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Pioneer Green Energy Quits Wind Project in North East, PA

January 14, 2015 by Paul Crowe

According to reports just received, Pioneer Green Energy sent letters to current lease holders in North East informing them leases allowing wind turbine construction on their property will not be renewed. The reason given is Pioneer’s belief there is not enough support in the current United States Congress for wind energy. Following the recent FAA […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: growing resistance, pioneer green energy, wind energy retreat

Defense Department Rebuffs Pioneer Green Energy in Maryland

October 31, 2014 by Paul Crowe

Fresh on the heels of the denial from the FAA to extend their construction clearance for a wind project in Erie County, PA, Pioneer Green Energy has been dealt another major blow. The US Department of Defense has determined another proposed Pioneer effort, the Great Bay Wind project in Somerset County, Maryland: … would significantly […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Disadvantages Tagged With: complex technical issues, growing resistance, pioneer green energy

Proposed Wind Turbine Locations in Erie County PA

January 29, 2014 by Paul Crowe

North East wind turbine location map with terrain

— Due to changes at Google this map is no longer available. — Is Pioneer Green Energy trying to build a wind turbine near your home? Up until now, it’s been very difficult to get a direct answer to this question. We have asked our township supervisors and zoning administrator many times for this information […]

Filed Under: Project Details Tagged With: informed decision, pioneer green energy, setbacks, turbine height, wind energy zone

Wind Turbines and the Promise of Money

September 6, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind turbines tower over homes

Wind turbines bring the promise of money and that can cloud a person’s judgement. It certainly doesn’t have to, but sometimes, if a person isn’t careful, he’ll do things out of character, things he would otherwise not do, things he later regrets, simply because the thought of money was so overpowering. Wind developers know this […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: destroy communities, destroy view, growing resistance, pioneer green energy, population density, property value

Pioneer Green Energy Faces Lawsuit From Property Owners in Alabama

August 2, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Why would anyone not want turbines in their town? They blend right in.

Pioneer Green Energy’s plans to begin building wind turbines in Alabama has run into some legal trouble. A group of 32 property owners near Shinbone Ridge in Alabama have filed suit against Pioneer Green Energy and Noccalula Wind LLC over the industrial wind project planned on Lookout Mountain. The property owners near Shinbone Ridge claim […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: pioneer green energy, public safety, setbacks

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

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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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