WINDWATCH

• Sa nei til vindmøller — No to wind turbines
  [Selectboard of Marker voted 6-3 Tuesday night against wind turbines in the municipality. Mayor Stein Erik Lauvås has already expressed his opposition to the E.on project.] Seks stemte imot planene om vindkraftverk i grensebygda, mens tre stemte for. Til NRK.no sier ordfører Stein Erik Lauvås at han er fornøyd med resultatet i formannskapet, men understreker […]
• Turbines fail sound tests: Residents express outrage when DEP won’t shut them down
  FAIRHAVEN — Residents expressed dismay and outrage Tuesday after learning the two industrial wind turbines on town land exceeded the allowable sound levels in some tests. They expressed even further outrage when Martin Suuberg, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, said he would work with the developer to bring the turbines […]
• Judge: Antrim officials violated Right-to-Know law
  ANTRIM — A judge has ruled selectmen violated the state’s Right-to-Know law in privately meeting with a wind farm developer to negotiate a payment agreement, voiding that contract. Hillsborough County Superior Court North judge David A. Garfunkel ruled in favor of five residents who said meetings between the town and representatives of Antrim Wind Energy LCC […]
• Business leaders blast Cape Wind
  It’s been a while since Cape Wind has made full-page newspaper headlines – but Thursday, it did. Only these were full-page ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Cape Cod Times from two of the state’s most powerful business groups denouncing the project. Their message: the premium-priced power Massachusetts utility customers will have to buy from Cape W […]
• An ill wind
  On tiny King Island, you’re never far from the sea. Its location in the Bass Strait means the island’s right in the middle of the Roaring Forties, and experiences wind speeds of about eight metres a second. ‘Anything over 10 [metres a second] becomes challenging, anything under 8 becomes challenging,’ says David Mounter, the wind asset development manager wi […]
• Windfarm effects were “grossly” underestimated
  Neighbouring village residents have hit out at the “gross underestimation” of the effect the Neilston Community Windfarm has had on their lives. Uplawmoor residents, who were consistently opposed to the 4 large turbines in Neilston, are calling for action after claims the windfarm proved more visually intrusive from local homes than early illustrative impres […]
• Urgent call to tear down school-based turbines
  Head teachers are being asked to venture out into hurricane-force conditions to switch off wind turbines in school playgrounds. That is one of the claims of far north anti-wind farm protesters who have heavily criticised Highland Council’s safety review of school-based turbines. This week, after releasing its own report, Caithness Windfarm Information Forum […]
• £1.5 million paid to shut down new Scottish wind farm
  One of the big six electricity companies was paid nearly £1.5 million to shut down a new Scottish wind farm before it was even formally completed, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. EDF Energy was handed £1.45 million between April 29 and May 15 to shut down turbines on the Fallago Rig wind farm, which is on land owned by the Duke of Roxburghe in Scottish Bor […]
• Call for safety review over school turbines
  Highland Council switched off all their school turbines in May of last year after independent consultants said extra safety measures might be needed. Site-specific risk assessments concluded however that the turbines already installed at 16 schools were safe to operate. Although the assessments concluded the turbines could safely operate at wind speeds up to […]
• ‘Back-door’ deal with wind farm loses in court
  ANTRIM — A Hillsborough judge has voided an agreement between the town and a Portsmouth-based renewable energy company, saying the pact was reached during illegal meetings. Residents Mary Allen, Gordon Allen, Charles Levesque, Janice Longgood and Martha Pinello contended the town violated right-to-know laws in negotiating the payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) […]