September 2008
9 posts
Wind Turbines and Autism
The following is a repost of a comment left under the “About Us” page of this website. It is posted here in hopes that more viewers will find it:
There is one place on Earth my Autistic Children are Peaceful…. Roxbury Pond… AKA Papa’s Pond. Maybe, you are unaware of the obsession Autistic kids have with objects that spin. Maybe, you are unaware of the amount of...
"The energy crisis that this state faces is far...
In a letter to the Sun Journal (7/20), Rob Gardiner uses “the energy crisis” as the reason for Independence Wind LLC’s foray into placing wind turbines on the mountain tops of western Maine. “Energy crisis” certainly sounds like a call to action, but what energy crisis is he talking about, and what does it have to do with wind turbines? There is no shortage of...
Wind Farms = "Development Sprawl"
The first goal of Maine’s laws governing land use planning is the prevention of “development sprawl”. Sprawl is defined by Webster’s as “spread without restraint”. Wind farms, “spread without restraint” wherever meteorological towers indicate suitable breezes, generally speaking on top of rural, forested mountains, are a perfect example of the...
Windfarms: One of the great deceptions of our time...
The total power generated by all the 2,300 turbines so far built in Britain, is less than that contributed by a single medium-size conventional power station. …Far from being “free”, wind is one of the most expensive ways of generating electricity yet devised. Without an almost 100 per cent subsidy, unwittingly paid by all of us through our electricity bills, no one would dream...
Wind farms fail to deliver value for money, report...
Wind farms are failing to deliver value for money and distorting the development of other renewable energy sources, a report claims.
September 13, 2008 by Patrick Sawyer in Telegraph.co.uk
Excessive subsidies make them an expensive and inefficient way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a study by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) think-tank says.
The report comes amid mounting disquiet...
Maine's "Greatest Lakes"
Michael Perry, founder of Dreams Unlimited and former director of LL Bean Outdoor Discovery Schools, discovered Roxbury Pond while exploring the lakes and streams of Western Maine in a canoe in 2006. He wrote of his experience paddling the perimeter of the pond and exploring the logan and the inlet in an article that my dad clipped.
“Roxbury Pond offers one of the best mountain scenery...
Be Careful What You Wish For
Industrial wind developers, in an effort to convince voters to change their zoning ordinances to allow wind turbines, have promised huge reductions in property taxes. This is exactly what King and Gardiner from Independence Wind are promising Roxbury.
Here’s how that might play out. Towns not having wind turbine projects would claim discrimination under the state constitution and demand the...
ABS Energy Research - Wind Industry Report
ABS Energy Research provides strategic analysis to energy related industries. Following is the abstract of their Wind Industry Report 2006 which candidly calls into question the assertions being made by the wind industry, and advises the industry to recognize the growing body of scientific research and stop making false claims about wind power. Independence Wind LLC has been pushing their Record...