We at Communities B4 Power Companies (CB4PC) have been asked on several occasions, ‘Where do we start?’ Starting a campaign can be overwhelming. Not only are most people embarking upon a leadership role they had never anticipated, but it’s probably one that involves learning a whole new subject! But once you get stuck in, you will find people support you and want to lend a hand. Your knowledge of the new subject grows daily and you will begin to feel . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2024/04/28/how-to-run-a-campaign-to-stop-big-energy/
Ask Questions Before Signing a Contract #WI
GET INFORMED BEFORE SIGNING! ASK QUESTIONS! Does signing an Option Contract lock me in with a developer for turbines, whether I want them or not? Is the original contract term 50 years? How long is the developer’s option to extend? Will my children and grandchildren be tied to the contract after I’m gone? How much of my land will the wind turbine developer have 100% access to for building roads, placing buried and above-ground transmission lines, and installing turbines? Will . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2024/04/27/ask-questions-before-signing-a-contract/
https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2024/04/27/ask-questions-before-signing-a-contract/
Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility Planning Panel Report #AUS
The Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility (the Project) involves the construction and operation of a 400-megawatt, 81 turbine wind energy facility with associated infrastructure. The Project extends over 10,686 hectares on land used predominantly for grazing and cropping. The Project is located approximately 5 kilometres north of Mortlake within the Moyne Shire in south- west Victoria. The Applicant for the Project is Mount Fyans Wind Farm Pty Ltd which operates three wind energy facilities in Tasmania. Planning permit application PA1800406, . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mount-fyans-wind-energy-facility-planning-panel-report/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mount-fyans-wind-energy-facility-planning-panel-report/
Threat of mining to African great apes
Abstract: The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with great ape density distribution, we estimated the number of African . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/threat-of-mining-to-african-great-apes/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/threat-of-mining-to-african-great-apes/
Impairment of the Endothelium and Disorder of Microcirculation in Humans and Animals Exposed to Infrasound Due to Irregular Mechano-Transduction
Abstract: The microcirculation of mammals is an autoregulated and complex synchronised system according to the current demand for nutrients and oxygen. The undisturbed course of vital functions such as of growth, blood pressure regulation, inflammatory sequence and embryogenesis is bound to endothelial integrity. The sensible vasomotion is particularly dependent on it. Mechano-transduction signalling networks play a critical role in vital cellular processes and are the decisive physiological mechanism for an adequate nitric oxide release, the main pathway responsible for the . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impairment-of-the-endothelium-and-disorder-of-microcirculation-in-humans-and-animals-exposed-to-infrasound-due-to-irregular-mechano-transduction/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impairment-of-the-endothelium-and-disorder-of-microcirculation-in-humans-and-animals-exposed-to-infrasound-due-to-irregular-mechano-transduction/
Sonar Vessel Noise Survey #NJ
Reports of recent whale and dolphin deaths on and near the New York and New Jersey shores, and public concerns of marine noise impacts from offshore wind development activities, prompted an investigation into the sonar noise levels produced by exploratory survey vessels working in ocean areas leased by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). This technical report presents the methodology, analysis and results of a brief independent investigation of underwater noise levels from a sonar survey vessel, conducted offshore . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/sonar-vessel-noise-survey/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/sonar-vessel-noise-survey/
Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility Planning Panel Report #AUS
The Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility (the Project) involves the construction and operation of a 400-megawatt, 81 turbine wind energy facility with associated infrastructure. The Project extends over 10,686 hectares on land used predominantly for grazing and cropping. The Project is located approximately 5 kilometres north of Mortlake within the Moyne Shire in south- west Victoria. The Applicant for the Project is Mount Fyans Wind Farm Pty Ltd which operates three wind energy facilities in Tasmania. Planning permit application PA1800406, . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mount-fyans-wind-energy-facility-planning-panel-report/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mount-fyans-wind-energy-facility-planning-panel-report/
Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility Planning Panel Report #AUS
The Mount Fyans Wind Energy Facility (the Project) involves the construction and operation of a 400-megawatt, 81 turbine wind energy facility with associated infrastructure. The Project extends over 10,686 hectares on land used predominantly for grazing and cropping. The Project is located approximately 5 kilometres north of Mortlake within the Moyne Shire in south- west Victoria. The Applicant for the Project is Mount Fyans Wind Farm Pty Ltd which operates three wind energy facilities in Tasmania. Planning permit application PA1800406, . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mount-fyans-wind-energy-facility-planning-panel-report/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mount-fyans-wind-energy-facility-planning-panel-report/
Threat of mining to African great apes
