Bats Worth Billions to Agriculture
Natural pest-control services provided by insect-eating bats in the United States likely save the U.S. agricultural industry at least $3 billion a year, and yet insectivorous bats are among the most overlooked economically important, non-domesticated animals in North America.
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Winds of Change

The government has recommended strict guidelines for developers to relieve householders of the annoying strobe-like effect.
The flickering is caused by the periodic shadows that are cast by the wind turbine's rotor blades.

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Wind Turbine Syndrome prompts state lawmakers to propose 2-year "wind farm" moratorium (Idaho)

The [Idaho] House State Affairs Committee got an earful on the issue of wind turbines during a hearing Friday. House Bill 265 proposes a two-year moratorium for those projects not already approved. Rep. Erik Simpson, R-Idaho Falls, introduced the bill. Simpson believes that wind energy isn't a viable resource compared to others and costs more as well.

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Wind and Solar Subsidies Drying Up in Europe

Wind and solar energy subsidies are experiencing drastic cutbacks in many European nations and some places in the United States.

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Great review of WINDFALL

Faucets don't spit fire in "Windfall," making its local premiere Saturday at the Environmental Film Festival. But incendiary water may be the only side effect not associated with wind power in Laura Israel's absorbing, sobering documentary about the lures and perils of green technology.

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High Court date set for 'nuisance turbines' hearing

ALL eyes will be on Deeping St Nicholas this summer when a landmark case on noise created by wind turbines reaches the High Court.

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Wind farms blamed for stranding of whales

Offshore wind farms are one of the main reasons why whales strand themselves on beaches, according to scientists studying the problem.

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Climate Change Dispatch

Deep-pocketed environmentalist group is implicated in bank rolling a new initiative to silence climate skeptics using libel laws.

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How Green Is Your Lost Job?

The study concludes that the "policy to promote renewable energy in the U.K. has an opportunity cost of 10,000 direct jobs in 2009-10 and 1,200 jobs in Scotland." So British taxpayers, as is the case here in the U.S., are being forced to subsidize a net loss of jobs in a struggling economy.

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For Every Green Job, Four Others are Lost (UK)

A study of renewable energy in Scotland shows that for every job created in the alternative energy sector, almost four jobs are lost in the rest of the economy. We've seen this movie before.

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Lawrence Solomon: Smart is dumb

Power companies around the world are planning to spend trillions of dollars building smart grids - next-generation marvels likened to the transcontinental railroad and the Internet because they are seen as revolutionizing society. 

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Province Announces No Offshore Turbines "for now"

Sherri Lange, Founding Director of Toronto Wind Action and Executive Director, Canada, Great Lakes Wind Truth, today expressed her group's excitement about the turnaround decision by the Province to halt offshore turbine development. The potential dangers posed by wind turbines are finally being recognized and she praised the Province for listening and indicating that full scientific studies would be conducted first.

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Ontario quietly reverses

Times of international turmoil are great moments for domestic governments to make important announcements they don't want to be noticed. Especially if the announcement involves a sudden reversal in policy that could seriously embarrass the government.

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Ontario Reverses

Regime change in Egypt can come in handy when you're trying to hang on to power here in Ontario. So what better time than a Friday afternoon, with all eyes on the fall of dictatorship in Cairo, for Queen's Park to cut loose its own political deadweight - offshore wind turbines.

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Wind Group Warns of Job Losses Without Grants

The wind industry urged Congress on Tuesday to extend a cash grant program for production of renewable energy, claiming tens of thousands of jobs are at stake.

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Extensive costs for bird kills at Altamont Killing Fields

Notorious raptor-killing wind turbines that cover agricultural land at the Altamont Pass on the eastern edge of the Bay Area will be replaced over four years in an effort to reduce bird deaths by 50 percent, under a lawsuit settlement agreement announced by Attorney General Jerry Brown.

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German Offshore Wind Problems

Germany, specifically, is in the throes of a windpower boondoggle that should be heard the world over. The general lesson is thatenergy forcing brings with it technological risk that must be factored into the public policy equation.

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Wind Turbine Syndrome and the Brain

Increased alerting in the presence of wind turbine noise disturbs sleep, even when people do not recall being awakened. A population-level survey in Maine now shows clear disturbances of sleep and mental well-being out to 1400 m (4600 ft) from turbines, with diminishing effects out to 5 km (3 miles).

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First International Symposium News

In essence, the principle, which is recognized by the Supreme Court of Ontario, states if there are any doubts about whether something causes an adverse effect, don't do it.

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International Symposium Procedings

Our understanding of how wind turbines can affect human health is steadily increasing. Since the facts often contradict the Ontario government's and wind industry's claims, it may be useful to clarify the current state of knowledge.

