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- 8/5/12 Anyone at the Public Service Commission listening?
- 7/31/12 Town of Sherman VS Wind developer
- 7/27/12 Emerging Energies - (now known as EEW Services) ---Windfarm Strong Arm: Chapter 3
- 7/19/2012
- 1/19/2012 Wind Turbine Noise: The Sound of Trouble
- 7/17/2012 Wind developers solution: How about we give you something noisy to drown out that turbine noise?
- 7/17/2012 Taking it to the streets: protestors block truck carrying wind turbine parts
- 7/14/12 Wind Farm Strong Arm, chapter 436
- 7/13/12 Paid pro-wind lobbyist at it again: Denies first-hand experience of people forced from their homes because of wind turbines as if his paycheck depended on it....
- 7/13/12 Big Wind VS The Little Guy: Will the Saint Croix HHS Step In?
- 7/10/12 If she was your daughter, what would you do? If it was your home, what would you do?
- 6/12/2012 Heartbreaking story from down under
- 6/2/2012 Judge says turbine neighbors will have their day in court
- 6/1/2012 "We All Know Better Now Send Wind Developers Packing" and other signs you can't post in the Town of Morrison
- 6/1/2012 T. Boone's Wind Farm Hangover
- 5/28/2012 One Turbine = So Much Misery
- 5/28/2012 Getting it RIGHT down under: longer setbacks recommended by government health agency
- 5/26/12 Big trouble in little Falmouth: First hand accounts of living with wind turbines
- 4/31/12 Fiddling with wind power while the earth burns
- 4/25/12 Another one bites the dust AND Different state, same nightmare: wind developers pushing for 1000 foot setbacks from 500 foot turbines
- 4/23/12 How long will the Wind Industry deny the problem? For as long as the money keeps coming.
- 4/16/12 Brits Back Away from Big Wind AND How many types of turbine noise are there? And how many more times are wind developers going to tell us they sound like a refrigerator?
- 4/12/11 Gone with the wind developer
- 4/2/12 Their money or your life? Wind Farm Strong Arm Continues: Emerging Energies VS Town of Forest
- 3/30/12 Oh. THAT'S Why wind developers won't agree to give residents a property value protection agreement.
- 3/30/12 Oh. THAT'S why wind developers won't agree to give residents a property value protection plans
- 3/24/12 Message from wind developers to birds: DROP DEAD! The U.S. government stands behind us AND ANDAnd.... Life in a wind project: In Vinalhaven, Maine, the misery continues
- 3/19/12 How did that PSC wind rule thing turn out? Lobbyists and Wind developers win, Wisconsin residents lose.
- 3/15/12 Breaking news: wind developers lied to residents. Wait... I guess that's really old news and no surprise
- 3/15/12 Bird and bat killers called out: Environmental groups put the heat on wind developers and the US Fish and Wildlife service
- 3/15/12 Farmers seeing the truth about wind developers:The lunch was free, but the contract you signed afterwards tied your land up for 50 years
- 3/14/12 Tax breaks for Big Wind shot down but expected to pop back up later this year
- 3/13/12 Too close to home: Not old enough to vote or sign a petition but old enough and close enough to be tormented by wind turbines AND How green is a bird and bat killing machine? Wind industry claims ring false as slaughter exposed
- 3/12/12 Turbine spokes person on theoretical turbine noise AND the reality of turbine noise in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
- 3/11/12 In the face of overwhelming evidence of trouble, what will the Wind Industry do? Deny, deny, deny
- 3/10/12 British Medical Journal: Wind Turbine Noise
- 3/10/12 Does the contract say the wind developer gets to tear up your land? It sure does. As long as he 'restores' it to what he thinks is reasonably close to what he says it was like before he got there. (P.S. If you signed on with a wind developer, hope you took your 'before' pictures!)
- 3/10/12 Two reasons wind developer are happy: 1: Now law in Wisconsin : Industrial scale wind turbines over 40 stories tall can be sited just 1250 feet -- or less than 500 steps----from your door. What's that like? AND 2: We kill eagles, and the federal government lets us because we're wind developers!
- 3/6/12 Your life in their hands: Will SB 50 be voted on today? Will it pass? If it doesn't, it's a wind developer's dream come true. Rural Wisconsin residents get the nightmare.
- 3/5/12 RED ALERT: Contact your Wisconsin State legislators today!
- 3/4/12 Why'd my property value drop? Look out my back door AND Town board united against wind farm strong arm.
- 3/3/12 Wind Farm Strong Arm in St. Croix County
- 3/2/12 Convey Inevitability: Wind developer's playbook 101
- 3/1/12 Wisconsin's dirty (electricity) secret: dumping neutral current and ruining lives
- 3/1/12 Take action
- 2/29/12 Yes there is a lien on your property, and so sorry for the inconvinience, but remember that wind contract you signed with us? It said it was OK.
- 2/26/12 Life with wind turbines in a PSC approved wind project
- 2/25/12 Fighting Emerging Energies' Wind Farm Strong Arm
- 2/20/12 More turbines equal more problems: Your tax dollars wasted and Farmers left holding the bag
- 2/18/12 Not willing to let it go to a jury trial, Big Wind settles resident's lawsuit out of court. Terms of settlement? What else? Confidential.
- 2/17/12 Sleepless Fond Du Lac County wind project residents suffer and abandon their homes because of wind turbine noise and vibration, Madison lobbyist dismisses their problems and $ings $ame old $ong for his $upper AND More from wind project residents
- 2/17/12 Wind developers say project will not harm birds. Nature Canada does not agree.
- 2/17/12 Wind Industry: Cash Cow, Where Art Thou?
- 2/16/12 Wind Industry: Let us Keep our Cash Cow AND Let us Kill Golden Eagles AND We Don't Know Why that Turbine Caught Fire ANDTaking heat on U.S. Senate Floor
- 2/12/12 For Sale: Entire Wind Farm Division: For More Info: Call Alliant Energy
- 2/12/12 The Noise Heard 'Round the World: Wisconsin Legislature, are you listening?
- 2/10/12 Their money or your life: enactment of PSC wind siting rules equals profit for Big Wind and misery for rural residents
- 2/8/12 Dear Town of Forest, um, let's forget all about how we tried to sue you for $25 million dollars! It's almost Valentine's day. Let's be together! Love from the Wind Developers that are tearing your township apart
- 2/7/12 Why this Wisconsin family abandoned their home after Brown County wind turbines went up
- 2/6/12 Big Wind's dark side exposed in movie "Windfall". Even National Public Radio and the Wall Street Journal get it: Will Wisconsin legisators? AND Should your money keep feeding wind developer's cash cow?
- 2/2/12 Why did this Brown County family abandon their home? Ask the wind developer who put wind turbines fifty stories tall too close to their door
- 2/2/12 Roger Ebert: Thumbs up to "Windfall" Thumbs Down to Big Wind
- 2/1/12 "Wind-friendly" Illinois passes moratorium on wind development in Sagamon county.
- 2/1/12 Wind developer to sleepless residents: I can't snap my fingers and make the noise go away
- 1/30/12 What caused the turbine fire in New York State on Saturday? How close should a 40-50 story turbine be to your house? Why should you hope your home is upwind of the turbine if it bursts into flames?
- 1/30/12 FULL TEXT of Brown County Board of Health Resolution Requesting Emergency State Aid For Wind Project Families
- 1/29/12 How Wisconsin Got Its Wind Rules AND Falling over in 2009, Catching on fire in 2012: More trouble in Altona Wind Project
- 1/29/12 What's it like to live in a PSC-approved Wisconsin wind project? Hell may be better.
- 1/27/12 How much longer will wind developers, lobbyists and the PSC continue to deny the misery they've caused Wisconsin residents? AND Message from the Wind Industry: As as long you never speak to, study, or respond to any wind project residents who are suffering you'll find our product is perfectly safe.
- 1/25/12 Sen. Lasee introduces bill to give wind-siting power back to local communities, Madison wind lobbyist who helped write PSC rules doesn't like that idea one bit.
- 1/25/12 The noise heard 'round the world
- 1/23/12 What happens after the pretty music stops and you really hear the turbine?
- 1/23/12 Look! It's fifty stories tall, cost a couple of million dollars and the best part is it will last for twenty whole years: Seeing Big Wind from the PR angle
- 1/23/12 Visualizing wind turbine impacts on a rural community
- 1/24/12 Straight from the guy who is (having trouble) living with the turbine
- 1/23/12 Wha-a-a? Illinois Wind developer says he'll give a setback of 1,800 to 2,000 feet for a 480 foot tall turbine? So, why are Wisconsin wind developers telling us it can't be done?
- 1/23/12 Farmers: Just say NO to Big Wind in Ontario
- 1/22/12 Wind company wants permission to kill golden and bald eagles, says the only reason endangered eagles are in the area is because of baiting by rural residents. USFWS disagrees.
- 1/22/12 Scam Watch: Apostles Inc. & Almighty Wind Inc. to investors: have we got a deal for you!
- 1/22/12 New wind map from the U.S. Department of Energy
- 1/22/12 How is this news to anyone? Why are we not surprised?
- 1/21/12 Wind Industry says farming communities + industrial wind turbines = true love. In Ontario, 37,000 farming families just aren't feeling it.
- 1/20/12 Getting away with murder: All that's standing between wind developers and their obscene profits is that stupid law that protects endangered bald and golden eagles.
- 1/17/12 Gasland VS Windfall: nobody wins (except the millionaires)
- 1/14/12 They fought the residents and... the residents won
- 1/13/12 Frozen Assets: Ice stops two thirds of turbines in project
- 1/12/12 What happens when members of town government are in bed with wind developers? AND What happens when the left arm doesn't know where the right arm went?
- 1/11/12 Fiddling with wind power while the earth burns
- 1/10/12 Health Department: Yeah, OK. There are health problems associated with wind turbines but we're not going to do anything about it
- 1/9/12 Why should wind turbine setbacks be measured from property lines?
- 1/9/12 Sticks and Stones: Ask hard questions about wind turbines and CO2, get called an 'anti-wind crank'
- 1/8/12 Bill would keep local government from being shut out of wind regulations
- 1/7/12 Eagle Killing Wind Developers: How can they sleep at night? Easy. They don't live near wind turbines.
- 1/6/12 Giving the power back to local government: Wisconsin turbine siting issue takes a new turn
- 1/6/12 Turbine blades go flying in UK wind storm, but don't worry, that could never happen in Wisconsin, right? AND Turbine blade crashes to ground the day before ceremony to celebrate it AND Get back onto our sinking ship: Vestas shares lose 92% of value since 2008, tells US to extend PTC or else
- 1/4/12 Another year of stress in St. Croix County AND Who will speak up for the eagles? Who will speak up for preservation of the wilderness? Why are wind developers getting away with this and why is the federal government helping them? AND What's it like living near wind turbines? Another first-hand account for wind companies and lawmakers to ignore
- 1/4/12 What made this wind booster finally believe 'NIMBY' complaints have merit?
- 1/4/12 Scenes from a Wisconsin wind sighting council meeting... AND Plant trees not wind turbines!
- 1/2/12 An 'inconvenient truth' about the wind industry AND Mount Pleasant to get waxed by SC Johnson wind turbines AND What's happening with Goodue Wind in 2012
- 1/1/12 Life in a wind project: In Illinois and North Dakota the story is the same
- 12/31/11 Another report for wind developers to ignore AND The size is all wrong but at least Lego got the turbine noise part right
- 12/30/11 Wind developers solution to landowner's complaints about noise? Make them pay for the study and put a lien on their property if they don't AND Talking truth to the board of health
- 12/29/11 Another study for wind companies and state government to ignore AND Wind developer's lost cash cow was called Section 1603
- 12/29/11 He's Baa-aaaak AND What wind turbine noise?
- 12/28/11 Rejected by local government, wind company goes to the Public Service Commission AND 2013 predictions for Big Wind
- 12/26/11 More evidence of negative health effects wind developers claim do not exist AND Getting away with murder: how green is a bird and bat killing machine?
- 12/24/11 UPDATED: Before you sign on with a wind developer: some legal advice AND Money doesn't always talk: More farmers saying no to wind developers
- 12/23/11 UPDATED: What's it like living near 500 foot turbines? Ask the residents of Glenmore, Wisconsin AND National release of documentary "Windfall" announced AND Once turbines are up, wind company disputes taxes owed.
- 12/22/11 Columbia County wind project comes on line AND Vesta's wishes you a Merry Christmas by throwing bus-sized iceballs from animated turbines AND Wisconsin Citizens Safe Wind Siting Guidelines released via PSC website AND Eagle nests and residents homes: two things wind developers couldn't care less about
- 12/21/11 Wind Industry push for tax credits and cash grants continues AND Wait.... HOW much does it cost to take a wind turbine down? Town tangled by turbine trouble AND They never met a wind farm they didn't say yes to: PSC announces 102.5 MW wind project application in St. Croix County
- 12/20/11 What jobs? AND Wind developer's cash cow may go dry AND new noise study backs up wind project residents complaints AND Do wind turbines effect property values? Ask the wind project residents trying to sell their homes.
- 12/19/11 We've got what it takes to take what you have: we're a WIND company AND P.S.Those safety rules don't apply to us.
- 12/19/11 If you give a wind developer a permit.....
- 12/16/11 A letter from a turbine manufacturer
- 12/16/11 The 'very rare event' that keeps happening: Video of turbine bursting into flames and throwing debris AND what a pro- wind website has to say about turbine fires
- 12/9/11 When it comes to wind turbines, free wheeling means start running: Wind company workers must evacuate area at winds of 55mph, but what about residents who live there? AND Farming community fights wind developer AND Waking up to turbine noise
- 12/8/11 Turbine loses brake control: When free-wheeling means start running AND Eagle man didn't need eagle eye to see why turbines don't belong in nesting area
- 12/6/11 Big Wind VS Little Farmer
- 12/5/11 What's up with the Wind Rules in Wisconsin AND Another letter from a wind project resident AND Look What They've Done to our Fields, Ma: More photos of farmfield fragmentation in WeEnergies wind project
- 12/4/11 Illinois Town gets 2,000 foot setback
- 11/30/11 Buying silence: Wind company's out-of-court settlement comes with gag order AND Environmentalists are speaking out about the dark side of Big Wind
- 11/29/11 Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide case AND Wind Farm Strong Arm hits Native Americans AND Toothless USFWS vs Jaws Big Wind
- 11/21/11 Fragmented farmfields in WeEnergies new wind project AND How do you UN-sign on the dotted line? Farmers want out of wind developer's contracts
- 11/17/11 Where did all that money go? AND How Green was My Turbine?
- 11/16/11 From talking loud to saying nothing: what's going on in the Village of Cascade? AND What does a 'no-tresspassing' sign mean to a wind developer?
- 11/15/11 Wind developer is all smiles until it's time pay what was promised.
- 11/14/11 Bat VS turbine = dead bat
- 11/13/11 Turbine trouble in Village of Cascade
- 11/12/11 Guess who's paying for that wind developer's dinner? AND David v. Goliath: Minnesota community fighting to protect residents and wildlife from wind developers hellbent on meeting deadline for tax incentives
- 11/9/11 More photos of field fragmentation in We Energies Columbia County wind project AND Notes on Big Wind votes from around the country.
- 11/8/11 How Green Was My Turbine?
- 11/8/11 400 foot wind turbines VS two-ounce songbirds. Guess who wins.
- 11/7/11 Look what they've done to our fields, Ma: Wisconsin's newest wind project as seen from the air AND Wind developers in Illinois are no better
- 11/4/11 You break it, you pay: Lee County Illinois want's wind developers to give residents property value protection plan AND Same Turbines, Different Continent: the news from Down Under
- 11/3/11 What are the wind rules in Walnut, Illinois?
