DarrylMueller's Posts - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T04:37:27ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMuellerhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1548426286?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=3a35lpygs2cyn&xn_auth=no25% windmill mandate on all Calif. Farms along with solar mandate n housing!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-07-23:4401701:BlogPost:1052292017-07-23T20:10:13.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
As business and workers leave the welfare state isn't going to get a little crazy for those that stay including raptors. With Sacramento new mandate for windmills all raptors will see decrease in population density in the name of the religion of renewables. Livermore's Altamont Pass windmill's was the raptors Waterloo. This should be a lesson for Audubon and ABC bird groups and they get the blame for not helping stop it now open the fluid gates!…
As business and workers leave the welfare state isn't going to get a little crazy for those that stay including raptors. With Sacramento new mandate for windmills all raptors will see decrease in population density in the name of the religion of renewables. Livermore's Altamont Pass windmill's was the raptors Waterloo. This should be a lesson for Audubon and ABC bird groups and they get the blame for not helping stop it now open the fluid gates! <a href="http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/california-requires-solar-panels-on-all-homes-and-windmills-on-all-farms/">http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/california-requires-solar-panels-on-all-homes-and-windmills-on-all-farms/</a>Eagle Kill Comment To USFWS July 5 DEAD linetag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-07-04:4401701:BlogPost:802832016-07-04T18:47:15.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
<p>Thanks to Jim Wiegand I was reminded to comment.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FWS-R9-MB-2011-0094-1370&p=1">https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FWS-R9-MB-2011-0094-1370&p=1</a></p>
<p><span class="h2 GIY1LSJESD">Your Comment Tracking Number:</span> <span class="GIY1LSJGSD">1k0-8qki-qouh…</span></p>
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<p>Thanks to Jim Wiegand I was reminded to comment.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FWS-R9-MB-2011-0094-1370&p=1">https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FWS-R9-MB-2011-0094-1370&p=1</a></p>
<p><span class="h2 GIY1LSJESD">Your Comment Tracking Number:</span> <span class="GIY1LSJGSD">1k0-8qki-qouh</span></p>
<div class="GIY1LSJFAE"><div class="basicAttr GIY1LSJDAE"><span class="basicAttrHeading" style="padding-right: 4px; display: block;"><b class="breakWord">Comment:</b></span> <span style="display: block;" class="breakWord">California Altamont Pass 66% decline in Golden Eagle Nesting Density. There has been "NO" active nest's in the 80 sq. mi. Altamont Pass because of Wind Turbines, since the Wind Turbines were built in 1980's. So nesting sites are outside the Golden Eagle Habitat. Altamont Pass is the Words largest Golden Eagle Breeding Area. Now they fly in and get killed ,like the song "Hotel California" by The Eagles. The area is a perfect ECO System with a huge squirrel and other rodent populations. Except that the Wind Turbines have been killing off the Golden Eagles and many other raptors. The density has declined by at least 66% and that is with a expanded area.<br/>I have been living here for almost 30 years. This is one of the worst areas to install wind turbines, and the facts are ignored by Alameda County & USFWS that should have stopped installation of wind turbins. Now the blade area is being expanded 76% to increase the environmental damage to ECO system. <br/>Power Points & PDF's<br/>Golden Eagle Decline is enormous, and in a effort to show more eagles, the nesting area was increased from 12 to 19 sq. miles outside the Altamont Pass. This showed a 66% decline of Golden eagles per sq. mi., but all this was ignored by<br/>Sand Hills project. They show a blade area increase because of new larger turbines,which are 33% less efficient. Also ignored at Windmill hearing ,24th of March was Bat Mortality. This mortality of bats could be eliminated if they increased cut in speed of turbins. Another ignored fact at Windmill hearing on 14th of Jan was faulty, Inconsistent and deceptive Avian Mortality Reporting. Again ignored ,Altamont Pass will continue to kill Eagles as they come to Altamont from all over the west coast.<br/>More information is a <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/alarm.html">http://www.darrylmueller.com/alarm.html</a></span></div>
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</div>Wind Power Scandal Explodes & ‘Heads Must Roll’: James Delingpole Lists Britain’s ‘Most Wanted’tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-06-14:4401701:BlogPost:799992016-06-14T16:08:56.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
