• Wind turbine near Luxembourg border erupts in flames

    Updated: 2025-01-31 19:36:46
    [Une éolienne en feu près de Briey] A wind turbine at the Anoux wind farm near Briey, close to the Luxembourg border, erupted in flames on Thursday evening, with dramatic footage showing burning debris falling to the ground. A wind turbine in the French Briey area, not too far from the Luxembourg border, caught fire in spectacular manner on Thursday evening. Info Trafic Lorraine et Frontière (ITLF) have shared photos and a video showing the flames bursting out of the . . .

  • Delaware Audubon president’s view on wind farm surprising

    Updated: 2025-01-30 14:40:44
    I find it ironic that Steve Cottrell, president of Delaware Audubon, would condemn Sussex County for blocking US Wind from bringing power from a wind farm off Ocean City, Maryland, onto land (“Sussex council’s US Wind vote raises concern”). Cottrell asserts that county towns will lose millions in (essentially bribe) money. I actually find that commendable, not negative. Assuming Delaware Audubon relates to environmental conservation, why would he support a project that will kill millions of birds, destroy fish habitat . . .

  • Hundreds take a stand against wind turbines, associated transmission lines

    Updated: 2025-01-30 14:38:24
    Last week I wrote about the important Australia-wide message that the Grampians region is open for business, and sadly again at the time of writing some parts were closed again due to further fires. Halls Gap and Pomonal remain open so please keep spreading the word. I again commend the tireless efforts of the Country Fire Authority and volunteers who fight the fires and, in this latest instance, battle to protect Dimboola and other communities near Little Desert. I attended . . .

  • Wind farms are killing bats in Nova Scotia, say researchers

    Updated: 2025-01-29 13:48:04
    Three migratory bat species were recommended for Canada’s species at risk list because of wind turbines. With many wind farms under development in Nova Scotia, experts say extra caution is needed to protect migratory bats from being killed by wind turbine blades. The hoary bat, the silver-haired bat, and the eastern red bat were recommended for Canada’s species at risk list in 2023 due to wind turbine fatalities. Researchers advocate that the three bat species be officially added to the . . .

  • ‘Deeply worried’: We live on idyllic Scots tourist island – but it’s being sacrificed by developers who want to ruin it

    Updated: 2025-01-28 23:41:43
    An estate owner says the island of Skye is being “sacrificed” to wind energy companies ”like the Congo was developed for oil” – with more than 130 turbines in planning at present. Charles MacDonald, who owns more than 900 hectares at Skeabost Estate in the north of Skye, said the developments threatened “changing the character of the island”. He added that the island is being developed for wind much like the “Congo was developed for oil”. Multiple renewable companies, headquartered . . .

  • Developers abandon applications to build wind farm off coast of WA’s South West

    Updated: 2025-01-27 14:38:50
    At least three companies have bowed out of the race to develop an offshore wind farm in Western Australia. In September last year, federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen green-lit a roughly 4,000-square-kilometre farm for Geographe Bay off the coast of Bunbury in the state’s South West region. He invited companies to apply for feasibility licences to conduct further research and consultations with a view to leading the project. A man in hard hat and hi-vis talks and poses next to . . .

  • Legislation would require local signoff for wind, solar projects before PSC approval

    Updated: 2025-01-26 19:16:15
    GOP lawmakers recently circulated a bill that would require developers to get signoff from each city, village and town in which a solar or wind project would be built before they could seek approval from the PSC. Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, and Rep. Travis Tranel, R-Cuba City last week sent a co-sponsorship memo to other lawmakers on the bill. They argue the legislation “reaffirms local control by empowering local municipalities and their elected officials by providing them a seat . . .

