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By Sherri Lange -- February 18, 2015 8 Comments“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the states of facts and evidence.” (John Adams, 1770)
“Facts are stupid….(laughter) stubborn things.” (Ronald Reagan, 1988)
When President Regan, in his address to the 1988 Republican National Convention, stumbled on the word “stubborn”–referencing the famous John Adams quote above–he might as well have been talking about the chasm between the facts of acoustic investigation of wind turbine installation, as reported by the victims, and the hyperbole and spin from the industry itself.
“Wind Facts” are openly portrayed by the industry as “stupidly obvious” things: green, clean and free. Complainers, aka victims, are dismissed as hyper sensitive if not hypochondriacs. Academic or government studies often portray such subjects as having a natural disposition for unhappiness and discomfort about things such as body type, with inferences of predilection for an anti-wind position and negative physical effects.…
Continue ReadingAWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: February 17, 2015
By John Droz, Jr. -- February 17, 2015 1 Comment
The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
EROI — A Tool To Predict The Best Energy Mix
Pretenses of Offshore Wind Economic Viability “Blown Away”
Expert testifies about property devaluation due to wind turbine proximity
Wind & Solar are 16x more expensive than gas
U.N.…
Continue ReadingAWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 5, 2015
By John Droz, Jr. -- January 5, 2015 2 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. It’s all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org, which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
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Greed Energy Economics:
More on the Real Cost of Wind Energy
Solar Leases Sales Pitches (like wind): Overstate the benefits
The renewable energy sector needs to commit to getting off subsidies
Wind Project Caused Illinois Property Value to Tank by 56%
Negative Pricing in The NE Electric Pool Cost Ratepayers a Fortune
Is Cape Wind Running Out of Time?…
Continue Reading“Contradictions, Bias Undermine Credibility of the Health Canada Wind Turbine Noise Study” (An Open Letter)
By Mark Davis and Keith Stelling -- December 10, 2014 2 Comments“We are dismayed that the recently released Health Canada Wind Turbine Noise and Health Study has ignored the distress of real people by hiding behind meaningless ‘estimated’ noise projections and predictive modeling rather than first making professional clinical observations based on the histories of actual sufferers.
Investigation of anecdotal evidence is the foundation of all medicine. The Health Canada study summary contains no reference to the growing body of research that contradicts the main theme of the summary.”
3 December, 2014
From: Multi-municipal Wind Turbine Working Group
To: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister; The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health
The Multi-municipal Wind Turbine Working Group is comprised of elected municipal councillors and appointed citizens from parts of Southern Ontario where approximately 30% of industrial wind turbines are concentrated.…
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