- 11/2/11 Studies indicate bats and birds plus big wind turbines equal big trouble. What about the same kind of study for the people in wind projects who are having health issues?
- 10/31/11 What's killing bats around Wisconsin wind turbines? Um... the wind turbines?
- 10/29/11 The noise heard 'round the world, the one wind developers say is not a problem AND American Bird Conservancy speaks out about massive bird kills in wind projects
- 10/28/11 Taking the problem seriously: Senator Lasee speaks out on behalf of those who will be most affected AND Fire in the belly VS Fire in the hole: Standoff on Lowell Mountain continues. Protesters stand firm
- 10/27/11 Wind developers Eco-Energy/ Acciona caught red-handed AND turbines shut down at night to protect bats.That's a good start, but what about protecting people?
- 11/25/11 A good reason to contact your legislators AND Wisconsin family's nightmare begins when turbines start turning
- 9/24/11 Wisconsn wind rules still up in the air, turbines planned near Racine
- 10/22/11 Wisconsin Wind Siting Issues Continue
- 10/19/11 Seeking longer setbacks in Illinois AND Turbine trouble isn't going away
- 10/17/11 From Ontario to Vermont to Wisconsin, Big Wind equals Big Problems
- 10/12/11 Big Wind to little neighbors: Take the money and run or we'll MAKE you run ANDWhat drives Big Wind: Big Ignorance and Big Tax Dollars
- 10/11/11 Show me the study: Wisconsin senator's bill requires health effects of wind turbines to be studied.
- 10/10/11 Wisconsin gets serious about getting wind siting right
- 10/7/11 The answer is YES: There are negative healh effects from poorly sited wind turbines
- 10/5/11 Can wind turbines generate health problems? The answer is YES.
- 10/4/11 Great Balls of Fire---another turbine bursts into flame
- 10/4/11 Did you hear the one about the tax man and the wind turbine man and the little man? Guess who loses.
- 10/4/11 Too Loud? Too bad.
- 10/4/11 (Not so great) balls of fire
- 10/1/11 Turbine trouble, first hand account
- 10/1/11 Property Values and Wind Turbines: How long will the wind industry continue to deny the obvious?
- 9/28/11 What's it like living close to an industrial scale wind turbine? For this person it's been a nighmare
- 9/22/11 Noise Complaints? What noise complaints? AND Wind farm family files lawsuit AND More noise about the noise wind developers say is no problem AND Illinois Governor gets free trip to China, Lee county gets Chinese turbines and WOW--12 whole permanent jobs
- 9/21/11 Manitowoc Moratorium voted down AND Shell Oil Brings You Big Wind AND Wind Farm Strong Arm Hits Birds
- 9/20/11 Study links wind turbine noise and sleep disruption
- 9/17/11 Nightmare in the cornfield. Got complaints? Too late. You already signed the wind developers contract AND Don't Ask, Can't Tell, wind companies put gag orders on families whose homes they've purchased
- 9/16/11 New nighttime wind turbine noise standards in Maine
- 9/15/11 Bats VS wind turbines: Bats lose and so do farmers AND Sour dreams are made of this AND Put on the brakes before it's too late but please wait for the turbine to stop turning
- 9/11/11 Will your homeowners insurace cover damage done by wind project construction? AND County says we want more protection, will the Public Utilities Board say "Too Bad"?
- 9/10/11 Why your town needs a moratorium on Big Wind AND More about the noise the wind industry says is all in you head
- 9/9/11 Farmer Regrets signing on with wind company ANDDown Under or Up Over turbine troubles are the same
- 9/8/11 Does Wind Industry "Green Halo" give it License to Kill? AND Does your town need a moratorium on building industrial scale wind turbines? If so, here's one! AND Brother can you spare another tax break for Big Wind? ANDGag me with an order: Public Comment shut down by BLM
- 9/7/11 The turbines are up, the noise is too loud, who ya gonna call? Not the wind company AND Long on questions and short on answers: Rural community finds it hard to get information on wind project
- 9/4/11 Like a bad neighbor, NextEra is there and tearing apart another rural community
- 9/3/11 What does wind industry propaganda look like AND Living with wind turbines: First hand experiences AND Board of Health looks into complaints from wind project residents AND Hawaii says NO to Big Wind
- 9/2/11 Wind turbines and the trouble they bring to rural communities
- 9/1/11 Wind Industry is NOT for the birds AND News from Down Under
- 11/29/11 Wind turbines on summer vacation during Texas heatwave AND New uses for disturbing low frequency noise AND Down under, 2 kilometer setback endangers wind developer wallets AND siting rules in US protect wind developer's wallets by endangering Golden Eagles AND It's a small small small small world when it comes to troubles with wind turbines
- 8/28/11 Got Turbine Noise? Can't Sleep? Who Ya Gonna Call? AND Town protects itself with ordinance calling for 3,000 foot setbacks from property lines, 35dbA at night, 400 foot turbine height restriction
- 8/27/11 Dear Mr. President, please send us more Big Money for Big Wind, AND Wind Goliath Invenergy pushes 'scrap value' ploy and road repair wranglin' on rural residents
- 8/26/11 Turbines too loud? Too bad, homeowner ! Those 'noise limits' are there for decorative purposes only AND It's not just the Dems who love Big Wind, GOP Pres-Candidate Rick Perry says thumbs up to spending billions on transmission lines for wind farms
- 8/24/11 What is Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker, and how many hours of it should you have to endure? AND Turbine related Bat Kills making the news everywhere BUT Wisconsin where the bat kill rate is more than TEN TIMES the national average. Why have no Wisconsin environmental groups stepped up to say something?
- 8/22/11 Turbines cause trouble for another farmer AND more complaints about the noise problem the wind industry says does not exist
- 8/21/11 Epidemiologist weighs in on wind turbines and their effect on human health
- 8/20/11 Rick Perry and George W. Bush have company: meet the right-wing fans of Big Wind: Gingrich, Romney, Pawlenty, Ron Paul autograph turbine blade AND Golden Eagles And Bats VS Wind's Cash Cow
- 8/19/11 Breaking it down in Indiana: wind info presentation draws hundreds AND Sleeplessness, high blood pressure, earaches and other delights AND Another doctor speaks out about the problem the wind industry says does not exist
- 8/18/11 What noise? I parked my car near a wind turbine and didn't hear anything AND what do you mean I can't put a met tower up in your Township without permisson? Don't you know I'm a wind developer?
- 8/17/11 License to Kill: Wind developers get a pass from the USFWS
- 8/16/11 New Evidence of adverse health effects from poorly sited wind turbines AND Shhh! Don't tell them what we know about turbine noise levels AND bat population in the wind developer's crosshairs, more pesticide in our future
- 8/15/11 "Landmen" behaving badly: Step by step instructions for bagging a rural mid-westerner AND Dr. Salt talks about survey tricks
- 8/12/11 A MUST READ TRANSCRIPT: Town of Glenmore residents VS Town Chairman and Wind developers AND Not voting in favor of Big Wind? Then you've lost your right to vote.
- 8/11/11 Straw proposal for Wisconsin wind rules
- 8/10/11 Big Wind Demands License to Kill
- 8/9/11 Big Wind vs Little Creatures
- 8/8/11 Big Wind tears up birds and bats AND Big Wind tears up little town of Walnut
- 8/6/11 A look at the numbers....
- 8/5//11 Video of the Day AND---OMG! Alliant broke up with NextEra and is going out with Iowa!! AND Exposing the 'green' wolf: hazardous working conditions, hazardous substances, hazardous practices.
- 8/4/11 License to kill: USFWS wind guidelines protect developers, not birds and bats
- 8/3/11 More on that problem that wind industry says isn't a problem AND There are severe penalties for killing protected eagles... oh, you're a wind developer? Then it's OK! AND Turn off the turbines to protect birds and bats? You must be losing your mind.
- 8/2/11 $10,070 'hush puppy' offered to residents of controversial wind project
- 7/31/11 A look at the latest trend in wind turbines (Hint: BIGGER) AND Wind Farm Strong Arm targets birds and bats
- 7/28/2011 More from BBC AND How much does Denmark love industrial scale wind turbines?
- 7/27/11 Movie Day at Better Plan! Watch the BBC series Wind Wars: What happens when a wind developer comes to town AND watch Enron 'being funny' ANDWind developer talks about why this is the happiest time in his life, making decisions on the fly, and the secret to his success
- 7/26/11 Wind developers VS Eagles in Minnesota: How green is a Eagle killing machine?
- 7/25/11 Splitting the Baby in Ontario AND Down with Eagles, Up with Turbines AND The trouble Down Under: Australia broadcasts "Against the Wind"
- 7/24/11 Emerging Energies wind developers hit Dunn County and slap down St. Croix County's Town of Forest by applying to the PSC for controversial permit AND Does Denmark really love wind turbines? Why are these protesters risking their lives? AND Do these people sound like NIMBY's to you? Looking back at wind farm complaints
- 7/23/11 Ruthless, arrogant and destructive: Wind farm strong arm in Brown County AND cutting down trees and filling in wetlands in Vermont
- 7/22/11 License to Kill: Wind Developers want the right to kill bats and birds
- 7/20/11 Telling the truth, the whole truth in Maine AND Video from Ontario and Wisconsin's turbine related bat kill rate is the highest in North America but it's not news. In Pennsylvania, bat kill rates that are half as bad as Wisconsin's are making headlines.
- 7/13/11 Kids who live in wind farm: Remember to brush your teeth and take your sleeping pill ANDResidents say NO to wind turbines in Lee County, IL AND Take the turbines down or do nothing?
- 7/11/11 Dear Rate-Payers, we need 4 million dollars from you for a 'study' on possible wind development in your community
- 7/9/11 Let's hear it for the Birds (and bats and bees) AND Not-so-breaking-news: Wind developers don't like local ordinance AND Measure wind turbine noise? Sure, let me get my ruler.
- 7/811 Residents get ordinance, wind company takes ball, goes home ANDThe noise heard 'round the world: residents fight back
- 7/7/11 Big wind plus Big turbines equals Big problem AND Life in an Illinois wind farm AND Life in UK wind farm-- leads to lawsuit
- 7/6/11 Want to buy a house in a wind farm? Why not? AND What problem with wind power?
- 7/5/11Family driven from home by turbine noise is going to tell it to the judge.
- 7/4/11 Wind developer brings the community a big surprise: and it's a very bad one AND Battle of Britain: residents driven from their home by turbine noise fight back AND Laying it out Hawaiian style: Why wind power has no Aloha Spirit AND Don't need it, can't use it, don't want it? Too bad, take it we'll sue you.
- 7/3/11 WIND FARM STRONG ARM: Misery comes to small town Michigan AND Lawsuit filed by IL residents AND Will Turbines equal GPS breakdown?
- 7/2/11 Better Plan is Back in the Saddle: What about the TWO MILE setback in Oregon state? AND What's all this noise about turbine noise in Michigan?
- 6/9/11 Problem? What problem? AND Things that go THUMP THUMP THUMP in the night AND Big Wind spends big money to strong arm little Minnesota towns AND Wind Industry knows it is killing Golden Eagles, Red Tail Hawks, Kestrals and more birds and also bats and still tries to pass as "green"
- 6/8/11 Couple driven to sell home because of turbine noise AND The Wind Industry offers you this BIG nickle for that little dime.
- 6/7/11 Big Wind VS. Big Water in Badger power struggle AND Big Wind VS. Big Safety AND Big Wind VS. Big Birds
- 6/6/11 How green is a Golden Eagle killing machine?
- 6/3/11 First comes the wind developer, then comes the met tower, then comes a lifetime of regret AND About that new wind developer poking around Spring Valley
- 6/3/11 More noise about Noise AND Wind Industry Wedgie AND Wind turbines and property values
- 6/2/11 Wisconsin Wind Siting Legislation AND Golden Goose vs. Golden Eagle AND Wanna buy a house in a wind farm? Why not? AND Electrical pollution and other delights
- 6/1/11 Pro-wind doctor gets a warning AND What part of NOISE don't you understand, AND Ag group joins call for moratorium AND Wildlife vs. wind turbines chapter 567
- 5/31/11 Wind Farm Strong Arm Chapter 4,358: From Ontario: Message to wind company AND Columbia county towers going up.
- 5/30/11 Want to buy a house in a wind project? It's a good deal as long as you don't plan on ever sleeping there.
- 5/29/11 Oh, THAT'S what a wind lease 'gag-order' looks like AND Component failure timeline and other delights: From the wind industry's point of view: pesky O&M costs biting into profits
- 5/27/11 The making of the BBC's Windfarm Wars AND Miserable because of turbine noise? Tough luck, whiner. Live with it.
- 5/26/11 Shirley Runs off with Duke: Flipping a Wisconsin wind farm for fun and profit-- well, not for residents, but for the developer AND The wind industry calls them 'whiners', the rest of us call them people: A pharmacist visits a wind project to see what all the fuss is about
- 5/25/11 Reading between the (power) lines: They bought it but lost the receipt and can't return it: How Alliant blew $5 Million bucks on purchase of NextEra wind project then cancelled it-Wisconsin politics gets the blame AND Moratorium on all wind development passes Connecticut's House of Representatives by a landslide
- 5/24/11 LIFE IN A WIND PROJECT: From open arms to balled up fists: Nightmare on Vinalhavan AND From Up Over to Down Under, wind turbines are causing trouble AND Who ya gonna call? Putting a face on the folks the wind industry calls NIMBYs
- 5/21/11 Did the farmer at least get a kiss before he signed that wind lease? AND O, Canada, the turbines there are as bad as the turbines here
- 5/20/11 Like a bad neighbor, NextEra is there and saying shadow flicker won't be a problem
- 5/19/11 You let a Wind Devloper put his nose into your tent and now he's sueing you for $25 million dollars-- AND--Same turbines, different country: The noise heard 'round the world: That one the wind developers keep telling us isn't a problem AND Big issue: Big subsidies for Big wind
- 5/17/11 Why won't NextEra AKA Florida Power and Light give up their turbine related bird and bat kill numbers? Why won't they agree to cooperate? And who is going to do anything about it? AND Yet another blade accident being called isolated and one of a kind by wind company
- 5/17/11 Checking in on family life among turbines in DeKalb IL:Like a bad neighbor, NextEra is there AND Peter broke it, tells Paul to Fix It
- 5/16/11 The noise heard 'round the world
- 5/15/11 Hello wind turbines! Good-bye Wisconsin bats! Hello corn borer, crop loss, more pesticides-- but hey, as long as the wind developers are happy it must be good AND This is how we do it: PR firm gives helpful hints on how to infiltrate communities
- 5/14/11 WE said We Will, now says We Won't AND The noise heard 'round the world- the one wind developers say does not exist AND Oklahoma says no to use of eminent domain in wind farm strong AND Wind developers seek right to kill, harm and harass endangered species AND More turbines, more problems, Chapter 568
- 5/13/11 Hello Windmills, Bye Bye Birdie, Dirty Shame: What happened to those woods when the turbine came? AND Not THAT kind of green, the other kind: Buying the right to kill, harm and harass endangered species AND Another problem for wind developers to laugh about AND Say no to turbines and see how fast the word NIMBY comes at you
- 5/12/11 Why do we need real eagles when we have a bunch of paper ones right here on our money?
- 5/11/11 What now, Wisconsin? AND Too close, too loud, too bad, Sir.
