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.
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.
Cape Cod Times: Turbines to stay in Falmouth Say Voters
By
Amy Anthony
Voters soundly rejected a question on Tuesday’s ballot that would have funded the removal of two town-owned wind turbines. . . The question was rejected 6,001 to 2,940, with 67 percent voting against it.
Wind turbines make me sick
By
Craig Morris
Want to get a sense of what Germans think of all this talk–in English–about wind turbines making people sick? Then take a look at this little video. Germany has more wind turbines close to people than any other country in the world.
Four German words
By
Craig Morris
Practice your German and learn what Germans think of all those wind turbines spinning away on their landscape.
