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Where eagles dare not fly: Waterloo looms as wind farms power town revolt A DEAD wedge-tailed eagle, chicken eggs without yolks and a dysfunctional village with residents bursting to flee. This is the clean-energy revolution Waterloo-style, where the nation's biggest wind turbines have whipped up a storm of dissent. Read more... |
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Germany's €100 Billion Solar Fiasco Solar stocks plunged around the world after Germany, the largest market for panels, said it will make quicker cuts to subsidized rates and phase out support for the industry by 2017. Read more... |
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GOLDEN EAGLES FACE EXTINCTION IN U.S. AS NUMBERS PLUMMET, NEW STUDIES REVEAL “Wind farms are the main cause. The issuing of license to kill will accelerate the decline toward extinction.”—Save the Eagles International Read more... |
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The carnage was mesmerizing I watched geese lift off and form up along the shore of Wolfe Island. At about a hundred feet of altitude they wheeled into the wind, heading in a west/southwesterly direction. As their climb into a headwind slowly took them over Wolfe, the wind speed gauge at our house continued to read a strong and steady 22-25 mph. It was overcast. The river was rolling. Read more... |
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Green Energy a Stinker Those wind turbines and solar panels dotting Southwestern Ontario come at a cost. According to Ontario ’s auditor general it was done without the proper planning. Read more... |
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Ont. wind farm health risks downplayed: documents According to 1,000 pages of internal government emails, reports and memos released under Ontario’s Freedom of Information Act, the government scrambled to figure out how to monitor and control noise pollution. Read more... |
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T. Boone's Windy Misadventure And the Global Backlash Against Wind Energy Three years ago this month, T. Boone Pickens launched a multi-million dollar crusade to bring more wind energy to the US. "Building new wind generation facilities," along with energy efficiency and more consumption of domestic natural gas, the Dallas billionaire claimed, would allow the US to "replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports in 10 years." Read more... |
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AN URGENT MESSAGE You may not be aware of an ambitious project underway that could affect Ohio recreational boating, fishing and watersports in a largely negative manner. Read more...
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Bats Worth Billions to Agriculture |
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Winds of Change The government has recommended strict guidelines for developers to relieve householders of the annoying strobe-like effect. Read more... |
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Wind Turbine Syndrome prompts state lawmakers to propose 2-year “wind farm” moratorium (Idaho) The [Idaho] House State Affairs Committee got an earful on the issue of wind turbines during a hearing Friday. House Bill 265 proposes a two-year moratorium for those projects not already approved. Rep. Erik Simpson, R-Idaho Falls, introduced the bill. Simpson believes that wind energy isn’t a viable resource compared to others and costs more as well. Read more... |
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Wind and Solar Subsidies Drying Up in Europe Wind and solar energy subsidies are experiencing drastic cutbacks in many European nations and some places in the United States. Read more... |
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Great review of WINDFALL Faucets don’t spit fire in “Windfall,” making its local premiere Saturday at the Environmental Film Festival. But incendiary water may be the only side effect not associated with wind power in Laura Israel’s absorbing, sobering documentary about the lures and perils of green technology. Read more... |
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High Court date set for ‘nuisance turbines’ hearing ALL eyes will be on Deeping St Nicholas this summer when a landmark case on noise created by wind turbines reaches the High Court. Read more... |
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Wind farms blamed for stranding of whales Offshore wind farms are one of the main reasons why whales strand themselves on beaches, according to scientists studying the problem. Read more... |
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Climate Change Dispatch Deep-pocketed environmentalist group is implicated in bank rolling a new initiative to silence climate skeptics using libel laws. Read more... |
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How Green Is Your Lost Job? The study concludes that the "policy to promote renewable energy in the U.K. has an opportunity cost of 10,000 direct jobs in 2009-10 and 1,200 jobs in Scotland." So British taxpayers, as is the case here in the U.S., are being forced to subsidize a net loss of jobs in a struggling economy. Read more... |
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For Every Green Job, Four Others are Lost (UK) |
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Lawrence Solomon: Smart is dumb |
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Province Announces No Offshore Turbines “for now” Sherri Lange, Founding Director of Toronto Wind Action and Executive Director, Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth, today expressed her group’s excitement about the turnaround decision by the Province to halt offshore turbine development. The potential dangers posed by wind turbines are finally being recognized and she praised the Province for listening and indicating that full scientific studies would be conducted first. Read more... |
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Lack of Wind Raises Fears Britain’s leading renewable energy company has reported a 20 per fall in the amount of electricity produced by its wind turbines. Read more ... |
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Ontario quietly reverses Times of international turmoil are great moments for domestic governments to make important announcements they don’t want to be noticed. Especially if the announcement involves a sudden reversal in policy that could seriously embarrass the government. Read more... |
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Ontario Reverses Regime change in Read more... |