  • Thit tuirbín gaoithe sa gaoth mór

    Updated: 2025-01-25 14:35:08
    I gCois Fharraige, deisceart Chonamara, sa “Galway Wind Park,” thit tuirbín gaoithe sa gaoth mór a bhí sa stoirm Éowen. (A wind turbine in the Galway Wind Park was knocked over by the high winds of storm Éowen.) Scaití, ní bhíonn na muilte gaoithe féin in ann ag an stoirm…tuirbínbar an gCnoc in Indreabhán inniu #eowyn pic.twitter.com/IMacCqdXFc — Adhmhaidin (@Adhmhaidin) January 24, 2025 An bhfuil muileann ollmhór gaoithe imithe le fána in Indreabhán? pic.twitter.com/c2K4al3rDg — Naoise Ó Muirí TD (@naoiseomuiri) . . .

  • Offshore wind farms could cause significant ecosystem, economic and human health risks

    Updated: 2025-01-25 00:16:48
    The materials used to protect wind turbines from corrosion leach into the surrounding water, which could pose risks to ecosystems, seafood safety and human health, new research from the University of Portsmouth has found. Offshore wind farms release thousands of tonnes of metals such as aluminium, zinc and indium each year. This is expected to grow dramatically as wind farms are set to play a major role in reducing the world’s carbon emissions. The UK currently has 13 gigawatts of . . .

  • Blackpool beach could close for years for wind farm work

    Updated: 2025-01-24 19:15:46
    A popular Lancashire beach faces disruption for up to three years while work gets under way to bring a wind farm cable ashore. The Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms scheme is set to see the cable come ashore near Starr Gate beach in Blackpool, which is regularly used by dog walkers and residents. Developers have pledged to maintain public access “as far as possible”. Squires Gate ward councillor Gerard Walsh said he hoped any disruption at Starr Gate “will . . .

  • Approval of wind farm is ‘shocking’

    Updated: 2025-01-24 14:55:30
    An application to build a wind farm in a scenic area of the Scottish Borders has been approved despite being rejected on three previous occasions. The Planning and Environmental Appeals Decision granted permission for the Wull Muir development near Heriot, which comprises eight turbines, each with a height of 149.9 metres. Scottish Borders Council had previously rejected the scheme twice, due to its significant visual impact, and a subsequent appeal by the developer was also dismissed. John Williams, chair of . . .

  • Opposition to Lake Erie wind turbines and authorization of necessary steps to protect Chautauqua County’s interest

    Updated: 2025-01-23 19:33:02
    CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RESOLUTION NO. 25-25 BY: Planning and Economic Development Committee: AT THE REQUEST OF: Legislators Tom Harmon, Bankoski, Scudder, Niebel, Penhollow, Johnson and Buchanan: WHEREAS, New York State has passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (the Climate Act) calling for seventy percent of electricity in the State to be produced by renewable resources by the year 2030, and one hundred percent of electricity to be generated by emissions-free power generation by the year 2040; and WHEREAS, wind . . .

  • Turbine blade debris remains in hills months after damage

    Updated: 2025-01-22 17:51:07
    Parts of a Viking turbine blade which broke in October remain on the hills around the wind farm site – almost three months later. SSE Renewables had said in mid-December that preparatory work had been ongoing with turbine contractor Vestas to remove the debris safely. It said recovery would be completed in the first half of January, before a replacement blade could be installed. However photos received by Shetland News this week show that parts of the blade remain scattered . . .

  • Illegal German waste dumping in Czech village lands at EU’s door

    Updated: 2025-01-21 18:16:48
    Masses of fibreglass debris from wind turbine blades and aircraft parts were illegally transported from Germany to a small Czech municipality, prompting investigations and calls for a European solution, as it was not an isolated case. The first waste lorries arrived in Jiříkov, a village in north-eastern Czechia, before Christmas. Others followed in January. Jiříkov Mayor Barbora Šišková told Euractiv Czechia that when she raised the issue publicly, she discovered other cases in other municipalities. The shipment, from the German . . .