- 5/6/11 The 'rare' occurance that keeps happening: Shattered turbine blade in DeKalb IL wind project AND Down Under it's the same as Up Over: Wind turbine health concerns AND Wind Turbines are (NOT) for the birds AND Dirty green deal: Lawsuit filed against major turbine maker
- 5/5/11 They broke it, they paid AND How close is too close? AND At the movies: Documentary about a rural town torn apart by wind developers AND Good luck selling your home if it's in a wind project AND Everyone Knows it's Windy-Sue: Developers threaten rural Town with legal action
- 5/2/11 Blade failure and wind project residents worries AND Turbulent Wind Turbine Wakes Studied
- 5/1/11 Turn the turbines off for one night? Sure! Give us $1,765,800 and we'll get right on it AND More turbines, more problems, Chapter 345 AND Fat Cats dealing in Big Wind
- 4/30/11 They broke it, they paid: Acciona and Suncor buy out four homes in wind project
- 4/29/11 A question of power
- 4/28/11 They broke it, they paid: wind developer buys homes made uninhabitable by wind project.
- 4/27/2011: Wind turbine wake effect causes air disturbance severe enough to be seen on radar.
- 4/26/11 If a wind developer says it, it must be true, right? Wind turbines have no impact on property values AND will bring lots of good jobs AND will reduce CO2
- 4/24/11 POLL SAYS: As long as they are two to ten miles away from our house, bring on the turbines! Wisconsin residents living 1000 feet from wind turbines are saying something else.
- 4/19/11 Green Jobs? GE Sells and Google Buys, and we pay the bill: 2 billion dollar wind project will produce 35 permanent jobs- with half of that money coming from US taxpayers AND Green Jobs Part 2: The devil is in the (shoddy) details.
- 4/16/11 What's happening with Wisconsin's wind rules? Recommended Reading: Rep. Frank Lasee's proposal
- 4/15/11 Got problems with wind turbines? Who ya gonna call? AND Big trouble in little Town of Forest AND Wind developers give you two choices: Take it or Take it. We're not turning them off AND Place your bets: Will wind developers turn off turbines to protect Birds and Bats?
- 4/12/11 Lien on me: company puts lien on properties of turbine hosting landowners AND Another one bites the dust, and then ANOTHER one bites the dust: How many 'unique' incidents does it take to equal a problem?
- 4/6/11 What Would John Muir Say?
- 4/5/11 Meet the Wind Developer AND Why is that Canadian little old lady so angry about wind turbines?
- 4/3/11 It was yours but they broke it, can't fix it, and say Too bad take it or leave it, AND Our money or your (wild) life: Wind lobbyists say protecting wildlife is too expensive and will delay wind projects AND What looks like a tornado to the National Weather Service, looks like a plane to the military, and looks like big money to wind developers and guess whose interests matter most?
- 4/2/11: Arrogance, a 'metaphorical Kalashnikov' and a wind lobbyist's royal 'We'-- Is it We the People or We Energies? AND Wind developers deny there is a problem while wind project residents describe their misery: Same story told with an Australian Accent AND with a Midwestern Accent AND Malfunction at the Junction: New Jersey halts approval of on-land turbines after blades fall off wind turbine
- 4/1/11 How Green is a Bat Killing Turbine? Dead bats mean more corn borer larvae, more pesticides and lower crop yields AND When wind developers say MAKE ME: Invenergy ignores PSC's requests for latest bird and bat post construction mortality study AND It's April Fool's day but this is no foolin'--- Where wind developers have been prospecting in Wisconsin
- 3/31/11 Local elections tied to wind development in Brown County AND Big wind lawsuit in little St. Croix county AND Wind Whirl over cancelled projects: How much of it is spin? AND Wind blade factory falls through: carrot on end of stick could have been a mirage AND Hello Windmill, Bye Bye Birdie
- 3/30/11 This just in: Press Release from Midwest Energy says they're suspending their Big Wind game until rules are final in our state
- 3/30/11 Wind rules head back to PSC under new Chairman AND Down under or up over, it's the same old song: secretive wind developers keep tearing up rural communities
- 3/30/11 What now? Future of wind rules now in the hands of the legislature AND What to expect when you're expecting wind turbines
- 3/29/11 FOLLOW UP: Why did Invenergy cancel Brown County Project? Could it be that Wisconsin is COLD when you're naked? AND It's as bad down under as it is up here in Wisconsin: misery caused by living too close to wind turbines AND Follow the money to the green jobs and you may hit a dead end AND From quiet countryside to turbine 'hell': Neighbors tell their stories
- 3/28/11 Was it the regulatory environment or "Naked-Wind Farm" situation that caused Invenergy to cancel Brown County project AND Big Wind+Big Money+The Mob = True Love AND Why a stroll in the prairie might be a bad idea
- 3/26/11 Little Town of Forest's big federal lawsuit.
- 3/24/11 Invenergy Doth Protest Too Much: says it's abandoning Ledge wind project due to regulatory uncertainy in Wisconsin but adds it is still planning to develop other wind projects in our state
- 3/23/11 Yet another 130 foot long turbine blade shatters in same wind project
- 3/22/11 BIG WIND VS BUCKY: Safe and restful sleep for Brown County: Invenergy drops wind project AND Town of Forest moves to protect itself from wind developers AND What made the turbine fall?
- 3/19/11 Is the Wind Industry ready for its close-up?
- 3/18/11 Wind farm strong arm in Glenmore: Town Board chooses wind developer's money over residents lives AND Trouble living with turbines getting harder for Wind Industry to deny, but they deny it anyway AND Another community begs for health studies AND How far should a turbine be from a residence? In Glenmore they get 1000 feet, in Oregon 2 miles and a new UK report says 10 rotor diameters
- 3/16/11 Wind turbine collapse AND Wind Developers Behaving Badly Chapter 7,324: When local government is the last to know
- 3/15/11 Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there and denying they are the problem
- 3/14/11 Big Wind's Big Denial
- 3/13/11 Wind developers (and/or their sub-contractors) behaving badly chapter 5,689 AND A closer look at the green hand in the till
- 3/9/11 Radio Radio: Wind Farm Strong Arm and the human 'collateral damage' it leaves behind
- 3/8/11 Glenmore Town board calls the cops while choosing between wind developer's money or Town residents' lives AND Spinning Big Wind: Lobbyist rewrites the news AND 'Last night in the Town of Glenmore...' a resident gives an account of the meeting AND What drove this wind turbine neighbor to civil disobedience? AND What does that turbine sound like?
- 3/7/11 Why Wind Siting Council Vice-Chair wants setbacks increased AND Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there and not listening to this farming couple or their doctor about what life is like living in one of their wind projects
- 3/6/11 Granting the power of Eminent Domain: Will lawmakers give wind developers just what it takes to take what you have?
- 3/5/11 How close is too close? Gophers join Badgers in push for setbacks from property lines instead of homes AND Ontario courts play 'hot potato' with wind issue AND Wind Developers to Rural Town: Um, 'bribe' is kind of an ugly word, isn't it? Let's call it " a contribution"
- 3/4/11 The noise heard 'round the world: Up Over or Down Under: The trouble caused by industrial scale wind turbines is getting harder to deny AND Ontario court denies there is a problem anyway AND From our "Oh, REALLY?" file: is NextEra blowing smoke or throwing smoke or both?
- 3/3/11 Unhappy Anniversary: It's been three years and like a bad neighbor, Invenergy's turbine #4 is there.
- 3/3/11 No spin zone, or rather 23% spin zone: Does it matter? Wind turbines make money for investors regardless of energy produced AND Just when you thought nothing they could do would surprise you: Wind developers behaving badly chapter 3,421: How about we charge residents for every complaint they make about our turbines?
- 3/2/11 Wisconsin PSC wind rules suspended AND No turning, no problem--the money will roll in anyway AND why does big wind make grid guys nervous?
- 3/1/11 UPDATE 3:23PM: PSC WIND RULES SUSPENDED AND Packers Fan or Bears Fan, when it comes to living with turbines they are telling the same story AND 2 out of 3 PSC commissioners side with We Energies Fat Cats AND What do you mean three hours of sleep a night isn't enough? AND How green is a bird killing machine? Chapter 234
- 2/28/11 More windmills, more problems: What Bears fans and Packers fans have in common
- 2/27/11 WINDKILL: How "Green" is a bird and bat killing machne? AND No matter what language you say it in, wind turbine shadow flicker is intolerable
- 2/25/11 Big Wind vs little communities in St. Croix County
- 2/23/11 What's all this noise about noise? Will the Wind Industry step up and face the problems or just continue with the "Grab and Go" attitude?
- 2/22/11 What did wind turbines sound like last night? AND Why are residents upset about new noise rules? AND Wind industry to people and wildlife: Sorry Charlie, but keeping you safe is cost-prohibitive
- 2/21/11 Wind turbine photo of the day: Looks a lot like Dodge and Fond du Lac County
- 2/20/11 Wind turbines in the Sunday news: Why are people worried? Where are the wind jobs? Why don't they pay? Why enact a moratorium? What's "Windfall"? What about birds?
- 2/18/11 Big federal lawsuit in little WisconsinTown of Forest
- 2/17/11 Look what they've done to our farm, Ma AND Tellin' it to the Judge: North of the border, big wind lawsuit continues
- 2/16/11 UPDATE 1:06 Big Wind's big upset in little Town of Forest AND Look what they've done to my ag field, Ma AND Turbines in the news: Watch "Europe's Ill Wind" Same turbines troubles told with different accents AND Turbines banned in Lake County IL AND AWEA says the Golden Eagle isn't the the kind of gold we're after
- 2/15/11 UPDATED 12:31 WINDACTION.ORG CALLS FOR ACTION and Wind Turbines in the News AND Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there: Wisconsin isn't the only state where Big Wind signs up members of local government first
- 2/14/11 Be a Sweetheart and contact these legislators AND Our Video of the Day AND Residents say Tell it to the Judge: Lawsuit filed against Town of Forest, alleging under-the-radar granting of turbine permits AND Who are the losers in the Big Wind game?
- 2/11/11 Wind Project Homes Slideshow AND Contact the Committee AND Want to watch Wednesday's wind siting hearing? AND Why did the Vice Chairman of the Wind Siting Council testify against the PSC wind rules AND Let's review of the first International conference on health effects associated with industrial scale wind turbines
- 2/10/11 What's the latest from the Capitol? What happened at the hearing on the PSC's wind siting rules? AND Big Wind VS Little Birds. Guess who wins? Want to do something about it?
- 2/4/11 Updated 5:00PM- HEARING SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY: Walker bill is dead but DING DONG this issue is alive! AND Why did PSC Commissioner Azar want a 2,200 foot setback AND In the face of mounting evidence Big Wind continues to deny turbine impact on property values or health AND Is Uncle Sam Big Wind's Sugar Daddy? I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger. Wait, maybe I am.
- 2/3/11 POST UPDATED at 5:00pm WALKER'S WIND BILL IS DEAD and Hey Mister, you want to buy a Wisconsin wind project that isn't even finished yet? AND Wait a minute, how big are those turbines again? AND Tell it to the Judge: Wind lawsuit in Ontairo update
- 2/2/11 Baby it's SNOW outside. Why not make some popcorn and sit back and watch these SHORT videos of how the Wind Siting Council helped create the rules that will go into effect on March 1st unless Walker's bill is passed. . For some it's like watching paint dry! For others it's like watching businessmen driven by profit hold your future in their hands.
- 2/1/11 Walker's wind siting bill: What's the big deal? AND Contact your legislators AND Today's Extra Credit Reading List
- 1/30/11 Have you reached out and touched your Legislators today? AND Wind Industry: A 50 story tall turbine 1250 feet from your door will have no impact on you property value. Realtor: Wind farm houses don't sell. AND Looking here, looking there: How many Green Jobs has Big Wind created?
- 1/29/11 Like a bad neighbor... Acciona is there and buying your silence by buying your property
- 1/28/11 UPDATED: Life in a Wisconsin wind project: who is listening to the residents? AND Update on Big Wind lawsuit in Ontario AND Wind project resident suffers heart-attack during presentation about turbine noise violations AND Stray Voltage and Wind Turbines
- 1/25/11 UPDATE ON HERE COMES THE JUDGE: All eyes on Ontario as safety of wind developer-friendly setbacks are challenged in court AND The latest on the Wind Farm Strong Arm: Date is set for wind developer's lawsuit against a rural community AND What is wrong with this picture? Our Big Wind video of the day
- 1/23/11 Maple leaf challange to Big Wind: Three medical doctors agree: there IS a health problem AND Why do people call Big Wind the "8-track tape" of Renewable Energy Choices? Could there be something better?
- 1/22/11 Residents find shadow flicker hard to live with AND If you can't spin it, twist it AND Too close to homes and too close to each other: New report says more spacing is needed between turbines
- 1/21/11 What you can do right this minute: Pick up the phone! AND Base jumping off a wind turbine: New sport? AND Read it in the want ads: Priced to sell! Gamesa industrial scale wind turbines. We Ship ANYWHERE!
- 1/20/11 Wind siting issue back on the floor with Walker's Senate Bill 9 AND What to do about advocates of Big Wind smashing concerned resident's yard signs?
- 1/19/11 Wind setback issue separated from Governor Walker's bill AND Why are they worried in the Town of Morrison? AND They told us it would happen and it did: Arial applicator killed when plane clips met tower
- 1/18/11 Hot off the Press! Walker's Bill AND But they said it would be only as loud as a refrigerator AND Wind developers: Do they have what it takes to take what you have? Unless Walker's bill passes, the answer is yes AND from our "What the ---" department: Anti-local government wind lobbyist spins Walker bill as anti-local government
- 1/17/11 How's that industrial wind turbine thing working out? Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there. AND Perception VS. Reality: Putting the Green Spin on Wind Energy AND Wind Lobbyist's tantrum about Walkers proposed setbacks AND Extra Credit Reading List
- 1/16/11 Wind Farm Strong Arm Now Includes Shoving and Stealing AND For some Wisconsin reporters the rule is: if a wind lobbyist says it's so, no fact checking required! And if "wind energy insiders" say it, PRINT IT! And please do not mention that landowners can sign off on the proposed setbacks and have turbines much closer if they wish. That's too much (accurate) information.
- 1/13/11 What is Brown County saying about the content of Walkers new bill? Two words: THANK YOU!
- 1/12/10 From Talking the Talk to Walking the Walk with Walker
- 1/8/11 Video of the Day: Spend some time on a wind turbine AND Baby, it's cold outside: Um...why aren't the turbines turning? AND Wait, I thought the Dutch loved wind turbines.
- 1/7/11 Calling all wind project residents: Australia wants to hear from you AND Do you hear what I hear? Loud complaints about noise from people who live in wind projects and denials from the wind industry AND How much electricity does it take to run an industrial scale wind turbine? AND Tell it to the Judge: One man's worry becomes a wind developer's nightmare
- 1/6/10 Night-creeping pro-wind bullies bash Brown County residents signs AND The problem does not exist but please beware of it anyway: falling ice from wind turbines safety warning AND Videos of the day: Mars Hill, Maine
- 1/5/11 Tattoo of the day: She REALLY digs wind turbines AND PSC lays welcome mat for wind developers on backs of rural Wisconsin residents AND Document links to the papers presented at the first international symposium on wind turbines and health impact
- 1/5/11 Who shot the turbine?
- 1/4/11 Spanish wind giant's message to US Bureau of Land Management regarding golden eagles: BITE ME
- 1/2/11 Our video of the day: What do wind turbines sound like to you?
- 1/1/11 Wind turbine videos of the day AND Big wind whistles through the loopholes and creates funny money AND (Not For) the Birds: How green is a killing machine?
