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100-ton wind turbine blades fall to pieces in Vietnam 3/3/2024 VNExpress International
Blades of a wind turbine totaling 100 tons fell off 140 meters and broke into pieces in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on Friday.

Wind Turbines Produce Drama, Cash, and Some Electricity: Big Trouble at Biglow Canyon 2/27/2024 Capital Research (4 Part article)
At 2:11 a.m. on February 1, 2022, according to a report in The Oregonian, a wind turbine at the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm in Oregon hurled one of its giant blades the “full length of a football field” away from its tower. Described as heavier than “four Toyota Camrys” and “as tall as an 11-story building,” the detached blade sliced a four-foot-deep crater in a nearby farm field. In an eerie newspaper photo, the crash site looked like the wreckage of an alien spacecraft.

Wind turbines on sacred Osage land must be removed, according to court ruling 1/18/2024 NPR
A federal judge is ordering three companies to remove more than 80 wind turbines from an Oklahoma prairie. The companies say removing the turbines could cost them around $300 million.

That is almost $3.5 million per turbine.

Disappearing wind turbines almost leaves Alberta, Canada in the dark 1/18/2024 American Experiment.
Some things look great on paper until they are tested with the cold, hard reality

In January of 2024, Alberta’ wind turbines faced one of their most serious tests to date: a Polar Vortex pushed arctic air down through Canada and into the United States. Temperatures plummeted, sending Alberta’s grid demand sky high.

Wind Turbine Breaks and Scatters Small Debris Across Farmland 5/27/2023 Epoch Times
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For Kansas state Rep. Carrie Barth, the broken turbine in Marshall County and its fiberglass debris scattered across farmland has confirmed one of the many loopholes industrial wind companies have to distance themselves from responsibilities to the residents who live in their shadow.

The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed 5/10/2023 The Telegraph via MSN.COM
These plans have a single, fatal flaw: they are reliant on the pipe-dream that there is some affordable way to store surplus electricity at scale.

Dawson County Planning Commission Sends Wind Energy Zoning & Regulation Amendments to Board of Commissioners 4/23/2023 KRVN radio
Setbacks: a 3 miles setback from property lines of non-participating land; 3 times the tip height from a dwelling unit within participating land; 3 times the tip height from road rights-of-way; and a 3 mile setback from public conservation lands including Wildlife Management Areas and State Recreational Areas; the maximum tip height of any wind energy conservation systems (WECS) shall be 600 feet from original grade.

Decommissioning: WECS shall be removed to 6 feet below original grade, a cash escrow account deposited in a Dawson County fund up to 120% of the cost estimate of decommission and be made by an independent competent party.

Page County Board agrees on setback, height requirement 4/20/2023 KMALand
One mile setback from property line!

The status quo should always take precedent. The way it is. That’s why the mile setback is there. The status quo is there are no turbines, so it should be more difficult. One person shouldn’t be allowed to come in and change everything on everyone.

The Death of a Wind Farm Why the United States is No Country for Old Wind 4/4/2023 Gridbrief.com
However, many of the turbines built to comply with the 25 percent mandate are already being refurbished or “repowered,” long before the end of their supposed 25-year useful lives. In fact, one of these wind facilities, the Nobles wind farm, has already been repowered after just 12 years in service.

Southwest Iowa residents oppose wind turbines to be built on their land 3/29/2023 KCCI
Landowners in Union County and neighboring Adams County are petitioning their county supervisors for restrictions on building wind turbines.

A sustainable energy developer recently contacted landowners requesting access to their properties to build new turbines. But many property owners want to press pause.

Buffalo County sets new distancing requirements for possible wind farms 3/22/2023 News Channel Nebraska
The rules say a wind farm can’t be located or expanded within three miles of agriculture residential zoned property, three miles from any parcel owned by a non-applicant, three miles of a church, hospital, pool or park, five miles of any village or city, two miles of a burial site, the Platte River and South Loup River areas or five miles from a wildlife preservation or management area.

