The Santa Fe New Mexican recently published an astute article on the Taos Wind Farm proposal and opposition to its construction. Although she paints the issue in broad strokes, Ms. Matlock does a commendable job of introducing the issue in a fair manner, and she raises valid questions about the feasibility of this project as well as its beneficiaries. (link to the article)
We look forward to her continued coverage of this issue.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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Hello from a sister community in Wisconsin also dealing with wind developers. Several towns in our state have written and passed very good large wind ordinances backed up by scientific and medical data which supports a minimum set back of 2640 feet. You can download them at our website, betterplan.squarespace.com along with a lot of information which may be useful to you. To see a very good video of wind turbine shadow flicker on a house 1100 feet away go to YouTube and search "Turbine Shadow Flicker Byron,WI."
I am a resident of San Miguel County, NM where Invenergy has been proposing a facility. The local community has written up and is distributing a petition to the Gov./Lieut.Gov., State Land Office and County Commissioners requesting a moratorium on wind power plants until state regulation has been passed protecting public health, scenic and historical corridors, wildlife and advocating oversight and transparency in the application process with a Wind Industry Code of Ethics (such as NY). I encourage other communities in New Mexico to circulate such a petition and submit them to our government leaders in order to show them the numbers of concerned citizens who want more laws and protections on the ground level concerning this unregulated industry.
Excellent link Better Plan, and worthy of a post here at Talking Wind.
Ditto, Deb. Your petition is a fine idea. We have very lopsided and pro-wind media here in Taos, and it has been difficult to persuade people to go against that. A petition might just do the trick!
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