- 12/30/10 VIDEOS OF THE DAY: Rock out to wind turbine construction AND then try to live with turbine noise AND Who cares about birds getting killed by wind turbines when there is so much money to be made? AND You break it, you pay: Wind project residents mandate property value guarantee AND Like a bad neighbor... Acciona is there
- 12/29/10 Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there AND When did the PSC cross the line? AND Another one bites the dust: Turbine fires in Iowa
- 12/26/10 Wind developers in, Residents---(at least the lucky ones)--out AND They're from the government, they're here to help (wind developers)
- 12/24/10 Chipping away at residents rights: Maple leafs have it as bad as badgers
- 12/23/10 PLALE CANCELS VOTE ON WIND RULES, HANDS OVER FATE OF RURAL WISCONSIN RESIDENTS TO WIND DEVELOPERS AND PSC and BUCKY, MEET THE NEW NEIGHBORS
- 12/22/10 WITH CLOCK RUNNING OUT PLALE POPS OUT OF HIDEY HOLE TO ASK FOR A VOTE ON THE WIND RULES
- 12/20/10 Radio Radio: Listen to wind rules discussed on WORT'S 'A Public Affair' AND! This Just In: Yet another letter from legislators to Senator Plale asking him to object to the wind rules BUT Is there a mailbox in his spider hole?
- 12/16/10 UPDATE!!!! FOUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS OFFICIALLY REQUEST PLALE TO OBJECT TO RULES! But Where in the world is Senator Plale? Not returning calls, not responding to pleas for objection to the wind rules. All I want for Christmas is an official objection to the PSC's wind rules: Representatives Ott and Zigmunt explain why, and so do the good citizens of Brown County
- 12/10/10 Watch the PSC weaken the wind siting rules by clicking on the image below AND a letter from Rep. Bies regarding news rules AND Madison Knows Best: PSC's new rules deliver a multi-million dollar candy-gram to wind developers and a stinging slap in the face to rural Badgers
- 12/10/10 PSC TO DISCUSS WIND SITING RULES: AND Less than transparent: It's a 'open meeting' but good luck finding an official posting of the PSC's agenda
- 12/8/10 Wind developer to small town: Do what we say or we're taking our wind turbines and going home
- 12/6/10 Want to know what's going on with the Wind Siting Rules? So does Senator Erpenbach (D) who asks the PSC and gets a very vague reply AND Handcuffs for grandpa: What happened when a man in his 80s stood up to Big Wind AND New Jersey introduces bill that would require 2000 foot setback
- 12/5/10 Bats VS Wind Turbines: Don't bet on the bats AND Here comes Windy-Sue: lawsuits against small towns who say no wind developers AND Wind turbine noise, what's the big deal?
- 12/4/10 What part of NO don't you understand? Wind farm strong arm tactics continue in spite of local ordinances
- 12/2/10 From open arms to balled up fists: What's the latest from Vinalhaven? AND The problem they say is not a problem: When it comes to living close to wind turbines, down-under health problems like those in the badger state
- 11/29/10 Wind Farm Strong Arm: Wind developers hire cops to police 'open house' AND Why all the secrecy about what went wrong with the turbine foundations? AND Green stimulus grant includes get out of jail free card for known Wisconsin Polluter
- 11/23/10 Drinkin' with the PSC at the Wind Power Happy Hour AND Say it with Turbines: How a picture can wipe out 1000 facts AND Dispatch from Michigan: New Wind Circus, Same Wind Clowns AND On Electric Cars: Brother can you spare an extension cord?
- 11/22/10 And now, a word from your local wind developer.....AND The Doctor is IN regarding health effects from poorly sited wind turbines
- 11/20/10 The problem with the noise that's not a problem: Like a bad neighbor, Invenergy is there AND Why would 7 families abandon their homes? AND Big Wind says unless the rules are bent, it's taking its ball and going home AND How now cash cow? Fed $$$ milker dries up for Big Wind
- 11/16/10 Columbia County traffic jam
- 11/14/2010 What happens when a turbine loses a blade? AND O, Canada--We Claim this Land for BIG WIND: Residents respond to Wind Farm Strong Arm AND What you should know before you agree to lease your land to a wind developer
- 11/12/10 From open arms to balled up fists: Getting to know the ways of Big Wind
- 11/11/10 What $18,000 a year will buy you: a family in turmoil and a community torn apart AND What part of Conflict of Interest don't you understand?
- 11/10/10 The Devil is in the Details and also in the Town of Glenmore, Wisconsin
- 11/9/10 What happens when the surreal becomes all too real? A Local Canary meets the Wind Goliath in Minnesota AND Extra Credit question: If you can't hear it, what's the problem?
- 11/8/10 Shoulda, coulda, woulda but didn't: The art of ignoring scientific data when siting wind turbines
- 11/7/10 What part of CONCERN don't you understand? The trouble with living too close to industrial scale wind turbines
- 11/4/10 Don't save the date: Assembly Hearing on PSC wind siting rules has been cancelled.
- 10/31/10 Wind Developer slips into St Croix County town in under the radar AND What part of NOISE don't you understand? Like a bad neighbor, Invenergy is there AND Windturbines and property values
- 10/27/10 Why send the PSC wind rules back? What are the concerns?
- 10/24/10 They've known about the trouble since 2004: why is the Public Service Commission still pushing for short setbacks between turbines and homes?
- 10/23/10 Here Comes the Judge: 20 wind project residents could get their day in court AND State of Oregon decides to take wind project residents complaints seriously AND Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there
- 10/21/10 Which way did the money go? Wind developers dream, home owner's nightmare: short setbacks and big stimulus dollars
- 10/19/10 A sickening shade of green: Vestas to injured workers: You're fired.
- 10/17/10 When the turbines started turning, TV and Radio stopped working. WEPCO broke it, but can they fix it? How long can they tap dance around the problem? Over two years and counting.
- 10/16/10 Testimony presented at the Oct 13th Senate Committee Hearing on PSC wind rules from Carl and Sandra Johnson.
- 10/14/10 The testimony wasn't heard: Wind Siting Council Vice Chair Doug Zweizig on how the Wind Siting Council Failed.
- 10/13/10 Wind Rules Senate hearing at the Capitol packs the house. We'll post testimony as it comes into us.
- 10/12/10 Wind siting rules hearing at the Capitol tomorrow-
- 10/11/10 UPDATE: Come to Madison for the wind siting hearing on Wednesday AND Lawsuit filed against PSC regarding wind rules AND a closer look at the thought processes behind the wind siting rules AND what a doctor is saying about people living near turbines
- 10/8/10 Wind Rules Hearing just around the corner AND Wisconsin residents sue the Public Service Commission
- 10/7/10 How about a fifty story tall wind turbine 1000 feet from your door? Welcome to the Town of Glenmore, Brown County, Wisconsin
- 10/6/10 "Community Wind" tears up community AND What happens to Big Wind when federal subsidies are taken away?
- 10/6/10 UPDATE Wind Developers Behaving Badly part 3,879: Open public meeting or example of police state? Wind Farm Strong Arm in Ontario AND The miserable sound of "Community" wind:
- 10/5/10 Big Worries in St. Croix County about proposed project AND Chasing down the myth of the 'well funded' anti-wind groups AND Chapters 3,470 of "Wind Developers Behaving Badly" --Wind Goliath stomps on and laughs off local government law.
- 10/4/10 A picture of a 500 foot turbine is worth 1000 words: Fifty story turbines go up in Town of Glenmore, Brown County, Wisconsin AND Rock County wind farm plans scrapped AND New Study says industrial scale wind farms affect temperature: how will this affect ag land, wildlife and natural habitat?
- 10/3/10 Save the Date: Wind Rules hearing announced for OCT 13 at the capitol AND Where did all the bailout money go? Goldman Sachs and the imaginary wind farm
- 10/3/10 Should wind developers be licensed before they start signing up landowners? Do the new wind rules provide enough protection for landowners from unlicensed wind developers?
- 10/2/10 What to expect when you're expecting wind turbines that are 50 stories tall
- 10/1/10 Save the date! Senate hearing on Wind Siting Rules set for October 13th AND Coming to your county soon? How many 400-500 foot tall turbines will it take to satisfy wind developers in Wisconsin? AND How does eminent domain fit into the wind development picture?
- 9/30/10 Once they are up, they are up: Residents struggle with Invenergy wind turbine noise AND Wind Turbines in the News
- 9/29/10 Will there be a hearing on the new wind siting rules?
- 9/28/10 Should a community be clearly notified of a proposed wind farm? AND the High Cost of Free Wind
- 9/25/10 Will there be a public hearing on the new wind-siting rules?
- 9/25/10 What happened at the last town meeting? If you don't go, you won't know AND what's Fracking? And what does it have to do with Big Wind?
- 9/22/10 Wind Industry to wind farm residents: Wind turbines do not lower property values. Realtors to wind farm residents: I can't sell your house, it's in a wind farm.
- 9/21/10 How to pay Big Wind's big price tag? 'Externalize' the costs, AKA Passing the Buck and then find a back door to more government money
- 9/21/10 Horton hears a Who! Wind industry's NIMBY stereotype crumbles in new documentary about what happens when wind developers come to a rural community
- 9/20/10 Tuned into the problem: Wind Siting Council Vice Chair Doug Zweizig discusses concerns regarding the new wind siting rules with WPR's Joy Cardin
- 9/19/10 What part of 'conflict-of-interest' don't you understand?
- 9/18/2010: When it comes to reliable renewable energy for the dairy state of Wisconsin, what part of Manure Digester don't you understand?
- 9/17/10 Sunshine, lollipops and --- wait, how big are the turbines again?
- 9/17/2010 When it comes to big wind projects, bats are in need of a super-hero-- National Geographic weighs in on what can be done to stop wind turbines from killing thousands of bats
- 9/15/10 Why are there so many complaints about living with wind turbine noise? AND What's going on with the wind siting rules? AND Can I get some maintenance for this turbine? What do you mean you're bankrupt? AND Mafia discovers a clean, green, dirty money laundering machine
- 10/14/10 On being a red square in a yellow circle: A wind siting council member weighs in on the real cost of Wisconsin wind farms AND Wind Turbines Too Loud? Sorry Charlie, ain't a lot we can do for you now.
- 9/13/10 Same story, different location: Wisconsin or otherwise: Wind turbines too close to homes equals no sleep
- 9/13/10 Spin Factory: more wind developers are turning to Public Relations firms AND Spinning green into gold in 2002 -the making of the renewable energy market: Was it wrong for them to use September 11th?
- 9/12/10 Same stories, different locations: Why are people complaining about living near wind turbines? AND How a documentary about rural town facing wind developers is opening eyes
- 9/11/10 Wisconsin Eye hosts panel on wind issues: WeEnergies, WPPI, Vice Chair of Wind-siting council and Wisconsin author weigh in on wind rules.
- 9/10/10 Director's cut: Documentary "Windfall" : A darker shade of 'green'
- 9/9/10 Just like in the movies: Documentary "Windfall" gets right down to the real nitty-gritty of what happens to a Town when wind developers move in
- 9/9/10 T-Boone-doggle? Talk about buyers remorse: What to do with all those 400 foot wind turbines?
- 9/8/10 No need to read between the lines--
- 9/7/10 What's Wrong With this Picture: National and state government throws out life lines to wind industry but refuses safety net for wind farm residents whose lives have been ruined. PSC to Wisconsin residents: You got a problem with it? Too bad. Call a lawyer
- 9/6/10 What to expect when you're expecting wind farm construction
- 9/6/10 Writing the Wind Rules: PSC Commssioner's opening remarks
- 9/2/10 Show me the safety net: PSC commissioner Lauren Azar's letter to legislators AND Show me the green jobs: Wisconsin wind employment figures wither under scrutiny AND What to expect when you're expecting 497 foot tall turbines: Construction begins on Wind Siting Council Member Bill Rakocy's new wind farm AND a letter from Maine that could be from Wisconsin
- 9/1/10 Sow the wind turbine, reap the crop damage AND...Wind Action Asks the hard Question: How compatible are wind farms and agriculture? AND Wind Turbines in the News AND A new understanding about wind turbine noise AND A letter from a participating wind project landowner from Columbia County to landowners in Brown County
- 8/31/10 ESCAPE FROM WISCONSIN: New PSC wind rules: Non participating homeowners setback: Forty story turbine 1240 feet from your house, 440 feet from property line, 50/45 dbA allowable noise, 30 hours allowable shadow flicker. Hope you like it!
- 8/30/10 What's all the noise about wind turbine noise? The National Institue of Health weighs in.
- 8/30/10 Wind rules discussed today at the Public Serice Commission
- 8/29/10 A letter from Vinalhaven, the "success story" touted at wind siting council meeting AND Maple Leafs and Badgers face the same policy when it comes to wind farm complaints: Review the existing literature and ignore the people who are suffering
- 8/28/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Wisconsin Department of Health ignores complaints from state wind project residents, says there are no health issues: What part of "Can't sleep" don't you understand? ---And----AWEA vs DoD + FAA ----AND- The wind devil is in the details: so don't look at the details
- 8/27/10 What's it like to live in a Wisconsin Wind Project?
- 8/26/10 Gone with the wind developer: Family lets the PSC know why they regret signing on with Invenergy AND a resident who has been living in the Invenergy Forward wind project for over two years lets the PSC know he and his family are having trouble.
- 8/25/10 Wind siting rule talks resume at PSC AND Why is this Canadian doctor recommending longer setbacks? AND what Wisconsin residents are saying about the wind siting rules.
- 8/24/10 TRIPLE FEATURE What the commissioners said at yesterday's PSC meeting and what the people are saying back AND Wisconsin resident walks us through a wind contract AND What made We Energies call the police?
- 8/23/10 PSC discusses wind siting rules today AND what do Maine and Wisconsin have in common? What happens when a state changes law to fast track wind development? Good bye local control.
- 8/22/10 What to expect when you're expecting wind farm construction AND what do wind tubines sound like?
- 8/21/10 When it comes to safety concerns regarding Big Wind, are conclusions based on Sound Science or "Sound's good"?
- 8/20/10 Double Feature: Pictures of last month's Invenergy wind turbine blade failures AND Who's fueling the myth of the 'well funded anti-wind organization'?
- 8/19/10 PSC commissioners discuss wind siting rules.
- 8/19/10 Wind farms and wildlife, What to expect when you're expecting wind farm construction, and what's the big deal about shadow flicker? AND Wisconsin in two years time: A look at what wind siting reform has done to the state of Maine
- 8/18/10 What does the Final report from the wind siting council say? What are the new wind siting rules for Wisconsin?The noise heard 'round the world: Wind turbines in the news
- 8/15/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Too Close? Too Loud? Too bad: when it comes to writing siting rules in Wisconsin, wind industry concerns trumped protecting residents AND Freedom of Information isn't Free: A look at $36,000 worth of shade thrown on a reporters wind rules open records request
- 8/14/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: The problem with the "successful" community wind project touted by Wisconsin wind siting council member AND Another chapter of "Wind Developers Behaving Badly": What part of "Conflict of Interest" don't you understand? AND Wisconsin looks in the mirror and keeps seeing Maine
- 8/13/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there. And ignoring noise studies AND Wind Farm Strong Arm: Wisconsin looks in the mirror and sees Maine:
- 8/11/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Sleepless in Wisconsin: New rules bring joy to wind industry but won't protect residents from wind turbine noise, shadow flicker, or loss of property value AND Wisconsin looks in the mirror and sees Maine: How the governor and wind industry worked together to take away local control and change the law in both states.
