Thursday, May 16, 2013

Wind Performing Badly

Wind Performing Badly — MasterResource:
Since 2008, thousands of turbines have been sited in communities across the U.S. As more towers were erected, public acceptance of the massive facilities started to drop.
Earlier this year, both New Hampshire and Vermont sought statewide moratoria on wind farm development until the impacts could be better understood. Law suits are now pending against proposed and operating wind facilities in at least six state courts as well as at the federal level. [2] Ohio , North Carolina and others are revisiting their renewables mandates after wind has failed to deliver lower energy prices and jobs.
And this week, the reality of big wind splashed across media screens worldwide when AP reported that in Wyoming “a soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm’s spinning turbine [about once a month] and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.”
The public is increasingly wary of the wind industry’s tactics 
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