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<div id="js_7c" class="_5pbx userContent"><p>The Truth! Wish we could get some traction here in USA to Shut Down Wind Turbines. America’s top investor, the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett put it succinctly:<br/> “I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire’s tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”</p>
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</div>Trump in Fresno told people all about the Crony Eagle Killing Wind Industry.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-05-29:4401701:BlogPost:795802016-05-29T22:04:48.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
<p>The actual 2016 content (was not reported on a search) but what did come out was great news for</p>
<p>Anti-Wind Groups from an early 2012 that tell YOU, that wind can't operate without, money draining SUBSIDES subsides. And it's Killing Eagles! I did not know this so here you go! I just get all gittey thing about the Future President on our side! Check it out, I hope this means pink slips for many at USFWS & DOE high arkey!…</p>
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<p>The actual 2016 content (was not reported on a search) but what did come out was great news for</p>
<p>Anti-Wind Groups from an early 2012 that tell YOU, that wind can't operate without, money draining SUBSIDES subsides. And it's Killing Eagles! I did not know this so here you go! I just get all gittey thing about the Future President on our side! Check it out, I hope this means pink slips for many at USFWS & DOE high arkey!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/05/27/479660989/trump-wants-to-make-energy-production-great-again-even-as-it-sets-new-records">http://www.npr.org/2016/05/27/479660989/trump-wants-to-make-energy-production-great-again-even-as-it-sets-new-records</a></p>
<p></p>Paid to twist the Eagle Raptor Kill and Mininize Mortality, got you!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-05-11:4401701:BlogPost:786012016-05-11T03:47:54.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
<p>I am just coming from an Appeal Hearing for 12 50 story killer Windmills at Altamont Pass. We were allowed 2 minutes each but when Dr. Smallwood came to represent the windmill co. Well it all changed. He was questioned given as much time as needed, about what I had just presented and he was named in some of the reports, along with Granger Hunt. Well he had no idea were any of this information came from, lie. Information that Smallwood and others that are paid by windmill co. well they have…</p>
<p>I am just coming from an Appeal Hearing for 12 50 story killer Windmills at Altamont Pass. We were allowed 2 minutes each but when Dr. Smallwood came to represent the windmill co. Well it all changed. He was questioned given as much time as needed, about what I had just presented and he was named in some of the reports, along with Granger Hunt. Well he had no idea were any of this information came from, lie. Information that Smallwood and others that are paid by windmill co. well they have to twist it towards the windmills or no summer work etc. You be the judge I am doing this on my own time taking off work and the head of the Supervisors allowed him to call me a liar. Well hear is just part of what I did to show using his and others to show 1 pair in 12 miles 2000 to 1 pair in 36 miles and a 56% reduction. No resident population in Altamont Pass eagles & raptors fly in and get killed. They had to go behind closed doors for the vote.</p>
<p>Watch it get ideas and use there research against them. We must fight back.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/MuellerDarryl/golden-eagle-decline-may-10-2016">http://www.slideshare.net/MuellerDarryl/golden-eagle-decline-may-10-2016</a></p>Altamont Pass 76% increase in Blade Area worlds Largest Eagle Breeding Area! Appeal May 10, 2016tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-04-09:4401701:BlogPost:762602016-04-09T19:15:55.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
<p>I need letters! Audubon and other bird groups signed gag order!</p>
<p>Here is the power Point <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/Sand_Hill_Project.pptx">http://www.darrylmueller.com/Sand_Hill_Project.pptx</a></p>
<p>Second Power Point <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/windmill_24_March16_bats.pptx">http://www.darrylmueller.com/windmill_24_March16_bats.pptx</a></p>
<p>All information is at <a href="http://www.darrylmueller/alarm.html">www.darrylmueller/alarm.html</a></p>
<p>My appeal…</p>
<p>I need letters! Audubon and other bird groups signed gag order!</p>
<p>Here is the power Point <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/Sand_Hill_Project.pptx">http://www.darrylmueller.com/Sand_Hill_Project.pptx</a></p>
<p>Second Power Point <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/windmill_24_March16_bats.pptx">http://www.darrylmueller.com/windmill_24_March16_bats.pptx</a></p>
<p>All information is at <a href="http://www.darrylmueller/alarm.html">www.darrylmueller/alarm.html</a></p>
<p>My appeal letter,<a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/ALCO_Appeal%20_3-24-16.pdf">http://www.darrylmueller.com/ALCO_Appeal%20_3-24-16.pdf</a></p>
