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.
America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Breaks Ground
By
Anastasia Pantsios
The Sierra Club was one of a number of groups that lobbied for the project, including the National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation and labor unions, when it was first proposed in 2009. They helped mitigate concerns that construction could disrupt whales and other marine life and that the turbines could be a threat to seabirds.
Energy Payback: Comparative life cycle assessment of 2.0 MW wind turbines
By
Karl R. Haapala and Preedanood Prempreeda
The energy payback period for the two turbine models are found to be 5.2 and 6.4 months, respectively.
Trout Unlimited: Why Trout Fishermen should be excited about Wind Turbines
By
Shane Cross
As sportsmen we support oil and gas producers who develop energy responsibly. And we should support renewable energy projects that will help reduce climate change and protect our hunting and fishing resources.
Enterprise-Bulletin: Judge awards costs to wind company
By
Morgan Ian Adams
“It is erroneous to interpret the reasons as establishing a precedent for the degree of proof required to establish a decrease in property values in these circumstances,” wrote Justice Healey in her decision. “…this court was invited to, and did, engage in a legal fiction in order to cast the plaintiffs’ case in its most favorable light. That legal fiction involved accepting, without requiring the plaintiffs to prove, that they were currently experiencing a decrease in their property values as a result of the announcement of the wind project.
Nuclear power hearing two days, vs wind power hearing unlimited
By
Dick Hill
There is a two-day public hearing underway on Ontario’s Pickering nuclear power plant licence extension. Meanwhile, the public hearing on a proposed wind farm in Prince Edward County has been going for weeks and could last much longer. Ontario’s social, economic and political process is out of balance with this glaring contrast.
The Courier: New poll reveals 70 percent support for wind farms
By
Neelima Choahan
THE wind may be turning in the favour of building more wind farms to produce renewable energy in Australia. . . In an online survey conducted by Essential Research, 76 per cent of respondents supported building wind farms in Australia to produce renewable energy.
