• First Wind considering new town to get farm project off the ground

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:42:58
    EASTBROOK, Maine — As town officials work on language for an ordinance that would regulate how wind farms can be built and operated, First Wind is considering heading east to Township 16 to get its proposed project under way. David Fowler, senior land manager for First Wind, said Monday that the company hopes to have enough turbines eventually in Eastbrook and neighboring Township 16 for an 80-megawatt capacity wind farm. The turbines would be located on Little Bull Hill in . . .

  • Over 500 now against wind farm plan

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:42:52
    An additional 200 objections have been made to the proposed Galetech windfarm, in the wake of the firm’s submission of further information, and revised plans, to Westmeath County Council. The closing date for submissions on the proposed nine-turbine windfarm to go in the Gaybrook/Gainstown area, fell on Wednesday of last week, and at that stage, a total of over 500 submissions/objections were lodged with the Council, approximately 200 of those having been submitted since Galetech lodged its further information details. . . .

  • Ridgeline Energy appeals project denial

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:42:22
    BONNEVILLE COUNTY, Idaho — Ridgeline Energy is appealing a decision made by the Bonneville County Planning and Zoning Commission after their proposal was shot down last week. The appeal was submitted Wednesday afternoon at the Bonneville County Courthouse. Ridgeline Energy Project Manager Randy Gardner said the merit of the application stands strong and they are taking it to the commissioners to have a second look. “As we reviewed what happened at the Planning and Zoning meeting, we feel confident they . . .

  • ‘Dirty tricks’ claim firm loses appeal over wind turbines

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:41:59
    A wind energy company, accused of using dirty tricks to gain support for a wind farm near Truro, has lost an appeal over its plans. Cornwall Council’s strategic planning committee had to decide an appeal by London-based Coronation Power over the council’s failure to decide on its application to build seven 120m turbines at Truthan Barton, near St Erme, within the standard decision time period and despite an extension of time to process it. The committee resolved to refuse the . . .

  • Community council lodges opposition to Clatto Hill wind farms

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:41:37
    Life in Ceres and surrounding settlements would be disrupted if massive wind turbines were built on Clatto Hill, a community council has claimed. The possible creation of two wind farms on the hill between Kettlebridge and Kennoway would see 10 turbines built — some towering 100 metres and some 120 metres. Ceres and District Community Council is fighting the plans by West Coast Energy and farmer Douglas Rennie, claiming they would have a significant negative impact on the setting of . . .

  • Wind project proposed for Township 16

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:40:55
    TOWNSHIP 16 — First Wind, a wind energy facility company, plans to build a wind farm in Township 16, which is just east of the town of Eastbrook. First Wind Project Manager Dave Fowler said he would be moving forward with the project this fall but has yet to file an application for the development. Since Township 16 is an unincorporated part of Hancock County and has no planning board or board of selectmen, the project will be reviewed by . . .

  • Winds of change in Lammermuir Hills

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:40:34
    Scottish Government ministers now have the reporter’s recommendation on whether or not to approve the 48 turbine wind farm at Fallago Rig on the western edge of the Lammermuir hills. It took the Government over 18 months to make public the findings of the first public inquiry held in 2008, the reporter recommending refusal on the grounds of objections made by the Ministry of Defence. However, before her findings were made public the Ministry of Defence withdrew their objections and . . .

  • Clifton to vote on wind ordinance

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:40:31
    CLIFTON, Maine — A group of residents has petitioned for changes to the wind turbine portion of the recently enacted land use ordinance and requested a secret ballot vote on those changes in November. Selectmen rejected the residents’ request at their last meeting, saying, “they didn’t want it on the ballot and sent it to the planning board,” Eric Johns, chairman of the planning board, said on Tuesday. The town attorney says portions of the proposed changes are illegal, but . . .

  • Wind project payments OK’d

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:39:00
    FLORIDA — In just 20 minutes on Wednesday night, voters approved a $162,000-per-year payment in lieu of taxes agreement with the company behind the Hoosac Wind project to put 20 wind turbines on the Hoosac range. The special town meeting at the town office building on Route 2 saw roughly 40 people quickly vote on all three warrant articles involving the New England Wind LLC project. The project calls for 12 wind turbines in Florida on Bakke Mountain and an . . .

