Huckleberry Blue Benefit Show — February 18th
COME JOIN THE FUN AND SUPPORT THE FIGHT AGAINST AGAINST WIND TURBINES IN WHITLEY COUNTY !! Saturday, February 18th @ the Eagles in Columbia City. Band starts @ 9:30 pm – SILENT AUCTION – awesome “stuff”!
Infrasound and Adverse Health Effects
From WindWiseRadio:
Join us for the first edition of Wind Wise Radio when we will be delighted to welcome Stephen Ambrose and Robert Rand, professional acousticians, members of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, and the authors of “The McPherson Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise Study” which investigated the possible relationship between infrasound and adverse health effects experienced by people living near industrial wind turbines (IWT) in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
We will be discussing Stephen and Robert’s findings, their personal experience in the vicinity of IWT, their work on other projects, and their thoughts on the the recently released “Wind Turbine Health Impact Study”. We will also be asking them about their ideas for further studies to advance our knowledge.
Stephen and Robert will be happy to take questions and listen to your comments so please join us for this important event.
Tax dollars backing some “risky” energy projects
from CBS News:
The government is giving your tax dollars to companies that have a 70% chance of failure ~ listen for yourself ~
(CBS News)
WASHINGTON – Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy Department loan in 2009 – and went bankrupt last year. The government’s risky investment strategy didn’t stop there, as a CBS News investigation has uncovered a pattern of cases of the government pouring your tax dollars into clean energy.
Take Beacon Power — a green energy storage company. We were surprised to learn exactly what the Energy Department knew before committing $43 million of your tax dollars.
Read the rest at CBS News.
Wind Turbines Interfering with WANE-TV Doppler Radar
If you are skeptical about other articles and information regarding turbine interference with Doppler weather radar, take a look at this image:
Many times I have tuned my television to 15.3 to check on the local conditions…and most of the time, there is a stationary blob near Van Wert. This blob just happens to reside in the same location as the industrial wind turbine installations in Van Wert and Paulding counties. It either rains there A LOT, or the turbines are messing up the radar.
Do we really want to handicap the technology that warns us about the many severe storms that our area experiences? Is that a tornado, or is it a wind turbine?
No Safe Place
From NA-PAW:
Dr Robert McMurtry, Order of Canada, records his concerns about Industrial Find out about the effect of Wind Turbines on human health and community well-being, in this powerful video called “No Safe Place.” Dr McMurtry has devoted thousands of hours to learn about Victims of Wind across Ontario, and to share that knowledge with you. What is a safe “setback”? McMurtry says, “We don’t know.” Why is Ontario rushing to place even more turbines across the landscape when it is clear that people are becoming ill and even being forced from their homes? Internationally, thousands are reporting the effects, tinnitus, sleep disorders, stress, depression, vertigo, migraines, to name a few.
Visit to DeKalb, Illinois Wind Farm
1400' setback from residence
Take a really good look at this picture of the house and the wind turbine. (click on the picture to enlarge it) Eight members of Whitley County Concerned Citizens visited the folks who live in this house, next to this turbine. I was one of those visitors.
We walked around that yard, and stood in front of that porch, and looked out the windows of that house from the inside. It’s a beautiful house, inside and out. And the natural setting is amazing. But, you just can’t begin to imagine being surrounded by 146 turbines – spinning motion every direction that you look when you’re outside, and reflected in every shiny surface inside.
Spinning motion outside the kitchen window where you stand to do dishes, outside the windows of your front door, through the windows of your sun porch, as a backdrop watching your kids play on the swing set, outside the dining room windows, reflected in the TV screen, reflected in the glass of the pictures on the walls, reflected in the glass doors of the kitchen cabinets.
And they are so HUGELY out of proportion to everything else. The 2 closest ones to their home are 1400′ away – and they look like you could just reach out and touch them – they’re enormous. Dave pointed out a line of turbines that were 6 miles away, and some that were 8 miles away. They looked like they were just at the end of the field. (Note: the wind ordinance that the Plan Commission proposed for Whitley County last October called for a 1200′ setback).
Dave & Stephanie Hulthen are a very nice young couple in their mid 30′s, living in their dream home. They have 4 young children, and they live directly across the mile from the farm where Dave grew up, and Dave’s parents still live. Dave makes beautiful custom cabinets and furniture in his shop at home.