County Board votes no on wind farm (Platt County Il.) 3/17/2023 Journal-Republican
The Piatt County Board has declined a special use permit for a 300 MW wind farm that was proposed to be located in Goose Creek, Sangamon and Blue Ridge townships in northern Piatt County.

The majority of the BOS listened to their supporters. Two were just defeatist and failed to defend their constituents from the mob bullying of their state government.

Wind Farm Ordered to Stop Emitting Night-time Noise 3/24/2022 Australian Broadcasting
A Victorian court has ordered a wind farm in the state’s south east to stop emitting noise at night in a momentous court decision. Noise from the Bald Hills Wind Farm at Tarwin Lower created a nuisance to its neighbours ordering damages and an injunction.

Supervisors extend abeyance on new industrial wind power projects 3/7/2023 KSIB
Union County) In a special evening meeting, the Union County Board of Supervisors extended an abeyance on new industrial wind power projects until December 10.

Another Self-Decommissioning Wind Turbine; DeKalb Co. IL 2/20/2023 Illinois Leaks
Local wind turbine located near Shabbona Rd and McGirr Rd appears to have began self-decommissioning this month.

Paxton Wind Turbine Toppled Over 2/20/2023 Illinois Leaks
Around 24 hours after we reported on the “self-decommissioning” wind turbine in Ford County, it was turning on in what we believe was an effort to have it fall over on its own to avoid dismantling costs.

Wind Turbine Collapse Illinois 2/17/2023 WAND TV.
The cause of a wind turbine collapse Thursday night at Pioneer Trail Wind Farm near Paxton remains under investigation, according to the wind farm owner RWE Renewables. RWE spokesman Matt Tulis said employees noticed a single turbine leaning in an abnormal direction when they arrived on site Wednesday.

Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over 1/23/2023 Businessweek
Breakdowns of towers and blades have bedeviled manufacturers in the US and Europe.
The turbine, made by General Electric Co., had been in operation less than a year. “It fell pretty much right on top of itself,” Willey says.

Green groups, tech companies fight $4B Iowa wind project 1/22/2023 Governors’ Wind & Solar Energy Coalition.
The largest-ever wind energy proposal in Iowa is getting blowback from some of the biggest champions of renewable energy — environmental groups and technology companies hungry for carbon-free power to run their data centers.

nearly $4 billion that MidAmerican Energy Co. plans to invest almost exclusively in wind power could be better spent

Idaho farmer Dean Dimond torches potential Biden windmill project: ‘It’ll destroy the desert’ 1/5/2023 FoxNews.com
Idaho farmer Dean Dimond joins ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ to fire back at feds seeking wind turbines in prime livestock region. Lava Ridge project would build hundreds of turbines across thousands of acres of government land. Change the entire valley for the negative.

WINDFALL? It turns out that wind turbines may be deeply flawed 12/2022 Newsmax
Turbine falls are reportedly on the rise in Europe and North America, reports NEWSMAX’s Jon Glasgow on “American Agenda.”

Wind Turbines’ 50% Shorter Life 12/08/2022 Grid Brief
The ad copy says 25 years. But new research has chopped wind’s life expectancy in half to 12 years. A study of almost 3,000 turbines in Britain – the largest of its kind – sheds doubt on manufacturers claims that they generate clean energy for up to 25 years.

Air Force Required Setback from ICBM Silos. 20th Air Force
Due to their strategic significance and military importance to the joint force, these assets require special protection. Helicopter operations form an integral part of day-to-day security operations and security incident response within the ICBM missile complexes. Ensure wind turbines are not constructed within two nautical miles (2.3 standard miles) of a deployed global strike asset.

How an airborne blade exposed broader problems at PGE’s flagship wind farm 8/27/2022 The Oregonian
The skinny blade, as tall as an 11-story building and weighing more than four Toyota Camrys, soared the full length of a football field. It plowed a furrow 4-feet deep in the wheat stubble where it eventually landed.