  • Planned wind turbines in South Cayuga causes debate

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:38:56
    As the number of wind farms increases in Ontario, so does the controversy that surrounds them. It seems people either love them or hate them. If all goes to plan for Samsung CT, the company will build and operate a wind and solar cluster in South Cayuga. The Grand Renewable Energy Park is one of 184 planned renewable energy projects for Ontario. It will include a wind facility with 63 wind turbines and a 700 acre facility. William Colterman, a . . .

  • Chamber: Take puff out of wind turbines

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:38:09
    The president of the Tilba District Chamber of Commerce on the New South Wales far south coast says he’s looking forward to today’s visit from the State Heritage Council. Sol Romana-Clark says the Chamber hopes to make the Council aware of the potential impact on heritage values of domestic wind turbines. The Council will spend the next two days in the Eurobodalla, visiting shire centres and meeting local communities. Mr Romana-Clark says the Chamber wants more open discussion on the . . .

  • Wind, solar farms OK on some Williams Act lands

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:38:06
    On Tulare County’s fertile agricultural swaths, solar panels are sprouting in place of citrus-bearing trees and dry grass grown to feed for livestock. Energy developers are harnessing the sun’s rays, adding a new public benefit in the form of alternative energy, and they want to receive property tax breaks traditionally given to farmers and ranchers while doing it. On Tuesday, after months of debate and consideration given to the opinions of agricultural advisory groups, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors . . .

  • PUC approves upgrades for wind farm

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:37:59
    State regulators yesterday approved a $13.5 million transmission line upgrade to connect a wind farm in Roxbury to the grid. The Maine Public Utilities Commission granted conditional approval to Central Maine Power Co. to replace an existing 34.5-kilovolt line from Rumford to Roxbury with a larger, 115-kV line to support Record Hill Wind LLC’s 22-turbine wind farm in western Maine, according to a press release from the PUC. The project will be primarily funded by Record Hill, which is a . . .

  • Dennis Old King’s Highway Committee approves ARC turbine, with conditions

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:37:25
    DENNIS — The Old King’s Highway Historic District Committee approved on a 3-2 vote Aquacultural Research Corporation’s application to build a 243-foot, 600-kilowatt wind turbine on its property at 99 Chapin Beach Road. Committee member Frank Ciambriello and Chairman Peter Lomenzo cast the negative votes Aug. 25 at Dennis Town Hall. Ciambriello maintained that the applicants had failed to file an application to demolish three quanset huts, which he insisted must be done before a certificate of appropriateness could be . . .

  • Shaffer Mountain concerns

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:37:19
    The Shade Creek Watershed Association (SCWA) is very concerned that the Army Corps of Engineers may still be considering granting a permit for an industrial corridor on Shaffer Mountain. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has designated this area as an Exceptional Value (EV) watershed. A DEP study in 2000 determined that less than 2 percent of all waters in Pa. rank as EV. Most likely the percentage is even less now and the industry continues to sacrifice water quality . . .

  • South of Scotland wind turbine proposals unveiled

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:36:16
    Plans for two new wind farms in the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway have been revealed. E.ON Climate and Renewables wants to build up to 21 turbines on Corsbie Moor between Gordon and Lauder. RES has announced plans for an 11-turbine wind farm between New Luce, Kirkcowan and Glenluce, in Dumfries and Galloway. Both companies intend to stage a series of public consultation events over their proposals.

  • Ex-consul discusses regional power flow

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:36:10
    HALIFAX – Canada’s recently departed Consul General to New England says Atlantic Canada’s premiers are working hard to tap the American energy market. But Neil LeBlanc says a number of major hurdles must still be cleared before large quantities of renewable energy are flowing from eastern Canada to the New England states. In an interview Monday, LeBlanc said the premiers have done well in selling their energy message in New England. “But it’s not as simple as saying, ‘We’re here. . . .

