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Relevance | DateIndustrial Wind Turbines: Report from Ground Zero
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 24, 2022 No Comments“Is there anyone, literally ANYONE, who lives near one of these turbines who has publicly shared that their living experience near a wind turbine is “great”? Or even NOT significantly, negatively impacted?”
Hundreds of wind and solar projects in the U.S. have been delayed or blocked by effective grassroots opposition, according to Robert Bryce. Real environmentalists, the keepers of rural life, have every reason to complain against the government-enabled intrusion into their quiet lives: noise, flicker light, land degradation, lowered property values.
MasterResource has previously reported on the growing anti-wind zoning ordinance movement against industrial wind; the “avian mortality’ problem; and the on-the-ground work by such environmentalists as Kevon Martis; and the negative health effects. Solar projects are also attracting serious local opposition.
Add Larissa Plagge of Environmentalists Against Wind Turbines to the list of determined opponents of industrial wind.…
Continue ReadingSolar Power Noise and Dust: For the Record
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 8, 2022 1 Comment“While quiet transformers and inverters exist [to reduce pure-tone transformer noise], due to premium cost, it is generally not a specification point the solar facility designers are willing to consider…. There is a real need for acoustic evaluation and noise control with respect to nighttime operations of solar energy components.”
“Clark County regulators have substantiated 37 of the 49 complaints they have received about the project from the public. ‘Can’t breathe from all the dust coming off the solar field!!!!!!,’ one person wrote to the county on Sept. 15. ‘Someone need to take care of this it happens way to often.’”
Anti-fossil-fuel environmentalists, when pressed, will state that all energy choices have environmental drawbacks and tradeoffs. But they do not take this seriously when it comes to wind and solar power, which have infrastructure requirements (including land and power lines) that are a multiple of other choices on a per kWh basis.…
Continue ReadingLies My Wind Developer Told Me
By Kevon Martis -- February 25, 2022 10 CommentsEd Note: This post is based on a February 5, 2022, speech by Kevon Martis at Montcalm County Citizens United’s “Big Wind Go Home” rally in Trufant, Michigan.
“Lesson learned: Wind developers are not a reliable source of information when devising a wind ordinance. They will say whatever it takes to get their projects approved, even if they contradict themselves the next town over.”
The wind zoning regulations demanded by Apex Clean Energy company (APEX) in Montcalm County are demonstrably irresponsible and should be resisted.
APEX will no doubt make great hay out of my speaking at a rally called Big Wind Go Home and, in fact, APEX land agent Dan Paris already is. But I am here to tell you that it is your fundamental right to tell government-created, unnecessary, invasive Big Wind: You are not welcome here on the terms you propose.…
Continue Reading“As Anti-Wind Zoning Ordinances Spread Across Michigan” (grass-root environmentalists vs. energy sprawl)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 10, 2022 5 Comments“The [Michigan] ordinances cite the potential negative consequences of wind turbines such as falling ice thrown by the blades of turbines, the flickering of shadows from the blades on nearby structures (shadow flicker), sleep disturbance caused by noise, and long-term health consequences of sound, also known as ‘infrasound’.”
When it comes to government-enabled, anti-consumer energy sprawl, local citizens have a say over unneeded, duplicative, invasive industrial wind projects. This is very bad news for the rickety supply-side strategy led by industrial wind. Real grassroot environmentalists are at war with Washington, D.C. Big Environmentalism, as well as the business rent-seekers making Bad Profit (as versus Good Profit).
The Progressive Left includes the pro-wind “investigative Watchdog Blog” Checks & Balances Project. Their “As Anti-Wind Zoning Ordinances Spread Across Michigan, Ordinances’ Language Varies Little” (November 10, 2021) recently reported on the growing movement against wind-turbine siting in a factual, lawyers-need-to-know basis.…
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