- 8/10/10 Ask for advice from people whose lives have been shattered by wind turbine noise and shadow flicker, and then if you're on the Wisconsin Wind Siting Council, just ignore what they have to say.
- 8/9/10 Sow the wind, reap bad legislation: What Maine and Wisconsin have in common
- 8/7/10 Do bird and bat deaths matter to Big Wind?
- 8/5/10 How big are those turbines? This yellow airplane gives you some idea of the scale
- 8/4/10 DOUBLE FEATURE Wind developer to local government: Law is on my side. In fact, I'm writing the law AND The noise heard 'round the world: report finds negative health impacts from wind turbines
- 8/2/10 Drawing Fire: lightning destroys another wind turbine
- 8/1/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: On the noise problem wind developers say does not exist.
- 7/30/10 Wind Turbine troubles North of the border AND Like a bad neighbor (especially in Rock County, Wisconsin) Acciona is there AND The moon is made of green cheese, economic recovery is made of green jobs
- 7/29/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: What part of NOISE don't you understand? AND Last gasp for local control? Kewaunee County joins Brown County in adopting a wind power resolution AND Brown County Board of Health and Human Services formally adopt guidelines for siting wind turbines as the Public Service Commission is set to take over wind turbine regulation in rural communites.
- 7/28/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Wind foxes finalize rules for hen house, and they look just like the old ones that have caused so much trouble for residents of rural Wisconsin AND Yet another wind turbine blade failure in an Invenergy wind project
- 7/26/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: From open arms to balled up fists: Wisconsin resident comments on living in a wind project under construction AND Why he left the family farm: Wisconsin resident lays out his first-hand experience with wind development. The majority of the Wind Siting Council looks the other way
- 7/24/10 Double Feature: WRITING THE WIND RULES: The World Health Organization says one thing, McFadden says another: Which recommendation carries more weight? AND Is something is rotten in Denmark?
- 7/23/2010 Writing the Wind Rules: Should turbine noise limits be based on wind industry needs or protection of rural Wisconsin residents? Don't read this post if you don't want bad news
- 7/21/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: How much louder is 25dbA? If you answered 600 percent louder, you're doing better than most of the Wind Siting Council, AND Will the wind developers get their wish? AND "Collateral Damage" from the Green Wars
- 7/20/10 Writing the Wind Rules: Scenes from the Wisconsin Wind Siting Council Meetings: Is "safety" a relative term? Does size make a difference? How big are the turbines you're referring to? Why are certain council members pushing for a 50dbA noise limit?
- 7/20/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Madison, we have a problem: Epidemiologist says ample evidence of turbine related health effects. AND Wisconsin Health Department denies request to do study of local wind project residents AND What's so different about wind turbine noise?
- 7/19/10 Sow the wind, reap dead bats AND The sport of pitting neighbor against neighbor: Wind developers won't hesitate to tear communities apart AND an interview with a wind project resident who had to leave her home once the wind turbines went on line
- 7/18/10 What part of NOISE don't you understand? 40 homes in wind project abandoned, vacant or for sale AND On the issue of wind turbines and health impacts, the Doctor is IN
- July 11-17: What's on the docket? No need to read between the lines: A handwritten letter from a Wisconsin wind farm resident to the PSC--- AND--- A wind developer by any other name would smell as....Florida Power & Light tells PSC what should be in the Wisconsin wind siting guidelines AND much much more!
- 7/10/10 What's on the docket? Doctor VS Doctor: McFadden VS Phillips: which doctor is right about wind turbine related health impacts?
- 7/9/10 In the news and on the docket: Getting out of what you didn't know you were getting into: Wisconsin landowner regrets signing wind contract AND Will warnings about potential negative impacts be taken seriously?
- 7/8/10 Meet Me at Van Ables: Brown County is Getting the Word Out: The trouble with siting industrial scale wind turbines 1000 feet from homes
- 7/7/10 A second opinion: Brown County Doctor's testimony regarding turbine related health impacts.
- 7/6/10 About the problem the wind industry and Wind Siting Council member Dr. Jevon McFadden says isn't a problem: Dr. Nina Pierpont's presentation to Hammond Wind Committee
- 7/5/10 The headache Down Under: Like a bad neighbor, Acciona is there AND Wind siting council meeting on Tuesday
- 7/4/10 Invenergy's Wind Farm Strong Arm: Brown County Community says no, Town Boards say no, Board of Health Says No. But wind farm Goliath's "Economic Engine" keeps coming AND How Green is a Bird-Killing Machine?
- 7/1/10 Madison, We Have A Problem: Epidemiologist's findings sharply contradict the findings of Wind Siting Council member Dr. Jevon Mc Fadden AND Testimony to the PSC by Representative Zigmunt on Wisconsin renewable alternatives to wind
- 6/30/10 Final Wind Siting Hearing in Madison AND Ramming it through: Is the PSC even listening? AND Brown County Towns asks that more time and care be taken in creating guidelines. Will the PSC's reply be "LOL!" ?
- 6/29/10 In the News: Their money or your life? Wind Goliaths and Local Davids testify at wind siting hearings. Who will the PSC listen to? AND Who are you, Barnaby Dinges? Now Don't tell us a FIB! AND what's on the docket?
- 6/28/10 UPDATE: Wind Siting Council Ballot: Vote and let your voice be heard AND What are the Town Boards of Morrison, Wrightstown and Glenmore saying to the PSC about the draft rules?
- 6/25/10 Their money or your life: Wind Siting Council foxes review multiple choice worksheet on rules for guarding the hen house AND Wind Siting Council hearings planned for next week.
- 6/24/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Brown County wants PSC to look more closely into health and safety issues AND Gag me with a contract: Will you accept $15,000 from a wind developer in exchange for your legal right to complain about the ability to use or enjoy your property, nuisance, injury or harm to persons, anxiety, suffering, mental anguish and loss of ability to enjoy life"?
- 6/23/10 Ramming it through: Straw votes to be taken today at Wind Siting Council meeting
- 6/22/10 When the majority of the Wind Siting Council Members have a direct or indirect financial interest in as few regulations as possible, money talks, direct experience, health, safety and property values walk AND Have your say: PSC schedules hearings on the new draft rules for siting wind turbines.... which look an awful lot like the old rules that have caused so much trouble.
- 6/21/10 Why did the Brown County Board of Health say no to Invenergy's wind project proposal?
- 6/21/10 PASSING THE BUCK: Driven from your home by wind turbine noise in a PSC approved wind farm? Who ya gonna call? Not the PSC.
- 6/20/10 What are they saying about the wind project proposed for Brown County? AND Wind Siting Council Meeting tomorrow at 1:30
- 6/18/10 What's on the docket for the Wind Siting Council? Bad Vibrations: Wisconsin biologist weighs in on wind turbine siting guidelines.
- 6/17/10 When there is so much money to be made, who cares about the neighbors? Who wants to listen to the Brown County Board of Health?
- 6/16/10 Wisconsin needed a second opinion and got it: Brown County Health Department weighs in.
- 6/15/10 What spooks a wind developer about doing business in Wisconsin? Any regulation at all. AND Watch video recordings of the Wind Siting Council meetings on Wisconsin Eye
- 6/14/10 Got trouble living in the Blue Sky/ Green Field wind project? We'll listen as long as you don't complain about the noise: A closer look at "successful" complaint resolution in the 88 turbine We Energies Blue Sky/ Green Fields wind project
- 6/11/2010 Do wind turbines affect property values? Home in Invenergy wind project finally sells after 740 days on the market and a 45% price cut AND Should wind developers be licensed before they get you to sign contracts that will tie up your land for the next 40 years?
- 6/9/10 "Struck by the Incredible Distrust" : Wind siting council chairman shows up with a long speech and a draft proposal of new rules
- 6/8/10 Wednesday's wind siting council meeting and what's on the docket? What's the difference between what the wind developer tells you and what the easement you signed says? It's not a good surprise. AND a Rock County prairie conservationist weighs in on the draft siting rules.
- 5/4/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Are wind turbines good for ag land? The Madison newspaper says yes, the Columbia County farmer says no. AND Don't tell it to the jury, here's your money, now keep quiet about wind turbine noise
- 6/2/10 Wind siting council finally discusses setbacks and immediately gets pushback from Rep. Soletski of Green Bay who does not like what he is seeing.
- 6/1/10 Talking about turbine noise and setbacks and property values: just a few of the things that will be discussed in the longest Wind Siting Council Meeting Yet AND How Bad Could Shadow Flicker Be?
- 5/31/10 Which part of "negligently, carelessly and recklessly" don't you understand? Order in the courtroom, here comes the judge: wind farm residents file suit and want a jury trial AND Wind developers behaving badly: Mourning the presence of a level playing field for landowners
- 5/30/10 BRIDGE OUT: Rural residents fall into information gap about Wind Turbine Noise and Ethics
- 5/29/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: How Now Brown County? What's going on with the Invernergy wind project AND Cashing in on Big Wind: Inside the AWEA AND Do wind turbines make noise? Um... you decide
- 5/28/10 On Shadow Flicker and Wind Turbines
- 5/28/10 Why was this home abandoned? Who used to live here? What did the PSC say about their turbine related troubles?
- 5/27/10 Regarding Wind Siting Council's Dr. McFadden's presentation on impacts of wind turbine noise on human health
- 5/26/10 TRIPLE FEATURE PSC Agenda for tomorrow's open hearing includes three big Invenergy items AND Brown County residents push for wind turbine health study
- 5/24/10 What's on the Wind Siting Council Docket?
- 5/24/10 UPDATED TRIPLE FEATURE: Dr. McFadden tells Wind Siting Council there are no health issues with wind turbine noise. So why are people all over the world having so much trouble? AND Wind Goliaths crack heads over right to make money on Big Wind
- 5/22/10 TRIPLE FEATURE PSC, WSC and Hearings AND Columbia County, wind turbines and farmland preservation AND Tornados, doppler radar and wind farms.
- 5/21/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Video of wind turbine shadow flicker in Dodge and Fond du Lac Counties AND Let's get a second opinion: Dr. McFadden reviews the literature and tells the Wind Siting Council there is no health concern from wind turbine noise or shadow flicker. Dr. Nissenbaum interviews people living with turbines and comes to a different conclusion.
- 5/19/10 UPDATED Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! Draft Siting Rules adopted by PSC without Wind Siting Council members knowing the contents AND regarding the precautionary principle, sorry wind farm residents, you don't qualify for this protection AND wind turbine noise and bird song: What they sound like together AND What does an abandoned wind farm look like?
- 5/17/10 QUADRUPLE FEATURE: The Doctor is In: Council member Dr. Jevon McFadden presents his findings on wind turbines and human health AND 'How Stuff Works' explains the concerns AND What's on the WSC docket AND A reporter talks about being wrong about Big Wind and 'eating the NIMBY stick'
- 5/15/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: If a 130 foot long turbine blade falls into DeKalb county field and and no one knows why, does it matter? AND Reach out and touch your PSC: They want your comments on the new draft siting rules which look like the old siting rules.
- 5/13/10 A tale of two doctors speaking on problems with wind turbine noise: One doctor read about the trouble and decided there is no trouble, the other doctor conducted first hand medical interviews with people living within 3500 feet of industrial scale wind turbines and has come to a different conclusion.
- 5/11/10 What does wind turbine shadow flicker look like?
- 5/11/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Bye-Bye Brown County, Hello Invenergy AND Bye-Bye Birdie, Hello Wind Industry AND Bye-Bye Bat Population, Hello Post Construction bat mortality numbers showing Wisconsin wind turbine related bat kills among the highest in North America at ten times the national average
- 5/10/10 May 4th shadow flicker and turbine noise AND Next Wind Siting Council Meeting has been CANCELLED---AND Will Horton Hear a Who? AND What's on the WSC Docket Today?
- 5/9/10 Different State, Same Wind Clowns
- 5/8/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Guess what? You're moving. And you're one of the lucky ones: Wisconsin homes to be bought out by wind developer AND The usual story about yet another 'unusual' turbine blade fail AND Cause of 'unusual' wind turbine collapse still unknown many months later, collapse zone established
- 5/6/10 The sad fate of a home in a Wisconsin Wind Farm: Sheriff sells it to New York bank at a price below the opening bid.
- 5/5/10 Wisconsin Wind Wars: What farmers who host turbines are saying.
- 4/5/10 Friday night at the movies: Wake up and smell the turbines: 'Windfall' documentary to be screened in Evanston, IL on Friday.
- 4/4/10 Invenergy Goliath vs rural residents of Brown County: The Art of Turning Neighbor Against Neighbor
- 4/3/10 QUADRUPLE FEATURE: Wind project field trip for Wind Siting Council scheduled for Tuesday Morning. Public can attend but cannot participate. AND Something to read while thinking about how wind projects wipe out quiet in Rural Wisconsin (P.S. They are also wiping out the state bat poplulations) AND What's on the WSC Docket? AND From the Better Plan Vaults: GOT TURBINE NOISE?
- 5/3/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Wisconsin farmer lets us know why he said no to Invenergy's offer to put wind turbines on is farmland AND Spotlight on Wind Siting Council member and wind developer Bill Rakocy's money making wind farm deal
- 5/2/10 How long can they keep denying the problem exists? Dear Wind Siting Council, please read this letter from a wind project resident who was forced to leave her home because of wind turbine noise.
- 4/30/10 Who's afraid of the Big Bad Turbine Noise? Money doesn't just talk, it shuts people up AND Life in a wind project south of the border: a family from DeKalb shares their daily life with turbines.
- 4/29/10 DOUBLE FEATURE Dear Wind Siting Council, we are looking forward to seeing you today AND A letter from a wind project resident
- 4/28/10 Would you like some shadow flicker with your morning coffee?
- 4/27/10 QUADRUPLE FEATURE: Wind Developer a-comin'! It's Open Season on rural Wisconsin communities AND Help a Wind Developer Out: Chicago-based Invenergy Goliath may get back up from legislature in its fight against one rural Wisconsin family AND The Wirtz Family Story for those who missed it AND Lets look at a wind tower 'tilt up' -- wait, how big is that thing again?
- 4/25/10 DOUBLE FEATURE! Invenergy Goliath still swinging at rural Brown County AND What a wind developer will do for you if turbine noise and shadow flicker are are problem.
- 4/24/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: How many Wind Siting Council Members have financial ties to wind? What's the problem? AND Take a look at who is on the council to see why there is concern.
- 4/23/10 What's all this noise about turbine noise? Whose word will you take? Someone who profits from putting turbines close to people's homes, or someone who is living with turbine noise every day?
- 4/22/10 Invenergy Goliath comes out swinging against rural Wisconsin family
- 4/21/10 Knock Knock. Who's there? I'm a wind developer. Don't tell your neighbors or your town board that you talked to me.
- 4/19/10 QUADRUPLE FEATURE: Wisconsin family driven from home by wind turbine noise files a lawsuit AND Wind developers say, 'You better quit complaining or I'm going to take my ball and go home." AND The word of the day is 'boondogle' AND What to expect when you're expecting 122 industrial scale wind turbines
- 4/16/10 Why did a Wisconsin town feel it needed to raise taxes? AND Here's your homework for today's Wind Siting Council Meeting
- 4/15/10 Wind Siting Council Meeting Friday 1:30 PM at the PSC and Here's your homework
- 4/15/10 Got an extra million? This wind developer knows what to do with it
- 4/15/10 Why did the Wirtz family abandon their Wisconsin home?
