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Test Your Knowledge
Answer a few questions and see how much you know about wind turbines.
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Wind Farms can Change the Weather.........
Wind farms can change the weather, according to a model of how these forests of giant turbines interact with the local atmosphere. And the idea is backed up by observations from real wind farms.
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Cold Weather
Wind farms produced "practically no electricity" during the cold snap which manufacturers' groups say could lead to severe winter energy shortages.
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No Turbines Because ...
Most wind turbine projects operate at around 20% of peak. Two wind assessments have already determined there is NOT enough wind at this location. Does this sound like good economics to you?
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Hidden Costs
The Gartner Lee engineering firm, in conjunction with Toronto Hydro and The Ministry of Natural Resources, is considering the feasibility of putting an industrial wind farm 3 kilometres out in lake Ontario.
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Industrial Plague
Toronto, along with Cleveland, Ohio, and NY Power Authority, to name a few, is fighting to be "FIRST" to industrialize our Great Lakes with wind turbines.
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Myth of Green Jobs
The premise for green jobs is fairly easy to explain: they say that carbon emissions are causing global warming, and those have to abate. Enter technologies that produce less CO2, and the government provides incentives for cleaner air and new wind and solar facilities. Sounds great! N'est-ce pas?
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Complex Story
This story is so complex and yet so simple: grand business schemes involving billions of dollars, government collusion in un-tendered bids, oblique and incomprehensible commentary from officials re health, environment concerns, as well as the allure of "green dollars", "green jobs", and saving the planet.
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Damstadt Declaration
More and more people are subjected to living unbearably close to machines of oppressive dimensions. Young people are growing up into a world in which natural landscapes are breaking up into tragic remnants.
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Call for Moratorium
As neighbouring residents of the proposed wind farm site we take issue with the report and find it to be seriously deficient in analysing the health risks posed by the construction and operation of an industrial wind farm, in such close proximity to a residential community.
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ARB Ruling
In a precedent setting move, a recently discovered decision of the provincial Assessment Review Board (ARB) has cut a homeowner's assessment in half because the house is located near a noisy hydro substation. The hydro plant serves a nearby wind farm producing "clean" electricity. "The Star"
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Deep & Mysterious
Ontario does not have setbacks, no master plan to protect species and habitats, no plan for aquatic life management re turbines in the Lake, and we can only surmise why Toronto Hydro has begun its plan to industrialize the northern shore of the Lake without any precautions.
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Hidden Fuel Costs
Wind energy comes for free, but it does not follow that electricity generation using wind is also free.
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Audubon Payoff
Among others, a controversy affects a project to implant 130 wind turbines on a shoal in the Nantucket Sound opposite Cape Cod. The area is biologically important for sea creatures, and protected bird species are also at risk. The wind turbines will be erected along a major migration flyway, and may kill an estimated 6,600 birds a year. - Yet the local bird society MA Audubon supports the project.
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Fact Sheet
Those with the following pre-existing medical conditions could be affected: migraine syndrome and inner ear problems where the balance can be affected by moving blades, the shadow flicker, noise / vibration leading to dizziness / tinnitus (ringing in the ears).
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Turbulent Energy
Wind power is the fastest growing source of electricity in the world, and is expected by many to become the leading energy alternative to fossil fuels. As part of its efforts to meet Canada's Kyoto committment for the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the Federal governement is strongly promoting alternative and renewable energies, chiefly wind power.
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Wind's High Cost
Probably the most common wind energy question that I receive from analysts, reporters, and interested citizens deals with the cost of electricity from wind. The frequency of the question is understandable since estimates provided by the wind industry, federal and state agencies and contractors, and the media understate the true cost and ignore the fact that electricity from wind is very low in value.
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Bankrupt Europe
European wind developers are fleeing the EU's expiring wind subsidies, shuttering factories, laying off workers, and leaving billions of Euros of sovereign debt and a continent-wide financial crisis in their wake. But their game is not over. Already they are tapping a new vein of lucre from the taxpayers and ratepayers of the United States.
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Angry Anglers
On Earth Day 2009, New York Power Authority (NYPA) President Richie Kessel unveiled plans to industrialize Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with near shore wind turbines clustered in 120MW to 500MW arrays in waters 150 feet deep, or less.
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Fresh Blow
Hundreds of offshore wind farms are being checked for a construction fault after a flaw was discovered in one of the Europe-wide industry standards.
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