Pennsylvania and New York (approx 24 minutes)
Texas (approx 3.5 minutes)
Australia (approx 10 minutes)
Lincolnshire, England (approx 15 minutes)
http://www.barehillsoftware.com/WindTurbinesareComing-UK.wmv
Abandoned turbines in Hawaii. Some interesting comments too. (Approx 14 seconds)
http://www.travelistic.com/video/show/829/Abandoned-Wind-Farm-on-the-Road-to-South-Point
Abandoned turbines in Hawaii. Some interesting comments too. (Approx 14 seconds)
http://www.travelistic.com/video/show/829/Abandoned-Wind-Farm-on-the-Road-to-South-Point
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Wind trubines will never be abandoned in Nova Scotia as it is part of the RFP to make sure that this doesn't happen. For every opposition there is also support. Why don't you look to Ireland that has fully embraced wind turbined and has cut through the issues of Nimbyism. Check this site: http://www.electricityforum.com/news/jun03/irishwind.html.
Camoflaging a for profit venture as a green energy initiative was AWPC's first mistake. Picking the wrong location and challenging residents to fight this development was the second mistake. Thanks for pointing out Ireland as an example of a country that controls placement of turbines to areas where they are highly desired and where opposition is low. Ralph Surrette pointed that out in his opinion piece in the Chronicle Herald last week, saying if we could all do what Ireland has done, Nova Scotia would be open for wind development business. But until our government implements safe setback laws, each and every new proposed windfarm that wants to make a buck at the expense of a neighbourhood, will face this same outcome, strong, vocal, persistant, relentless, opposition. We are just getting warmed up.
There is another aspect of these coastal wind farms that has just come to light.
They interfere with normal radar transmission and create false images and ghosting or blind areas.This has national defence and air /sea search and rescue implications.
There may be ??? possible some sort of "reaction" in the form of reflected (by the rotating blades) microwave/electromagnetic pulses which have been implicated as being a possible health risk as seen on experimental lab animal tests??
Shadow flicker thru a process of mental bio-entrainement can also be a possibility for interference with natural health.
My name is Joanne MacPherson and after watching the videos posted here, I am just sickened by the thought that people who live and raise children in this community would support this wind turbine development under the guise it is a sacrifice we need to make to save the planet. To willingly impose on your neighbours relentless noise, strobe like shadow flicker, sleep deprivation, and suffering, be it physical, emotional or financial, is just beyond comprehension. Our elected County officials need to watch these videos in the presence of their constituents and then get back to us on a safer setback distance. This is not NIMBY, this is please protect us, my us includes a precious 2 year old daughter.
I want to specifically adress anonymous #3 here. Every wind farm has to pass a certain guideline so that it does not interfere with radio transmissions of any kind. The science behind measuring these impacts is quite old and has to be done on all new developments. As was mentioned before if this requirement is met along with several other ones are met than the development gets a clean bill of health. This blog is starting to make paint wind famrs as being a source for medical conditions that are going to make us all sick. Come on folks get a grip, where were you when the real polluters were putting up smoke stacks instead of wind towers. You can't compare the two and these medical affects that are purported in these videos are not proven. When the Surgeon General says Wind Farms are bad for a health or that swoosh swoosh will make you terribly sick inthe ong-term than youmight have something. The truth is you never will. It will always be a very small group of people for a very large development. Society has determined that for the good of us all we will start building wind farms, solar famrs, geothermal plants, biomass facilities etc. etc. The small minority that could not stop the big polluters in the past won't be able to stop the renewable initiative of the future.
Can anyone name even one conventional power facility which has been shut down as a direct result of a wind farm or farms being brought on line? I haven't been able to find a case where this has happened, but maybe there's something I've missed.
As long as no more coal burning facilities are built than we are okay. As our renewable energy output gets beyond 20% of total supply you will start to see fossil fuel burning facilities phased out. A comibination of wind, solar, geothermal, tidal and wave power could bring this province up to that amount, so that a steady stream of power is online not causing brown outs or any sort of lags in power. Denmark is an excellent example of a place that has a 20% renewable energy portfolio, although they are not perfect there are some benefits enjoyed by the Danes that could be enjoyed here as well. Again Wind is not the be all and end all. It is at this point a chunk of a potentially very large pie. We could fit 1500 turbines around this province that coupled with several solar farms, 600 Mw of tidal power and geothermal facilities at large locations like Acadia University, Michelin and other places would really put this province on a global map as a place that would be well beyond progressive in the renewable enrgy field. The amount of jobs and technologival advancements that could be created from something like that would be amazing, but I don't think there are very many people with vision for that kind of future.
