Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Driving from one end of the country to the other, you see all sorts of strange things, but nothing as ominous as these wind farms that now crowd so many wide open spaces. Gesturing obscenely, they block the horizon, sneering at the very idea that a bit of sky could be sacred.” —Lafayette Lee, Sept. 25, 2024


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=183

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“In a nutshell: Perhaps renewables are not the answer.” —Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2017


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=41

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“By embracing industrial wind, for example, Vermont is replacing corporate-controlled fossil fuels with corporate-controlled renewables. We’re allowing those corporations to exploit ­and profit from our ridgelines, while ignoring the loss of valuable non-monetized benefits that intact mountains provide. In the end, Vermont’s climate change response hasn’t really been about “saving the environment,” no matter how ardently that sentiment is expressed in press releases and annual reports: it’s about maintaining, as long as possible, the unsustainable way of life that created the problem in the first place.” —Steven Gorelick, “Renegotiating the Future”


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=40

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=149

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“What the wind giveth, line loss taketh away.” —Carol A. Overland, Minn.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=161

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Wind power is an idea that is appealing to the imagination. It sounds like a ‘free’ source of energy that would be non-polluting and stable in cost. I am an optimist, and I love technology. If I thought for one moment that windmills would be a source of low cost energy, I would be building them. The reality is quite the contrary — wind power is wasteful of human and natural resources.” —Fergus Smith, Vt.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=196

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=58

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“At this point you may have asked yourself why it is that Vestas does not just make changes to the wind turbines so that they produce less noise? The simple answer is that at the moment it is not technically possible to do so ...” —Ditlev Engel, CEO, Vestas, June 29, 2011 letter to Environment Minister, Denmark


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=84

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“What we have all thought of as an industry of benefit, may not be of much benefit. They don’t provide any jobs and now they may not provide much revenue either! ” —Judge Laura Pryor, Gilliam County, Ore.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=237

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Faith in the redemptive power of wind energy is not a substitute for analysis of its actual record.” —Eric Rosenbloom, Vt.


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=151

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“The ecological footprint is large relative to the meager environmental benefits.” —R. Dwayne Elmore, Oklahoma Chapter, The Wildlife Society, and others, letter to Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, Jan. 3, 2008


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

Direct Testimony of Jerry Punch, Audiologist

Q: What is the purpose of your testimony? A: I intend to describe the critical weaknesses in Invenergy’s Badger Hollow Wind (BHW) application, particularly with regard to its “noise analysis.” That analysis is grossly insufficient in reflecting the actual health risks to humans, as it focuses exclusively and extensively on audible noise, while willfully ignoring the inaudible components of the acoustic energy that will be emitted from its proposed 6.2 MW industrial wind turbines (IWTs). These inaudible components are increasingly being . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/direct-testimony-of-jerry-punch-audiologist/

Direct Testimony of Richard Jinkins: Spiked Pressure Pulses #WI

Q: Has your ability to occupy and use your property been affected by wind turbines? A: Yes. Q. How? A: We have moved out of our home. And when we are at our home and wind turbines are operating, it ranges from unpleasant to insupportable. Some of the personal effects that I and other members of my family have experienced and that I associate with the wind turbines are nuisances that range from mild to significant. These are things like . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/direct-testimony-of-richard-jinkins-spiked-pressure-pulses/

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Wind energy will undoubtedly create noise, which increases stress, which in turn increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer.” —Julia Gohlke, Sharon Hrynkow, and Christopher Portier, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, June 2008


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=80

Industrial Wind Energy Quote

“Industrial wind parks might be relatively new, but the international context in which they proliferate is a familiar one of “first” and “third” world hierarchies and persistent inequalities.” —Suzanne Simon


https://www.wind-watch.org/quotes.php?t=186