Wind Watch: Turbines are not adequate

I have it on good authority that to get just one sixth of our country’s electricity needs from wind turbines, we will need a land area the size of Wales. Thus, for what they are worth, this plague of wind turbines which is blighting our green and pleasant land is about as much value as trying to empty Loch Lomond using a teaspoon.

Malcolm Bouchier, Park Row, Louth.

Wind Watch: No 'we the people' in green energy

Wyoming County, once labeled one of the most beautiful counties in the U.S., has come under siege to the unscrupulous “snake oil” salesmen of the industrial wind corporations. Approximately 200 of these massive 400-feet industrial scale oil-filled wind turbines litter the landscape as if someone indiscriminately threw giant darts in a slipshod fashion irreversibly devastating green hills, forests, wildlife with a failed technology that produces less than 1 percent of the nation’s electricity. Wind can’t power any homes without back-up power (coal, gas or nuclear) and worldwide has not reduced CO2.
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When a wind company slips into the back door of the town (or town hall as the case may be), thus the Attorney General’s probe into public corruption between town officials and wind companies, a MET (meteorological) tower to measure the wind speeds in that region is put up. The wind company that stands to gain billions of dollars is the sole interpreter of the wind data and as the results are proprietary (confidential), there is no system of checks and balances. The townspeople never see the data. Invenergy states in a Buffalo News article (Oct. 26) that the Sheldon project will generate $20 million a year giving the wind company motive and opportunity to show wind speeds viable. Do the math! Sheldon receives approximately $800,000 to pay residents’ town taxes — a couple of dollars daily in residents’ pockets while the wind sweeps away $20 million yearly tax free government subsidies and taxpayer money!! Why have wind-ron corporations been allowed to infiltrate local, state and federal government and push a failed technology at the expense of we the people?