I have refrained from posting or commenting on what has been going on in Pictou County until now because I have been waiting to see some kind of explanation from the company as to why they have changed their plans as to where turbines will be placed. None has been forthcoming.
Mike Magnus has a cottage on the Gulf Shore, has come to some of our meetings and (I thought) believed that turbines should not be placed too close to homes. He is still listed as president and director of ShearWind, so I can only believe that he has some control as to what is going on with the Glen Dhu project.
My impression was that the company sold this plan to the public and to NSPI using reasonable setbacks of 2 to 3km. After most of their permits and deals have been completed, this has changed dramatically.
This only demonstrates to me that these companies have no compunction in changing plans to suit their own needs, and any promises made to the public mean nothing.
What does this mean to us in Pugwash and on the Gulf Shore?
The latest map of a reduced number of turbines pushed back a few feet from the shore does not mean a thing. More turbines could be added by this or any future company at any time.
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What a day! Lots of posts to read.
Two of these posts mention nuclear power. When comments are left about wind power articles in the Chronicle Herald, many of them disparage wind and champion nuclear reacters. Sometimes I suspect that anti-wind campaigners are merely pro nuclear power.
Dermott Murphy's prediction that we will have huge problems with decommissioning turbines in 20 years is probability based on his familiarity with the nuclear industry where waste disposal is no problem at all.
In fact, scrap values may make these generators desirable (think of all that copper )and new generators may be placed atop the existing towers, cutting cost dramatically.
Thank you Kirsten Overmyer for measuring the sound trom the turbine. 43bd is just 1db less ( 2-3 db difference is needed to hear any difference) than bird calls. Actually 50 db is defined as quiet by the Federal Interagency on Noise. Jet airplanes at 1000 are very loud at 103 db. Kirsten verified that wind turbines are quiet.
Great fun hunting Tony Lodge. Supporter of nuclear energy, supplier of talking points to the British Tories, flack at a right wing think tank. Mr. Lodge, please take two steps to the right and join the rest of the failed neocons. Junior Bush wants to tell you about the recent sucess of his Wall Street base.
John McManus
Hello, This is an interesting article. I work for WindEnergy7.com and I help homeowners build and install wind/solar hybrid systems. Fun job. Of course what i work on mainly is not nearly as big. We also sell larger community sized wind turbines for school districts or local government projects. Anyway, I am really surprised that ships never run into these turbines and cause big problems. I am a major proponent of wind technology but I have seen time and time again that there's no progress in building these giant unattractive utility scale wind farms. What windpower can do is be used at a personal level can free a citizen from his utility bill WHILE saving the environment. The big utilities are out to use wind energy as the next monopolized form of controlled energy. It's a shame, and everyone knows there is no ethics in big business, none at all. They will do whatever they can. Small DIY Wind Turbine Kits
Birds don't call-they sing
Birds don't sing hours a day or thru the night constantly at the same monotonous pitch!
Birds sing sounds musically rich in high frequency harmonics!
Wind turbines whine incessantly in low frequency noise/distortions/resonances!
-similar to Mr.MacAnus
God gave us birds to enjoy!
Short-sighted humans have developed wind farms to make money or political brownie points with little concern for their effect on the nature of the environment or the fact that in 25 years when they are worn out there will be little or less oil available to fire up the big cranes required to replace them or the big boats required to transport them from Europe!
Yes! nuclear energy has its problems .
If the world's minds were to put more effort into reducing our demands for all things electrical then we could reduce the problems we are creating for the future!
Yes anonymous: lower electrical consumption would be nice. Some people do. I have written about my personal consumption and the savings made with just a few cheap, non-intrusive changes.
The reality is, electrical consumption is rising and estimates are for a doubling of electrical demand worldwide by 2035. Continual rising demand is the reason coal burning plants are not closing not backup or shadowing.
Perhaps a carbon tax will influence people to start conserving electrical power. Nothing so far has.
I used the term bird calls for acuracy: the Federal Agency used the term in its report
The link for Small DIY Wind Turbine Kits doesn't work and I can't find anything using Google.
Could you please post a URL.
I think I forgot to sign my previous comment: if so my apologies.
John McManus
The link for Small DIY Wind Turbine Kits doesn't work and I can't find anything using Google.
Could you please post a URL.
I think I forgot to sign my previous comment: if so my apologies.
John McManus
This the probably the one you want..
http://windenergy7.com/
You're forgiven for not signing off on comment#4, John. I think we all knew it was you anyway :)
The community of Pugwash has to become a lot more vocal in their opposition to this windfarm project. Write letters, put signs on your lawns, stand up for yourselves.
If people in rural areas were to invest in small wind turbines it could only help!
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