- 4/14/10 WSC meetings now on YouTube
- 4/14/10 Yet another Wisconsin rural community torn apart by wind issue
- 4/12/10 Video of Entire April 7th Wind Siting Council Meeting is now on YouTube
- 4/12/10 Why aren't the turbines turning? Why is the road repair undone? Why are the landowners mad? And why won't the project developer answer inquiries from Rock County?
- 4/9/10 Vice Chair of Wind Siting Council is from Rock County AND What's on the WSC docket? AND Watch the April 7th Wind Siting Council Meeting
- 4/8/10 Dear Wind Siting Council. How are you? Two members of the public with two different objectives post comments to WSC docket AND Video from WSC April 7th 2010 meeting
- 4/7/10 Today's Wind Siting Council Meeting
- 4/7/10 Why are so many bats dying in Wisconsin wind projects? Shining a spotlight on a glaring problem
- 4/6/10 Adverse Health Effects? The wind industry says there are none.
- 4/5/10 FYI! Wednesday! April 7th! 9:00 AM! Open to the public! Come and watch your future being held in the hands of the Wind Siting Council!
- 4/3/10 Watch the 4/1/10 wind siting council meeting at the PSC: For some it's like watching paint dry, for others it's like watching their future in someone elses hands.
- 4/2/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Wisconsin family driven from home by wind turbine noise takes it to court AND Couldn't make it to the April 1, 2010 Wind Siting Council Meeting? Watch it here!
- 4/1/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Brown County Health department says wind turbine health effects need looking into AND Kewanee County Town of Carlton passes large wind moritorium No Foolin'! PSC will webcast AUDIO of today's 1:30 PM WSC Meeting!
- 3/31/10 No Foolin'! Second Wind Siting Council Meeting Tomorrow, April 1st, and "What's on the WSC Docket?"
- 3/31/10 QUADRUPLE FEATURE: Kewaunee County Town of Carlton passes Large Wind Moratorium AND Where are they putting the turbines? And Hurry, hurry, hurry! Wind developers are waiting: PSC wants rules in three months, AND what's on the WSC docket today?
- 3/29/10 WHEN'S THE NEXT SITING COUNCIL MEETING? -- ALSO---It's 8 members not 10, we were wrong, and two letters worth reading.
- 3/28/10 Will you be an 'affected entity'? and a little more about the siting council: Required reading for the first wind siting council meeting Monday, March 29,
- 3/26/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: We Energies picks builders for Glacier Hills AND First Open Meeting of Wind Siting Council Monday, March 29, 2010 AND today's homework assignment
- 3/25/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Why 45 dbA is still too loud AND Anybody out there know how to measure this? AND The future of corporate hostile takeovers is green AND Extra Credit Assignment
- 3/23/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: What made the 150 blade snap off the turbine? AND What they are saying in DeKalb County, IL AND On the subject of Wind Turbine Syndrome, the doctor is IN
- 3/21/10 How Now Brown County?: Brown County Board to join debate on wind turbines
- 3/20/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: What an Illinois farming family is saying to the wind developers AND Wisconsin Big Industry is saying about Wisconsin Big Wind.
- 3/19/10 Special to Columbia County: New questions being asked about the Glacier Hills project.
- 3/18/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: How they picked them, we don't know: Meet the PSC's new Wind Siting Council AND What the new rules may mean for Brown County AND What did the wind developer say to 1000 people in a bad mood?
- 3/16/10: Tracking Big Wind: Wow Look at the size of that carbon foot print
- 3/15/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Can't buy me love: How much wind developer money does it take to ruin a community? AND Neighbors talk to neighbors about living with wind turbines AND Do 400 foot wind turbines sway in the wind?
- 3/11/10 What's clean and green until it's caught red handed?
- 3/10/10 What's it like to live in a Wisconsin wind project? It's been two years, are you used to it yet? AND How were you getting those transmission towers here?
- 3/9/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Grease is the word: What's that on the turbines? AND Town of Morrison to Wind Developer Invenergy: What part of NO don't you understand?
- 3/8/10 DOUBLE FEATURE! What part of NOISE don't you understand?
- 5/5/10 The noise heard 'round the world and a look at the future for rural Wisconsin
- 5/6/10 Wisconsin Public Television's 'In Wisconsin' looks at high bat mortality near wind turbines in our state
- 3/5/10 The attack of the 650 foot turbine
- 3/5/10 How Green is a Bat Killing Machine? Tonight on "In Wisconsin"
- 3/3/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Brown County Board takes wind turbine related health concerns seriously AND The wind industry says if you would only admit your turbine problems are all in your head you could do something about them. AND More turbines, more problems.
- 3/2/10 TRIPLE FEATURE! What do Wisconsin wind turbines sound like? And what about complaints? AND what does the Wall Street Journal have to say about the problems being reported around the world? AND Special to Brown County: Will proposed wind project interfere with 911 signals?
- 2/27/10 Heads up Dane County, big turbines are heading to Verona.
- 2/26/10 DOUBLE FEATURE: Columbia County Residents to We Energies Reps: SERIOUSLY! NO SOLICITORS! And Turbine Leaking Oil: Our Wind Project Picture of the Day
- 2/25/10 Wind Project Picture of the day AND Knock Knock. Who's there? It's the same We Energies representative you've already said no to three times this week AND What about that meeting in Brown County?
- 2/25/10 Home in a Wisconsin wind farm picture of the day
- 2/24/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Got Turbine noise and shadow flicker? Who ya gonna call after you give up on the wind company helping you? AND New ruling supports wind ordinances adopted by Wisconsin Counties and Towns AND Illinois Farm Bureau offers advice to farmers thinking of leasing their land to wind developers
- 2/23/10 Wind Turbine Unplugged: No longer connected, no longer generating electricity, still making noise and spinning until the blades fly off. Who you gonna call? Those wind developers are long gone.
- 2/21/10 Turbines leaking oil near Towns of Johnsburg, AND Empire in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
- 2/21/10 Home for sale in Wisconsin wind project
- 2/20/10 You say you're suffering but the computer says...noooo....... From open arms to balled-up fists: The latest from Vinalhaven
- 2/19/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: CORRECTION: We were wrong. It was MONROE county not Brown County AND When it comes to the ways of wind developers, the cat that lost its tongue found it on Thursday night in Brown County AND what does it take to come between a father and son? Would you guess a payment from a wind developer? AND Wisconsin wind farm residents are not alone in health complaints
- 2/16/10: When you are old and out of shape.... which for industrial wind turbines means past the age of 20, but the contract with the wind developer goes on and on
- 2/14/10 Wisconsin Dairy Farmer tells it like it is
- 2/12/10 The wind developer told us that modern wind turbines are no louder than a refrigerator and "whisper quiet"
- 2/12/10 The promise and the product: is wind power a fair-weather friend?
- 2/11/09 DOUBLE FEATURE: Wind Power Quote of the Day: When is a genuine problem not a genuine problem? When you get paid to ignore it. AND Tell it to the judge, because the judge is listening
- 2/9/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: Dude, Where's My Wind Farm Stimulus Money? AND When an 'empty gesture' is full of meaning: Town of Holland's wind moratiorium and what the PSC says about it, AND What's that smell? Is it the conflict-of-interest problem in Brown County?
- 2/8/10 Surrender, Brown County: Invenergy Goliath to Town of Holland David: You have no right to protect yourself from me
- 02/08/10 Wind turbine noise? It's no louder than a refrigerator.... attached a to a jet engine. AND 'the nocebo effect' or the only reason the turbine noise bothers you is because you have a bad attitude.
- 2/7/10 Is it the 'Sound of the Future' or the noise that drives people out of their minds? It all depends on the setback.
- 2/6/10 The science behind wind farm residents complaints: AND A school teacher's letter from "Turbine Town"
- 2/6/10 Who's the Nerd? Wisconsin Public Television follows the wind siting reform bill in order to help high school students understand how state government works.
- 2/3/10 BROWN COUNTY SPECIAL: Town of Holland local government uses the power it has while it still has it: moratorium on wind farm construction passes
- 2/2/10 Brown County Special: Town of Holland adopts 2640 setback and year long moratorium
- 2/2/10 Wind Wars: Wind industry continues to deny negative health impact in spite of increasing numbers of complaints from wind farm residents AND Let's review: What do night time noise levels have to do with an increased risk of coronary heart disease?
- 1/31/10: The future of rural Wisconsin as seen from a car traveling along the hiway
- 1/30/10 ANOTHER TRIPLE FEATURE: UK's National Health Service takes a closer look at Wind Industry funded health study AND South of the border, down DeKalb and Lee County Way: With 145 turbines running, "It doesn't feel like home anymore" AND What kind of changes will another 150 turbines bring to Livingston County?
- 1/29/10 How many is too many? Columbia County learns of yet another wind developers plans AND Glacier Hill's 18 turbine "Country Cousin" wind project has no plans to 'buy American'
- 1/24/10 TRIPLE FEATURE: From open arms to balled fists: Green honeymoon ends once turbines start: Residents realize their lives are changed forever. AND Why are Brown County landowners changing their minds about hosting turbines? AND Wind developers wounds to Wisconsin community have not healed.
- 1/23/10 MN Gophers are as concerned as WI Badgers about turbine noise
- 1/22/10 Why are our neighbors to the north making noise about turbine noise? And Beavers best Badgers when it comes protecting communities from wind turbine noise limits
- 1/22/10 Wisconsin State Representative Mike Huebsch looks at what Bucky will pay for the Clean Energy Jobs Act
- 1/22/10 Dear Columbia County, Did you know those 90 Glacier Hills turbines come with an automatic extra 18 turbine 'Country Cousin'?
- 1/21/09 Living with Turbines Quote of the Day
- 1/20/10: University of Iowa: Important advice on leasing your land to a wind developer
- 1/20/10 Dead Corporation Walking: What's Enron got to do with the Wind Industry? AND what does that have to do with the value of ag land? AND what happens if you sell your house without telling the buyer about the proposed wind farm?
- 1/18/09 DOUBLE FEATURE: How will you know if a wind farm is going to be built around your home? Will it be before the trucks start hauling the turbine blades past your house? AND In Brown County Wisconsin, the Dr. is IN
- 1/17/09 State to wind farm residents: We'll give you this big nickel if you sacrifice that little dime-
- 1/16/09 Wait, how close are you putting that turbine?
- 1/15/09 Thumping with a 100% chance of loud jet sounds: Forecast from Fond du Lac County Invenergy windfarm.
- 1/14/09 How many people will be driven from their homes before we get an Independent Health Study?
- 1/13/10 Feeling lucky that you don't live in a wind farm? If you live in rural Wisconsin, hang onto that feeling for as long as you can.
- 1/12/09 PSC approves Glacier Hills, admitting residents "will make sacrifices in many ways" --
- 1/11/09 Why are residents living in the footprint of the just approved Glacier Hills wind farm worried? Ask our neighbors to the north.
- 1/11/09 A tale of two windfarms and an extra 250 feet: PSC approves Glacier Hills Project AND Brown County Invenergy Ledge Wind Project moving "Full Speed Ahead"
- 1/10/10 Monday, Monday. The PSC decides on the fate of residents whose homes are inside of the Glacier Hills Project
- 1/7/09 You say 'Annoying' and I say 'Disturbing"
- 1/3/09: Yes living too close to turbines made her sick. Yes, the wind company admits they bought her house because of it. No, she can't speak openly about it.
- 1/1/10 How much land did they tell you that turbine was going to take up? And how big and how deep did they say that base was going to be?
- 12/31/09 Cash for Wind Leases: OR "I'll give you this big nickel for that little dime"
- 12/28/09 UPDATE on yesterday's turbine collapse: Another One Bites the Dust: What made turbine # 18 collapse?
- 12/27/09 What is the effect of a wind farm on property values? A tale of two studies and a story problem
- 12/23/09 Christmas comes to those who fight to protect their communites
- 12/23/09 Learning the hard way about trust, wind industry siting standards and turbine noise.
- 12/21/09 WAIT! THEY ARE LOUD! Now What? How to live with 400 foot tall spinning machines that sound like a jet engine---
- 12/18/09 Getting a Second Opinion: Doctors respond to Wind Industry claim of "No Health Problems"
- 12/17/09 ON WISCONSIN! Badgers helping badgers. AND it turns out they are a lot louder than a refrigerator.
- 12/16/09 More than a feeling: Wind turbine noise, loss of sleep, human health and the word "annoyance"
- 12/14/09 The Fine Print: PBS reports on the dirty secret about clean energy
- 12/14/09 READ ALL ABOUT IT: Regarding wind turbine noise, here's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth--- except for the parts we don't want you to know about
- 12/10/09 Give a wind developer an inch and--- try to live with what happens next
- 12/7/09 Clean Wisconsin lives up to its name by taking on the dirty elephant in the room.
- 12/6/09 What's it like to live in a wind farm? In their own words:
- 12/4/09 Wind Farm Strong-Arm: Wind developers lead, eminent domain follows
- 12/3/09 What do you do when a 400 foot turbine catches on fire?
- 12/3/09 Wind company buying homes made uninhabitable by turbine noise and shadow flicker. Canadian neighbors share our health concerns about poorly sited wind turbines
- 12/02/09 You'll wonder where they stimulus money went: The wind developer wolf gets a tug on its (green) sheep's clothing
- 11/30/09 The problem that won't go away: What happens when you site industrial scale wind turbines too close to homes?
- 11/28/09 Goliath VS Goliath in a fight over right to site wind farm in rural Wisconsin. With a 1000 foot setback, residents lose either way.
- 11/25/09 What? I can't hear you over the turbine noise.
- 11/24/09 A TALE OF TWO STATES: What's the secret to wind development in the midwest? Eliminate local control.
- 11/14/09 Raising concerns about wind turbines in Ohio: The rural community speaks up.
- 11/13/09: Spring Valley joins four other Rock County Towns by passing a large wind ordinance with 2640 foot setback. Still no response from the wind developer about their plans for our community.
- 11/11/09 When your land is collateral for a wind developer's loan, what happens when the developer defaults?
- 11/10/09 What's it like to live in a Wisconsin wind farm? Ask Rita and Harvey Freund
- 11/6/09 Know anyone in Brown County, Wisconsin? Ask them if they know about the huge wind farm is heading their way.
- 11/5/09 Regarding the Glacier Hills Wind Farm: The people speak. Will the PSC Listen?
- 10/30/09 Follow the stimulus money for wind energy.....as it heads overseas
- 10/29/09 Tell it to the Judge: Glacier Hills hearing scheduled for Wednesday November 4th
- 10/28/09 Life in a Wisconsin Wind Farm drives another resident to put his house up for sale. And what about the birds?
- 10/26/09 Got Turbine Problems? Who ya gonna call? WE Energies? Invenergy? or the PSC? And what does a Wisconsin dairy farmer have to say about it?
- 10/19/09 The big "IF": If one of WEPCO's Wisconsin coal plants is retired, the Glacier Hills project will reduce CO2. If not....same circus, same CO2 clowns.
- 10/18/09 Big Wind and Big Tobacco-- what they have in common.
- 10/14/09: Wind farms lead, eminent domain follows.
- 10/14/09 Almost two years later, Wisconsin wind farm residents still having trouble living with the 1000 foot setback. PSC says they weren't the ones who said 1000 feet was safe. Fond du Lac County Health department officer urges state to conduct epidemiological study.
- 10/13/09 The problem that won't go away: How long will wind developers keep claiming there are no negative health impacts from living too close to industrial scale wind turbines?
- 10/13/09 The Birds, the Bats and the proposed Glacier Hills Wind "Park"
- 9/7/09 What's eminent domain got to do with it? The PSC's Environmental Impact Statement for the Glacier Hills Wind Farm:
- 9/6/09 What's all the noise about wind turbine noise?
