This map is a vast improvement on the one I published last year.
That map was so hard to read, I misread it and thought the wind farm only stretched east to Dan R Lane. It goes much further east to Ocean View Drive (almost to the old Macfarlane Road). Both maps are identical in where the turbines are located.
In the spirit of disclosure, AWPC sent this (in acrobat). I cannot post a .pdf here, so I have captured most of the image and converted to a .jpeg.
The turbines are around 400m apart. This is the closest they can go to each other, as recommended by Vestas. Therefore, the only way that this farm could be setback further from residences would be to eliminate some turbines.
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The map just fine to me, wish I owned land there, $$$$. The locations look like they are far enough away. Yeh to Wind Mills. This is the first large step in getting ahead of Global Warming.
Note the language of propaganda. These are not wind farms or wind mills, these are power plants operated by wind turbines with noisy gears, swooshing blades, overhead high voltage wires and magnetic fields of energy. Dangerous, noisy, hideous. They do not belong in rural residential areas. They belong on unpopulated ridges,of which we have many in Cumberland County. And after we put more of them up there, let's all try reducing our energy consumption, reduce, reuse, recycle.
AWPC plans to run thir wiring underground if acceptable to NSPower.
The blades don't whoosh: go up Higgins Mountain and hear for yourself.
They don't just whoosh, they grind and roar too! Been there. Heard that.
I still say put the wind mills in the northumberland strait, the attention they draw out there might just save another person from drowning. Whose toes will be getting stepped on in the water?
From statement from the first "Anonymous" feedback, the "Power Plants" don't have gears what so ever, I think you have the language propaganda, also these ARE wind farms, not power plants.
found the following in the Amherst Daily, April 18th 2007, score one for the good guys, go wind farms;
HIGGINS MOUNTAIN — Through thick fog, heavy winds and ice, members of Cumberland County council braved the cold weather to take a tour of Higgins Mountain where three wind turbines are operational. The tour was to provide more information to the councilors before today’s meeting where a bylaw proposal is on the table.
John Reid, district 9 councilor, commented that the noise coming from the turbine was similar to the tide.
“Just like John said, it reminds me of the ocean with that rhythmic, dull sound,” said Nelson Bezanson, bylaw and policy officer for the county.
Participants of the tour parked in front of the second turbine on the hill and were greeted by Paul Pynn, project manager for the Higgins Mountain site. Asset property manager 3G Energy’s vice president of operations, Graham Findlay, was also on site, but had taken earlier arrivals to do some noise testing.
Taking a GPS system, visitors to the area walked back 170 metres from the wind turbine, over a field, to listen to the noise. Straining through the wind, the turbine was barely audible. Once back at the turbine, visitors walked 250 metres along the road, further onto Higgins Mountain, where again, the turbine was barely audible.
“The only downside (to wind turbines) is a little bit of noise,” said councilor Gerald Read. “There’s more noise going through the trees and leaves.”
Warden Keith Hunter joined the councilors as they climbed into one of the turbines where the power was turned off and back on again. Even the machines inside the turbine weren’t as audible as the fifteen or so people inside voices were.
Before he left the site, Hunter said it was trips like this to the turbines that give council information they’re looking for.
Although Hunter didn’t walk down the road from the turbines, he says he didn’t need to to know there wasn’t much noise.
“I visited the turbine in Rodney on a beautiful day and you couldn’t hear a thing.”
rtetanish@amherstdaily.com
Some express fear about 'industry' invading cottage country. They talk about noise, aesthics and property values. A quick check of the map reveals its only one mile to the Pugwash Salt Mine. Talk about an eyesore...right in the middle of cottage country. What effect has that on property values? Residents tell me the dust, noise & lights from the mine are omni-present. I think the windfarm pales in comparison when talking about 'big bad industry'.
wind turbines generate a larger amount of infrasonic frequency "sound" than what has been promoted by the media and developers and government.
this "sound" is below in frequency what the average human's ability is to perceive via their ears.
this alternating pressure fluctuation acts as a compression/expansion force on your innards.you can not tell of its prescence by your normal senses.
its is unnatural created this way.
it has been demonstrated via military research and other as being capable of causing mental/physiological/biological damage/problems.
it also travels greater distances than higher frequencies before dissapating/being absorbed.
these are machines and will only increase their higher frequency machine made noises as the parts wear.
these also generate electromagnetic fields in the process of pushing electrons thru a wire.their purpose is to create electricity.they are commonly called power plants for this reason,as are all our systems of this purpose.this unnatural radiation can not be hidden by burying the wires.
the concept of wind power is a great idea to satisfy our overindulgent dependence on electricity however
its health effects on the neighbouring humans and critters who call the forest home will be determined in time as our ignorance gets replaced by intelligence.
