The history
of wind power development has been the history of engineering taller and taller turbines with bigger and bigger blades.
This seems to be a law enacted by a government that wants to
stop wind power development and support the existing fossil - fuel power industry.
There are valid concerns
about wind power developments, but many of the objections are either unrelated to valid concerns or are out of all proportion to the valid concerns.
It's going to lead to massive layoffs, and, clearly, it's going to mean a major drop in
wind power development in the states.
As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale
wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following -LSB-...]
As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility -
scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following comments on the proposed amendments to Regulation 359/09 as per the Regulation Proposal Notice, dated August 4, 2015.
The opening of the London Array, the world's largest offshore wind power plant, with 174 Siemens wind turbines installed in the Thames estuary, Siemens is well - positioned to continue to lead the way in
offshore wind power development in the UK and EU.
Offshore wind power development in Europe began in 1991 when the first offshore farm was installed off the coast of Denmark, although the industry had little growth from that point until the 2000s.
I have discussed people's motivations in supporting or
opposing wind power developments elsewhere on this page, and their attitude to wind turbines in relation to unsubstantiated claims of ill - health due to wind turbines on another page.
The people of Ontario see the environmental damage being done and the effects on people's health from high -
impact wind power development — this process has to change.»
Intertribal COUP (Council On Utility Policy), a coalition that
promotes wind power development on U.S. tribal lands, is therefore aptly named, according to the group's president Patrick Spears, a Lower Brule Sioux.
This is particularly a problem for
wind power developments at present, but it will also limit and slow the development of solar and geothermal energy too, as these options become more economically viable with more research and development.
Home Range and Resource Selection by GPS - Monitored Adult Golden Eagles in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion: Implications for
Wind Power Development Watson, James; Duff, Andrew; and Davies, Robert
The transmission boom was set in motion by the Texas legislature in 2008, which designated five zones called CREZ (Competitive Renewable Energy Zones) for
new wind power development.
HMANA urges that international, national and state and provincial standards for pre - and post-construction monitoring be promulgated and enforced that will make possible the scientifically valid assessment of risk associated with
industrial wind power development.
Christeen Milne, Greens MLC in Tasmania, has suggested that
wind power development regions (WPDR) should be identified and transmission lines built to these in anticipation of wind farm development.
Sue Sliwinski of Sardinia, New York, who is also a director of National Wind Watch, has written: «
Commercial wind power development is an environmental and economic folly, but the true danger lies in the fact that it will divert our attention and resources away from finding effective solutions to our very real and urgent problems.»
Government must rethink the scale and pace of
wind power development before the costs of managing it become intolerable and the scale of the waste scandalous.»
Many experts attribute this large number of fatalities to unique aspects
of wind power development in northern California, such as the unusually large number of turbines (over 5,000), the type of turbines in the region, and the presence of abundant raptor prey in the area.
Yet, even as advocates and clean energy business leaders in Virginia position our state to capture the benefits of
offshore wind power development, influential decision - makers in Congress and in the Virginia state legislature are still pushing to bring us the risks of offshore drilling.
Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of community groups, individuals and families concerned about the impact of industrial -
scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, the natural environment, and human health.
Significantly, no new wind farms had been proposed by July 2012, showing that the Liberal government had effectively
stopped wind power development in Victoria.
While much of the opposition came from people who were genuinely (although usually needlessly) concerned
about wind power developments, a great deal also came from people and organisations with financial links to the fossil fuel industry.
The U.S. Department of Energy also shows that
increased wind power development in the U.S. could result in a net savings of $ 149 billion by 2050 as average fossil fuel prices go up and aging plants and other infrastructure have to be replaced.
Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of community groups, individuals and families concerned about the impact of industrial - scale
wind power development on the economy, on the natural environment, and on human health in Ontario.
Like the landowners signing leases for turbines, money is frequently the reason municipal politicians
support wind power development and locating projects locally.
As part of a major project on improving environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea through regional coordination and capacity - building, SEI Tallinn researchers examined possible trade - offs between marine protection — widely seen as a priority — and offshore
wind power development in Estonia.
Often referred to as the «Saudi Arabia of wind,» North Dakota has a big stake in the nation's
wind power development.
A seven - year study from a Kansas State University research team has found that
wind power development has little effect on greater prairie chickens.
«The feed - in tariff is still important as a driver,» Lewis said, «but there are other government policies and incentives that are continuing to drive the rapid pace» of
wind power development in China.