Construction and tree clearing near Naval Air Station Oceana is catching the attention of drivers and neighbors. Dominion Energy says work along Oceana Boulevard and Harper’s Road is part of th...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/18/trees-removed-for-offshore-coastal-virginia-wind-project/
Military chiefs have objected to plans to extend a Scots windfarm amid fears RAF jets could crash into its huge turbines. Energy firm Boralex wants to build 22 turbines up to 650ft high to extend...
A Kay County family told News 4 a leaking wind turbine near their property has now prompted an investigation. The turbine in question is owned and operated by Deriva Energy. Stephanie Mayer said ...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/18/kay-county-family-frustrated-by-wind-turbine-leak/
The Bureau of Land Management announced on Monday that it is extending the public scoping period for the Jackalope Wind Energy project in Sweetwater County to May 2nd. The proposed 213-wind gener...
A federal judge yesterday ruled against The Tohono O’odham Nation, the San Carlos Apache Tribe and environmentalists in a lawsuit to halt work on a $10 billion transmission line being built thr...
The developer of a proposed wind farm near Mortlake is being urged back to the drawing board in a “win for environmentalists”. It comes as Planning Panels Victoria released its report on the ...
Since 2016, more than 200 humpback whales have died and been stranded on beaches along the East Coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA). In fact, NOAA is so concerned abou...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/16/offshore-wind-farms-are-detrimental-to-whales/
When Trevor Smith and his wife Dawn moved to the Cabrach, they thought they had found the home of their dreams. After falling in love with the tranquillity during four holidays in the north-east,...
The decision to refuse the request from Northland Power for a strip of common grazing close to the shoreline for siting a 120 metre mast was taken unanimously by an unusually well attended meetin...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/13/battle-lines-set-on-lewis-over-spiorad-na-mara/
Donegal County Council has secured a High Court order prohibiting further development of a wind farm at a site that was the subject of a large bog slide that had “significant environmental cons...
In an area where the tallest structures are grain elevators, industrial wind turbines are more than simply a disturbance to the rural skyline. They are transformative. Modern turbines are 600 to ...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/12/measuring-the-sound-of-silence/
About a 40-minute drive to the north from central Sapporo lies the Sea of Japan port of Ishikari, a city rich in biodiversity that now finds itself at the heart of a fierce debate over wind power...
Like over byen Mosjøen i Nordland ruver Øyfjellet. I 2021 åpnet Norges største vindkraftanlegg her. På det værharde fjellet står 72 vindturbiner. Men 27. januar i år ble tallet 71. Årsak...
Over én tredjedel av vindturbinene i Nord-Odal står stille på grunn av feil. Hittil har kommunen gått glipp av flere millioner kroner på stillstanden. – For Nord-Odal kommunes del er det j...
Et 71 meter langt vindturbinblad knakk og falt av en turbin på Engerfjellet i Innlandet onsdag. Ingen ble skadet. – Vi fikk beskjed av en grunneier at en vinge hadde falt av, sier daglig leder...
The Maine House of Representatives voted Tuesday to protect sand dunes on Sears Island where the Mills administration has proposed to build an offshore wind terminal. In an 80-65 vote, the House ...
A bid to build an almost 67 metre high wind turbine near Neilston has been rejected after planners warned it would have a “significant” detrimental impact on the landscape. Officials at East ...
Independent federal MP Helen Haines has condemned Victorian government planning changes she says will “silence” and “punish” rural and regional communities. The state government announced...
In what is believed to be a world first, the federal government has proposed developing an offshore wind farm in the middle of a whale super highway off Western Australia’s southwest coast. Eac...
Pontotoc County Commissioners held a meeting in Ada on Friday morning, allowing county taxpayers to voice their concerns with a wind farm that is set to begin construction near Roff this summer. ...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/07/residents-raise-concerns-about-pontotoc-county-wind-farm/
The prospect of thousands of offshore wind turbines spinning in the waters between New York and New Jersey may have unintended consequences for threatened monarch butterflies that migrate from Lo...
Background A wind farm consisting of 30 towers generating 100MW (Phase 1 – Thambapawani) was established on the southern coast of Mannar Island in 2020, with financial assistance from the Asian...
The custodians of an area of sea country marked as an offshore wind farm zone off the south-west coast say the decision has shown “disregard for our voices”. It comes as both the Gunditj Mirr...
“Impatto devastante sul paesaggio”. Per questo il consiglio provinciale convocato d’urgenza il 2 aprile ha dato il suo parere negativo al progetto del parco eolico “Monte Cerchio” che ...
amounts to 40% of the local real estate market price”. The nuisances recognized by the court are multiple: “recurring noise depending on the direction of the wind, . . .
Back in the late 1990s, ecologist Shawn Smallwood didn’t think much about connecting avian and bat deaths with the whooshing blades of wind turbines. It was a concept foreign to him. But then a...