  • Presentation planned on prospects for wind farm

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:36:04
    LOCKPORT — Two representatives from the State Power Authority will make a presentation on the Great Lakes wind turbine project at the Sept. 21 meeting of the Niagara County Legislature, Legislator Renae Kimble disclosed Tuesday. Kimble, D-Niagara Falls, told the Legislature’s special committee on wind power that she had lined up an appearance by Sharon Laudisi, business development manager from the Power Authority’s headquarters, and Lou Paonessa, its local spokesman. Legislature Chairman William L. Ross, C-Wheatfield, said it will be . . .

  • MP Bob Walter joins rally against wind turbine plans

    Updated: 2010-09-02 11:35:51
    North Dorset MP Bob Walter joined a rally of campaigners fighting renewed proposals to erect giant wind turbines on farmland at Silton near Gillingham. Mr Walter told the Save Our Silton campaigners he has received nearly 1,000 letters objecting to Ecotricity’s proposal to build four 120-metre high turbines. Last July the Gloucestershire-based company’s bid to build six turbines was rejected unanimously by North Dorset District Council’s planning committee but they now have a new proposal.

  • Blade failure

    Updated: 2010-09-01 16:45:58
    One blade of an Invenergy LLC wind turbine in a cornfield east of Grand Ridge in LaSalle County split and buckled apparently as a result of strong winds that blew up suddenly during the weekend of July 24-25. A spokesman said the turbines are designed to come to rest with one blade pointing down and parallel to the base of the tower in the event of high winds, but the winds came so quickly the safety mechanism didn’t have time . . .

  • Wind turbines can bring financial windfall, issues for landowners

    Updated: 2010-09-01 12:36:36
    EARL PARK — In the middle of nowhere on U.S. 41, Stan’s Tap pops out of the middle of cornfields. It’s the only thing around, besides corn and soybeans. Bryan Berry walks inside and a couple of local men call him by name. Berry tells them he’ll be back later and heads out in his white pickup. As he pulls out of the parking lot, over the top of the corn-covered ridge across County Road 500 West, a huge blade . . .

  • Dong gives up on land-based turbines; Mass protests mean the energy firm will look offshore

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:53:11
    State-owned energy firm Dong Energy has given up building more wind farms on Danish land, following protests from residents complaining about the noise the turbines make. It had been Dong and the government’s plan that 500 large turbines be built on land over the coming 10 years, as part of a large-scale national energy plan. This plan has hit a serious stumbling block, though, due to many protests, and the firm has now given up building any more wind farms . . .

  • As India looks at cutting carbon, a wind farm scandal

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:53:03
    The world’s third largest maker of wind turbines, Suzlon Energy Ltd., stands accused again of cheating tribal people off their land in order to set up wind farms in India, highlighting the dark side of a new industry that harvests profits from green energy and carbon offsets through projects in developing countries. In an April cover story, The Christian Science Monitor reported how Suzlon built wind turbines on tribal lands in Maharashtra state, resulting in local unrest. Investors in the . . .

  • Of rights and wind

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:52:49
    There is enormous wisdom coming out of the Supreme Judicial Court in yesterday’s Cape Wind ruling. Sad to say that wisdom was found in the dissenting opinion offered by Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and will, therefore, be little more than a footnote in the long and tortured history of this project. Project opponents had challenged a decision of the state Energy Facilities Siting Board that granted the project permission to run power transmission lines through state waters – permission essential . . .

  • Dispute over Red Lily Wind Farm Project returning to court

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:51:58
    REGINA — Some landowners in southeastern Saskatchewan have turned to the courts to press for significant changes to a $60-million wind farm project. “We think we’re going to be successful in preventing them from building this close to people’s houses,” said Brad Jamieson, the Saskatoon lawyer representing area residents who recently filed a class-action lawsuit. His clients are concerned by the proximity of the turbines to be erected under the Red Lily Wind Farm Project. The 25-megawatt wind farm will . . .

  • State moves to curb hazards alternative energy sites pose for wildlife

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:51:47
    With its sharp talons, powerful beak and 7-foot wingspan, the golden eagle is one of Arizona’s fiercest and most imposing birds of prey. It’s no match, however, for the rotating blades of turbines in wind farms. Carcasses of eagles and other raptors are a common sight at wind farms across the country. According to a California Energy Commission study, over 1,000 birds of prey are killed every year by turbines at one wind farm, the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area . . .