Tama County farmer sues to stop new wind turbine projects. 7/11/2022 Newsbreak
A member of an east-central Iowa group that wants to restrict where wind turbines can be erected has sued the Tama County Board of Supervisors, alleging it violated the state’s open meetings law. The group wants a judge to temporarily halt new turbine projects, according to court records.

The Power Hungry Podcast: Julie Kuntz 6/7/2022 YouTube – Robert Bryce
Julie Kuntz is a “fifth-generation Iowa farm girl” who has become one of the most vocal opponents of wind-energy development in her home state. In this episode, Kuntz, a member of Concerned Residents of Worth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa, who lives in Grafton, talks about the lawsuit that Chicago-based Invenergy filed against Worth County, the company’s “nefarious tactics,” the media’s “horrid” coverage of the land-use conflicts around renewables, and why “an informed citizen is the wind industry’s worst nightmare.” (Recorded with June 3, 2022).

We Are Massacring Birds to Slow Climate Change. It’s Got to Stop | Opinion 4/14/2022 Newsweek
Killing our most iconic birds in the hope that wind turbines will slow climate change is nonsense on stilts. The prosecution of NextEra should mark a turning point in American energy policy. It’s time to end our infatuation with landscape- and wildlife-destroying wind turbines. It’s time to stop subsidizing the slaughter of our wildlife.

Introducing Community Solar+: the Next Generation of Community Solar 4/14/2022 Clean Technica
This is about the smart use of solar to not only produce energy but to solve other needs and work more closely with the surrounding environment.

A wind energy company has pleaded guilty after killing at least 150 eagles 4/6/2022 NPR
A wind energy company was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Wind farms holding out nearly $800K from Davis schools 1/18/2022 KTEN (Oklahoma TV)
“They feel like their value that we have for their wind farm is higher than what they feel like it should be valued,” said Murray County Assessor Scott Kirby.

The money in question is frozen in an account, so Davis schools and hundreds of other campuses around the state are feeling the effects.

Backlash Against Renewables Surged In 2021, With 31 Big Wind And 13 Big Solar Projects Vetoed Across US 1/27/2022 Forbes
One of those Facebook groups is the Concerned Residents of Worth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa. A member of that group is the indomitable Julie Kuntz, who I met last summer in Albert Lea, Minnesota. Kuntz is a clinical pharmacist who farms in Worth County, Iowa.

The author also maintains the Renewable Rejection Database

Industrial Wind Turbines: Negative Health Effects (more evidence) 1/19/2022 MasterResource
“The weight of evidence indicates occurrences of adverse health effects (AHEs) from living and working near industrial wind turbines (IWTs).”

Here is the correct link for the full report referenced in the above:
Wind turbines and adverse health effects: Applying Bradford Hill’s criteria for causation
https://www.environmentmed.org/downloadpdf.asp?issn=2468-5690;year=2021;volume=6;issue=4;spage=109;epage=110;aulast=Evans;type=2

Changes to solar energy ordinance lead to setting another first public hearing 11/2/2021 KSIB Radio
The actual definition of a utility scale solar energy system was the first item up for discussion. Board Chair Ron Riley suggested that a utility scale system be anything over one megawatt.

Supervisors schedule another solar hearing 11/2/2021 Creston News Advertiser
Solar-power facilities’ setbacks, especially to Union County’s tourist spots, highlighted discussion Monday before Union County Supervisors scheduled another public hearing about the related ordinance.

Public gives feedback on solar ordinance. 10/26/2021 Creston News Advertiser
Just as Union County Board of Supervisors have spent weeks wondering how to write details in a solar-power ordinance, a few of the 12 in attendance Monday evening during a public hearing about the same asked about wording for even more detail.

Blown Away The People vs Wind Power ~ Tucker Carlson Originals 10/23/2021 YouTube – Fox National NewsTucker shows how Wind and Solar take advantage of those that can’t afford to turn down their money or defend themselves from the negative impacts.

