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Monthly Archives: January 2012
USFWS AGREES TO RECONSIDER SHAFFER MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL OPINION
PRESS RELEASE (Contact: Laura Jackson, Pres., Save Our Allegheny Ridges (SOAR), (814) 652–‐9268) FACED WITH NOTICE OF ESA VIOLATIONS, FWS AGREES TO RECONSIDER SHAFFER MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL OPINION The federally endangered Indiana bat won a significant reprieve recently when the U.S. … Continue reading
Lifestyle Lost – A Conversation with Dave Umling
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to speak today with David Umling, author of Lifestyle Lost. Mr. Umling is a professional planner, currently serving as City Planner for Cumberland, Maryland. Mr. Umling has been an outspoken advocate for rural communities. His … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Appalachian Mountains, industrial wind failure
Tagged actual electricity generation, Appalachia, Cumberland MD, David Umling, industrial wind, industrial wind failure, Lifestyle Lost, solar power homes, threatened landscape, wind energy production statistics, WV wind energy
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Altona NY – Wind turbine catches fire … an earlier one just fell over, then started a fire.
Altona, NY: Saturday night, January 28, 2012 – Wind Turbine Catches Fire “people driving by the windfarm called in to report the fire“ Altona, NY: March 17, 2009, Turbine Collapses, Wiring Blamed AT Note: We keep raising the preparedness issue in … Continue reading
Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for January 27, 2012
Items of interest: 1:”the noise is being created not by the turbines themselves, but by cooling units inside the nacelle” – News-Tribune According to Charlie Parnell, an Edison spokesman, “tests have shown that the noise levels fall within the requirements … Continue reading
Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for January 25, 2012
Items of interest: 1:Excellent commentary by Jon Boone – MasterResource 2:GE Courts Turbine Customers for Solar Before Wind ‘Crash’ – Business Week aka: If you buy in the next 30 minutes, we throw in a set of beautiful steak knives! … Continue reading
Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for January 19, 2012
Items of interest: 1:This is post number 700 at the Allegheny Treasures blog, which started nearly 30 months ago. I thought it might be fun to provide the link to the very first post, dated 9/28/2009 – Mountain Breezes – Green … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking Wind
Tagged appalachian mountain range, Chris Christie, Endangered Species Act, incidental take permit, Industrial Wind Health Issues, Industrial wind subsidies, massachusetts dep, mountain breezes, nj wind farms, Oregon wind, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Vinalhaven Maine, Wind Wise Massachusetts
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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for January 18, 2012
Items of interest: 1:Killer Energy (Time to Apply Endangered Species, Wildlife Laws to Windpower?) – MasterResource 2:”Wind farms were paid £25million not to produce electricity when it is ‘too windy’ last year, figures revealed today.” – Daily Mail (UK) 3:”DOE … Continue reading
Industrial wind … “the crawling menace!”
We thank Mr. J. Edward Gates for granting permission to post his recent Letter to the Cumberland (Maryland) Times-News Editor. His letter is titled “You should know more about Roth Rock project” and the full text begins: I read with … Continue reading
Posted in Allegheny Highlands Eagles, Allegheny Mountains, Art & Pam Dodds, Environment, Industrial Wind Health Issues, Mineral County WV, Wildlife Resources
Tagged Art and Pam Dodd, backbone mountain, Cumberland Times-News, industrial wind groundwater, J. Edward Gates, nordex wind, Pinnacle Wind Farm, Roth Rock wind farm, spanish wind, undefined, wind energy destruction, wind energy environment, wind turbine noise
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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for January 17, 2012
Items of interest: 1:”Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats (1). The average per turbine comes down to 333 – 1,000 deaths annually, which is a far cry from the 2 – 4 … Continue reading
Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for January 16, 2012
Items of interest: 1:”Why not wait until the public has a full understanding of the (wind) map and its significance?” – Bakersfield.com Why indeed? Surprise: “Because, Oviatt said, those studies would take too long considering the looming tax credit expiration…“ … Continue reading
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