  • Mountain slayers and profiteers

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:51:24
    Developers of mountaintop industrial wind are touting many promised benefits – from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, decreased dependence on fossil fuels, to a huge economic renaissance. These are all false promises spun to enhance public acceptance. In recent months, as I have studied the economic and ecological impacts of mountaintop industrial wind, I have been amazed at the distortions and misrepresentations of the wind developers who, unfortunately, have been accepted without question by many in the media. As an environmentalist, . . .

  • Windfarm set to bypass council’s planners

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:50:47
    More details have emerged about a west-Clare based company’s plan to build the Midwest’s largest ever windfarm project at Shragh and Mountrivers in Doonbeg. Each turbine will be 122m (400ft) high and the overall investment cost is about €100 million. The proposal by Clare Coastal Wind Power Ltd for the west-Clare area is also set to be Clare’s first “strategic infrastructure” development case, thereby by-passing Clare County Council’s planning department. Instead, the company is hoping that the planning application will . . .

  • AG launches investigation into Cape Vincent wind dealings

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:50:31
    The state Attorney General’s office has launched an investigation into possible misconduct by Cape Vincent officials for wind turbine farms proposed by Acciona Energia and British Petroleum. In an Aug, 13 letter, the state ordered all documents from the town council and planning board related to wind development be turned over. Two out of five town board members and three out of five planning board members either personally have agreements to lease their land to wind developers or have relatives . . .

  • Windpower panel faces 2-week deadline

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:49:51
    The Niagara County Legislature’s special committee on offshore windpower was challenged Tuesday to quickly assess the pros and cons of a local Lake Ontario wind project. Committee chairman Clyde Burmaster, R-Ransomville, assigned four “areas of concern” to individual legislators and asked them to bring back their best answers to questions in two weeks. The committee’s task is to assess whether the county should be for or against possible siting of an up-to-166 turbine wind farm in Lake Ontario, in the . . .

  • Ordinance to address wind energy facilities

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:49:48
    Pulaski County has enacted what may be the first ordinance in Virginia to regulate the construction, operation and decommissioning of large wind energy facilities. Kevin Byrd, executive director of New River Valley Planning District Commission, told members of the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors the county already has an ordinance to regulate small wind energy facilities. However, he said the new Wind Energy Facility Ordinance for larger facilities is possibly the first one in the state. The purpose of the . . .

  • Cape Wind dissent rocks environmentalists

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:49:18
    Environmentalists were thrown on the defensive yesterday after the chief justice of the Masachusetts Supreme Judicial Court warned that a pro-Cape Wind ruling opens the door for future nuclear power plants and oil rigs along the state’s shoreline. The state’s high court, in a 4-2 ruling, upheld the power of the state’s Energy Facilities Siting Board to overrule local opposition to transmission lines coming in from the planned offshore Cape Wind project on Nantucket Sound. The ruling was seen as . . .

  • Heart Mountain Irrigation wind anemometer investment irks couple

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:48:34
    Members of the Heart Mountain Irrigation District Board of Commissioners should pay out of their own pockets for four wind anemometers they purchased with district funds, a Powell couple says. That is because the board did not research the legality of wind development properly prior to buying instruments, which measure wind speed, Fred and Buffy Burris said Friday. The also want a $150 newly-approved annual maintenance charge reduced. The Burrises, who live on four acres off Lane 11H, west of . . .

  • Huron-Kinloss Twp. Council hoping wind turbines developers will follow setback guidelines

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:48:00
    Huron-Kinloss Twp. Council is hoping wind turbine developers will follow their setback guidelines despite the Ontario Green Energy Act. “They’re here to stay, whether we like it or not so we need to find a way to work with these wind turbine developers,” said Mayor Mitch Twolan, at the township council meeting on Aug. 23. Council agreed to a setback for wind turbines of 1,000 metres from residences and a two kilometre setback from any town, including Ripley, Lucknow and . . .

  • SJC ruling gives Cape Wind project green light to build

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:47:49
    A divided Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that a state board had the power to sidestep community opposition to grant the controversial Cape Wind energy project local and state permits it needs to start construction in the waters off Cape Cod. The long-awaited 4-2 decision removes a potential obstacle to the wind farm as its developers prepare to start building 130 turbines in Nantucket Sound within the year. If the court had sided with opponents, the project would probably have . . .

