MPs say wind farm contracts are ‘shocking’
Families could face higher electricity bills as a result of “shocking” blunders in awarding new contracts for offshore wind farms, a group of MPs has warned. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals...
View ArticleWind power company not pulling back from Parishville-Hopkinton plans, despite...
Iberdrola Renewables might have retreated from its wind power development in Hammond, but its industrial-scale plan for Parishville and Hopkinton remains in place. “We continue to study the data and...
View ArticleWind farm research sites danger to crop dusters
Australia’s crop dusting industry wants a national database to identify wind farm research sites and other aviation hazards. The chief executive of the Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia,...
View ArticleRatepayers at risk in NSP turbine deal, says producer
An independent power producer in Cape Breton says Nova Scotia Power should not be asking ratepayers to pay for its share in a proposed $200-million wind farm. Three big companies, including the power...
View ArticleWind farm contracts to increase energy bills for families
Millions of families face higher energy bills because of a “shocking” catalogue of errors made by the Government when it awarded contracts for expensive offshore wind farms, MPs will disclose today....
View ArticleWind farm ‘propaganda’ given to primary school pupils
Wind farm bosses have been accused of targeting children as young as five in a bid to drum up support for more turbines. Primary pupils were handed letters, seemingly written by a developer,...
View ArticleWindfarm bid rejected
Windfarm opponents are celebrating the Scottish Government’s damning dismissal of an appeal against refusal of a £12 million, nine-turbine scheme in the Angus glens. Against the conditional approval...
View ArticleTangling with turbines
Aerial water bombing of Grabben Gullen fire would have been impossible a few years down the track, argues a wind farm opponent. NSW Landscape Guardians president and Kialla resident Humphrey...
View ArticleGrafton meets to talk wind farm
Grafton — A meeting meant to educate residents on a proposed Wild Meadow Road wind farm instead drew wind farm opponents, who had the opportunity to confer with town and state officials about the...
View ArticleBirds at risk from growing wind power in Indiana
Indiana is home to one of the world’s single largest concentrations of wind turbines. But all of those giant rotors — about 700 standing among the corn and soybeans along I-65 in Benton County — do...
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