Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Why isn’t as much time and effort spent educating and encouraging people to conserve rather than defacing our landscape? ... Long-term benefits like preserving the character of Vermont and energy conservation are more important than short-term solutions that create more problems than they solve.” —Jane FitzGerald, Milton, Vt., Burlington Free Press, May 15, 2009


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=110

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“If we waste our efforts on symbolic solutions instead of practical ones, we will create bigger problems.” —Andrew K. Gentile, “What’s the cost of banning fossil fuels?”, Vt. Digger, November 16, 2023


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=10

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“What is so menacing is the regularity and the scope of the noise, which feels like a giant heartbeat shaking the earth.” —Harry Mount, Daily Mail (U.K.), March 10, 2007


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=144

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“A solution that is meant to solve one problem by creating other problems is not a real solution. Certainly so when the potential of wind energy in Israel is relatively negligible compared to the potential for harm to nature, which is high.” —Tamar Zandberg, Environmental Protection Minister, Israel


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=6

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“The earth isn’t dying; it is being killed. And “clean energy” will only make things worse.” —Alex, Deep Green Resistance Colorado


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=35

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Wind turbines don’t make good neighbors.” —John Zimmerman (Northeast U.S. Representative, Enxco, c. 2004)


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=201

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“If people tell the public service commission they want all-renewable energy, then we’ll give them that, but not before we warn them that it’s going to cost an arm and a leg.” —Duane Schrader, Louisville Gas & Electric trading manager, “Power Switch,” Carleton College Voice, Fall 2018


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=57

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“It’s well past time to stop considering what wind might do and to examine what it has done. It has not reduced fossil fuel use or emissions. It has only ruined a lot of landscapes and communities, fragmented habitat, and killed birds and bats.” —Eric Rosenbloom, Vt.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=148

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.” —Paul Kingsnorth, Orion, Jan./Feb. 2012


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=26

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“A single 555-megawatt gas-fired power plant in California generates more electricity in a year than do all 13,000 of the state’s wind turbines. The gas-fired plant sits atop a mere 15 acres. The 300-foot-tall windmills impact over a hundred thousand acres to provide expensive, intermittent, insufficient energy.” —L. M. Schwartz


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=207

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“People have to realize that a 25 percent renewable energy standard by the year 2025 in Illinois amounts to thousands of wind turbines. ” —Joel Link, Invenergy


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=239

Impacts of accelerating deployment of offshore windfarms on near-surface climate #DNK #DEU #NLD #GBR

Abstract: The European Union has set the ambitious goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050, which has stimulated renewable energy production and accelerated the deployment of offshore wind energy in the North Sea. Here, a high-resolution regional climate model was used to investigate the impact on the sea surface climate of large-scale offshore wind farms that are proposed for the North Sea. The results show a significant reduction in the air-sea heat fluxes and a local, annual mean net cooling . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impacts-of-accelerating-deployment-of-offshore-windfarms-on-near-surface-climate/

Observed onshore precipitation changes after the installation of offshore wind farms #GBR

Abstract: The goal of this study is to assess the extent to which offshore wind farms can inadvertently affect precipitation at nearby onshore locations. As the winds slow down over an offshore wind farm due to the extraction of kinetic energy from the air flow by the turbines, a pattern of convergence upstream and divergence downstream of the farm is formed, which respectively may enhance precipitation offshore and reduce precipitation near the shore. To verify this hypothesis, we used observed . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/observed-onshore-precipitation-changes-after-the-installation-of-offshore-wind-farms/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Generally there needs to be quite a bit of blasting, bedrock blasting, and the width of the swath that needs to be cleared to create that road for the cranes that put the turbines in place is fairly wide, and what creates the largest amount of habitat fragmentation.” —Eric Sorenson, community ecologist, Vt. Fish and Wildlife Department, Vt. Public Radio, Nov. 24, 2010


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=131

Impacts of accelerating deployment of offshore windfarms on near-surface climate #DNK #DEU #NLD #GBR

Abstract: The European Union has set the ambitious goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050, which has stimulated renewable energy production and accelerated the deployment of offshore wind energy in the North Sea. Here, a high-resolution regional climate model was used to investigate the impact on the sea surface climate of large-scale offshore wind farms that are proposed for the North Sea. The results show a significant reduction in the air-sea heat fluxes and a local, annual mean net cooling . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impacts-of-accelerating-deployment-of-offshore-windfarms-on-near-surface-climate/

Observed onshore precipitation changes after the installation of offshore wind farms #GBR

Abstract: The goal of this study is to assess the extent to which offshore wind farms can inadvertently affect precipitation at nearby onshore locations. As the winds slow down over an offshore wind farm due to the extraction of kinetic energy from the air flow by the turbines, a pattern of convergence upstream and divergence downstream of the farm is formed, which respectively may enhance precipitation offshore and reduce precipitation near the shore. To verify this hypothesis, we used observed . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/observed-onshore-precipitation-changes-after-the-installation-of-offshore-wind-farms/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“The cost of wind isn’t just the wind generator, it’s wind plus gas so you have the capacity there when you need it.” —Dan Dasho, Cloverland Electric Cooperative, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Interlochen Public Radio, April 3, 2015


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=13

Petitions to suspend, review, and revoke federal authorizations and ongoing permitting for Alle Catt wind project #NY #USA

