Wind Watch: Wind farms: Interview of Malone and Johnsburg residents

Bruce: How I see it, we’ve been bamboozled from day one. The wind farm developers snuck around, got gag orders signed from farmers, for the last — probably close to three years. Our town board never informed us properly of the possible situations; investigations were never done about the possible and known problems that could exist.

And for the residents, including me, the noise is just horrendous. I got one 1,012 feet from my house and three to four nights a week I am woken up on a regular basis. The noise, the shadow flicker, the health issues, low frequencies — these things are devastating and they’ve just destroyed my livelihood out there in what used to be a peaceful — you open the window at night — beautiful landscape. And that is no longer possible.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Will greenies succeed in blacking out the UK?

FAMILIES, industry and hospitals could face regular blackouts in the Westcountry in the next decade because the Government has not woken up to a potential "energy crunch", one of the region's leading engineers has warned.

Barry Griffiths, director of the Institution of Civil Engineers South West, reckons the three-day working week and life by candlelight, not seen since the miners' strike of the 1970s, could return unless there is deep investment in power generation across the UK.

He argues that old power stations are not being replaced fast enough and renewable energy production targets are falling behind, leaving a so-called "energy gap".

GM Volt may not be cost-effective for consumers, study says | GlobalWarming.org

I’ll be sorry for GM if the Volt proves to be the next Edsel or EV-1. But the Carnegie Mellon study, as summarized by Bloomberg, is a sobering reminder that a “beyond petroleum” transport system will arrive when and as economic and technological reality permits, not when green political agendas or CO2-suppression mandates dictate.