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Pioneer Green Energy Plans 570 Foot Turbines in Alabama – North East Too?

August 1, 2013 by Paul Crowe

FAA application for 570 foot tall wind turbines

Pioneer Green Energy, the wind developer trying to squeeze wind turbines on to small parcels of land in North East, is working on a project in Alabama. Their original plans, according to the residents of Alabama, were for wind turbines 450 feet tall. News stories in the paper listed even shorter heights. It seems they’ve […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: pioneer green energy, turbine height

North East Officials Seem Unaware of Worldwide Wind Energy Retreat

July 30, 2013 by Paul Crowe

BP finds no buyers for wind energy business

BP, the huge oil company that operates a wind energy division, has been trying for the past four months to sell it. Unfortunately, it couldn’t find any buyers. The sale was seen as a continuation of the retreat of big oil companies from renewable energy investments while oil and gas projects offer them better returns. […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: PTC, tax credit, taxpayers, wind energy retreat

North East Wind Speeds – Enough for Electricity or Just Enough to Collect Wind Welfare?

July 11, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind map speed reference that describes color coding

We want to pick up on a point we’ve raised before, how much wind does North East really have and is it enough to run an efficient and productive wind energy plant or is it just a project to qualify for government handouts, sort of a “wind welfare” project. Way back on June 15th of […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: taxpayers, wind welfare

Pioneer Green Energy Quits Wind Project in California

June 7, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Pioneer quits Dunnigan Hills wind project

Pioneer Green Energy, the developer targeting North East with a plan for building 500 foot tall wind turbines, just quit in their efforts to build the Dunnigan Hills wind farm project in California. The project was for as many as 400 360 foot tall wind turbines and had been in the planning stages for close […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: pioneer green energy, PTC, tax credit, taxpayers, wind energy retreat, wind welfare

North East Wind Turbines are All Cost and No Benefit

May 22, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Watch what happens to property values when wind turbines go up

The other day we asked why anyone would want to build wind turbines in North East Township. No one stepped forward to answer and the question continues to puzzle us. The longer we ponder, the more it becomes clear, for the residents of North East Township the wind turbine project is all cost and no […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: destroy communities, destroy view, expensive electricity, intermittent, special privilege

One County Bans Wind Turbines Based on Population Density

May 21, 2013 by Paul Crowe

This is about how many wind turbines are planned for North East

The Marshall County Board of Commissioners in Indiana, voted unanimously to ban commercial wind farms in their county. They recognized the population density was too high for the project to make any sense. Individuals in the county can still build wind turbines on their own property for their own use as long as the height […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: population density, public safety

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Unfortunately

The less you know about wind energy,
the more you'll like it.

Why wind developers never understand …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

~ Upton Sinclair

Don’t know – Don’t care

Is willful ignorance necessary
to promote wind energy?

No, but it helps.

Climate Change

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. … Also, if the process of computing the consequences is indefinite, then with a little skill any experimental results can be made to look like the expected consequences.

~ Richard Feynman, 1964

It’s not on-demand, it’s no-demand

Wind energy is "no-demand" electricity. If the wind isn't blowing and you demand electricity, the answer is no.

Wind – expensive, inefficient, unreliable



December 1923 Popular Science cover dreaming about generating electricity from windmills, and though the dream never dies, the dream doesn't work, didn't then, doesn't now and without huge government giveaways of your money, no wind farms would get built anywhere. The government forces utilities to buy wind power so payments to landowners are simply wind welfare.


Wind energy runs on tax credits

"I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate, for example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
~ Warren Buffett - from interview with Fortune magazine

Wind investments and high cost green energy

“I’m in the wind business … I’ve lost my ass in the business. ... Hey, we can get on everything green. We can get on everything renewable. Then the cost of power will go up ten times."
~ T. Boone Pickens - on Morning Joe on MSNBC

Wind Turbine Map

Information you'll only see here.

The complete map of all of the wind turbines proposed by Pioneer Green Energy in Erie County, PA and filed with the FAA. Plans not yet filed are not shown.

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