North East has a lot in common with towns all over the USA, struggling to deal with a slow economy, with many residents hit hard by unemployment or underemployment and with some businesses just getting by, it’s easy to be frustrated, to run out of ideas and to think this “new normal” will last forever. […]
Wind Turbine Wake Effects Go Far Beyond Their Location
Here’s an interesting photo taken off the coast of Denmark. We seldom get a chance to see a clear visual illustration of how a wind turbine affects its neighbors. When weather conditions are right, the wake effect downwind of the turbines can form clouds and we can see that the wind becomes more turbulent and […]
What You Need to Know Right Now About the North East Wind Turbine Project
You’re busy, we understand, but this isn’t a little project you can ignore. It will affect you, it will change the entire look and feel of North East, it’s huge and there’s a good chance you don’t know much about it. So let’s talk, right here. We’ve written down some of the questions people have […]
Electricity From Wind Turbines is Bad for the Grid
If you’re a technical person, you’ll find this interesting. Wind energy advocates, while admitting wind energy is intermittent with wide and often rapid variations, assumed the presence of many turbines in a large scale wind project would average the ups and downs and transform it into smooth power to the grid, unfortunately, a new study […]
Critics and Supporters Agree – Giant Wind Turbines Are Ugly
We think putting up huge wind turbines on land overlooking the scenic vineyards and farms of North East township is a terrible idea, no surprise there, but what about the supporters of big wind projects? What do they think? T. Boone Pickens, billionaire Texas oilman and several years ago, strong proponent of building a wind […]
What Really Powers Wind Turbines? Lots and Lots of Government Money
Wind turbines are popping up in more and more rural communities, yet wind turbines, like so many other “green energy” projects, represent a business that can’t stand on its own two feet without massive government involvement, from tax subsidies and tax credits to outright grants and the result is increasingly expensive electricity from locations with […]
Renewable Wind Energy is Intermittent Energy
Wind energy is often called “renewable energy.” Since we don’t support wind turbines, people will ask, “Don’t you support renewable energy?” The answer is very simple, we don’t support intermittent energy, because that’s what “renewable” energy really is. Massive wind turbines only generate electricity when the wind is blowing, and how much they produce varies […]
Where is the North East Township Wind Turbine Zone?
If you’re unclear where wind turbines are planned, it most likely means no one has contacted you and asked you to sign a lease. Unless you have attended a township meeting or gone out of your way to obtain one of these maps (shown above), you probably think they’re planned for somewhere near Interstate 90. […]
North East PA Draft Wind Energy Ordinance – Who Does it Protect? Hint: Not You
We seem to be on the verge of doing something in North East that could be very unwise. On April 15th, at the North East PA township supervisors meeting, a draft of the wind energy ordinance was presented. The ordinance is based on this template available online written in 2006, (Model 3 of the template). […]
How They Do It – an Inside Look at a Wind Developer’s Playbook
It doesn’t make sense. How do you go into to a tight knit rural community like North East and convince some of the landowners to erect gigantic, 500 foot, utility scale wind turbines on their land and make them believe it’s a good idea? On the face of it, it’s almost absurd. Yet, wind developers […]
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