I don't get why this developer keeps trying to place the turbines here. When they were pitching Pubnico they have several other sites under consideration, Pubnico being the least populated and thus chosen. Where else are they looking to site these besides Pugwash?
From his beloved and cherished generational family farmhouse in rural Nova Scotia, a topic usually captioned under the word "sanctuary" writer Harry Bruce scribbles an opinion piece for the Chronicle Herald about rich people resisting wind turbines placed near their summer residences. It is an unsympathetic view. Anne Murray, he says, is a rich woman who doesn't want to see turbines when she is out playing golf, and there there is the "rich Senator Ted Kennedy" and the "Cape Cod elite", they too trying to preserve their water front views from "their yachts or summer mansions". What is out your kitchen window, Harry? What can you see past the orchard? Anne Murray's complaint may sound as futile as Lucy Maud Montgomery's did about automobiles ruining her beloved Island, but for you to conclude you have no opinion on this very hot topic is the height of hypocricy. Next time you flee Vancouver or Ontario, desperate for the tranquility of home, you just might find your bliss destroyed by 28 massive blinking, pulsating, strobing, boot in a washer thumping wind turbines swhooshing round and round 24/7. Being neither rich or elite, should you dare protest this invasion, you'll just be guilty of NIMBY and urged to think of the loss of your home as a necessary sacrifice to help save the planet.
Don't let it happen, Harry. The pen is mightier than the sword. It is high time you got off the fence.
Joanne MacPherson
Those videos were sooo sooo sad Lisa. How long was it going to be in the first video that the guy in the John Deere hat was going to cry because he couldn't hunt up on the ridge anymore with his pappy. One of the girls wanted to have a satellite dish or something from the wind developer, so she could watch Jerry Springer all day instead of seeing those "turbans" as she pronounced them. She also was so intimidated by the wind developers, because they were these tycoons that are protected under their corporate veils hording the land, eating up the citizens and spitting them out poor and dirty.
Meyersdale is not a good example. The machines are much different and Horizon Wind did not take into account many points, which AWPC has to under the current EA. Shadowflicker is not an issue at Pugwash and the machines will not be on a ridge.
Now for poor old Harry Bruce caught in the crossfire. Whatever it is that you are trying to do Joanne by using words like pulsating and boot in washer swooshing you should probably take a run out to Pubnico, where you don't hear those noises as you all proclaim. Harry is right, Anne is a Hypocrite and so are all of you that claim to be for the green movement. You are not NIMBY's you are BANANAS! Read the article that Joanne is talking about if you do not knwo what BANAna stands for!
For those who missed Harry's article on the back page of the Nova Scotian, Sunday insert, NOPE is "not on planet earth, BANANA build absolutely nothing anywhere. These along with NIMBY are acronyms the wind developers have put into the media, cute little sound bites, the art of distraction.
I've not been to Pubnico but I was moved by the scraping of the chair and the soft spokeness of the man, Daniel E'Entremont, who from the back of the room at the public meeting in Pugwash, stood up and faced the AWPC panel, and told the gathering how his family were hurt by the turbines, how the noise and shadow flicker made them ill, made it impossible for them to sleep, concentrate, be free of headaches, how the kids started doing poorly in school, how doctors could do nothing but suggest they move, how they had to abandon their generational family home, with no compensation, and how their story was falling on deaf ears, nobody was listening, nobody was helping, everybody just denying. I then watched Charles Demond respond with a shrug of his shoulders and a dismissive glance as he turned away and tried to steer the topic to safer ground. Ignoring, pretending he hadn't witnessed and heard what we did. And that was when I knew, for sure, that whatever was being pitched to us about wind energy here that evening was not to our benefit. Now I am reading about the family in Elmira PEI who were forced to move, that report I am sure will show up on this blog soon enough, and my resolve to fight this development grows stronger. Joanne MacPherson
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