Their focus is “people need to know the truth about what it’s really like to live with turbines, and the wind companies don’t tell the truth”. Dave has a degree in physics, so he really understands a lot about how the whole system works. They are all about proper setbacks. Ironically, when Dave wanted to build his cabinet shop (very nice metal building), their county code said the shop had to be ‘set back’ from the road at least as far as front of his house “in order to be aesthetically pleasing”. No joke!!
Dave drove us around through the wind farm, telling us the stories of various families who live there. Then, he drove to the edge of the wind farm, so that there were no turbines in view in front of us. He called our attention to the fact that we were looking at “normal” surroundings – farms and houses. Then he said “now I’m going to turn the vehicle around” and suddenly you’re assaulted with this view of huge, spinning sticks towering over farmland and houses. The feeling is gut-wrenching. Before I went, I honestly thought that looking at them wouldn’t be all that bad. I was more concerned about other issues. But, I have to admit that looking at them, and being surrounded by them affected me more than I thought it would. I can’t imagine our beautiful countryside looking like an industrial waste land; and not just for a short time…….but for the next 30 – 40 years.
There was also a constant drone of noise – and the generators weren’t even operating – they weren’t producing electricity that day. Also, there was the “whoosh, whoosh” of the blades. The shadow flicker varies from house to house depending on the distance and directional relationship between the house, the turbines, and the sun. For Dave & Stephanie, the shadow flicker is like a disco strobe light at sunrise, lasting 45 minutes, from May through September. (There is a video of the shadow flicker posted on their website.)
They said some days are so bad, so noisy, and some nights so sleepless, they look at each other and say “put the FOR SALE sign in the yard”. And then they remember, ‘oh, yeah – nobody will buy our house, we’re in the middle of 146 turbines’.
Their dream has been shattered by turbines.
If you’ve not made the trip to a wind farm, and talked to those who live among the turbines – please do. The key is talking to people, seeing from their perspective, hearing directly from them how daily life has been affected by the turbines. You won’t get the complete picture just by driving down the road and looking at them.
And, please write to your County Commissioners, and David Sewell, Executive Director, Planning & Building. Let them now of your concerns. You can find their addresses here. County Officials have told us they need to hear from people in all areas of the county, not just in Washington, Jefferson and Cleveland. Please share this information with anyone you know in Whitley County. This is a county wide ordinance that is being considered – and the next phase of the wind farm may just target your part of the county. The time to let your voice be heard is now.
Joan Null
Whitley County Concerned Citizens
Setting the Record Straight
Yes, Mr. Doster – Let’s set the record straight. “There is a lot of misinformation about wind farms on the internet.” Indeed. And much of it seems to be coming from the heavily taxpayer-subsidized wind development industry including…
Read the rest by clicking this link:
Setting the record straight — Nick Stanger 2-11
Wind Farms — True or False?
See our newspaper ad titled “true or False?” by clicking this link:
Wind Farms Inherently Inefficient
Published: February 24, 2011 3:00 a.m.
Letters to the editor – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
I thoroughly concur with the theme of the letter (“Let science be guide for Whitley wind-farm law,” Jan. 26) by wind lobbyist John Doster. In fact, science and transparency should always be the guide when deciding whether any novel energy source with a huge environmental footprint deserves hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies from taxpayers and ratepayers. Of necessity, a rational analysis has to consider whether the energy source can reliably produce large quantities of dispatchable power from a relatively compact generator. Industrial wind fails spectacularly.
The inherently intermittent and variable nature of wind energy means it seldom produces more than 25 percent of its nameplate capacity in any given year. Moreover, without viable technologies for grid-scale electrical energy storage (realistically, decades away), wind can never serve as a true source of power available on a human-defined schedule.
The wind industry scrupulously avoids discussion of the real science, thereby enabling the perception by a gullible public – and politicians eager to throw money at anything marketed as “green” – that industrial wind actually is doing something useful, when in fact, it is purely symbolic. Meanwhile, important questions such as those raised by Whitley County residents about quality-of-life effects on communities, and so patronizingly dismissed by the wind industry, ultimately become a distraction from the real problem with industrial wind – basic math and science.
TONY FLEMING
Albion
Infrasound and Adverse Health Effects link #noise #setbacks- New page: Gallery link
- Tax dollars backing some "risky" energy projects link #bankruptcy #stimulus #subsidies