  • Temporary withdrawal of all areas on the outer continental shelf from offshore wind leasing and review of the federal government’s leasing and permitting practices for wind projects

    Updated: 2025-01-21 15:55:27
    Section 1. Temporary Withdrawal of Areas. Consistent with the principles of responsible public stewardship that are entrusted to this office, with due consideration for a variety of relevant factors, including the need to foster an energy economy capable of meeting the country’s growing demand for reliable energy, the importance of marine life, impacts on ocean currents and wind patterns, effects on energy costs for Americans –- especially those who can least afford it –- and to ensure that the United . . .

  • An Bord Pleanála refused permission for 12 wind farms in 2024

    Updated: 2025-01-21 14:50:46
    Throughout 2024, An Bord Pleanála rejected planning applications for 12 wind farms, representing a total estimated combined capacity of 677MW. Around 30 projects – totalling 1,598MW – were still awaiting a decision at the end of 2024. The figures were released during the second day of Wind Energy Ireland’s annual conference in Dublin. In its first annual planning report, the group stated that An Bord Pleanála granted planning permission for 10 new wind farms with a combined capacity of 717MW . . .

  • Second bill filed to limit Washington governor’s authority to approve new wind & solar projects

    Updated: 2025-01-20 14:23:22
    A second bill has been filed that is intended to reduce the governor’s authority to approve new wind and solar energy projects across Washington. Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, has filed a bill that would require county and tribal approval of recommendations to allow clean energy projects made by the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council. House Bill 1188 would not allow the Washington governor to approve recommendations if county commissioners for affected counties or tribes do not support it. If . . .

  • Morro Bay residents rally against offshore wind farm proposal

    Updated: 2025-01-20 00:09:08
    More than 200 concerned community members gathered at the Morro Rock parking lot on Saturday to protest the potential impacts of an offshore wind farm. “It’s a national day of action and there are sites all over the county, including the East Coast and the West Coast, that are having this national day of action. It’s all basically against offshore wind and it’s to tell the incoming administration that we expect the promise to be kept to end offshore wind,” . . .

  • Campaigners hit out at ‘corporate bullying’ on Cabrach wind farms

    Updated: 2025-01-19 17:53:45
    Campaigners opposed to a wind farm proposal in the Highlands say they have fallen victim to “corporate bullying and greed”. The Cabrach, a moorland north of the Cairngorms, already has 78 turbines within six miles. A further 21 have consent. Twenty-two more and a battery facility are being proposed. Boralex, a Canadian company, took control of the Clashindarroch extension project when it acquired the UK interests of Infinergy, a European energy company, in July 2022. It has now formed a . . .

  • Dozens protest wind farms and impact on whales in New Bedford

    Updated: 2025-01-19 17:33:38
    Dozens of protesters gathered in New Bedford Saturday, demanding an end to offshore wind projects immediately. The protest came one day after final federal approval for the Southcoast Wind Project, 26 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Protesters said they were outraged over potential impacts on the environment, coastal neighborhoods, and the commercial fishing industry. According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 141 wind turbine generators will power more than 840-thousand homes across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. A spokesperson . . .

  • New blade crack on Swedish Siemens Gamesa turbine

    Updated: 2025-01-18 18:37:53
    Another wind turbine blade at the Swedish Björnberget park has broken in an incident last Sunday, occurring exactly two months another blade broke at the Swedish wind farm, in operation since 2023. As was the case the first time, no one was injured in the incident. Beyond a safety zone being set up, the incident has led to all turbines being deactivated – or at least almost all of them; nine of the 60 turbines have remained in production, as . . .

  • Study measures seabirds’ habitat loss as a result of wind turbines

    Updated: 2025-01-18 18:21:21
    A Wageningen Marine Research study shows that razorbills and guillemots on the North Sea avoid wind parks in their flight path. The study uses a new statistical method to determine the effect of wind parks on the spatial distribution of seabirds. The rapid growth of offshore wind parks in the North Sea necessitates a better understanding of the impact of wind turbines on marine species. The classical method was for researchers to conduct a census of the bird population in . . .