- 10/4/09 Rock County Towns and wind developers: What to do until the PSC comes up with rules?
- 10/2/09 Three stories about one wind farm: What's going on in our neighbor state of Michigan?
- 10/1/09 All turbines have been off for two days in the Invenergy wind farm in Dodge and Fond du Lac County. What's the result? AND Gov. Doyle signs turbine siting reform bill into law. What's the result?
- 9/30/09 Hot off the press: The Glacier Hills Environmental Impact Statement AND Anti-collision lights are out in the Invernergy wind farm near Byron. Is anyone letting the pilots know? Who ya gonna call?
- 9/9/09 Success is in the eye of the lobbyist: Let's take another look at what happened in Kewaunee County.
- 9/28/09 What's this about the Wind Farm Strong Arm in Michigan?
- 9/25/09 Greetings from Ontario where wind farm residents have abandoned their homes because of poorly sited turbines. AND: WIND FARM STRONG ARM IN ILLINOIS! Florida Power and Light files lawsuit against rural DeKalb County village of 300.
- 9/24/09 Who cares when the fox writes the rules for the hen house? No one, really. Unless you're a resident hen to a wind developer fox.
- 9/21/09 Wisconsin Home For Sale: Must like wind turbine noise and shadow flicker AND What's that they say about sausage and law? AND What has similar legislation brought to Wisconsin?
- 9/16/09 Wind siting reform bill passes in senate and assembly, and WKOW asks "How close would you want to live to a wind farm?"
- 9/13/09 Next weeks vote on turbine siting reform, a new study about property values in Wisconsin wind farms, and the Maine Medical Association adopts resolution regarding wind turbines and public health.
- 9/10/09: Bad Vibrations: Wind turbines, questions about environmental impacts, health effects, and the fate of local control.
- 8/26/09 Wind turbines, the village of Freisland, and the fate of local control
- 8/22/09 Wisconsin wind farm residents VS. wind developer: Whose word will you believe?
- 8/19/09 On the Radio: A doctor speaks about his ongoing study of wind farm residents
- 8/17/09 Wind Farm Buy Out: Money talks, families walk, but only if they agree to a gag-order: Is this the future for residents of the Glacier Hills Wind Project?
- 8/15/09 Have you reached out and touched your PSC today? Public Comments for Glacier Hills project are being accepted.
- 8/4/09 Minnesota Public Radio: On Wind Turbine Noise and Public Health
- 8/3/09 Are local ordinances really over turned by the appeals court desicion in Calumet County?
- 8/3/09 What People are Saying about the Glacier Hills Project
- 7/29/09 A Red Square in a Yellow Circle: A look at the non-participating homes in Wisconsin's next industrial scale wind farm
- 7/22/09 Why is Wind Turbine Noise A Potential Health Hazard?
- 7/21/09: Looking Closer: Why did the PSC delay a public hearing for a proposed wind farm project? And what does the District 2 Court of Appeals Ruling really mean for local ordinances?
- 7/20/09 REVIEW: The State of Wisconsin and the word Assume--- the origins of our state's current guidelines for siting 400 foot industrial wind turbines
- 7/6/09 What can be done about false storm signals coming from the Butler Ridge wind farm?
- 7/2/09 If a wind turbine blade explodes in a German forest and no one in the USA hears about it, does it make a sound?
- 6/29/09 No longer considered benign: Minnesota Health Department raises questions about wind turbine impact on human health
- 6/26/09: Sleepless in Michigan makes TV News: What happens when turbines are sited too close to homes?
- 6/21/09 What's the Big Deal? Wind Turbine Noise, Stress, and Human Health
- 6/20/09: A Darker Shade of Green: Wisconsin State Journal Reports Wind turbines among the troubles for the Horicon Marsh, and Better Plan takes a closer look at the Horicon bat and bird mortality study conducted by the wind company
- 6/19/09: TO: Legislators: FROM: We the People---Why your letters to Madison matter--
- 6/17/09 What happened at the Executive Session today on Assembly Bill 256?
- 6/17/09 Assembly Bill 256 and a word from Sister Betty Wolcott on on health, safety, sustainability, diversity, birdsong and a beautiful clear sky.
- 6/14/09 Whats going on at the state capitol and why should you be concerned?
- 6/11/09 From Sleepless in Michigan to Shadow-Flickered in New York State: Wind Turbine Troubles Abound.
- 6/8/09 Making National and International News: Are Wind Farms Hazardous to Human Health?
- 6/4/09 PART TWO: When the Minnesota Department of Health took a closer look at wind turbine noise and shadow flicker, what did they find?
- 6/3/09 When the Minnesota Department of Health took a closer look at wind turbine noise and shadow flicker, what did they find? PART ONE
- 5/27/09 Channel 3 Madison reports on the Worry in Columbia County: Why people who signed on with wind developers are having second thoughts. AND Video of what PSC-approved setbacks in our state actually look like.
- 5/23/09 EVEN MORE Badgers Speak Out: Should the state take away local government's power to decide where and how wind turbines are sited in your community?
- 5/22/09 It's not all in your head: Wind Turbine Setback Committee confirms what wind farm residents have known all along.
- 5/20/09 It's all in your head: Are you a congenitally unhappy person? How a wind lobbyist explains away your problem with living 1000 feet from an industrial wind turbine. AND the story of a family driven from their Wisconsin home by turbine noise.
- 5/15/09 Can I get some Research? Why wind farm residents are complaining and doctors in Maine are calling for a closer look at what is happening to people living near wind turbines. AND more testimony from the 5/12/09 hearing on Wind turbine siting reform
- 5/14/09 Can I Get a Witness? Quotes from wind farm residents, More testimony and news from the hearing at the capitol on the turbine siting reform bill
- 5/13/09 Packing them in at the Capitol: Testimony from the overflow crowd for hearing on wind turbine siting reform. AND what prompted environmental groups to ask Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar to hold his horses on wind turbine guidelines advisory committee?
- 5/10/09 Images from Wisconsin's newest wind farm. AND Hearings on Turbine Siting Reform TUESDAY 11:00 AM at the capitol.
- 5/8/09 Earaches, emergency rooms and motels, AND Wind farm resident asks us to SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, May 12: Turbine Siting Reform Bill Hearing at the Capitol! AND in Columbia Country, residents want safe setbacks, feel wind farm strong-arm
- 5/3/09 Turbine photo of the day and what's clean and green but dirty all over?
- 4/26/2009 Got Turbine Noise? What happens when you call to complain? Another Wisconsin resident gets the run-around
- 4/24/09 Dear Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Page Editor: What happened to your good old fashioned journalist's curiousity?
- 4/22/09 A Tale of Two Newspapers with the Initials WSJ: Why won't the Wisconsin State Journal talk to local wind farm residents about noise problems but the Wall Street Journal Will?
- 4/19/09 Two News Reports on Health Problems in Wind Farms: What's the Problem?
- 4/18/09 Wisconsin Industrial Wind Turbine Photo of The Day and what does AG Week have to say about contracts with wind developers?
- 4/17/09 Video: More Turbine Trouble in Fond du Lac County
- 4/12/09 Wisconsin family's peaceful nights, restful sleep, are gone with the wind developer
- 4/11/2009 Want to buy a house in a wind farm? Yes or No? How Johnsburg residents answered a survey about about life with Industrial Wind Turbines.
- 4/6/09 Noise, Noise and More Turbine Noise: Who ya gonna to call?
- 3/29/09: What a Congressional Research Report says about setbacks: Why not read it? You paid for it. AND Why won't the Wisconsin State Journal tell the whole story?
- 3/27/09 South of the Border: Why Illinois county of DeKalb said no to Florida Power and Light, and Statement from Environmental Protection, UK
- 3/27/09 When a wind developer doesn't pay his bills, what happens next? 46 landowners with liens against their property
- 3/26/09 This Old House in the shadow of a 40 story wind turbine: What they're saying on Bob Vila's website
- 3/21/09: Same Bill, Different State: How Turbine Siting Reform is Playing Out Here and Elsewhere...and more!
- 3/20/2009: The Heartbreak of the Horicon Marsh and what Senator Plale's Bill Means to Birds and Bats
- 3/18/09: Home in a Wisconsin Windfarm: Pictures worth a thousand words: Why the PSC should not control siting of wind turbines in our state.
- 3/16/09 Wisconsin residents are speaking out against Plale bill.
- 3/14/09: NO FLY ZONE: Why small airplanes, emergency medical helicopters and wind turbines don't mix
- 3/13/09 Letter from residents reporting trouble in PSC approved wind farms in Wisconsin
- 3/12/09: Senator Plale's Goliath Turbine Siting Reform Bill, and a word from David.
- 3/7/08 Industrial Wind Turbine Health and Safety Siting Basics: A to Z
- 3/5/09 Z is for Zero regard for residents concerns: The Wind Farm Strong Arm in New Ulm
- 3/3/09 Y is for Year and a day: 366 days in a PSC-approved Industrial Wind Farm.
- 3/3/09 X is for Fix what's Broken: Why These Johnsburg Wind Farm Residents are Asking for Help
- 3/2/09 W is for Wildlife: What we now know about bats and industrial wind turbines, and a candid look at how post-construction bat and bird mortality studies are being conducted in the Forward Energy wind farm.
- 2/28/09 V is for Vibro-acoustic Disease and what it has to do with industrial-scale wind turbines:
- 2/27/08 U is for Unsafe: How the state of Wisconsin failed to protect the people of Byron
- 1/26/09 T is for Turbine: The visual anatomy of a 400 foot industrial machine from the ground up.
- 2/22/09 T is for Turbine: What goes up sometimes crashes to the ground.
- 2/19/09 T is for Turbine: The Anatomy Industrial Scale Wind Turbines: Below Ground Level
- 1/14/08 S is for Setbacks: Why 1000 feet is just too close.
- 2/11/09 S is also for Safety: What doctors are saying about industrial wind turbines:
- 2/8/09 S is for Sound: What is the difference between Sound and Noise?
- 2/6/09 R is for Research, References and Readability
- 2/5/08 News Break: The People Speak and Senator Leibham Listens
- 2/2/09 R is for Research, References and Readability: A closer look at the Town of Union Large Wind Ordinance.
- 1/30/2009 Q is for Question: What happened to my TV reception after the wind turbines started turning?
- 1/29/08 P is for Pressure, Permits, Powerlines and the Public Service Commission
- 1/21/08 N is for NOISE: What's it like to live inside of a wind farm?
- 12/19/09 M is for Members of the Committee AND Mill's Fleet Farm.
- 1/12/08 L is for Letters to Lepinski: What life is like in a wind farm with a 1000 foot setback.
- 1/10/09 K is for Kamperman and James: A look at some of the documents about turbine noise which were used in creating the Town of Union Large Wind Ordinance
- 1/9/08 J is for Jursidiction: A step by step look at how a Wisconsin township came to create one of the best large wind ordinances in the state.
- 12/30/08 I is for ICE THROW-- Video of iced turbine in the Town of Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin and When Lightning Strikes Turbines, what can happen?
- 12/28/08 I is for ICE THROW: Part Nine in our look at the history and contents of the Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance
- 12/27/08 H is for HELP! ---What Did the EMS Helicopter pilot say about rescues near wind turbines?
- 12/24/08 G is for GROUND CURRENT-- Part 8 in our look at the history and contents of the town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance AND photos of turbine construction phase in Fond du Lac County AND Why is Stray Voltage a problem? What is it??
- 12/22/08 F is for FLICKER-- Part Seven of our look at the history and the contents of the Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance.
- 12/19/08 E is for EXPLAIN-- Part 6 of our look at the history and contents of the Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance
- 12/17/08 D is for Dear Legislators: How much do you know about this issue and how do you feel about turbine siting reform?
- 12/16/08 C is for Construction: PART FOUR of our look at the history and contents of the Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance: Impacts to Town Roads AND Turbine Road Related Problems in the News
- 12/12/08 PART 3 of our look at the history and content of the Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance: Today's topic: SETBACKS: How far should a 400 foot tall industrial wind turbine be built from your door? AND Industrial wind turbine setback issues in the news.
- 12/9/08 What they say about the word "Assume" and what that has to do with industrial turbine noise and the state of Wisconsin's 1000 foot setback : Part Two of Our Step by Step Look at the History and the Content of Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance.
- 12/9/08 What's in a Large Wind Ordinance? And How Does a Town Create One? A Look at the History, Research and Content of the Town of Union's Large Wind Ordinance, Step by Step. PART ONE And! How does an ordinance protect a township? The latest from the wind developer's lawsuits against the Towns of Ridgeville and Wilton.
- 12/8/08 What Happened in Monroe County? AND When it comes to manure digesters, we say ON WISCONSIN!
- 12/7/08 Hows this for our state's renewable energy plan? Let's raise electricity rates by double digits so citizens can pay the tab for expensive, inefficient, destructive, community-wrecking, unreliable wind farms in a state with low wind resource, at a time when citizens can least afford it and demand for electricity in the state is tapering off!
- 12/6/08 What do Wisconsin and Michigan have in common? The irresponsible 1000 foot setback. Where did this setback come from? We have no idea and though we've asked, no one at the state capital seems to be able to tell us.
- 12/5/08 Why do we need at least a half mile setback? News Story on Exploding Wind Turbine. AND Unreliable, Expensive and Negligible Reduction of CO2 Emissions: Wind Power Exposed
- 12/4/08 Why This Wind Developer Gets an "F" On His Paper, AND What We Talk About When We Talk About Industrial Wind Turbine Noise AND Ice Throwing Turbine Update!
- 12/3/08 Just a little closer look at what's driving the wind industry AND yesterday's turbine fire.
- 12/2/08 What do you get when you mix the ablities of concerned citizens, 22 months of hard work, and a local township government that is committed to protecting the health and safety of its residents? You get the Best Wind Ordinance In the State of Wisconsin
- 12/1/08 What We Talk About When We Talk About Setbacks
- 11/18/08 READ ALL ABOUT IT! Union Township and the Wind Ordinance that May Save Rock County
- 11/17/08 A tree does NOT grow in Vernon County, WI (Unless a wind developer says it can) AND! Same Circus, New Clown: Oil executive, natural gas lobbyist, and George W. Bush appointee becomes a top CEO of the Amercian Wind Energy Association.
- 11/16/08 BPRC SPOTLIGHT: TOWN OF FREEDOM. OUTAGAMIE COUNTY, WI
- 11/15/08 Knock, Knock. Who's There? It's A Wind Developer Offering You A "Good Neighbor" Agreement!
- 11/14/08 When things go wrong, who are you going to call? There's more to a good wind ordinance than meets the eye! AND! It's a small world when it comes to farmers regretting leasing their land to wind developers--
- 11/13/08 ORDINANCE WITH 2640 FOOT SETBACK PASSES IN TOWN OF UNION!! Resident's health and safety comes first.
- 11/13/08 Spotlight on Town of Randolph, County of Columbia, State of Wisconsin.... And how many jobs will the turbines bring to your community?
- 11/12/08 Where are they putting the turbines? If you live in any of these counties, your township needs a wind ordinance.
- 11/5/08 USA Today takes it seriously: The trouble with living too close to industrial wind turbines. AND! The spray-on SOLAR solution!
- 11/4/08 Need a solid, defensible ordinance based on science and medical data? LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL!
- 11/3/08 Why did the Assemblyman Cross the Party Line? And Frank Lasee on why he supports local control over the siting of wind turbines.
- 11/1/08 Need a Wind Ordinance? Look for the UNION Label.