  • Bourne wind farm under review

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:47:23
    BOURNE — The developers of a proposed seven-turbine wind project in Bournedale made their first presentation to the Cape Cod Commission Monday night in front of a crowd that included both supporters and neighbors with concerns over the proposal. “We feel that it went very well … and (we) had an opportunity to detail the project and its benefits,” said Greg O’Brien, president of Stony Brook Group of Brewster, which is handling publicity for the project. New Generation Wind, which . . .

  • North Ridge Wind Farm eyed in Parishville area

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:47:12
    North Ridge Wind Farm appeared on the state Independent System Operator’s list for interconnection requests into the state power grid. The request lists a 100-megawatt project to interconnect at National Grid’s Nicholville-Parishville substation. Atlantic Wind LLC, a subsidiary of PPM Energy of Portland, Ore., is the developer of the project. PPM is part of Iberdrola Renewables Inc., a Spanish power company. Iberdrola Communications Manager Paul N. Copleman said in an e-mail that the company is “evaluating met tower options in . . .

  • Freeholders ask gov to weigh in on wind turbine; Board members say they lack power to halt Bayshore project

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:46:47
    HOLMDEL — Monmouth County Freeholders plan to ask the state to consider placing a moratorium on a controversial 380-foot-tall industrial wind turbine planned for construction within 1,000 feet of a Union Beach neighborhood. At a meeting of the Board of Chosen Freeholders at Holmdel Town Hall on Aug. 26, Freeholder Director Lillian G. Burry said Gov. Chris Christie signed bill S-763 into law on Aug. 18, which authorizes the directors of boards of freeholders to exercise veto power over proposed . . .

  • Residents express concern over wind turbines

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:46:35
    Talk early, talk often. That was the message during Tuesday’s public meeting in Melrose to discuss the findings and recommendations of a joint land use study. The $140,000 federally funded study is geared at preventing incompatible land uses between entities, such as Curry County and Cannon Air Force Base, according to Rudy Bauer, who supervised the study. “The study is an effort to have Cannon Air Force Base and the surrounding jurisdictions to live together harmoniously,” Bauer said. Bauer said . . .

  • High court green lights Cape Wind

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:45:47
    BOSTON — In a 4-2 ruling that could degrade local control over Cape Cod energy projects, the state’s highest court yesterday rejected a challenge to a so-called “super permit” for the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm. The potentially precedent-setting decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the approval last year of nine local and state permits by the state Energy Facilities Siting Board for cables connecting the wind farm to the electric grid. The majority opinion found the siting . . .

  • As the wind wheels turn, Indiana leaves market alone

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:45:42
    If the term “wind power” evokes images of picturesque Dutch windmills amidst a landscape of tulips, take a drive on I-65 north of Lafayette. A wind farm in an Indiana cornfield looks more like the setting for a sci-fi film than for a 17th-century Flemish painting. Hundreds of turbines loom over the adjacent countryside. Rotary blades of 100 feet or more top massive towers and sweep a vertical airspace of just under an acre apiece. Advertisement “It is surreal, very . . .

  • County sets rules for wind growth

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:45:21
    The rules of the game are set, according to Ellis County Commission Chairman Perry Henman. He, along with Commissioner Glenn Diehl, voted in favor of approving the rules — a revised zoning code for commercial wind energy systems — Monday night. On a 2-1 vote, changes to the regulations that have been talked about for years were approved and will be implemented upon publication of the resolution commissioners signed Monday. The new rules call for increased setbacks in commercial wind . . .

  • Suzlon windmills on tribal land; District collector orders land grab inquiry in Attappady, Kerala

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:44:29
    In the guise of green energy production, large-scale land transactions are taking place in Attappady, a backward tribal area in Kerala’s Palakkad district. On August 8, district collector K V Mohan ordered the village administration in all six villages of Attappady to submit details of the land deals since January 2006. Earlier, in a report submitted to the state government in July end, the district collector had recommended a detailed investigation of the land deals by Sarjan Realities, a Pune . . .