  • Turbine blade break under investigation at Australia’s biggest wind farm

    Updated: 2025-01-18 16:15:46
    Investigations are underway at the 923 megawatt (MW) MacIntyre wind farm in south-western Queensland, following a turbine blade break at the huge project in late December. The incident at what is Australia’s largest operating wind farm happened less than three months after the project sent first power to the grid from its site in the Southern Downs, outside Warwick. The 162 turbine Acciona Energía and Ark Energy project had connected 27 wind turbines to the grid by early October, with . . .

  • Highland Council considers launching judicial review of Strath Oykel wind farm plan in Sutherland

    Updated: 2025-01-18 16:12:05
    Highland Council is considering challenging the controversial decision by Scottish ministers to grant planning permission for the Strath Oykel Wind farm, it has emerged. The local authority is discussing whether to seek a judicial review of the ministers’ decision, which went against the recommendations of the government’s own planning reporters. North, west and central Sutherland ward councillor Michael Baird said: “Planners believe there is a strong case, and they are consulting James Findlay KC, who represented the council at the . . .

  • Planning Board sets meeting on wind turbines

    Updated: 2025-01-18 15:54:24
    It may be late in the state pro­cess, but the Middletown Planning Board weighed in on Jan. 8 about wind turbines and set an agenda item at their Feb. 12 meeting for residents to vent their concerns about wind turbines dotting the local horizon. Board member Leon Amarant expressed concern about windmills ruining the vistas of town beaches. “[Should] the Planning Board consider talking about what is hap­pening in our ocean?” he asked. “Every single day, you see a new . . .

  • Local communities to have their say on wind farm developments

    Updated: 2025-01-18 15:07:49
    The Crisafulli Government is acting to ensure local communities are consulted for any new wind farm developments, in line with the LNP’s election commitment. The development approval for the Moonlight Range Wind Farm, 40 kilometres north west of Rockhampton has been issued with a proposed ‘call in’ notice that allows submissions to be made from community members, local governments and other stakeholders as to whether the proposal meets State interests. The consultation period is 40 business days and will close . . .

  • Company executives fight lawsuit over junked wind-turbine blades

    Updated: 2025-01-18 14:54:47
    The top executives of a company accused of abandoning junked wind-turbine blades across Iowa say they shouldn’t be held liable for their companies’ actions. Last fall, the State of Iowa sued a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws. The lawsuit alleges that for over seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations in . . .

  • Qld government pauses wind farm proposals to strengthen renewable energy regulations

    Updated: 2025-01-18 14:48:13
    The Queensland government has paused proposals for wind farms as it works to strengthen regulations around renewable energy planning. Deputy Premier Jarrod Bliejie has issued a proposed call-in-notice for a potential wind farm near Rockhampton and to hold an assessment of three other green projects. The move will also ensure communities potentially affected by large-scale projects are consulted. The LNP made a pre-election promise to ensure renewable energy projects receive the same evaluation as mining and agriculture.

  • Scoop: The draft order that offshore wind opponents sent to Trump

    Updated: 2025-01-16 19:24:42
    If even only a few of these ideas are enacted, it would be a harbinger of doom for wind energy in America. Major groups in the anti–offshore wind movement are going big, submitting a lengthy policy wish list to the Trump transition team, according to documents obtained and first reported by Heatmap News. Key organizations in the movement against offshore wind submitted a draft executive order “on the suspension of offshore wind development” to the transition team. According to the . . .

  • Wind farm developer’s plan to ‘relocate’ unexploded ordnance draws criticism

    Updated: 2025-01-16 13:49:06
    Empire Wind developer Equinor this month plans to “relocate” two pieces of unexploded ordnance found in its offshore lease area, including one that appears to be at the northwestern tip of the project 15 miles from shore, according to a company notice to mariners. The work, which is scheduled to start Sunday and continue into early February, drew a quick response from a commercial fishing group, which wants the ordnance removed or blown up. Equinor’s notice said a contractor vessel . . .