Abstract: The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with great ape density distribution, we estimated the number of African . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/threat-of-mining-to-african-great-apes/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/threat-of-mining-to-african-great-apes/
Cost of Wind: The Negative Economic Effects of Global Wind Energy Development
Abstract: This paper provides a structured literature review of the negative economic effects associated with the development of wind energy and synthesized the evidence at an abstract level. We then developed an analytical framework to systematically review economic issues such as volatility, electricity price, housing values, and unemployment in relation to wind energy. Global wind energy development data from the time period from 2000 through 2019 were included for a more robust analysis. This period encompasses the vast majority of . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/cost-of-wind-the-negative-economic-effects-of-global-wind-energy-development/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/cost-of-wind-the-negative-economic-effects-of-global-wind-energy-development/
Impairment of the Endothelium and Disorder of Microcirculation in Humans and Animals Exposed to Infrasound Due to Irregular Mechano-Transduction
Abstract: The microcirculation of mammals is an autoregulated and complex synchronised system according to the current demand for nutrients and oxygen. The undisturbed course of vital functions such as of growth, blood pressure regulation, inflammatory sequence and embryogenesis is bound to endothelial integrity. The sensible vasomotion is particularly dependent on it. Mechano-transduction signalling networks play a critical role in vital cellular processes and are the decisive physiological mechanism for an adequate nitric oxide release, the main pathway responsible for the . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impairment-of-the-endothelium-and-disorder-of-microcirculation-in-humans-and-animals-exposed-to-infrasound-due-to-irregular-mechano-transduction/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impairment-of-the-endothelium-and-disorder-of-microcirculation-in-humans-and-animals-exposed-to-infrasound-due-to-irregular-mechano-transduction/
Webster/Rollo and Shorten/Carty vs Meenacloghspar Wind #IRL
Judgment of Ms. Justice Emily Egan delivered on the 8th day of March 2024 Ballyduff, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford— 582. I find that there are frequent and sustained periods during which AM [amplitude modulation] values are conservatively in excess of 5 or 6 dBA. I also find that there are regular periods during which the AM values are considerably in excess of 6 dBA, in the order of 10 dBA or more. I find that such high AM values exacerbate the . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/webster-rollo-and-shorten-carty-vs-meenacloghspar-wind/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/webster-rollo-and-shorten-carty-vs-meenacloghspar-wind/
Threat of mining to African great apes
Abstract: The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with great ape density distribution, we estimated the number of African . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/threat-of-mining-to-african-great-apes/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/threat-of-mining-to-african-great-apes/
Impairment of the Endothelium and Disorder of Microcirculation in Humans and Animals Exposed to Infrasound Due to Irregular Mechano-Transduction
Abstract: The microcirculation of mammals is an autoregulated and complex synchronised system according to the current demand for nutrients and oxygen. The undisturbed course of vital functions such as of growth, blood pressure regulation, inflammatory sequence and embryogenesis is bound to endothelial integrity. The sensible vasomotion is particularly dependent on it. Mechano-transduction signalling networks play a critical role in vital cellular processes and are the decisive physiological mechanism for an adequate nitric oxide release, the main pathway responsible for the . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impairment-of-the-endothelium-and-disorder-of-microcirculation-in-humans-and-animals-exposed-to-infrasound-due-to-irregular-mechano-transduction/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impairment-of-the-endothelium-and-disorder-of-microcirculation-in-humans-and-animals-exposed-to-infrasound-due-to-irregular-mechano-transduction/
National Photography Competition #AUS
$1000 CASH PRIZE The theme of this national photo competition is RECKLESS RENEWABLES: ADVERSE IMPACT IN IMAGES Enter “The Impact of Reckless Renewables” national photo competition. Use your photographic skills to capture and share the negative effects of commercial wind turbines, high voltage transmission towers, grid solar systems, pumped hydro facilities, and grid batteries on farmers, fishermen, the land and sea, wildlife, the environment, communities, and everyday life. Opens 2nd April 2024 and closes 1 June 2024. Residents of Australia . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2024/04/01/national-photography-competition/
https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2024/04/01/national-photography-competition/
Sonar Vessel Noise Survey #NJ
Reports of recent whale and dolphin deaths on and near the New York and New Jersey shores, and public concerns of marine noise impacts from offshore wind development activities, prompted an investigation into the sonar noise levels produced by exploratory survey vessels working in ocean areas leased by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). This technical report presents the methodology, analysis and results of a brief independent investigation of underwater noise levels from a sonar survey vessel, conducted offshore . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/sonar-vessel-noise-survey/
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/sonar-vessel-noise-survey/
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