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How significant is bird and bat mortality due to wind turbines?
Wind turbines are often criticized for killing birds and bats. Fights against siting wind turbines in bird migration corridors or in bird habitat are frequent. Highly inflammatory language is used by...
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Wind farms are being built along whooping crane migration paths. Is there any...
Save the Eagles International (STEI), an anti-wind lobbying group, is claiming that hundreds of whooping cranes have been killed by wind farms in the past six years. Jim Wiegand, VP is promoting this...
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What is the most efficient design for a wind generator?
It seems as if every week, a new wind generator innovation is unveiled, sometimes in technology blogs, sometimes in TV segments, once even on TED Talks. They all claim to be better than the iconic,...
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Why aren’t vertical-axis wind turbines more popular?
Some groups and individuals tout alternative technologies for wind generation, especially vertical- as opposed to the horizontal-axis wind turbines normally used. They make a variety of claims about...
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Wind farms: good for ground water too.
Wind farms have a minimal impact on the environment and very positive impacts in terms of displacing fossil fuels and their massive impacts related to global warming and pollution. Yet some anti-wind...
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Have five minutes? Correct anti-wind myths in articles and comments
Have you read an article or comment thread online that contains anti-wind myths and disinformation but didn’t have the resources at your fingertips to counter the spin? This post is intended to let you...
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Have one minute? Promote #windpower on Twitter
Twitter: it’s instantaneous, brief , reaches politicians, celebrities and your Aunt Doreen, and is often maddeningly wrong. But who has time to go find the perfect data point to rebut the anti-wind...
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Sarah Laurie: doctoring the truth about wind power
Sarah Laurie* is CEO and primary spokesperson for the Waubra Foundation, an anti-wind energy campaigning group based a long way from Waubra with tight links to Australia’s fossil fuels industry and...
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Ostrander Point wind farm objections appear reasonable
In Ontario, there is one specific wind farm siting discussion I’ve been engaged in over the past couple of days, that of the nine turbine Ostrander Point wind farm. Based on the testimony that I’ve...
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Assessing the environmental impacts of different forms of generation
Recently on Quora someone asked: Different types of energy production create different types of environmental harm – how can we compare these varying types and degrees of environmental harm in an...
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