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| Wind Power Plants Plans are underway in western Massachusetts to construct 34-story wind turbines and associated roads on five mountains: the Hoosac Range, in the town of Florida; Crum Hill, straddling the towns of Florida and Monroe; Brodie Mountain, in the town of Hancock; Jiminy Peak, in Hancock; and West Hill in the town of Savoy. A wind power plant is also being considered on the border of MA and Berlin, NY. A proposal for wind turbines overlooking North Adams is dormant. A feasibility study is being conducted for a turbine at the Catamount Ski Area in South Egremont MA. Wind turbines produce very little energy but lots of tax breaks, grants, subsidies, and price supports for the developers, at tremendous expense to taxpayers and electricity ratepayers. They are enormously destructive to the environment, requiring construction of access roads wide enough to accommodate 135' tractor-trailers, and extensive clearing for the turbine sites. Generally, they are located on remote, wild ridgelines that support diverse communities of birds, bats, and plants. For more information, click on the links listed below. FAQs - Frequently asked questions...You may see wind turbines from...Wind power plant neighbors say...Hindsight by the chairperson of Lincoln, Kewaunee County, WI Articles, op-eds on wind power plant problems... Don't subsidize a ruined landscape Won't live under Berkshire turbines Wind power makes rich richer Searsburg windmills aren't silent, intelligent No gain, much loss from wind Many costs, few benefits of wind power Nature must come first in Lenox Wind: A cost-benefit analysis Wind power doesn't merit free ride Are energy answers blowing in the wind? Inherit the wind, Part IV: Politics and economics Inherit the wind, Part III: The lay of the land Why energy conservation
trumps windmills Wind turbines: dilemma for farmers, bane for neighbors This
hiker will not take joy from seeing wind turbines
Inherit the wind, Part II:
Inherit the wind, Part I: Earth and the heavens The
dark sides of wind power An
ill wind blows More
study needed on wind power Questioning
the faith of wind power Tilting
at windmills Halt
wind farms until uniform studies are done Wind
turbines threaten New England wilderness More on wind power plant problems...Facing up to the true costs and benefits of wind energy [pdf] "Wind
turbines don't make good neighbors" "Which skyline would you like to see for the next 35 years?" [pdf] Photos of wind power plant impacts...General Electric 1.5 MW turbines - access road construction, Cefn Croes, Wales More photos, road and turbine construction, Cefn Croes, Wales Constructing Kimball NE wind factory Mountaineer Wind Energy Center, Tucker County WV Montfort WI wind factory (GE 1.5 MW turbines) Dead raptors at Altamont Pass CA Wind
factory at Trucafort, Catalonia, Spain; turbine failures, bird kills Trains transporting wind turbine parts Websites about wind power plants elsewhere...Click here to go to the Links page
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