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Cape Wind: The Air Traffic Safety Issue of a Government-enabled Project

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- November 8, 2011

“While of course the wind farm may be one of those projects with such overwhelming policy benefits (and political support) as to trump all other considerations, even as they relate to safety, the record expresses no such proposition.”

– Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts v. Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals (DC Circuit), October 28, 2011.

Earlier this year, Industrial Wind Action Group (home) wrote how turbines sited within fifty miles of U.S. radar installations are now disrupting our navigation aids and impairing U.S. national security.

FAA and military radar experts in the field are well aware of the compromises to radar resolution caused by poorly sited turbines. But with the debate surrounding energy policy dominated by politics and money, they’ve bowed to the pressure.

Last week we learned of another project that poses safety risks.…

The Deceit of Turbine Noise Models (collateral damage from government energy forcing)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- October 19, 2011

“When will the environmentalist community writ large wake up to the unintended micro consequences of their increasingly futile macro policy of forced energy transformation?”

Herkimer County, New York, is the latest location to register wind turbine noise complaints. The source? Iberdrola’s Hardscrabble wind facility (37 turbines) that went online earlier this year.

Studies are underway to determine if the project is operating outside legal sound limits, but the larger question is “Why?” Why, with over 1,300 MW of wind installed in New York today and an extensive body of evidence showing turbine noise is causing deleterious impacts on people living near the towers, was Herkimer County fooled into thinking it would be spared?

The answer is simple: Herkimer County residents were lied to.

Yes, we could use softer words to explain the situation.…

Wind Energy and Radar: A National Security Issue

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- September 26, 2011

Military leaders are under pressure to not disrupt White House green energy policies even while green energy technology is disrupting our navigation aids and impairing U.S. national security.

Washington has a track record of muzzling military testimony to protect its pet policies and political friends. Last week, Air Force Gen. William Shelton admitted he was pressured by the administration to change his testimony regarding LightSquared’s network and its adverse impact on military space-based navigation systems. We applaud Shelton for not bowing to the pressure.

But the military has not been honest about the effect wind turbine technology has on our national radar systems.

The fact is that our air space has been made less safe by turbines and our national security compromised because of a reckless policy of siting wind towers within 50-miles of radar installations. …

Ending Windpower Subsidies for Deficit Reduction (failed promises have consequences)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- July 21, 2011

New England's Renewable Energy Mandate: Reality Anyone?

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- June 24, 2011

Overestimating Wind Power Generation: From the UK to New York State

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- June 6, 2011

Wind Spin: Responding to the American Wind Energy Association

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- April 11, 2011

'Windfall' Goes to Washington (Industrial wind turbines without Photoshop)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- April 4, 2011

Cape Wind: Spreading the Pain

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- December 13, 2010

Government Gluttony at the American Wind Energy Association (Summers/Browner/ Klain memo indicates growing ‘wind fatigue’)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#llinowes">Lisa Linowes</a> -- November 15, 2010