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What Do North East and Alabama Have in Common? Pioneer Green Energy – UPDATED!

May 16, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Where in the vineyard do you put this?

This is fascinating. Pioneer Green Energy, the same company that wants to put up wind turbines in North East, is also trying to build up to forty wind turbines along the top of Shinbone Ridge in Cherokee and Etowah Counties in Alabama. Why is it fascinating? Because there are some odd similarities between that project […]

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

If its All About the Money, Are Wind Turbines the Best Choice?

May 16, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Is this really the best we can do?

In all of the discussions leading up to this wind turbine project in North East, you might hear the promoters talk about “green energy” or “renewable energy,” one local farmer talks about how wind fits in with his stewardship of the land and helping the entire country while a spokesman for the Lake Erie Region […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: government spending, special privilege, tax credit, taxpayers, wind welfare

Why Put Wind Turbines in North East?

May 10, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Just making a little room for an industrial wind turbine at Lowell Mountain

Here’s a simple question, and with all of the efforts to push this project on the residents of the township, no one has ever explained why wind turbines should be built here in the first place. Since many of us are scratching our heads, we thought our local officials would have an answer, or maybe […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement

Do North East Officials Understand Wind Turbine Technical Issues?

May 8, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Enormous wind turbines tower over nearby buildings

All of us who live in North East Township prefer to go about our daily lives with the confidence that township officials are making good decisions, keeping the interests of ALL township residents in mind as they weigh the pros and cons of specific business affecting everyone in our community. The proposed wind turbine project, […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: complex technical issues, informed decision

Instead of Wind Turbines – We Need Better Ideas for Growing North East

May 5, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Let's make better decisions for North East

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. […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement

What You Need to Know Right Now About the North East Wind Turbine Project

May 2, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind turbine tower section

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 […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement

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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

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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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