Protecting nature is more important than ‘quickly’ building renewables, most Americans say
Updated: 2023-03-31 14:02:39
Nearly 80% of U.S. adults believe conservation is more important than a speedy renewable energy rollout, our poll finds. That spells trouble for Biden’s climate agenda. In Virginia, environmentalists fought a utility-scale solar farm that would rank among the largest on the East Coast. In New Jersey, an ocean-conservation group is battling an offshore wind farm that could power half a million homes. In Utah, Nevada, and even the San Francisco Bay area, green groups are threatening renewable projects that . . .
Dozens of people rallied outside the New Jersey State House Thursday morning to demand a pause on offshore wind farm development along the Jersey Shore. The protesters delivered a petition to the governor which they claimed contained more than half a million signatures. The petition called for an immediate moratorium on offshore wind developments after a recent spate of large whales and dolphins washing ashore on the Jersey Shore. Protesters blame pre-construction and survey activity related to the building of . . .
Fire crews watch as turbine burns 400 feet above West Union, Rexville NY. Fire crews are on site of a wind turbine fire just over the Allegany-Steuben County line in Greenwood. Debris is being extinguished as it falls from the tower but crews are helpless to put out the blaze which is well above the reach. We are assuming this is an electrical fire. Images will be updated if necessary.
Save Long Beach Island’s lawsuit to halt wind farms off the coast here is in jeopardy of being tossed from a federal district court in Washingtonn D.C. U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case on March 9. However, she also allowed Save LBI’s request to submit an amended complaint. She gave the group 30 days to make the amendment or the case will be closed. The group has 2½ weeks left to do . . .
« Avant, quand je sortais de la maison, j’avais vue sur les Monts du Cantal et du Puy-de-Dôme, se souvient Jean-Pierre Rebière. Maintenant, je ne vois plus que ce mât de mesure du vent… » Amer, l’agriculteur dont l’exploitation située au lieu-dit La Maison rouge, sur la commune de Saint-Bonnet-près-Bort et dont la ferme n’est qu’à quelques centaines de mètres à vol d’oiseau du mât, l’est. Mais il est aussi combatif. Et il le dit. Sur le plastique qui protège son fourrage . . .
[Protect Wentworth Valley is urging the provincial government to declare the Wentworth Valley area of Cumberland and Colchester counties as a wilderness area to protect the Mainland moose and to stop proposed industrial wind farm development.] The proponents behind a large wind farm planned for the Wentworth area have registered their environmental assessment. The move kicks off an opportunity for public comment that runs until April 14, with a ministerial decision on whether to grant a conditional environmental approval by . . .
[A wind turbine in the Hohen Luckow wind farm caught fire on Wednesday afternoon. Two technicians discovered a defect and switched off the wind turbine, but with the extremely large amount of hydraulic and gear oil inside the system, they could not prevent a fire. Burning parts fell from 100 meters.] Am Mittwochmittag, 15. März, hat ein Windrad an der Autobahn 20 bei Satow gebrannt. Das Feuer war am Gondelraum des Windrades bei Wokrent ausgebrochen, das etwa 500 Meter südlich . . .
[In Jacobsdorf in the Oder-Spree district, the first of four wind turbines was blown up on Wednesday because the concrete towers were defective.] In Jacobsdorf im Kreis Oder-Spree ist am Mittwoch das erste von vier Windrädern gesprengt worden. Nach Angaben des Hamburger Anlagenherstellers Nordex ist der Abbau notwendig geworden, weil die Betontürme Mängel aufweisen. Den Angaben nach sollen alle vier Anlagen des Windparks sicher und vollständig rückgebaut werden, um an gleicher Stelle erneut Turbinen zu errichten. Etwa 50 Menschen beobachteten . . .
Intermittent supply from a variety of power generation adds to the challenge of balancing the grid. Cold, still weather in the UK this week triggered high demand for electricity at a time when wind turbines were idling. That forced National Grid to use a back-up coal(opens a new window)-generation plant for the first time this winter. Depending on Mother Nature for electricity means accepting her inconsistencies. Back-up is required, and keeping it available has a cost. In the US, electricity . . .
A petition drive that demands a halt on wind farm projects following whale deaths along the coast has collected more than 240,000 signatures so far. [As Monday morning, March 13, the petition had more than 318,000 signatures.] Ocean City wind farm opponent Suzanne Hornick, one of the founders of Protect Our Coast NJ, which began in 2019, said it is time to stop offshore wind acoustic testing. “Look at all of the people who care. We don’t believe what our . . .
When Nicole Fagan and her husband found the perfect tree-change* home in Kununurra in January, they had no idea that the wind farm that will take in their rural NSW property was going to be a problem for their bank. “We needed to access a small amount of equity in our home (a mere 12 per cent) for a home in the Kimberley,” Nicole Fagan tells RenewEconomy. “Suncorp Bank, where I have done all of my banking for years, decided . . .
Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was widely greeted as a landmark federal effort on clean energy and climate change. The Congressional Budget Office’s herculean task of scoring this massive piece of legislation that zoomed through Congress in an omnibus spending package was no small feat. But more recent data indicate the subsidies are going to cost more than what Congress was told before passing the legislation. The formulas to subsidize the production of electric vehicle battery cells and modules . . .