It is obvious thses bloggers don't live in the area.
I'm not a doctor so I can't comment on the health effects of noise (infrasound or otherwise) but isn't Europe saturated with windmills? How do they coexist there with millions of citizens? Europeans are known for their health-consiousness. If these fears are true then I don't understand why Europeans are so accepting???
Put the wind farm in the middle of nowhere, not in the middle of our
beautiful, tranquil Gulf Shore.
We have heard that property values have already dropped due to this proposed eye sore, not to mention
health-hazard. Why here in cottage country, yes, it IS cottage country. Local businesses will not survive without the cottagers, who will likely move on.
What a shame, we had hoped to retire here, now we'll have to accept it as a loss and look for another cottage elsewhere.
As I am another cottager on the Gulf Shore, I just have one question. "What are they thinking, putting this in the middle of our
Cottage Country?"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been coming up here since I was a kid. How disappointing that the greed of a few can cause so much misery for so many. This is a crime. How do they sleep at night?
The wind industry report is called "Wind Turbines and Sound: Review and Best Practices", released in February 2007 to the Canadian Wind Energy Program. Charles Demond of AWP is listed as a contributor. We will never hear these words coming from his firm. "Plans placing no wind turbines closer to a residence than about 1000 m have been feasible. Not surprisingly, complaints from residents at this distance are very rare". Mr. Demond is pressing for a 360 m setback, which he knows from experience in Pubnico will create noise complaints from home owners.
This report also noted that most wind farms are situated in the 300 m to 600 m setback and where a financial arrangement exists, there are no complaints. Holds true here. The councillors who visited Higgins Mt have no complaints about the noise. The land owners getting paid have no complaints. The land owners in line to get paid have no complaints. The investors have no complaints. The report also says wind turbine noise is subject to atmospheric conditions and mechanical problems, the latter is in the control of the developer, but their speed in fixing and maintaining the equipment is up to them. The report does not go into detail about the noise complaints surfacing and growing, it just acknowledges it exists and suggests developers consider this when choosing sites.
If the wind industry knows the ideal setback is 1000 m or more, why are they always pressing for much less? Profit maximization.
What are they thinking. This will ruin Cottage Country. There are lots of frustrated cottage owners in this area.
Last week when I visited the Higgins Mtn. site it wasn,t like any "tide" i've ever heard before. True, at times the sound of the turbine is not objectionable. However the noise level constantly changes. In the hour that i was on site the sound went from relatively tolerable in the short-term to downright annoying, depending on when you were listening. Nobody in their right mind would want to live within earshot of one of these, let alone 27 of them!
One of the worst parts of this whole thing is the way it will divide our community. I'm sure it already has locals wondering which way their neighbours are leaning on this issue, and no matter which way it turns out, the way of life we once had on our beautiful Gulf Shore will never be quite the same.
Hi, I'm entering the debate for the first time, and my opinion is: SOLUTIONS, PEOPLE! Let's not turn this into a soap opera! We are smart enough to come up with something that allows wind energy to proliferate in our area without giving anyone a migraine.
After reading EVERYONE'S comments so far, the two that really stand out to me are 1. the person who feared the debate around the windfarm would polarize and divide the community of Pugwash. 2. this excerpt from Lisa Betts' article: "We were told about how the people in Germany and Denmark get along with turbines in close proximity (smaller turbines in smaller numbers and locally owned - not so many big farms as being proposed here). "
This quote is so important because I feel the sentiments would be different if Pugwash owned and controlled the windfarm and the power it generated. I don't trust NS Power or ANY big business when it comes to altruism. The solution, in my mind, is to turn this into a business opportunity for Pugwash. Above all, I'm an environmentalist; but, I am not oblivious to the fact that I'm surrounded by capitalists. We live in capitalist times, let's capitalize!
The secret is: smaller turbines in smaller numbers, and locally owned.
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