Big Wind destroys the environment while providing no net benefit
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Sprawling Industrial Wind Factories Destroy the Environment,
Community, Personal Health & Property Values - while providing NO Net
Benefit
Considering the history of
complete and utter civil discord created by Big Wind projects in rural New York
State (NYS) communities over the past decade -- and the fact that industrial
wind is a net economic
and environmental
loser -- Orleans & Niagra County residents should be alarmed by Apex’s
proposed wind factory.
The
Industrial Wind industry was initiated in the U.S. under the pretense that it would
significantly reduce CO2 emissions, and thereby help abate Global Warming. Yet,
30 years into subsidizing the building of wind factories off the backs of
taxpayers and ratepayers has proven otherwise.
With approximately 250,000 industrial wind
turbines installed worldwide today, CO2 emissions have NOT been significantly
reduced, nor has a single conventional generation plant been decommissioned
anywhere thanks to industrial wind. As Manhattan Institute scholar Robert
Bryce said: "Wind Turbines Are Climate-Change Scarecrows."
Industrial wind provides NO Capacity Value (aka: Firm Capacity - specified amounts of power on demand). Thus, wind turbines need constant "shadow capacity" from our reliable, dispatchable baseload generators - that is, if you want to be sure the lights will come on when you flick the switch. Thus, wind generation actually locks us into dependence on fossil fuels, and as Big Wind CEO, Patrick Jenevein candidly admitted, "Consumers end up paying twice for the same product."
Consider
this reality:
ONE (1) 450 MW gas-fired Combined Cycle
Generating Unit located at New York City (where the power is needed in NYS) - operating at 60% Capacity Factor,
would provide more power than all of NYS's 16 installed wind factories
combined, at 1/4 of the capital costs -- and would have
significantly reduced CO2 emissions and created far more jobs than all those wind farms – without all the added costs (economic, environmental, and civil), and
of all the transmission lines that must be added across the state to NYC.
Industrial Wind has proven to be effective only
as a tax shelter generator for large corporations in search of increased
bottom lines - just as it was originally intended to do by ENRON, the
trailblazer for Big Wind in the U.S. As Warren Buffett candidly admitted,
“We get tax credits if we build ‘windfarms.’ That’s the only reason to
build them. They don’t make sense otherwise.”
Property values
are significantly negatively-impacted, as are peoples’ personal health
and quality of life by the noise (ie: infrasound), resonant ground vibrations, flashing red lights, shadow
flicker, TV interference, etc., that is generated by
these giant bird-and-bat-chopping
machines. Just ask the citizens of Orangeville in Wyoming County, who are now suing
Invenergy for $40 Million dollars!
Likewise, the Wisconsin Board of Health recently declared Duke Energy’s
wind turbines a "Human Health Hazard."
The fact that American citizens are being
assaulted with their own taxpayer and ratepayer money (which is subsidizing the
building of these wind factories to the tune of 80% of the total costs), in the
name of the failed ‘green’ energy boondoggle
of wind is shameful, and simply un-American. Save yourselves, and your community - JUST SAY "NO!" to Big Wind!
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Mary Kay Barton
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