APAI has produced a fact sheet with a series of facts (and I can personally verify that all of their facts really are facts, unlike the “facts” from the wind energy industry) on health, emissions and so on. If you want a quick summary of what we currently know this is highly recommended. LINK APAI [...]
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Stantec has just released the second draft environmental report, dated November 2011. It follows the first draft report which was dated May 2011, and about which I’ve already posted. There are two significant differences. Most importantly Algonquin has replaced the Vestas 1.8MW turbines with Siemans SWT-2.3-113 turbines. These are monsters. They sweep a full 10,000 [...]
September 20, 2011. I’ve had some time to read over the Notice and the Draft Report from Stantec that was posted on the project web site, amherstislandwindproject.com. Here’s some quick comments. The project study area has enlarged and moved since the first Algonquin public meeting several years ago. The KFN property is now included, and [...]
August 11, 2009. As mentioned earlier (August 2008), the Federal government (in addition to the Province) has an Environmental Assessment process that gets triggered by a variety of circumstances. I opined that Windlectric would do everything in their power to avoid these triggers, as: In the event that a wind plant is developed on Amherst [...]
