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NANCY MADSEN, WATERTOWN TIMES STAFF WRITER
JULY 29, 2010
CAPE VINCENT — The proposed St. Lawrence Wind Farm may be two turbines smaller. In an updated environmental impact statement delivered to the town Planning Board on Wednesday night, developer Acciona Wind Energy USA dropped the number of planned turbines to 51. The Planning Board could choose to accept it as the final environmental impact statement three weeks from now.

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July 25, 2010
Frank 
Mallicoat,
FALMOUTH (FOX 25/MyFoxBoston.com) - Wind turbines are a popular way to generate natural energy, but there's a price to pay for residents who live nearby.
The Falmouth Wind Turbine stands at almost 400 feet tall and has been in operation for 5 months. It's not the sound that bothers nearby residents, it's the low frequency pitches it can emit. Mark Cool lives less than a mile away from the turbine.  He says the pitch can rattle his house and causes such severe headaches he has to sleep in his basement. Manuel Gonzales also lives nearby. He is trying to sell his home, but blames the turbine for not being able to.  Gonzales says that most prospective buyers are turned off by the nearby wind turbine.

Falmouth hasn't let the turbine complaints fall on deaf ears. They've put a sound restrictor on the turbine to cut down noise and they've also commissioned a sound study to help blend clean energy and a healthy piece of mind. Wind energy is a clean, never-ending source of energy and the problems in Falmouth can serve as a learning process for future turbines. There are 28 proposed turbines in the permitting process from Buzzard's Bay to Wood's Hole and the recently approved Cape Wind Project in Nantucket Sound on the horizon.

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By many accounts, the prairies of Ilinois are ripe for wind energy. They boast Class 3 winds, with pockets of Class 4 winds. Illinois is also home to hundreds of miles of high-voltage transmission lines to deliver power to users, primarily in the Chicago area, and wind farms can tie into that existing infrastructure. Even the law is favorable, accordingto the Illinois Wind Energy Association. In 2007, Illinois and 20 other states enacted laws requiring 25% of electricity come from renewable sources by 2025.

YOUNGSTOWN — As objections to the notion of a wind power project in Lake Ontario continued to grow last week, the New York Power Authority refused to release information that could reveal if all the agitation is much ado about nothing. Authority President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel said the agency would not release the contents of bids from five developers for the wind turbine project. The developers were given 17 locations from which to choose — 10 in Lake Ontario and seven in Lake Erie — or they were allowed to choose their own if they could show their site was technically feasible.Kessel was urged to release the information by Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte, D-Lewiston, and State Sen. George D. Maziarz, R-Newfane, because it would show whether any of the developers really is interested in a wind farm in the slot between Youngstown and Wilson, the only Niagara County location the Power Authority’s analysts considered worthwhile.

Nick Riolo didn’t want gas drilling beneath his property in the Madison County town of Lebanon, but he had no choice.

Under what the law calls compulsory integration, a gas company can drill under land without permission of the owners if enough of their neighbors have already leased their property to the company.

“There’s nothing you can do to stop it,” said Riolo, who had about 7 acres integrated into a drilling area. “I called a lawyer and he said, ‘You don’t really have a choice.’

July 25, 2010

WINDFALL news, finally
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To everyone who has expressed interest in WINDFALL, I apologize for taking so long to get back to all of you, as I had some difficult decisions to make and a lot of work to do.  I’ve tried to write this email many times but didn’t quite know what to say.   Now I can write with confidence because there is positive news to report. I have been working very hard to get WINDFALL acknowledged by people who can help obtain national exposure.  There are finally some breakthroughs and I think you will all be happy with the results.  I can’t go in to detail at this time, but I am now confident that the film will have an impact on the discussion concerning public policy on industrial wind development throughout the US and abroad.

I have been getting expert advice on how to launch WINDFALL in order to make this happen, and one of the stipulations has been that screenings of the film will have to wait for now.  My motivation for making the film was to help people, so this was a very difficult decision and caused me a lot of stress.  The emails I received telling me your stories touched me greatly, and encouraged me to press even harder. It has taken more than three years and all of my resources to get WINDFALL to this point, so I hope you can understand my request to hang on a bit longer.

I’m as frustrated as you are with how long this is taking, but I’m sure that it will be worth it to take the necessary time and get it right.  I do feel the urgency concerning the time frame, and I sincerely appreciate your patience. .  I also want to thank everyone who offered to help.   I have all of your information so you will be contacted and I hope you’ll still be interested. I will be back in touch in early August with an official announcement.  Believe me, I am really looking forward to the launch and I am extremely excited to share WINDFALL with the world!
Thanks again for your interest.
Sincerely,

Laura Israel
Director/producer, WINDFALL

Gitte Nielsen from Tåsinge feels annoyed by wind turbine noise and want them removed.

Photo : Carsten Andreasen

The postcard image of Denmark in harmony with wind turbines has shattered. Protests from more and more Danish neighbours of wind turbines on land have stopped wind power projects and made local politicians reluctant to approve licences. This is evident from a front page article in yesterday’s edition of Jyllandsposten which is one of the country’s biggest national newspapers. Denmark has up till now systematically been highlighted as the good example where the population live in harmony with more than 5000 wind turbines that produce 20 per cent of the country’s electricity. The postcard image of Denmark with Vestas and Siemens as the main producers of wind turbines has shattered.

The Jefferson County Industrial Agency finally has held some public discussions as they attempt to do what the county Legislature told them to do almost a year ago. JCIDA members are talking about changes to the uniform tax exempt policy adopted in 2004. JCIDA ignored the county's direction to produce a uniform policy for wind power developments in the county and instead negotiated a special deal for the Galloo Island project, which cost county taxpayers substantial lost property tax revenues and left unsaid just exactly what part of the county would host the power line serving the project.

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