<p>I have another appeal scheduled for June 2016 on 33 Wind Turbines.</p>
<p>SUBJECT: Appeal of the Alameda County Planning Office March 24, 2016 decision regarding the Sand Hill Wind LLC. Conditional Use Permit, PLN2015-00198 Zoning Adjustments.</p>
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<p>EIR did not have all the facts that we are sighting. We were left out of the notification NOP DER and Final EIR. I have been involved with windmill avian mortality for 30 years. I expect to get notified and I was not.</p>
<p>We are very concerned that the agency’s that safe guard our wildlife have not done a diligent job. Concerns are great to safe guard frogs, snakes, salamanders or mice. Wile on the windmill side we are looking a only one case in Wyoming the USFWS & the DOJ did act. APWRA could have over $11,310,000 in MBTA fines, see slide 24.</p>
<p>So Susan and I will show reasons CPU should not be allowed until concerns are answered.</p>
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<li>Alameda County Windmill setback standards are out of date. 10 rotor diameter is becoming the standard.</li>
<li>Alameda County Windmill noise standards do not measure LFN and 55dba should only be acceptable at day time hours.</li>
<li>World Health Organization 40 db for night noise for sleep.</li>
<li>Rotor cut in speed of 11 mph has reduced bat mortality.</li>
<li>1976 study of 3 dimensional blade potential impact increases with size.</li>
<li>New re-power APWRA increases Meg Watts for 378.17 to 426.76.</li>
<li>New re-power increases blade sweep Sand Hill 41%.</li>
<li>New Re-powering APWRA blade sweep 76% increase.</li>
<li>Attrition of 57.9% from turbine blades.</li>
<li>Under searched turbine areas result in fewer carcass counts.</li>
<li>Should do 48 hr searches and get 100% ten search 80%.</li>
<li>The sales term “Bird Friendly Turbine” is false unless it is shrouded.</li>
<li>Alameda County has to take the high road on mortality and no go for the dollars.</li>
<li> Self reporting by windmill operators is self serving and controls the mortality information released.</li>
<li>Gag orders in the form of confidentiality agreements and threats to workers on finding and reporting Avian must be stopped, here must be some kind of means to encourage reporting. And to outlaw any non-disclosure that shields any mortality must be part of a CUP, wind turbine operating permit.</li>
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<li>Resident stake holders we were left out notification of NOPEIR, Draft EIR, and Final EIR. That is what the process is all about telling what is about to happen. We received a post card notice of the final hearing in October for Golden Hills North.</li>
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<li>The total re-powering unless it is changed will add 97 new Industrial turbines with a 76% expansion of blade sweep.</li>
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<p>Darryl Mueller’s Power Point New Re-Powering Blade Sweep Increase and Avian Mortality Prevention at</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/Sand_Hill_Project.pptx">http://www.darrylmueller.com/Sand_Hill_Project.pptx</a></p>
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<p> <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/windmill_24_March16_bats.pptx">http://www.darrylmueller.com/windmill_24_March16_bats.pptx</a></p>
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<p><br/> Thank You,</p>
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<p>Darryl Mueller</p>New Book everyone should read lots of good talking points!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-02-07:4401701:BlogPost:740652016-02-07T22:28:37.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
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<p>Broken Wing Birds Blades & Broken Promises by John Grave is the latest book on the damage done to the environment by Windmills. It's on Amazon and Kindle.</p>The Altamont Pass Re-Powering = More blade area and more killing. Watch the powerpoint!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-02-07:4401701:BlogPost:739832016-02-07T07:12:28.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><big><font color="#FF0000"><font color="#FF0000">New Industrial Wind Turbines are less efficient <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/Increse_Blade_Sweep_MW.pptx" target="_self">MW / Blade Sweep</a></font></font></big></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><font color="#FF0000"><font color="#FF0000">Permit has been stopped and is in the appeal process. Get all information and send letters to the Board of Supervisors Alameda County CA. . I am the only…</font></font></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><big><font color="#FF0000"><font color="#FF0000">New Industrial Wind Turbines are less efficient <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/Increse_Blade_Sweep_MW.pptx" target="_self">MW / Blade Sweep</a></font></font></big></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><font color="#FF0000"><font color="#FF0000">Permit has been stopped and is in the appeal process. Get all information and send letters to the Board of Supervisors Alameda County CA. . I am the only person stopping this project at the largest Golden Eagle Breeding Area in the world! <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/alarm.html">http://www.darrylmueller.com/alarm.html</a></font></font></span></p>It all started at Altamont Pass! Can the Shutdow Start Now, Please?tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2015-12-12:4401701:BlogPost:716942015-12-12T01:13:56.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