Lengthy review of solar energy ordinance prior to public hearing 10/13/2021 KSIB Radio
The addition of one word made what was expected to be a short review of Union County’s proposed solar energy ordinance turn into a lengthy discussion. During Monday’s Union County Board of Supervisors meeting the conversation centered around the addition of a setback related to a substation.

Exemptions considered for setback ordinance 10/12/2021 Creston News Advertiser
A lengthy discussion Monday between Union County Board of Supervisors and Justin Foss from Alliant Energy over setbacks in the county’s proposed solar-power ordinance came to a mutual agreement using exemptions when and where needed.

In Global Energy Crisis, Anti-Nuclear Chickens Come Home to Roost 10/8/2021 Foreign Policy
In virtually every country that has closed nuclear plants, clean electricity has been replaced with dirty power.

Winnebago County supervisors study Invenergy proposed wind project issues 10/6/2021 Globe Gazette
Winnebago County supervisors continue to do their homework and due diligence when it comes to the Worthwhile Wind Project of Invenergy proposed for Worth and Winnebago Counties. A prior wind project in northeast Worth County, which was not zoned, placed turbines as close as 800 feet to homes, in some cases. Turbines that were larger than originally stated were put in place, turbine locations were moved from what was originally stated, and more turbines went in than what was originally stated,

County schedules solar ordinance public hearing 10/5/2021 Creston News Advertiser
Union County Board of Supervisors and Alliant Energy’s representative reached a point Monday to schedule a public hearing for the county’s solar-power ordinance.

Supervisors, others dissect solar definitions 9/22/2021 Creston News Advertiser
Anticipating to schedule a public hearing, the Union County Board of Supervisors Monday again reviewed its solar-power ordinance with an Alliant Energy representative and some landowners.

Second draft of county solar energy ordinance reviewed 9/22/2021 KSIB
It was round two for Union County’s Solar Energy Ordinance. Monday morning the Union County Board of Supervisors reviewed the revisions since the first draft and in then end came up with more things to consider before preparing the third draft.

Endangered animals halt Missouri wind farm at night 9/9/2021 The Kansas CIty Star
Missouri’s largest wind farm is idle at night for fear of killing endangered animals, Ameren Missouri, seeks permission to increase customers’ rates,

Wind doesn’t work: court decision 8/25/2021 JUDSPRA
The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a decision on August 23 affirming the MPUC’s decisions related to the Nemadji Trail Energy Center natural gas plant (NTEC). “a wind or solar alternative is not in the public interest because the comprehensive costs for such resources are higher than those associated with NTEC.”

County, Alliant study solar ordinance draft 9/2/2021 Creston News Advertiser
Months after Alliant Energy made a proposal for building a industrial solar-power facility in Union County, officials with Alliant, the county and some residents reviewed the first draft of the county’s solar ordinance Monday.

Solar ordinance first draft reviewed 8/31/2021 KSIB radio
The first draft of Union County’s proposed Solar Energy Ordinance has been written and round one of discussion happened Monday morning during the Union County Board of Supervisors meeting.

State: Company illegally storing hundreds of old wind turbine blades at three Iowa sites. 7/7/2021 Iowa Capital Dispatch
State environmental regulators say an out-of-state firm has illegally stored hundreds of wind turbine blades in three Iowa towns and should be investigated by the attorney general’s office. 

Solar Energy Ordinance discussion round two. 6/10/2021 KSIB radio
“It may be harder to put the genie back in the bottle than to release it slowly.” Those were the words of Union County Attorney Shane O’Toole, referring to setting regulations for a solar energy ordinance, during discussion Monday morning with the Union County Board of Supervisors.