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Australia's Dr. Lauriel: Turbines make us sick!

Former Rural GP, Dr Sarah Laurie condemned a report released by the Clean Energy Council last week as lacking integrity for not admitting  that some rural Australians are indeed becoming very ill, when they live or work adjacent to wind turbines.

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Whales have to scream to find a mate!

Noise from shipping, wind farms and oil exploration is forcing whales to raise their mating calls to make themselves heard.

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Hal Lewis' Resignation from American Physical Society

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d'etre of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

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Here is WHY WIND IS WRONG!

The soaring price of electricity is due to the green-energy activism of George Smitherman.

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When it comes to power in Ontario, we're in the dark

If you haven't opened your September hydro bill yet, you're in for a shock. Rates have risen 18 per cent this year to date, and that's just the start.

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Why PEI's wind plan is dying

PEI's tarnished vision underlines the delicate economics of renewable energy around the world, where subsidies and high energy prices are often the keys to getting projects off the ground.

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Wind's House of Cards: Energy Tribune

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently issued their 2009 Wind Energy Report. Brian Smith, chair of the IEA Wind Executive Committee, states that wind member countries "installed more than 20 gigawatts of new wind capacity" (nameplate capacity). The report was written by representatives of 20 member countries, consisting of 14 European nations, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and the United States.

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Position Statement regarding Offshore Wind Proposals on Lake Huron

We encourage the Governments of Canada and Ontario to ensure the people of Ontario, through necessary and sufficient studies, that any offshore wind projects proposed for Lake Huron in no way compromises these assets.

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Ontario's Power Trip

Among other things, the OSEA claims prime responsibility for the Ontario Green Energy Act, the 2009 legislation that introduced massive subsidies to green energy and triggered multibillion-dollar spending on wind and solar power and new transmission infrastructure.

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Now Wind Turbines are Killing Mammals

Baltic I windpark is 15 km from the Baltic shore where the dead whales washed up. 

Now some believe that a newly installed Baltic 1 offshore windpark consisting of 21 2.3-MW turbines may be responsible, according to reports.

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Denmark Loses its Lustre

Denmark has long been a role model for green activists, but now it has become one of the first countries to turn against the turbines.

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Bird Societies turn a blind eye: Letter from Mark Duchamp

I would just add a few considerations to your well-balanced article. Mr McGuinty acknowledged he had simply not thought about banning windfarms from ecologically sensitive areas. He added: "I'm glad you're not in the opposition." This reveals something equally odd: the opposition hadn't thought about it either.

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UK, Denmark steers away from wind farms

Two interesting, though not quite definitive, news reports came across my desk in the past couple of weeks, both of which signal a potentially dramatic shift away from developing new land-based wind farms in Europe.  The Energy Minister of the new UK coalition government as well as the CEO of the Danish government-owned energy company both made public statements suggesting that they will be looking away from further development of wind farms on land, in response to increasing public resistance.

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A line in the sand: wind power's ill effects

The lure of creating a thriving "green" economy has politicians around the world scrambling to push green policies through their legislatures. But a recent study from California says that the state will suffer job losses, higher-priced goods, lower business profits and reduced income if it goes ahead with its climate policies and other jurisdictions don't follow suit.

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WIND TURBINES ARE NOT GREEN

With regard to the proposed Camlachie-Cedar Point Wind Turbine Project.

Wind turbines are not green. How much energy is consumed to produce, install, operate, maintain and dispose of these behemoths? Their wide disbursement requires the installation of miles of distribution cables which will produce widespread corona values as well as other unnecessary hazards. Oh yea, what is it that causes the hole in the ozone layer? Corona?

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Forum Blows Hot

Opponents of a proposed wind farm off the Scarborough Bluffs have adopted the old Bob Dylan folk classic, with their own spin, as a rallying cry: 'the answer is not blowing in the wind.'
About 150 residents from the Guildwood area gathered Thursday evening to map out a strategy against the province's plan to install wind turbines about two kilometres south of the bluffs, in Lake Ontario.

Under the banner of Toronto Wind Action, the group held a forum called 'Finally the Truth About Turbines' at Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate.

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Fish shoals face death over noise

Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks.

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I've Been Changed

You often hear about people living near wind farms with concerns about wind turbines but here is a person who has wind turbines on his property and suffers.

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Wind Power Worries

South Point Wind's proposal for 715 turbines in western Lake Erie between Rondeau and Amherstburg and Lake St. Clair have resulted in heated community meetings. Hundreds more are being planned for the American side of the lake.

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Will the protected dormouse protect us from wind turbine factories?

