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• 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