long-term strategy and a “Green Deal” that might yet put the Netherlands back on a “greener” course.
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Read MoreConsumers Energy executive predicts superhighway to transmit power across Midwest will raise costs for Michigan residents
A plan to build what’s described as a superhighway to transmit power between Midwest states is drawing criticism from a top Consumers Energy executive, who say it will raise costs for Michigan residents. CMS Energy Board Chairman David Joos says Michigan would see no benefits, but he predicts Consumers Energy customers could pay several hundred million dollars a year extra for decades.
Read MoreMason County to discuss how close wind turbines should be to homes
Large scale wind projects in Benzie, Mason and Manistee Counties have neighbors upset. They say the peace and quiet of the countryside will be destroyed by large windmills, and they want zoning rules that keep turbines more than a mile from neighboring houses.
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Read MoreNiagaraThisWeek Article: A call to arms against wind
Johnston called upon her audience to work hard to prevent the construction of the turbines. “Talk to your councillors, talk to your members of parliament. Do everything you possibly can. Whatever you can do, do it, to prevent these wind turbines from surrounding your homes. I’ve lost my home, the savings I amassed working a lifetime. My home is no longer the place of refuge that you’d think an 80-year-old could go and have a life. I have only an existence,” she said.
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Read MoreDeaths of rare eagles rises
THE number of eagles killed by turbine blades at one of Australia’s largest wind farms is climbing, with a rare juvenile wedge-tailed eagle the 22nd to die at Woolnorth in Tasmania’s north-west.
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Read MoreUrbana council, residents hit UI over wind turbine plans | News-Gazette.com – Your Source for News and Advertising in East Central Illinois
URBANA – Some city council members on Monday night said they were frustrated that a University of Illinois wind turbine project is moving along without consulting city officials or adhering to a new zoning ordinance.
Read MoreSymposium delivers facts on wind energy : Prince Edward County News countylive.ca
The First International Symposium on the Global Wind Industry and Adverse Health Effects, held this past weekend in Picton, brought together American, British and Canadian acousticians, physicists, physicians, and medical researchers. The audience came from across Ontario and the United States and from as far as Australia.Our understanding of how wind turbines can affect human health is steadily increasing. Since the facts often contradict the Ontario government’s and wind industry’s claims, it may be useful to clarify the current state of knowledge.
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Read MoreState’s tallest wind turbines to begin operating near Green Bay – JSOnline
“Welcome to the Glenmore Wind Ghetto,” reads a sign near one of the newly erected turbines. Opponents are concerned about the impact of what they term “windustrial parks” on the rural landscape, as well as close-to-home issues such as flickering shadows and turbine noise.
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