Pro-Wind Group Seeks to Change Message

Pro-Wind Group Seeks to Change Message: A new Vermont group in support of wind power has formed, and its members hope to counter the increasingly loud opposition movement. Wind Works VT...


More about wind....
no,
We don't need more wind turbines on Mountaintops.

Wind Power takes Public Lands, Public Views, Private Peaceful Living. Takes from those who do not get, giving to those that take.

Storm water system failures loom over existing and new wind projects in Vermont

http://watchdog.org/273184/lowell-mountain-storm-water-system-failures/

First ever taking of US Forest Service land by private commercial wind company

The first ever taking of publicly owned land by a private company is happening in Vermont. Iberdrola, a multinational wind giant based in Spain, who is also active on other industrial wind projects in VT will be taking 80 acres of the Green Mountain National Forest. Iberdrola has 565 billion in assets. One of Iberdrola's energy partners is Gaz Metro. (Of note, Gaz Metro is investing heavily in liquid natural gas storage. One of the members of "the Iberdrola Group" also focuses on liquid natural gas moostorage. LNG storage is a critical need right now in the Northeast....)

Back to the taking of the national forest in VT, a first for the country:

This national forest deal now approved by the PSB comes with ridiculous "bear offsets." The company was told by the PSB that they needed to find comparable land somewhere else nearby to preserve and protect bears, since 80 acres of the bear habitat of these bears living in the national forest will be damaged.

Fifteen 400 ft tall wind towers that are so tall they require flashing lights for aircraft will be installed on 80 acres. This deal approved by the PSB includes a million dollars to cover not only land to be used as an "offset," but to studies how the bears may be driven crazy by the noise or unable to eat. (Sorry for bitter insertion of opinion there. You will have to listen to the story to draw your own conclusions. Link is below.)

PSB dysfunction clinches the deal: Iberola was not able to find any such land to "offset" this harm to the bears and other animals in the forest by this taking of 80 acres for industrial wind. The company has been looking for years but it turned out that the company could find no one nearby who wanted to make a deal.

So the PSB now has told the Iberola just to skip it for now. --Go ahead with construction. We trust and that someday, somwhere you will be able to follow through. 

Big industrial wind to feed the centralized Northeast grid and parts of Canada is driving people out of their homes and off their land in the same way that this pipeline did. Big industrial wind for energy export far out of state is also causing serious health problems for people who have no choice but to stay where they are. Big industrial wind for commercial use is now for the first time ever in the US taking national forest land, as Vermont continues to be turned into an energy corridor for multinational energy giants of every sort, and local-regional generation under local control and decision making is driven out as an option.

The question is not just fossil fuels vs. renewables. The question is so-called "renewables" for what?  And when are "renewables" not really for renewable aims at all, but for status quo societal consumption and corporate greed as usual to the end of the climate and the demise of Earth's vital, life supporting resource?

Here is yesterday's VPR story the taking of land in the Green Mountain National Forest for industrial wind 

http://digital.vpr.net/post/after-agreement-over-bear-habitat-deerfield-wind-project-will-move-forward#stream/0

Here is the story on WCAX which notes it is the first ever taking of US Forest Service land: http://www.wcax.com/story/32385702/deerfield-wind-project-could-break-ground-soon

Bad Vibrations

When I moved to Vermont 35 years ago,
it was the Green Mountains that drew me in,
anchored me,
gave me a direction.

Before you know it,
They want to Pave Paradise,
And Put up a Parking Lot
For Wind Turbines, and
Solar Fields of Mirrors surrounded by chain link fencing.

The Vermont Public Service board, PSB, "They" say, go ahead,
put ugliness everywhere, wind mills along the spine of the green mountains of Vermont.The ugly wind mills cause health problems, property depreciation, dead birds.
The same handful of PSB deciders decided the now $150+ million fracking pipeline
 was good for Vemonters who will pay for it.
(the original purpose was for the pipeline to go to New York, under Lake Champlain. The paper mill decided costs were to great. Funny, many of us citizens opposed, spoke out. We were not counted)

- #Wind turbine critics demand changes at #vt Statehouse #vtpoli @WPTZStewart https://t.co/DLAtfXXWGP

— WPTZ_Online (@WPTZ_Online) January 21, 2016

Addendum...

An Article by the Governor...

http://vtdigger.org/2016/01/20/peter-shumlin-vermont-should-divest-from-coal-and-exxonmobil-stocks/

My comment:

The Governor is a scattered thinker, unfortunately. He talks about his farm, his burning brush, as if it is as natural as the driven snow. Addison County has burning police for that outlawed activity. He talks about renewables, fossils, coal, wind. He effectively killed nuclear, our reliable little plant that cushioned our electricity needs, oh, and it’s by his little brush farm.by his friends. Now, his other friends, Canadians, want Vermont as their own little money tree that could. Like a fairy, a Canadian monopoly was born. Each company slyly maintaining their own name. Green mountain power, Vermont Gas. The fairy pointed to the lake, mountain and valleys. Poof. Windmills on the spine of the green mountains, Valleys: Solar mirror fields,Gas pipelines the length of the state, and a big power line running the length of Lake Champlain. While the brush fire smoke blows out to sea. The Governor is proud, Landowners broke, forlorn, robbed, tourists Photoshop the windmills out…how it used to look. As I struggle to pay ever rising taxes on our fallow farm so the town won’t sell it for taxes, I am compelled to tell the future to my grandchildren. The Bad Vibrations started in 2016 or so. They drove people mad, or sick. They drove people out. Oil prices dropped like a stone but we were forced to buy outlawed fracked gas from carpetbaggers. Oh, and with divestment, I lost my state disability, retirement pension. Off to the cinder block high rise. That’s how Grandma and Grandpa lost the farm.

Wind

Wind

It's such a fleeting friend,

Here this second, 

Then Gone again,

Cannot see it,

Inviso-Power,

The Wind it howls,

Up goes the Tower (s),

Taller, and Taller,

The Towers they Grow,

Making the Mountain

An ugly eyesore,

The Beautiful View,

That drew us to you,

You were our Mountain,

Before they blew your top off,

And Ruined the Poetry,

We call the Green Mountains,

A more beautiful verse,

Than a Green Mountain Top,

Cannot be written,

But can be blown up.

I was drawn to the wind project listening to an interview on WDEV

Here's a link to the opposition article.

Proposed Swanton Wind Project Unnerves Neighbors | Off Message | Seven Days | Vermont's Independent Voice http://t.co/s4e6yxCZn3

— Andreas Marciniak (@ajmarciniak1) July 3, 2015