It is strange, but a fact, that discovery of resident dormice will more likely prevent a wind 'farm' than opposition from local people ! So - look for the mighty doormouse !

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What do THESE numbers mean to you?  63? 915? (try deaths and accidents)

This article includes all documented cases of wind turbine related accidents which could be found and confirmed through press reports or official information releases up to 30 June 2010. CWIF believe that this compendium of accident information may be the most comprehensive available anywhere.

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Rose off the Bloom in Maine Wind

The Wind Energy Act of 2008, which gave developers a fast track for putting up wind turbines on some of the state's treasured high ground, was a piece of legislation passed at the time in the name of jobs, energy independence and climate change.

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Mounting Medical Evidence

"Do everything within your power to keep those turbines away from your home." Schmidt says while the ill heath affects came over time, she now finds herself in a position where she can't sleep, suffers migraines and nausea, and feels constant pressure in her ears.

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David and Goliath: Windfall movie review

I was accused (a) of elevating the views I enjoyed from the windows of my second home above the interests of the society in encouraging green energy, (b) of displaying the usual latecomer's indifference to the needs of the locals who had been living in Andes forever and (c) of not knowing what I was talking about when I described the construction (massively disruptive), effects (awful on land, animals and people), contribution to the grid (minimal) and financing (tax credits and accelerated depreciation rates) of the 400-foot-high towers with a 52-foot circumference base and blades 130 feet wide whooshing through the air at 178 m.p.h.

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Fifteen bad things with Windpower!

Trying to pin down the arguments of wind promoters is a bit like trying to grab a greased balloon. Just when you think you've got a handle on it, it squirts away. Let's take a quick highlight review of how things have evolved.

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Green policies tilting at windmills

A NATIONAL scandal has been developing, insidiously, amid ever-increasing support by politicians using our money for the wild goose of wind turbine and renewables-generated electricity, also supported by conservation/environmental groups.

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Wind farms cannot replace fossil fuel

I shall content myself with addressing one simple misconception and that is their weird belief that ADVERTISEMENT wind farms can replace fossil-fuel electricity-generating plants.

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City of Ajax calls for moratorium

That the Province be advised that Council of the Town of Ajax has not been provided with sufficient information to take a well-informed position regarding the proposed 5-km shoreline exclusion zone and future Provincial direction and actions regarding offshore wind facilities in the Great Lakes at this time.  

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Billions and billions wasted!

BRITISH consumers are coughing up L1billion a year to support renewable energy without realising it, a leading expert revealed yesterday.
And the Government-imposed charge will have raked in around L30billion within a decade.

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Motion Great Lakes Mayors

Human Health, Toxic Chemicals and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin

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Windfall: The Review

If the actions of the developers in the film are actually common practice amongst the industry then they must be held to account for this near criminal behaviour.

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The Enron of environmentalism

In this final excerpt from Ethical Oil, a new book debunking the myths and bogus claims of Alberta's oilsands critics, Sun Media columnist Ezra Levant takes a closer look at the price tag of the "green job" revolution.

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Ottawa businesses shocked by higher hydro bills

When Cabana complains to Hydro Ottawa, "their response is, 'Just think, sir, how much you'd be paying if you hadn't cut back'," he says, adding ruefully: "I'll probably have to start using candles, like they did back in the 1800s."

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65 Councils with Moral Courage

"the Provincial Government impose a moratorium on the approval of any wind farm applications until such time the government has undertaken studies to examine the health safety and economic impacts of wind farms, including a cumulative effects analysis, and amend the Ontario Regulation 359/09 to reflect the findings and recommendations of such studies;"

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Wind Power not Delivering

Windfarms are actually increasing carbon emissions. In a paper published on the website Master Resource, electrical engineer Kent Hawkins has shown that when wind power surpasses 5 per cent of power generated, the frequent ramping up and ramping down of the other base-load power sources (either fossil fuel or nuclear) to compensate for wind's unpredictable variability causes such inefficiency in power generation that overall carbon emissions rise.

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Wind Power Won't Cool Down the Planet

The wind industry has achieved remarkable growth largely due to the claim that it will provide major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. There's just one problem: It's not true. A slew of recent studies show that wind-generated electricity likely won't result in any reduction in carbon emissions-or that they'll be so small as to be almost meaningless.

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Insulting!

According to the family they raised concerns about shadow flicker, a strobing effect created when the sun is behind the blades of a turbine, and were told to install curtains.

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Gag Orders by Wind removed in Australia

Mr and Mrs Stepnell and their three children relocated to Ballarat last week due to claimed adverse health effects from living in close proximity to turbines. 

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