Better Plan, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Wind Farm Videos

• Home in a wind farm: What turbines look like next homes
  Photos and video footage of homes and turbines in the wind farms of Fond du Lac and Dodge Counties. The setbacks in this video were approved by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. Residents of this wind farm are living with the results
• Industrial Wind Turbine Noise and Shadow Flicker / Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
  Fire Chief of the town of Byron, Wisconsin made this video to show the impact of turbines sited too close to homes in Fond Du Lac County
• Life with Industrial Turbines in Wisconsin Part One
  An interview with a Fond du Lac County resident about what the wind farm has done to his community
• Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 2
  What's it like to have a 40 story turbine 1100 feet from your home? A resident living inside of the Invenergy Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County lets us know.
• Life with Industrial Wind Turbines in Wisconsin Part 3
  Resident who is hosting turbines speaks about money, setbacks, neighbors going "sour" on him, envy and jet engine sounds.
• Life with Industrial Turbines in Wisconsin Part 4
  Horicon Marsh Systems advocates who fought to get a two mile setback from the marsh to protect wild life from the impact of industrial wind turbines talk about their experience. The Horicon Marsh is considered to be a wild life refuge of global importance
• Wind Farm Remorse, noise, shadows, and farmland torn apart.
  This story appeared on the news in Milwaukee, WI on May 7, 2008
• The Heartbreak of Wisconsin's Horicon Marsh
  In the spring of 2008 along Wisconsin's Horicon Marsh, 86 industrial wind turbines went on liine just two miles from the marsh, which is considered to be a wetland of global importance.Wind developers want to put them closer.
• Town of Union Chairman of Wind Study Commitee Presents Findings Part 1
  Municipal Judge and Chairman of the Union Township Large WInd Turbine Study Committee, Tom Alisankus Presents their findings in 3 videos
• What's that noise? What Wind Turbines Sound Like
  A video recording of turbine noise in Ontario. Could you live with this?
• Town of Union Wind Turbine Study Commitee Findings part 2
  Part Two
• Town of Union Wind Turbine Study Committee Findings Part 3
• What Will a Wind Farm Do To Your Property Value?
  People who know, tell it like it is. A realtor speaks about the impact the wind farms have had on property values an the ablitily to sell your property at all.
• Why Setbacks are important
  What happens when the turbines brakes fail? Watch this turbine collapse and know why set backs are important
• What do you mean turbine construction will be hard on our roads?
  What's involved in constructing a turbine? A lot of heavy equipment on our roads.
• The Wind Farm at Little Bay: How Close Is Too Close?
  This video was made by Wind Wise Fairhaven, Mass. It is 11 mins long and gives a good introduction to the problems a windfarm can bring to nearby residents.
• Welcome to Mars Hill
  Interviews with members of a community whose lives were profoundly changed by a new wind farm. Courtesy of it creators, Carol and Paul Brouha and Bobbie Kinnell of Vermont, the Mountain Land Owners Association of Mars Hill, and Rick Bolton of New York.
• The Voices of Tug Hill
  An eye-opening documentary featuring interviews with farmers who live near a working wind farm in rural New York. Hunters and farmers talk about the dramatic loss of deer, turkey and other game populations since the windfarm was built.
• VIDEOS FROM KANSAS
  Click on any of these to watch short videos about property values, health and safety, and other concerns.
• What's involved in constructing a wind farm?
  Wind farms: what's involved in building and maintaining them from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
• Living Next Door to a Wind Farm
  Australia, 21 MB.
• A World-Wide Problem-- A Farmers Wife In Wales
  A farmers wife in Wales talks about the wind farm in her community and questionable benefits to the environment.
• The Hills are Alive with the sound of Heavy Trucks Hauling Turbine Parts
  Coming soon to a road near you?