Wind Energy
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US FWS Wind Energy Siting Public Comment Period Open
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service draft documents containing guidelines to make the best possible decisions in the review and selection of sites for wind energy facilities. Public comment open until May 19, 2011.
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Wind Energy Issues for the Eastern Shore of Virginia
A summary of relevant issues surrounding wind energy development on the Eastern Shore of Virginia |
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Bethany Wind Turbine Study Excerpt
Excerpts from the Bethany Wind Turbine Study Committee Report listing issues to consider and recommendations. |
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Green Mountain Club's Position on Windpower
The Green Mountain Club's board of directors developed a windpower policy in 2003, and amended it in 2009.
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Wind Energy on the Horizon: The New Energy Landscape
A panel on the challenges of balancing sustainability with aesthetic impacts with techniques for mitigating visual impacts |
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Wind Power Siting Regulations and Wildlife Guidelines in the US
A survey of state wind siting regulations. |
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Wind Energy Facility Ordinance
An ordinance to regulate all wind energy facilities within the Town...addresses siting, configuration, operation, noise, light flicker, interference with radio signal reception, and eventual end of life decommissioning. |
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Turbines Turn into Headache for Vinalhaven
Portland Herald article on wind turbine noise disturbances and neighborhood problems |
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Wind Turbine Noise: What Audiologists Should Know
Audiology Today article: Low-frequency noise and vibration emitted by wind turbines may have adverse health effects on humans and may become an important community noise concern. |
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Modeling Potential Wildlife-Wind Energy Conflict Areas
A tool to more comprehensively address land use decisions involving commercial wind energy. |
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Wind Power: Siting in Communities
In collaboration with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s Renewable Energy Trust Fund, the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory brings you fact sheets about Wind Power on the community scale |
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How the wind blows in Vinalhaven
Martha's Vineyard Times article on Vinalhaven, Maine, an island that is home to New England's largest coastal windpower facility. |
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Wind Power’s Promise and Challenge
With the triumvirate of jobs, clean energy, and cheap power going for it, there is clear momentum to develop wind power. The challenge will be whether wind power can meet that promise without repeating the mistakes of the past. |
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Infrasound
Wind turbines create infrasound. What this means to you. |
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Wind Energy and Scenic Considerations in Wyoming
Part of a research project aimed at better understanding how communities can engage in the process of wind energy development. |
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Alternative Energy Siting Guidelines, Michigan
Wind turbine siting issues and Michigan siting guidelines |
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Wind Power in Swampscott: Siting Considerations for a Wind Turbine
An evaluation of the suitability of four proposed sites in Swampscott for utility-scale wind turbines. |
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Terms of Reference for the Siting of Wind Farms on Farmland and in Woodlands in Quebec
Rules of behavior and tools that provide a framework for actions in wind projects in cooperation with host communities. |
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Aesthetic Impact from Wind Parks
Potential visual impact is one of the main barriers that the wide adoption of Wind Parks should face. |
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The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines
A search for the right aesthetic justification for windplants sited in the ocean as well as for those onshore. |
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Wind Farm Siting Projects on Public Land in Quebec
A reference tool for use by the Secteur du territoire of the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune (MRNF) to evaluate projects and issue leases for parcels of public land designated for the installation of wind turbines. |
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Considering Natural Resource Issues in Windfarm Siting in Wisconsin
Guidance to identify and characterize the presence of resources that are considered sensitive to windfarm development in an area under consideration. |
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Land-Based Wind Energy Facility Siting Considerations
A map produced by the Cape Cod Commission’s geographic information systems (GIS) department for the purposes of identifying criteria relevant to siting wind energy facilities in the region. |
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Wind Energy and Vermont’s Scenic Landscape
A summary of aesthetic considerations in the siting and design of wind energy projects in Vermont, reflecting the variety of opinions that emerged during the Woodbury Stakeholder Workshops |