- 10/31/08 HALLOWEEN TRIPLE FEATURE! Lions and Tigers and Bears? No problem! 40 Story Industrial Wind Turbines lurking 1000 feet from our homes? AAUUUGGHHHHHH!!!!! PLUS the HAIR-RAISING " Nightmare on Wind Developer Street: The EYES of the ATTORNEY GENERAL ARE UPON YOU!!" and the Monster that ate Local Control and Resident's RIghts (Warning, this one may keep you up all night.)
- 10/20/08 The House is Alive with the Sound of Industrial Wind Tubines: Brownsville Wind Turbine Noise Log Update
- 10/17/08 Another One Bites the Dust: Yesterday's most recent turbine collapse makes us ask this once again: How can the State of Wisconsin continue to tell us a 40 story turbine placed 1000 feet from our homes is a safe setback?
- 10/16/08 The leases are signed, the land is torn up, 1000 tons of rebar and concrete have been set down for the foundation, and the wind developer goes broke. What happens to the farmer and his hopes of income from the turbines? What happens to his field? Who is responsible for what happens next?
- 10/10/08 September Brings Good Sleeping Weather-- UNLESS you have wind turbines all around your house-- SOUNDS OF SEPTEMBER IN FOND DU LAC COUNTY-- Brownsville Diary Noise Log Update
- 10/8/08 Brownsville Wisconsin Noise Log Update: 31 Hot Days in August: on one out of four of them, the Fond du Lac and Dodge County wind turbines are not even turning. Wind Developers Sing: "Go On, Take the Money and Run!"
- 10/7/08 What made these people have to leave their rural homes? CNBC and MSN News report on the downside of industrial wind power.
- 10/6/08 Who Loves the Sun? Nimble solar power leaps over wind turbine Goliath
- 9/28/08 What Happened on Thursday in Grant County after the word got out about the wind farm planned there? Worried residents packed the Smelser town hall and took action. (UPDATED 9/29/08)
- 9/27/08 WIND FACTS! In Defense of Larger Setbacks-- a letter from Martha Young in Pennsylvania
- 9/26/08 Bucky has an alternative energy answer! LIGNOCELLULOSE! And yes! It will be on the spelling test next week.
- 9/24/08 How close is too close? Wind turbine Noise and Shadow Flicker in Wisconsin, How Wind Developers in Our Community Play with the Truth, and a letter from a pastor and his wife who are living with turbines.
- 9/23/08 Life With Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 11: What happens when a farmer says no to a wind developer-
- 9/21/08 Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 10: What happens when a farmer says no to wind developers?
- 9/16/08 Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 9
- 9/15/08 Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 8 and also the scale of the turbines
- 9/13/08 Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 7 and the Heartbreak of the Horicon
- 9/11/08 Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 6
- 8/6/08 Life with Industrial Turbines in WIsconsin Part 5-- Fond du Lac Resident talks about what life has been like since the turbines went on line in March of 2008
- 8/4/08 Wind developers threaten Wisconsin communities with "A Boy Named SUE" , What does the state of WIsconsin say about Wildlife and Wind turbines? More interviews with Fond Du Lac residents and a Message from A bat!
- 8/3/08 What's it like to live 1100 feet from an Industrial Wind Turbine? Fond du Lac Resident, Larry Wunsch, lets us know.
- 9/2/08 Fond Du Lac Farmer with a turbine on his land talks about it.
- 9/1/08 Let the Sun Shine! Let the Sun Shine IN! More Breaktroughs in Solar Energy!
- 8/30/08 View an industrial sunset in Fond du Lac county, followed by an industrialized night. Look what they've done to our horizon, Ma.
- 8/27/08 The wind is free! Unless you are a human or a bird, or a bat or any number of animals killed or driven away by "green" industrial wind turbines. What the Discovery Channel's website tells us about the high cost of wind energy to the bat population.
- 8/22/08 PART 2: What's that smell? Is there something rotten in the way of wind developers?
- 8/20/08 What's that smell? Is there is something rotten in the ways of wind developers?
- 8/19/08 How does a resident in a Fond du Lac county wind farm feel about losing access to the Flight for Life Helicopter? Let him tell you.
- 8/16/08 What do wind farms bring? When sited too close to homes, they bring misery and pit father against son, neighbor against neighbor, and the green reason isn't the environment, it's money.
- 8/15/08 Can the state force us to give up our Flight of Life access in order to site a wind farm in our community?
- 8/14/08 How much does local control over siting of wind turbines mean to you? Is this issue worth five minutes of your time? YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
- 8/13/08 Rock County Residents Report Back on their Visit to Fond Du Lac County Wind Farm
- 8/12/08 Fond du Lac County Wind Turbine Troubles
- 8/11/08 Why Do We Need Setbacks From Wind Tubines? The picture worth a thousand words:
- 8/10/08 Why Does Your Township Need a Wind Ordinance? The breakdown of the basics of the recently passed wind ordinances, and what you should know before you sign up to host industrial turbines on your land.
- 8/6/08 Brownsville Family Noise Log Update: Turbine noise in July and August- a video of turbines and noise, and the first song we know of written about what turbines do to a landscape--
- 8/4/08 Town of Ridgeville, Monroe County adopts wind ordinance with half mile set back--
- 8/4/08 Compare and Contrast! A Day in the Life of a wind developer and a day in the life of a family living in a wind farm
- 8/3/08 BELIEVE IT OR NOT: What happens when Wind Developers tell Tazewell County board members to ignore the Attorney General?
- 8/2/08 The GREAT Evansville Observer lets us know what's going on with the wind ordinance in the Town of Union
- 8/1/08 Town of Wilton, Monroe County Adopts Half Mile Set Back!
- 7/31/08 What do wind turbines sound like?
- 7/22/08 What do you get when you cross a dirty dealing wind developer with a dirty dealing public official? YOU GET SERVED!
- 7/21/08 How Green is a bat killing machine?
- 7/11/08 Brownsville Noise Log Update--- What have the turbines brought to the people who live with them?
- 7/9/08 Because a Turbine is Forever-- Our Attitude is GRATITUDE To the Magnolia Town Board for the Ordinance!
- 7/8/08 READ ALL ABOUT IT! PSC spokesperson says Magnolia Township's Setback of 2640 feet safe and acceptable!
- 7/7/08 Who Wrote The Fairy Tale of Wisconsin's 1000 Foot Set Back?
- 7/6/08 Who set the noise standards in the draft model ordinance for wind turbines in the state of Wisconsin? What are they based on?
- 7/5/2008 Why do we need safe setbacks from industrial wind turbines?
- 7/3/2008 MAGNOLIA PASSES WIND ORDINANCE WITH HALF MILE SET BACK!
- 7/2/08 How can you turn just 90 minutes of your time on Thursday evening into something that saves our community from 30 years of industrialized misery?
- 7/1/08 Does the wind developer have what it takes to take what we have? He seems to think so--
- 6/30/08 Deal or No Deal? Wanna buy a house near a wind turbine?
- 6/28/07 More testimony: What's all this noise about noise?
- 6/27/08 TESTIMONY: The Noise Heard 'Round the World-- the trouble with industrial wind turbines
- 6/26/08 Wind Farm Leads, Eminent Domain Follows.
- 6/1/08 TELL IT LIKE IT IS! More testimony from the Town of Union's Wind Ordinance Public Hearing
- 5/31/07 If You Give a Wind Developer an Inch.... On Wind Farms, Power Companies, and Eminent Domain
- 5/30/08 Who Said An Industrial Wind Turbine is No Louder Than Your Refrigerator? And Can You Answer These Five Questions About Noise?
- 5/29/08 Public Hearing in Town of Union Tonight! What do the Turbines Mentioned in the Brownsville Diary Look Like? Is anyone else having these kinds of problems?
- 1/19/08 What's making this Wisconsin farmer so upset about the turbines on his land? Rocks, Noise, good crop land ruined.
- 5/17/08 What's an "Implant" ? What's a NIMBY? What can happen if I just say NO to wind developers? Can they really use my land anyway? What's Eminent Domain?
- 5/15/08 Why Won't the Wind Developer Answer Our Request for Verification of Their Survey?
- 5/14/08- Brownsville Diary Update
- 5/8/08 What's it like to live near wind turbines? Watch a Milwaukee News Report! And! Who conducted the Town of Union Survey? No Response to this question from the developer. PLUS Extra Credit Wind Energy Math Problem!
- 5/3/08 And the Noise Goes ON! Who you gonna call? A LAWYER!
- 5/3/08 What Does A Pediatric Physician Say About Living Too Close To Industrial Wind Turbines?
- 4/30/08 Living Near Turbines: A Rural Illinois Family Tells Their Story: Part 1
- 4/29/08 Stop me if you've heard this one: What Did the Technical Expert say to the Wind Turbine Salesman?
- 4/25/08 It's a Noisy Day in the Neighborhood: Life with Industrial Wind Turbines:The Brownsville Diary Part Two
- 4/22/08 Can You Solve the Mystery? Why Does The State of Wisconsin say it's safe to live 1000 feet from a 40 story turbine? What does the instruction book that came with the turbine say?
- 4/16/08 WIND DEVELOPER DECLARES "WAR TO END ALL WARS" ON CALUMET COUNTY! What did Calumet County Do? Changed the set back from 1000 feet to 1800 feet. BEWARE THE WRATH OF THE WIND DEVELOPER!
- 4/15/08 The BROWNSVILLE DIARIES: A South Byron Family's Day To Day Life With Turbine Noise
- 4/13/08 Are Industrial Wind Farms Making People Sick? A Reporter from Kanas City Weighs In.
- 4/12/08 What Are They Saying in the Washington Post about Wisconsin And Wind Turbines? BUCKY DON'T WANT 'EM 1000 FEET FROM HIS DOOR! He'd take a manure digester, though!
- 4/11/08 Magnolia Tables its Ordinance in Order to Strenghten it Against a Boy Named SUE!
- 4/10/08 BIG BIG BIG Meeting TONIGHT! Want a 40 story turbine 1000 feet from your door? Neither do we! Safer Setbacks PLEASE!!
- 3/3/08 Got Turbine Troubles or Concerns? Call 1-888-732-7234! And a resident of Fond Du Lac County Contacts the BPRC before and after the turbines go on line. Read what a difference 18 days make!!
- 2/2/09 Got Gratitude? Let Your Local Town and County Government Know! A Little Word of Thanks Goes a Long Way! COME TO THE MAGNOLIA TOWNSHIP ANNUAL MEETING TO LET THE TOWN BOARD KNOW YOU APPRECIATE THEM! April 8th, 7pm, Magnolia Township Hall!
- 3/31/08 What about the "Youth of Today?"The Kids are ALL RIGHT! A Marquette University Student Speaks Out About Wind Turbines in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel!
- 3/29/08 What happened two days ago in along I-90 in Minnesota?
- 3/29/08 Brother Against Brother! Neighbor Against Neighbor! What happens when wind turbines come to town?
- 3/26/08 What's that they're saying in Calumet County? 1000 feet is too close? We couldn't agree more!
- 3/19/08 Where's MA going this Wednedsay? Where's PA going this Wednesday? They're heading back up to Madison again to tell the Governor we don't want wind siting reform.
- 3/17/08 What should you know before you sign a contract with a wind developer? Why use the term, "substantial peril"?
- 3/16/08 What Happens When A Wind Develper Decides Local Government isn't Giving Them What The Want? THE ATTACK OF THE 67th TURBINE!
- 2/15/08 WE ENJOYED BRETT HULSEY'S TALK ON RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTIONS FOR ROCK COUNTY AND WE MET ORNATE BOX TURTLE SHEPHARDS SO IT WAS A VERY GOOD DAY!
- 3/12/08 STAY OF EXECUTION!!
- 3/12/08 RED ALERT! CALL YOUR SENATORS!
- 3/3/08 URGENT MEETING ON TUESDAY AT THE STATE CAPITOL !
- 2/22/08 What's in the Union Township Final Report? And why is it so important ?
- 2/21/08 Wind Related Meeting TONIGHT, Feb 21, 2008 Magnolia Township Hall, 7pm!
- 2/20/08 What's Something Tobacco, Asbestos, and Industrial Wind Turbines Have in Common? And what's the difference between informal peer review and formal peer review.
- 1/19/08 How Green is a Bird Killing Machine? And Have You Seen the Bald Eagle at Magnolia Bluff Park?
- 2/18/08 Why Didn't the Representative From EcoEnergy Know What Wind Class Our Area Falls Into?
- 2/10/08 What power lines? What do you mean they can take my land? What's eminent domain?
- 2/9/08 The Lesser Prairie Chicken, Whooping Cranes, Bats, Protected Wildlife Habitat and Industrial Wind Farms: One of these things is not like the others--
- 2/7/08 You're Putting Those Power Lines WHERE? WAIT! Are You Kidding Me?
- 2/7/08 What Can You Do Right Now? Does Writing A Letter Really Help? We say YES! Do it Today!
- 2/5/08 Doin' Anything at Noon on Wednesday? How Big Are Those Turbines Again? And what's this about wind farms causing a blind spot in the radar?
- 2/2/08 The Union Township Draft Wind Ordinance: How Close is Too Close?
- 2/2/08 How Union Township's Draft Wind Ordinance May Change Things
- 2/1/08 What's the Connection With Sleep Disruption and Adult-Onset Diabetes And What Does This Have To Do With Wind Turbines?
- 1/30/08 Bullied By a Boy Named SUE: What Happens When A Wisconsin County Passes an Ordinance a Wind Developer Doesn't Like?
- 1/29/08 How to Fit 67 Turbines into 36 Square Miles
- 1/26/2008 What's This I Hear About a Wolf In Green Clothing Moving in on the Horicon Marsh?
- 1/25/08 Wind Turbines Kill Bats. So? Who Cares About Bats?
- 1/24/08 How Were The Wind Rights to Magnolia Township Sold And What Does A WInd Developer Do?
- 1/23/08 Wolf in Green Clothing: The Heartbreak of the Horicon Marsh
- 1/18/08 GOT NOISE?
- 1/15/08 What's the Connection Between Noise and Coronary Heart Disease?
- 1/13/07 Play it again, Wisconsin!
- 1/12/08 What's Involved In the Construction Of a Wind Farm?
- 1/11/08 What's Happening on 6th and Badger in Evansville?
- 1/10/08 Who Ya Gonna Call?
- 1/9/2007 WHY WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE TURBINES ARE BEING SITED
- 1/2/07 What's the Latest From Calumet County?
- 12/29/07 Fond Du Lac Farmer Asks, "What Have I Done?"
- 12/28/07 What's Happening In Calumet County?
- 12/27/07 Renewable Energy Plans that Fit Rock County
- 12/18/07 Trempealeau County Takes It Seriously: Strong Wind Ordinance Passed
- 12/17/07 CONGRATULATIONS MAGNOLIA TOWNSHIP!
- 12/11/07 WHY HAS THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON WIND ENERGY PERMITTING REFORM BEEN EXTENDED?
- 12/3/07 Why a Farmer in Johnsburg Wisconsin Regrets signing on for Turbines
- 12/2/07 Worried About the Turbines Coming In? What You Can Do About It Right This Minute.
- 12/1/07 UPDATE! Who Lived In The House That Had To Be Abandoned Because of the Wind Farm?
- 11/30/2007 What is the Wind Siting Reform Policy Proposal And Why Should I Be Concerned?
- 11/29/07 Are There Health and Safety Problems Associated With Living Too Close to Wind Turbines?
- 11/28/07 Foreign Firms Envision Wind Farms Dotting the U.S.
- 11/27/07 What Should You Know Before You Lease Your Land?
- 11/26/07 Congressman Criticizes Wind Power