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Just in case you local town folk woke up today thinking you’re intelligent, this wind developer has news for you!
According to jetcat4445, the individual kind enough to post this little ditty to youtube, the gentleman speaking is John Calaway from Ecogen, an LLC involved in industrial wind. I saw his name connected with Babcock and Brown, but hey with … Continue reading
The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 6 – Windplants will reduce the mining/burning of fossil fuels and lessen dependence on foreign oil.
From stopillwind.org #6. Windplants will reduce the mining/burning of fossil fuels and lessen dependence on foreign oil. Nonsense. Here are the facts: Foreign Oil Wind only generates electricity. Electricity generation is only part of our energy production. Sixty percent of … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving – from the mountains of Appalachia
Sit back and enjoy the gift of the mountains! Produced by Jamie Ross – Directed by Ross Spears
Posted in Appalachian Mountains
Tagged Appalachian Mountain Video, Mountains of Appalachia
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Open letter to Tal McBride, partner, Highland New Wind Development LLC
From The Recorder …..Highland New Wind- Letter to the Editor…Pocohontas County…. Resident takes issue with McBride’s statement An open letter to Tal McBride, partner, Highland New Wind Development LLC: NIMBY, the acronym for Not In My Backyard, is a pejorative … Continue reading
Boiling Frogs
The old folk tale says if you place a frog in hot water it will jump out of the pan, but if you place it in cold water and slowly bring up the heat, the frog will just sit there … Continue reading
“… the total amount of power produced by all the 2,300 turbines so far built in Britain amounts on average to a mere 900 megawatts, barely the output of a single medium-size conventional power station”
An interesting read at Telegraph.co.uk. The article has to do with the love affair between wind and the BBC, but here’s the quote that caught my attention – the total amount of power produced by all the 2,300 turbines so … Continue reading
Just a little reminder – wind won’t replace coal. Sorry, but it’s just a fact!
Which begs the question … what the heck will it do? Anyway, FactCheck.org writes in its article, Hot Air on Wind Energy – “Don’t expect wind power to replace coal as the nation’s main source of electric power, whatever Obama’s … Continue reading
Posted in Jon Boone, Wind v Coal
Tagged Ken Salazar, wind replace fossil fuel, Wind v Coal
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Maryland to open new Bald Eagle meat processing facility in Garrett County.
Some folks say today is a sad day for the environment. I’m an optimist, always looking for the bright side. Today’s news is great news for hunter-gatherers! The Maryland Public Service Commission just approved a twenty turbine industrial wind installation … Continue reading
The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 7 – Industrial wind developers are interested only in providing a public service
From StopIllWind – Drop by for a huge library of facts about Industrial Wind Energy. #7. Industrial wind developers are interested only in providing a public service. All the false and misleading claims which this industry makes for itself work … Continue reading
Hey, there’s this PSC hearing on a wind farm in my district. How about dropping by and slamming the folks I represent and, oh … would you drop off this note for me?
First I have to acknowledge I don’t know exactly how political stuff works in Charleston or other parts of West Virginia, but I know how it should work in Mineral County. If my interpretation of a certain activity at the … Continue reading
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