Some of the most powerful and consistent winds in the world are located off the southwest Oregon coast, according to the Oregon Department of Energy. A coalition of independent fishing boat opera...
Last week the Henry County Board of Supervisors held two courtesy readings of a resolution establishing a temporary moratorium on rezoning land to an Alternative Overlay District for commercial w...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/06/resolution-might-halt-commercial-wind-energy/
In Bezirken und Gemeinden, die von Windkraftprojekten betroffen sind oder sein könnten, gibt es – trotz allgemein etwas steigender Akzeptanz – zum Teil nach wie vor Vorbehalte und Widerstän...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/06/widerstand-gegen-windkraft-auf-bergen-in-salzburg/
El parque eólico Gato impulsado por Greenalia en los concellos de Aranga, Coirós y Oza-Cesuras contempla una potencia de algo más de 25 megavatios (MW) en cuatro aerogeneradores con una produ...
La Justicia ha dejado en suspenso cautelarmente la autorización para otro de los parques eólicos proyectados en Monte do Gato, el denominado Gato, promovido por Greenalia Wind Power y que prev...
Bocciato il ricorso della Green Sardegna 2 che voleva conficcare le pale eoliche a Goni, tra Menhir e necropoli. Volevano assaltare a colpi di pale eoliche il proscenio . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/04/06/assalto-eolico-il-tar-salva-la-stonehenge-sarda/
Un referendum per dire NO a nuovi impianti eolici in Calabria. Per dire basta al proliferare della pale che stanno devastando il territorio calabrese senza portare nulla all’economia calabrese....
«Seven wind turbines over 200 meters high positioned on the hills of the Alta Langa (which reach just 600 meters above sea level) would have devastating effects on the landscape, the main driver...
Gli ambientalisti del Gruppo d’Intervento Giuridico (GrIG) hanno inoltrato un atto di intervento nell’ambito del procedimento di valutazione d’impatto ambientale (V.I.A.) relativo al proget...
Four offshore wind energy developers eyeing the water south of the Vineyard submitted new proposals to Massachusetts and other neighboring states last week in an effort to get new wind farms in t...
Scène insolite à Feluy, dans le Hainaut. Une pale d’une éolienne s’est retrouvée pliée en deux ce jeudi. Des débris sont également tombés dans le champ. L’exploitant Elawan Energy ...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/31/pale-dune-eolienne-pliee-en-deux-a-feluy/
Concerns were raised with Limerick City and County Council (LCCC) this week regarding the health effects for local communities from wind turbines as a protest took place outside over a proposed w...
The US Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently designated two Wind Energy Areas in deepwater areas off the Oregon coast. BOEM is also reviewing offshore wind energy dev...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/31/can-clean-energy-schemes-get-any-crazier/
In 2004, Pennsylvania implemented one of the most aggressive mandates to adopt wind and solar energy. At the time, less than 1 percent of net energy generation came from these sources. In 2023, a...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/31/expansion-of-alternative-energy-senseless/
The New England electric grid – ISO New England – has a website that includes a display featuring two pie charts that show where our electricity is coming from, updated in real time. Right no...
Saravanakumar, son of Marimuthu of VOC Street, Jayamangalam in Periyakulam in Theni district, died when he allegedly fell from a 15-feet high wind mill structure at a place in Kandamanur police s...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/30/man-falls-to-death-from-wind-mill-structure-in-theni/
Energy company Eneco has pulled out of bidding to develop two new offshore wind farms, saying the financial risks are too great and there is a growing risk of delays. Tendering has begun to build...
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office quietly helped write a bill to curtail wind energy in the state of Florida, email records provided to the Tampa Bay Times show. A version of that bill is now awaiting ...
A Victorian cottage near Wick railway station is in the process of being demolished to make way for the transportation of wind turbine parts through the town. Bankhead Cottage is on the corner of...
More than 70,000 wind turbines operate across the United States, and the U.S. government continues to approve offshore wind projects as part of its transition toward clean energy. When wind turbi...
Massachusetts fishermen say feds are hypocritical in Gulf of Maine wind energy designation. A move to designate two million acres in the Gulf of Maine as a hub for wind energy is snagging a sharp...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/27/right-whales-seem-to-not-be-a-concern-in-new-plans/
Police are investigating after two wind turbines in Schuylkill County were shot at. According to Pennsylvania State Police in Frackville, two wind turbines belonging to Avangrid Renewables in the...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/27/state-police-investigating-shooting-of-wind-turbines/
The Tolowa Dee-ni Nation announced it has passed a Resolution opposing offshore wind energy. The Nation, which covers Del Norte County and much of southwest Oregon, urges the Department of Interi...
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/03/27/tolowa-dee-ni-oppose-windmill-energy/
Alberta sent a draft map to industry showing where renewable energy projects will and won’t be allowed. Large swaths of land near Alberta’s Rocky Mountains and foothills will be off limits fo...