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Landowners with Wind Turbines Launch Lawsuit Against Wind Developers

February 3, 2014 by Paul Crowe

You know it’s really bad when even landowners who agreed to host wind turbines on their property begin suing wind developers. In this case, against Duke Energy and E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, twenty three Texas residents say wind developers: carelessly and negligently failed to adequately disclose the true nature and effects that the […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Disadvantages Tagged With: destroy view, health effects, property value, public safety

Wind Turbine Falls Over in Western PA

January 18, 2014 by Paul Crowe

A wind turbine fell over in western PA for no apparent reason.

A 1.5 megawatt wind turbine fell over the other night in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh. Why it fell over has not yet been determined. During the debate here in North East over proper setbacks and public safety, pointing out events like this never seemed to have any impact on the discussion because government […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbines Tagged With: public safety, unreliable

Too Close – Ask the People Who Live With Wind Turbines What They Think – UPDATED VIDEO

August 14, 2013 by Paul Crowe

What do people living with wind turbines really think?

While the North East Township supervisors and planning board want to move wind turbines ever closer to houses and property, taking their cue from the wind developer and those few residents who will benefit financially from turbine installations, they might want to pay attention to people who actually live near them right now. After the […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: health effects, public safety

Calculating Wind Turbine Setbacks With Science Instead of Politics

August 5, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind turbine blade failure happens

If there is one hot button issue in communities where wind turbines are being discussed, it’s setbacks, how far must wind turbines be kept from property lines, roads and occupied buildings. Wind developers want a very short distance so they can install the maximum number of turbines while residents and property owners want them kept […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: complex technical issues, public safety, setbacks, wind ordinance

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

Revised North East Wind Energy Ordinance is Great for Developers – Bad for Residents – UPDATED

July 7, 2013 by Paul Crowe

One section of a wind turbine tower

An ordinance protecting developers, but residents not so much The North East Township supervisors seem determined to use a wind energy ordinance designed for the benefit of wind developers and the few land owners who have leased their property to them. The revised draft ordinance was presented at the July 1st meeting, incorporating changes made […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Ordinance Tagged With: property value, public safety, setbacks, turbine height, wind ordinance

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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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