Wind Energy & the Environment
Wind energy works, is increasingly cost-effective, has a net positive environmental impact, and is compatible with most existing land uses. The links below touch on the topic of wind’s environmental benefits and impacts.
Trump administration eases rule against killing birds
By
Juliet Eilperin
The Interior Department has quietly rolled back an Obama-era policy aimed at protecting migratory birds, stating in a solicitor’s opinion that it will no longer prosecute oil and gas, wind, and solar operators that accidentally kill birds.
It’s true, wind turbines are monstrous. But I have learned to love them
By
Alice O’keeffe
At first I resented the way they blocked the view. But now the towers look like part of a brighter future.
State Opens Investigation Into Blasting At Deerfield Wind Site
By
Howard Weiss-tisman
Permitting for the project dragged on for more than ten years and the 30-megawatt project is expected to go online in 2018. A contract worker died on the site in April after he was electrocuted.
In Iowa Wind Opponents Turn to Animal Cruelty
By
Peter Sinclair
Science deniers needlessly killing animals, in order to needlessly kill more animals. Appalled but not surprised. People who don’t care about the massive extinctions brought on by climate change certainly won’t stop at killing innocent animals to further the fossil fuel agenda.
The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States
By
Lbnl
We find cumulative wind and solar air-quality benefits of 2015 US$29.7–112.8 billion mostly from 3,000 to 12,700 avoided premature mortalities, and cumulative climate benefits of 2015 US$5.3–106.8 billion.
URI Researchers: Block Island Wind Farm “Highly Unlikely” To Have Caused Whale’s Death
By
Christian Winthrop
In response to the June 24, 2017 piece, “Block Island Wind Farm May Have Killed Young Humpback Whale,” several of us, researchers at the University of Rhode Island (URI), feel it is important to explain from a scientific view why it is highly unlikely the whale’s death had anything at all to do with a turbine from the Block Island Wind Farm.