Worth County Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting 06/02/2021 YouTube.com
Northwood’s own Dr. Seemuth presented on wind turbine noise and human health to the Worth County Zoning Board in connection with the current development of an ordinance for wind turbines. Dr. Seemuth has studied this issue for several years and has reviewed a large amount of medical literature on the subject, which establishes her credibility on the subject. Dr. Seemuth’s presentation with full audio and video can be seen in the link starting at minute 5 and wrapping up at minute 48.

Wind Moratorium: Another Iowa County Halts New Wind Projects 5/13/2021 WHO TV13
The Grundy County Board of Supervisors is halting the expansion of wind energy generation, passing a moratorium on any new wind turbine construction.

After the Texas Blackouts, Follow the Wind and Solar Money All $66 Billion of It 4/26/2021 Real Clear Energy
It’s apparent that the $66 billion spent on renewables before the blackouts didn’t make the Texas grid more robust – it made it more fragile.

Anderson County property owner compares wind farms to menacing strip clubs, landfills. 3/22/2021 Kansas Reflector
Sen. Mike Thompson, a Johnson County Republican who called wind turbines a public nuisance in need of restraint afforded by state statute.

Bill would limit wind farms in Kansas. 3/22/2021 KSNT tv station.
Turbines would need to be at least 1.5 miles from a home, 3 miles from an airport or park, and one mile from another person’s property line. There also couldn’t be more than one turbine per square mile. The amount of shadows and noise could also be taken into consideration.

Breaking News: Wind and Solar Potentially Aren’t Climate Cure-Alls. 3/16/2021 Crux Investor
Due to the very nature of their design, renewables like solar and wind fail to provide energy security,
A study by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change found It would require 130,000 acres of solar farms or 250,000 acres of onshore wind farms to replace one nuclear reactor that takes only 450 acres.

Sid Miller: ‘We Should Never Build Another Wind Turbine in Texas’ 2/16/2021 Texas Scorecard.

Louisville Company Claims New Technology Greatly Reduces Eagle Fatalities Near Wind Turbines. 2/1/2021 CBS Denver

Wildlife Society Bulletin proclaimed 83,000 hunting birds died each year due to wind turbine collisions. Technology that helps protect Bald Eagles from Wind Turbines and has been in development for over 4 years! Why isn’t this technology standard equipment? They are at a stage where improvements are software not hardware so upgrading installed systems would be simple!

We need to build a lot of wind turbines. Will Americans agree to live near them? 1/22/2021 Grist

“The U.S. could in fact achieve net-zero by 2050 without spending much more of our gross domestic product on energy than we do today. But that finding came with several caveats, including the warning that ‘expansive impacts on landscapes and communities’ will have to be ‘mitigated and managed to secure broad social license.’ A lot more Americans are going to have to get on board with having renewable energy infrastructure like wind farms in their neighborhoods. The researchers estimate that we’ll need to devote between 93,000 and 400,000 square miles of land to wind farms in order to meet that net-zero goal. While the wind turbines’ direct footprint would only be about 1 percent of those figures, their visual footprint — the area throughout which you would likely be able to see the turbines — could be as big as Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas combined.”

Wind turbine abeyance continued in Union County. 12/29/2020 Creston News.

Windmill on Fire near Mahanoy City Monday Afternoon. 12/28/2020 Skook News – Pennsylvania.
“Emergency personnel are at the scene and will let the fire burn out on it’s own but will monitor for any falling debris.” What else can they do at hundreds of feet in the air.

Public meeting held over wind turbine concerns in Union, Adams counties. 12/16/2020 KMA

More and more of Nebraskans are saying no to wind turbines. 12/12/2020 Star Herald.

Giant Vestas Wind Turbine Collapses in Northern Sweden 11/23/2020 – Bloomberg

Over 750 feet tall turbine, same company as the 6 that have broken blades in the Midwest in the last month! Link is to a paid site but has limited free trial.