  • Action group planned to fight Wigtown Bay windfarm

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:44:11
    The fight to have controversial windfarm plans nipped in the bud will be stepped up next week. An action group to spearhead the campaign against the “turbine too far” offshore development in Wigtown Bay will be finalised on Wednesday night. Keep Wigtown Bay Natural already has a website up and running. The Wigtown County Buildings venue is expected to be packed out for a meeting that will finalise the composition of the group. A petition against the development is circulating . . .

  • Divided Supreme Judicial Court clears Cape Wind

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:43:55
    BOSTON — The controversial Cape Wind project has proven to be such a divisive issue, even the state’s highest court can’t agree on it. The Supreme Judicial Court sided with developer Cape Wind Associates on Tuesday by rejecting an appeal of a permit the state granted for transmission lines needed to run the proposed 130-turbine wind farm. But the two justices on the SJC who dissented in the 4-2 vote said the ruling could have a widespread negative impact on . . .

  • Public consultation for Sliabh Ban plan

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:43:25
    On September 14 next a public consultation will take place at the Percy French Hotel, Strokestown, from 4pm to 9pm. The consultation is being organised by forestry and renewable energy company, Coillte and aims to address local concerns with regard to the proposed wind farm at Sliabh Ban. The company has also recently met with members of the Sliabh Ban Community Group, of which Mike de Jong is a member. “Four of us met with three of their representatives recently,” . . .

  • Western Maine wind line near Roxbury approved

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:43:15
    Maine utility regulators have approved a plan to upgrade a power line that will carry electricity produced at a wind-power facility under construction near Rumford. The Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to grant conditional approval to Central Maine Power to upgrade its line near Roxbury. The $13.5 million upgrade is needed to connect the proposed Record Hill wind farm to CMP’s electric transmission system. The PUC’s conditions include a requirement that Record Hill Wind LLC make a three-month prepayment to . . .

  • Saskatchewan residents push courts for changes to $60 M wind farm

    Updated: 2010-09-01 11:42:41
    REGINA — Landowners in southeastern Saskatchewan have turned to the courts to press for significant changes to a $60-million wind farm project. “We think we’re going to be successful in preventing them from building this close to people’s houses,” said Brad Jamieson, the Saskatoon lawyer representing some area residents who recently filed a class-action lawsuit. His clients are concerned by the proximity of the turbines to be erected under the Red Lily Wind Farm Project, a 25-megawatt wind farm that . . .

  • Another Nuclear Folly

    Updated: 2010-08-20 16:32:50
    The refurbishment of New Brunswick’s 680 MW Candu reactor, it’s only one, is in trouble. There are three things that we can count on. Death, taxes, and nuclear cost overruns. The project started in March of 2008, and was scheduled to take 18 months. That was 29 months ago, and Atomic Energy of [...]

  • Moscow Smoke

    Updated: 2010-08-12 21:29:49
    The smoke has finally cleared from Moscow, after days of smog caused by forest and peat fires from their record hot summer. Air pollution during the crisis has been at 3 times higher than the acceptable level. And the death rate has doubled. The city’s morgues are close to full. If [...]

  • Health effects today: climate change, ozone hole, and biomass

    Updated: 2010-07-27 21:49:17
    Reading Ian McEwen’s excellent Solar, I ran across some numbers and checked them with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From Working Group 2, chapter 8 (pdf, go to document to see sources) 8.2.10 Ultraviolet radiation and health Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure causes a range of health impacts. Globally, excessive solar UVR exposure has caused [...]

  • On Electricity Pricing

    Updated: 2010-07-16 15:26:28
    Our electricity generating plants are old. The coal and nuclear plants were built between the late 60’s and the 1980’s. Some of them need replacing, as the cost to keep them operating is becoming too high. So, what are our options to replace old plants? The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) provides [...]

  • On Birds

    Updated: 2010-07-07 01:03:25
    Wind turbines sometimes come under criticism for killing birds. While it is true that wind turbines kill some birds, the average turbine kills about 2 birds per year. This number needs to be kept in perspective. For ecologists, it isn’t the death of an individuals that matters – all living things will [...]

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