Opposition mounts against wind energy project
Updated: 2024-06-27 15:17:22
Opposition to the proposed wind farm in Fayette County continues to pick up steam. Apex Clean Energy has been speaking with landowners about leasing property for a utility-scale wind energy project. The company is targeting a 50,000 acre area north of Schulenburg. A huge crowd of about 400 showed up Freyburg Hall on Sunday, June 23, for a meeting of concerned landowners. Besides the aesthetic concerns about 600 ft. tall windmills dotting the countryside, landowners raised questions about the impact . . .
Des grues montées pour des éoliennes démontées. Et un chantier au goût de victoire pour Jean-Jacques Péchard, vent debout depuis seize ans contre le projet de parc éolien dans sa commune de Guern (Morbihan), qu’il ne supportait plus de voir depuis son jardin. “Il y avait la vue, le changement du paysage, mais aussi le son, quand elles tournaient”, continue-t-il de pointer au micro de TF1, dans le reportage du JT de 13H à voir en tête de cet article. . . .
At least 24 CFA brigades are taking strike action, refusing to fight fires on land hosting high-voltage transmission lines, solar or wind farms, over what they call the Victorian Government’s “reckless renewables expansion”. Most of the brigades are in communities that are being carved up by the 500kV Victoria-NSW Interconnector and subject to more wind and solar farm developments, as the Allan Government rushes to generate 95 per cent of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2035. The volunteer . . .
Spanish developer Acciona Energia is facing a legal complaint after one of its wind turbines was blamed for the death of a rare bearded vulture that was found “mutilated” nearby. Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) claimed this week that the vulture died after being hit by a turbine blade. FCQ said that data from the tracker being carried by the vulture, known as Masía, alerted its team to an “activity anomaly” that indicated she might have . . .
Activists campaigning to stop heavy industrialisation developing in a small coastal Mid West town are planning a weekend rally as the community grapples with two separate wind farm proposals. Members of the Keep Kalbarri Beautiful movement are inviting the community to rally at 10am on Sunday at Sally’s Tree on the foreshore, to protest against plans for heavy industrialisation. One proposed venture is the Murchison Green Hydrogen (MGH) project, which compromises 550 wind turbines, up to 10,000ha of solar panel . . .
One of the turbines at the wind farm in Hermanville was demolished Tuesday in earth-rattling fashion after a wind storm late last year compromised its foundation. Another turbine at the eastern P.E.I. wind farm is being refurbished, and two more are running at half-capacity to fix common, but “long-standing systemic issues,” provincial officials said. Blair Arsenault, operations engineer for the P.E.I. Energy Corporation, said part of the repair work is called “root-facing,” a common refitting that involves flattening the blades . . .
The 3GW Hyphen Energy project in the Tsau Khaeb national park is set to build wind turbines on land deemed too ecologically sensitive for even eco-friendly tourism. Namibian environmentalists say that the 3GW green hydrogen project due to be built in a protected national park with about 7GW of new wind and solar farms, poses a severe threat to a globally significant biodiversity hotspot with many rare and endangered species. Hyphen Hydrogen Energy’s $10bn Green Hydrogen Project is due to . . .
A couple of hours before the final BOS vote on the WECS on Wednesday, May 29, we received an email from a concerned lady in Iowa who has – well, had – two wind turbines on their farm and asked us to share their story. One turbine is still there, but it’s a non-functional burned out husk as of May 13. The other one also burned a year ago. Her name and exact location are being withheld because more than . . .
When drilling operations for 12 wind turbines – alongside road paving and other construction – were found in Luzon’s mountainous Rizal province and within a nature reserve home to more than 400 wildlife species earlier this year, Filipino conservationists were extremely alarmed. The nonprofit organisation that manages the site protested the development, stating that renewable energy generation should not be pursued at the expense of the environment. Fast forward three months later and the conflict has yet to be resolved. . . .
The magnetic field is directly proportional to the current in the lines. With a GQ EMF390 electromagnetic field meter in hand, resident Tom Cambareri paced a section of Covell Beach on Wednesday morning, announcing readings as he went. The numbers he called out rose, crested and fell like the waves coming to shore nearby – indicators of his passage over the two transmission lines carrying power from the Vineyard Wind 1 wind farm, buried under the beach. “The signal is a . . .
A stubborn fire at a battery storage site in Otay Mesa is burning for a sixth day. Fire officials are preparing for it to potentially take weeks to put out. “We’re not sure. We’re preparing for the worst and making plans to be here for a long time, two to four weeks and will reevaluate then,” said Captain Brent Pascua with Cal Fire San Diego. The fire began last Wednesday at the Gateway Energy Storage facility and flare-ups over the . . .
A wind turbine at the Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach caught fire Monday after being struck by lightning, according to the Virginia Beach Fire Department. Pictures shared with News 3, taken from the Dockside restaurant on Shore Drive, show one of the center’s turbines on fire with a trail of heavy smoke coming from it. When VBFD’s crew arrived, there were no flames, but smoke was coming from the wind turbine, fire officials say. Fire officials confirmed that the . . .