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The big turbines that stretch for miles along these rolling, grassy hills have churned out clean, renewable electricity for two decades in one of the nation's first big wind-power projects. But for just as long, massive fiberglass blades on the more than 4,000 windmills have been chopping up tens of thousands of birds that fly into them, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, burrowing owls and other raptors.
While the United States’ output of wind energy has increased by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, New Hampshire state government does not have any statewide regulations or use goals for wind power or alternate energy.
http://www.courier-littletonnh.com/120104wind.html
The September 15 article, Winds of Change Can Benefit Virginia, by “guest columnist” Randall Swisher is full of false and misleading information. It is another step in the campaign by the wind industry, the US Department of Energy, and DOE’s National Renewable Energy “Laboratory” to mislead the public, media and government officials about the wind energy
"...Merits of the zoning case aside, there are some important facts about Wind Energy that simply cannot be ignored. Wind has long been promoted as a viable, clean alternative to fossil fuels and people have been conditioned to unconditionally embrace it. In fact, the moral justification for wind as the answer to greenhouse emissions has pitted conservationist against conservationist. And this fight has shamelessly been fueled by the misinformation on wind that the wind developers and their advocates promote."
WASHINGTON, DC, US, 2004-08-25 (Refocus Weekly) The United States has installed more than 2,000 MW of new green power as a result of renewable portfolio standards (RPS), according to an analysis prepared for the Department of Energy.
Note: Ladies & Gentlemen: Wouldn't it be interesting to have data on the additional, true economic, environmental, ecological, scenic and property value COST of the "renewable" energy that is forced by insidious Renewable Portfolio Standards? Glenn Schleede
Seven years after the region's first commercial wind farm was built, it is becoming clear that wind power faces a hard road here, partly because of environmentalists themselves.