Another Voice: Lake Erie can’t afford the ill effects from wind turbines. 11/13/2020
New York is importing energy, from Pennsylvania – from their coal plants, which doesn’t count on our “output portfolio” – smoke and mirrors for “green appearance.” Wind, as a fuel, does not deliver what is demanded by the grid – consistent, reliable, always on electricity. We learned how bad infrasound, or low frequency noise, is to aquatic life back in the 1990s. No fishing organization locally supports Great Lakes offshore wind.

Do we really want an unreliable electric grid, exponentially higher electric bills and frequent rolling blackouts?

Siemens Gamesa unveils new low-wind turbine. 11/12/2020
Its new SG 4.7-155 will feature 76-metre blades, it will also have a “low noise output” of 105 decibels. The American Academy of Audiology suggests that 105dB is slightly quieter than snowmobiles. Siemens Gamesa added that low-wind turbines are important for already well-developed onshore wind markets where the space for higher wind sites is limited.

“Slightly quieter than snowmobiles.” But running 24×7!
“Where the space for higher wind sites is limited.” So taking over even more ground than before.

Winnebago County Iowa approves wind turbine project agreement 11/12/2020
Updating 44 wind generation turbines. The new blades will be longer, resulting in the turbines being about 33 taller or about 421 feet high instead of 388 feet. The old turbine blades will be taken to a recycling facility, NextEra officials said.

Rob Rand Noise Impact Assessment Overview Released 11/12/2020
Noise Impact Assessment Overview Solar Facility Inverters and Transformers

Page County Supervisors decline property rights meeting. 11/10/2020
During the supervisors Oct. 27 meeting they were asked for a non-participating landowner, property-rights forum. Herzberg and Morris said they could not discuss it since it was not an agenda item. Urkoski then said he could not find any agenda approval stating the Oct. 13 supervisors meeting with representatives from wind-turbine related companies.

Washburn Wind Energy’s planned 35-turbine wind farm project in Black Hawk County Iowa dropped. 11/6/2020
The company pulled out of the project July, said City Planner Seth Hyberger. He said nobody wanted to invest in the $120 million project until litigation ended, making it difficult to secure initial funding. The company then found out its wind turbine manufacturer stopped making the 2.5 megawatt models it needed.

State of Wyoming declines to grant land lease for wind energy project. 11/5/2020
After heated deliberation, Wyoming regulators voted to deny a renewable energy company a lease to build a wind farm on state land in Albany County on Thursday, after members of the public expressed concern the development would compromise scenic viewsheds.

Developer drops plans for controversial wind farm in Green Co. Wisconsin. 10/28/2020 WMTV
EDF Renewables had planned to build 24 turbines. Participating landowners have received letters notifying them that EDF Renewables was terminating its lease agreements.

Blade that had been up less than 24 hours breaks in Saline County Nebraska! 10/26/2020 News Channel Nebraska.

Trump Gives Tiny Nuclear Reactors a Billion-Dollar Boost. 10/21/2020
Popular Mechanics.

Wind Farm Fires Far More Common Than Reported 7/23/2014 IEEE Spectrum

Fires in wind turbines are happening ten times more often than they are reported, according to new research from Imperial College London, the University of Edinburgh and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

Fires at wind farms ‘under reported over fears of reputational damage’ 10/20/2020 WindPowerMonthly

What if one of these Green things caught fire once the crops around it were ready for harvest? There are hundreds of gallons of hydraulic oil in them. Just imagine that burning oil dripping from 400 feet in the air and the wind carrying it however far away. How many thousands of acres of valuable crops would burn before it all could be controlled?

MidAmerican Energy takes 46 wind turbines offline after blades fall in rural Iowa. 10/20/2020
Mid American is making noises that they are going to blame lightning damage for all the blade failures.

Another wind turbine blade breaks off in Iowa. 10/20/2020
This time it is in Paton Iowa.
KCCI TV.

Republicans propose eliminating PTC subsidy 9/28/2020
Republican senators have introduced a new bill to completely phase out the main support scheme for wind power in the US at the end of the year.