  • McIntosh County windfarm project canceled

    Updated: 2025-01-15 18:53:20
    Two southeast Oklahoma lawmakers are applauding a company’s decision to cancel their plans for a proposed windfarm in McIntosh County. “We have been informed today by TransAlta of their decision to cancel the Canadian Valley project,” Reps. Tim Turner, R-Kinta, and Neil Hays, R-Checotah said in a joint statement last week.’ The two state representatives said they expressed their gratitude to the citizens of House District 15 and 13 and surrounding areas for their active engagement on the issue. “Your . . .

  • Halkirk wind turbine debris has no clean-up date yet: company

    Updated: 2025-01-15 16:33:44
    The company responsible for a new wind farm in the Halkirk region stated debris which fell off a turbine has no date yet for clean-up. Capital Power’s Halkirk 2 development was stood down in November 2024 after a nacelle and rotor fell to the ground Nov. 8 from the T33 turbine. A resident of Paintearth County, where Halkirk 2 is located, contacted the ECA Review over New Years to state he noticed the debris hadn’t been cleaned up and that . . .

  • How a storm of lawsuits paralysed wind mills in northwest Spain

    Updated: 2025-01-15 15:14:18
    Jose Maria Cofreces is the owner of a guesthouse in northwestern Galicia, one of Spain’s most picturesque regions and a major tourist draw. It is also one of the windiest parts of the country, and that has made it a magnet for developers of giant wind turbines that can stand higher than 50-storey tower blocks. Cofreces is among those at the vanguard of opposition in Galicia. Echoing the tactics of rural communities across Europe, the protesters have used the courts . . .

  • Wind turbines impair the access of bats to water bodies in agricultural landscapes

    Updated: 2025-01-14 14:35:26
    Summary: Bats depend on open bodies of water such as small ponds and lakes for foraging and drinking. Access to water is particularly important for survival in the increasingly hot and dry summers caused by climate change, the time when female bats are pregnant and rear their young. A scientific team has now shown that access to drinking sites is hampered by wind turbines in agricultural landscapes: Many bat species avoid the turbines and water bodies located close to the . . .

  • Atlantic City, NJ, & all east coast wind turbines to be halted

    Updated: 2025-01-14 14:25:05
    Offshore wind turbine opponents have been anxiously awaiting for Donald Trump to take office as President of the United States on November 20, 2025 at 12:00 noon, ET. Congressman Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ-2, offered a very important update today regarding the offshore wind turbine activities planned for all over the East Coast, including off of the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Atlantic City project is preparing to spend two years burying high power, electrical cables directly underneath stable . . .

  • Whitman County Commissioners issue moratorium on wind energy projects

    Updated: 2025-01-12 23:55:41
    Members of a community group opposed to plans for a large wind farm project near Kamiak Butte in Whitman County are celebrating a decision this week by county commissioners to place a moratorium on new commercial wind turbines. Commissioners cited the need to update regulations on wind energy projects. Save the Palouse, a nonprofit organization formed in opposition to the project, posted news of the six-month moratorium on social media. “This is a huge step in the right direction, and . . .

  • Court says no to wind turbines, imposes one year moratorium

    Updated: 2025-01-12 19:19:18
    In a special meeting on Dec. 30, the Madison County Quorum Court imposed a 1-year moratorium on wind turbine development within the county. [This item is available in full to subscribers.]

  • Co Tyrone 75m wind turbine refused due to “potential shadow flicker” and wildlife concerns

    Updated: 2025-01-12 14:31:30
    A planning application for the replacement of a wind turbine on lands north of No 62 Tullydraw Road, Dungannon, has been refused as the said wind turbine would have been nearly twice the height of the existing one. The existing wind turbine is 42m in overall height, while the new turbine would have had an overall height of 75m. The planning officer who assessed the planning application wrote: “I consider the proposed turbine will have an unacceptable impact on visual . . .

  • Rep. Van Orden holds talks with frustrated Portage Co. farmers

    Updated: 2025-01-11 14:29:04
    “We’re very concerned about the weather-based energy that’s coming through our area is driving up our land prices and it’s really changing the way our industry is being done,” Trine Spindler said.

