WIND EXPERT SAYS LOWELL RESIDENTS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO VOTE ON KINGDOM COMMUNITY WIND PROJECT AT TOWN MEETING LOWELL RESIDENTS TO VOTE ON KINGDOM COMMUNITY WIND PROJECT AT TOWN MEETING Lowell, VT – At a community meeting last week attended by over 100 local residents, a leading expert on impacts to communities from [...]
February 21, 2010 Sanders: ‘It’s time for a solar revolution’ By Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. This country spends, in a typical year, $350 billion importing oil from Saudi Arabia and other foreign countries. Although this is no doubt good news for the Saudi royal family, one of the richest in the world, it is bad [...]
This article appeared in the February 17th edition of the Yale Daily News regarding the proposed wind project on Yale Endowment property in Ira. http://www.yaledailynews.com/magazine/magazine-cover/2010/02/17/hills-are-alive-and-profitable/
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/filter_detail.asp?itemid=2526 Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects Webinar Date: 1/20/2010 Location: CO The issue of possible health effects from the sound from wind turbines has received much controversy of late. A recent peer review of the medical literature on the subject has recently been completed. Dr. McCunney provided a Webinar on the peer-review findings and [...]
Howard Zinn, Barack Obama, ML King, and Wind Turbine Syndrome: Their Common Ground Posted January 30th, 2010 in Diaries & Reports. —Calvin Luther Martin, PhD, Associate Professor of History (retired), Rutgers University January 30, 2010 Howard Zinn (1922-2010) died this week. A tremendous loss to democracy. (Watch this interview with Bill Moyers.) As a scholar [...]
Rutland Herald Editorial Wind alternatives Published: January 28, 2010 The new group formed to fight siting of wind turbines on ridgelines came into being because of the proposal to place a wind farm on the mountains of Ira and nearby towns. The Vermont Community Wind Farm has scaled back its proposal, eliminating wind towers in [...]
Vt. group forms to fight big wind projects WCAX Montpelier, Vermont – January 26, 2010 “It looks to me like the classic case of big business pushing their way into our community,” said Mike Klopchin of Clarendon. It was opposition from residents like Mike Klopchin that helped shut down a proposed wind project on Susie’s [...]
Area group forms to stop ‘big wind’ on ridgelines By Gordon Dritschilo STAFF WRITER – Published: January 27, 2010 A new group calling itself “Energize Vermont” has pledged to get communities more involved in utility permitting and to fight to keep wind turbines off Vermont’s ridgelines. “What brought this on was a concern by a [...]