PETITION TO IMMEDIATELY SUSPEND, REVIEW AND REVOKE FEDERAL AUTHORIZATIONS AND ONGOING PERMITTING PROCESSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE ALLE-CATT WIND PROJECT IN WESTERN NEW YORK AND TO ADDRESS CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Dear Attorney General Bondi, Secretaries Wright and Burgum, Administrators Zeldin and Rocheleau, and Biologist Leput and Physical Scientist Rowley: On behalf of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, an active party in the state siting proceeding reviewing this wind farm proposal, we hereby submit this letter Petition requesting that your respective agencies . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/petitions-to-suspend-review-and-revoke-federal-authorizations-and-ongoing-permitting-for-alle-catt-wind-project/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“One can certainly concur with concerns about how our culture’s fossil fuel combustion practices help accelerate the process of global warming without uncritically agreeing that the intrusive nature of windpower technology is even a partial solution to the problem.” —Jon Boone, Md.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=204

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“There is no way to “un-blast” a ridge.” —Occupy Lowell Mountain


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=34

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“... it was an awful sight on Sunday, a Golgotha-like parade ... a shocking, endlessly repeated crucifixion scene along the skyline.” —Patricia Veltkamp-Smith, Southland (N.Z.) Times, Feb. 8, 2007


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=180

Bird and bat mortality at wind farms in South America: Lessons from monitoring and mitigation practices in Chile #CHL

Highlights: Nationwide assessment of bird and bat mortality at 40 wind farms in Chile. Andean condor was the only threatened species detected, with nine fatalities. Mortality patterns vary with environmental and turbine characteristics. Monitoring protocols were often inconsistent and rarely bias-corrected. Nearly half of projects implemented no mitigation measures during operation. Abstract: Wind energy can help mitigate global CO₂ emissions; however, it also has adverse effects on biodiversity, particularly through collision-related mortality among flying vertebrates. While these impacts have been . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/bird-and-bat-mortality-at-wind-farms-in-south-america-lessons-from-monitoring-and-mitigation-practices-in-chile/

Rassemblement anti-éoliennes – 18 janvier – plage de Kerhillio – Erdeven #FRA

Pour bien démarrer l’année Une petite lutte militante Si elle est juste Parce que ça a du sens Une impression d’être utile Une petite satisfaction personelle, aussi Une idée du mieux Pour le bien commun Avec un collectif Unis, on est plus fort Un peu moins seul Et ça, c’est bon. Rendez-vous sur la plage de Kerhillio à Erdeven le dimanche 18 janvier 2026, de 12 à 17 h. ​Les “pour”, les “contre”, Bonne année à tous


https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2026/01/12/rassemblement-anti-eoliennes-18-janvier-plage-de-kerhillio-erdeven/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Noise pollution is the most significant negative aspect of wind farms and is often cited in opposition to proposed new farms.” —Rey Chin, University of Adelaide, Smart Cities Tech, September 5, 2024


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=72

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“This will divide the town for 25 years.” —Jack Simons, planning commissioner, Sheffield, Vt.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=246

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Because wind energy is intermittent, there always must be conventional generation, primarily natural gas or coal, ready to supplement electricity when the wind either dies down or blows so hard wind generators cannot operate. Electric generation is also needed to provide what are called “ancillary” transmission services, such as maintaining proper voltage throughout the transmission grid.” —Texas Co-op Power, August 2008


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=176

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“It is a waste of money because it is ineffective. And because it is ineffective its negative impacts are unacceptable.” —Eric Rosenbloom


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=224

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Tous nos paysages français (campagnes, montagnes, bords de mers) sont menacés pour quelques % d’électricité, une diminution ridicule de 0,6% des émissions françaises de CO₂, et surtout l’outrageux enrichissement de quelques promoteurs éoliens. (All of our French landscapes — fields, mountains, shores — are targeted for a certain percent of electricity, a ridiculous 0.6% reduction of French CO₂ emissions, and especially the outrageous enrichment of several wind energy promoters.)” —Collectif 6 Octobre


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=149

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.” —Tim Yeo, Chairman, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, U.K. Parliament


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=142

Impacts of wind turbines on the endangered Southern Brolga #AUS

Managing the biodiversity impacts of renewable energy – Victoria Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action: Submission 24 Inquiry into Community Consultation Practices – Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee, Parliament of Victoria: Submission 115 Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy – Senate of Victoria: Submission 30 Summary: The Victorian government and its environment department, DEECA, are preparing to act against the interests of the Brolga by narrowing wetland buffers and reducing other protection standards. The . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impacts-of-wind-turbines-on-the-endangered-southern-brolga/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“The lessons here are that wind power is not environmentally friendly, and it is not cost effective. And even if it were, its intermittent, weather-dependent generation isn’t particularly practical. It’s certainly not worth risking the extinction of several species to produce.” —Robert Roper, “Thar She Blows!” October 5, 2023


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=146

Conférence sur l’éolien et ses impacts #FRA

Vergezac. L’éolien et ses impacts sur notre territoire. Le Collectif des associations Regards de la Durande, Horizon Siaugues et les Amis du Château du Thiolent, organise une conférence-débat consacrée à l’éolien samedi 10 janvier à 14 heures, à la salle polyvalente. « Cette rencontre a pour objectif d’apporter un éclairage documenté et accessible sur l’éolien et ses impacts sur le territoire. » Elle sera animée par Sioux Berger, journaliste spécialisée dans les sujets d’écologie et de bien-être, autrice des livres Le prix . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/alerts/2026/01/02/conference-sur-leolien-et-ses-impacts/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“With no accountability, transparency, or meaningful regulation, wind is basically drunken energy, staggering its way around the grid, making everything and everyone around it work much harder just to keep it from smashing up the works. It’s the dumbest modern power idea imaginable.” —Jon Boone, Maryland


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=86

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Quelque chose qui vous fournit 1 MW n’est pas comparable à quelque chose qui vous fournit par moments 2 MW et à d’autres moments 0 MW. (Something that provides you with 1 MW [steadily] is quite different from something that provides you with 2 MW sometimes and 0 MW at other times.)” —Francois-Marie Breon, Atlantico, March 14, 2023


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=53