  • 3 lawsuits claim Inslee, regulators sidestepped state law to approve Eastern WA wind farm

    Updated: 2025-01-11 14:22:00
    Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the state agency responsible for authorizing energy projects overstepped state law when they approved a controversial energy project south of Kennewick, allege three new lawsuits. Benton County, Tri-Cities CARES and the Yakama Nation followed up on their November promises to sue to curtail Scout Clean Energy from developing a massive wind, solar and battery farm along a 24-mile stretch of the Horse Heaven Hills. Separate suits filed in Thurston County Superior Court ask a judge . . .

  • World-first Monash study shows bird flight paths through two proposed Bass Strait wind farms

    Updated: 2025-01-10 14:13:00
    A world-first study of birds migrating across Bass Strait has shown they travelled directly through zones earmarked for the federal government’s two declared offshore wind farms. Monash University researchers studying Tasmanian Boobook owls have become the first to examine flight migration paths from Victoria to Tasmania, tracking the birds via satellite to map their over-water journeys. The findings, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Emu – Austral Ornithology, highlight the importance of Bass Strait as a flyway for land birds . . .

  • Environment dept under fire over wind farm

    Updated: 2025-01-08 15:37:16
    Environmental organisations Terra Cypria and BirdLife Cyprus found on Tuesday that a wind farm in Kellia state forest in Larnaca, which had been put on hold by the Environment Department for a series of violations, has been concluded with the blessings of the department itself. They said the Republic is already facing an EU procedure for failing to adequately implement a directive on birds. In the context of this procedure, the European Commission has already sent a letter of notice . . .

  • Petition aims to halt Hill of Fare wind farm application

    Updated: 2025-01-08 15:22:19
    Campaigners are petitioning for the site of the proposed Hill of Fare wind farm in Aberdeenshire in a bid to stop the project. The Hill of Fare Windfarm Information Group called for Dunecht Estates, where the wind farm will be based, to get the project’s developer, RES, to withdraw its application. RES is looking to develop the 105.6MW less than four miles from Banchory. Under its current plan, the wind farm will use a total of 16 turbines, with heights . . .

  • Crews clean up hydraulic fluid after Newburyport turbine incident

    Updated: 2025-01-08 15:18:58
    Newburyport neighbors had their first look at cleanup crews that showed up Tuesday morning along Route 1, all under the watchful eye of the Department of Environmental Protection. This is the result of hydraulic fluid that came cascading down from a wind turbine before ending up across the street, leaving blotches of fluid covering the siding of a condo complex, cars, curbing and fences too. Fire officials say it was all the result of a recent rain storm that included . . .

  • Trump says he wants no wind turbines built during his administration

    Updated: 2025-01-07 20:26:44
    President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects. “We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind power, has long made no secret his . . .

  • Offshore wind farms ‘could blind Britain’s radar to enemy missile attacks’

    Updated: 2025-01-07 15:35:31
    Defence experts are working on radical solutions to prevent offshore wind farms blocking radar systems amid fears they could leave the UK vulnerable to missile attacks. Fears have been raised that plans to massively increase the number of turbines in the seas around Britain could leave the Islands open to a surprise attack. Scientists are now working on measures to lessen the impact of the proposed quadrupling of offshore wind power by 2030. They include making turbines from stealth materials . . .

  • Country towns feeling steamrolled by rapid growth of wind energy in regional WA

    Updated: 2025-01-04 20:50:41
    In short: Hundreds of wind turbines are set to dot the landscape across southern WA as part of the state government’s push for more renewable energy. Residents of multiple country towns have expressed concerns about the uneven playing field they face negotiating with energy companies. What’s next? The WA government’s green power agency says the ongoing rollout is a collaborative process between locals and energy developers. The erection of hundreds of wind turbines across Western Australia’s agricultural heartland has communities . . .

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