Broken wind farm blades worry local farmers, residents near Lexington, Il 9/28/2020

The Gage County Board moved to increase setback distance to one-mile, between wind turbines and non participating rural homes. 9/25/2020
The Gage County Planning Commission will soon consider any other potential changes that may be needed to local wind energy regulations,
Setbacks going to property line, versus structure line
Decibel levels of the actual wind turbines
Infrasound
BEATRICE NEBRASKA

‘No more wind.’ WA state utility questions efficacy of wind farms for power generation. 9/19/2020

Adair Co Iowa Arbor Hill Industrial Wind Turbine Blade Thrown. 9/17/2020
Youtube video.

18,000-pound wind turbine blade breaks in Adair County 9/17/2020 KCCI

Vestas and EDPR to investigate why V150 blade broke off at Ohio site 9/10/2020

As Green Energy Flounders, Environmentalists Embrace Nuclear. 9/9/2020

Northern Gage County Nebraska approves one mile setback. 9/9/2020

New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables. 4/21/2020. Direct YouTube Link.

Infrasound: A Growing Liability for Wind Power. 5/19/2019 MasterResource
We have known for a long time how far the subaudible impacts really do travel, before attenuating. Now, there is even more evidence from Finland and Germany. “Whether we hear it or not, every form of energy has physical effects, and infrasound is particularly dangerous, because we don’t hear it.” But evidence of wind noise harms accrue. A recent Finnish assessment, scientifically valid and reproducible, found that infrasound (IS) only began to really attenuate after 15-20 km.

Rural landowners air opposition to industrial wind farms. 2/27/2019 Agweek.
“I didn’t fight for this country to have crap like this go on,” Behrends said. “That’s why I’m fighting this now. All I want is for people not to have to go through what I’ve gone through.”

Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger 1/4/2019 YouTube 17:32
A lifelong environmentalist, Michael changed his mind about nuclear energy and has helped save enough nuclear reactors to prevent an increase in carbon emissions equivalent to adding more than 10 million cars to the road.

Conventional Wind Energy – A Design Deadly for Birds American Eagle Foundation
Wind turbines present an ever-present danger to not only eagles and other birds of prey, but also to any migratory bird that passes through areas where wind turbine farms have been constructed.

Report: 10 of the Worst-sited Wind Energy Projects for Birds 3/24/2016 American Bird Conservancy
Hundreds of thousands of protected birds, including some endangered species, die each year when they collide with wind turbines and associated power lines. The number of turbines is set to grow significantly as wind energy projects continue to expand across the landscape, likely causing a major increase in this already serious problem.

Five high profile wind turbine fires.

“Fire in wind turbines is the second most common type of accident reported after blade failure.”

“The mechanics, aged 19 and 21, became trapped on the top of the turbine after a fire broke out and died as a result. Due to the height of the turbine and location of the fire, the fire department had trouble extinguishing the fire.”

“The responding fire department was not able to put the fire out because they did not have the equipment to reach the height of the wind turbine. They also had limited access to the site because the turbine on fire was located approximately half of mile off of the road.”

“Despite precautions being taken of clearing brush and debris from the base of the turbines, the fire from the turbine still caused a wildfire, burning 367 acres.”

“The fire spread and caused the Juniper Fire wildfire, which burned over 250 acres and put 39 structures in danger of fire. During the wildfire, the Pine Creek Drainage area was put under a level three evacuation order.“

Study finds small aircraft face risks at airports near wind farms 1/15/2014 University Of Kansas
A study from the University of Kansas School of Engineering sheds light on a potential safety hazard that could affect hundreds of airports across the country and calls for updated guidelines to improve aviation safety. At issue is the proximity of wind farms to general aviation airports, and how the small aircraft that use them could be affected by the turbulence generated by wind turbines.

Wind Turbines Can Cause Sickness, Say Public Health Officials

Neighbors in eastern Iowa fight to bring down turbines — and win

‘Flickers’ and ‘stray voltage’: Why these Iowans really, really hate wind power