<p>It was 1981 the EIR was approved and windmill permits issued. Oil shortage must have energy from the wind! Good idea turned bad! 1986 If you build windmills in raptor habitat raptor collision will result. There are 2 projects that can be stopped and a 3rd that I have appealed that can be stopped.</p>
<p>It can only be stopped only by public out cry from electric users!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">"WINDMILL FREE ELECTRIC"</span> meaning no wind generated electric, non…</p>
<p>It was 1981 the EIR was approved and windmill permits issued. Oil shortage must have energy from the wind! Good idea turned bad! 1986 If you build windmills in raptor habitat raptor collision will result. There are 2 projects that can be stopped and a 3rd that I have appealed that can be stopped.</p>
<p>It can only be stopped only by public out cry from electric users!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">"WINDMILL FREE ELECTRIC"</span> meaning no wind generated electric, non imported from Canada also! I did borrow the idea from, Dolphin free Tuna! </p>
<p>Now <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27503195/google-buys-altamont-wind-energy-power-googleplex" target="_blank">Google is going to by the power generated</a> at the cost of Eagles and other birds! So go to google and post "Windmill Free Electric"!</p>
<p>Reason are Environmental & Health, loss of property value, Raptor, Bird and Bat Kill Zones!</p>
<p>The next permit meeting are in early January 2016. So there is still time for all concerned to comment. I will be putting info up on <a href="http://www.darrylmueller.com/alarm.html" target="_blank">ALARM</a> website in the next few days.</p>
<p>But for now will post a this articles about why the Raptor, Bird & Bat Kills will increase.</p>
<p>Audubon has praise that windmill NE bought a permit to kill protected Eagles, what?????</p>
<p>So killing Raptor Birds & Bats, silence! Rotor sweep increase, silence!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.masterresource.org/audubon-society/money-dead-eagles-aubudon/" target="_blank">Money from Dead Eagles; Audubon</a></p>
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<p></p>Call the Governor Christie and ask Veto S2887 from any state!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2012-01-03:4401701:BlogPost:351472012-01-03T16:18:33.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
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<p><font color="#888888"><b>Subject:</b> NJ.com: State stomps local voice in wind farm mandate + Vinalhaven Review…</font></p>
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<p><font color="#888888"><b>Subject:</b> NJ.com: State stomps local voice in wind farm mandate + Vinalhaven Review 2011<br/></font></p>
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<div class="__pbConvBody" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 35px;"><br/><div>Here's a letter to the editor regarding S2887, the bill cosponsored by Union Beach's own Sen. Kyrillos that would crush the rights of municipalities in Salem and Cumberland Counties by allowing industrial wind turbines up to 500 feet tall to be erected on farms just 750 feet from the nearest home. Kyrillos is clearly one of the pro-wind cabal along with Sen. Smith and Asm. Chivukula. Please leave a comment if you can.</div>
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<div>Once again, please take a few seconds...that's all it takes...to call Governor Christie at <font style="background-color: #ffff00;">(609) 292-6000</font> and tell the person answering that you want our governor to veto <font style="background-color: #ffff00;">S2887</font>. They don't want your name or address, just your message, therefore you can be from out of state and make a difference. THANK YOU!!!</div>
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<div>Here's the 2011 Year-in-Review of the battle over the wind turbines in Vinalhaven, Maine from our friend, Alan Fargo. We now have friends in dozens of communities with one or more wind turbines sited too close to homes, and their stories sadly are all too similar. <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://fiwn.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/fox-islands-wind-neighbors-2011-year-end-update/" target="_blank">http://fiwn.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/fox-islands-wind-neighbors-2011-year-end-update/</a></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span"><br/>Dear All:<br/><br/>Here is a review of important events of the past year related to neighbors of the wind turbines on Vinalhaven.<br/><br/>Last August, FIWN (Fox Islands Wind Neighbors) appealed in Superior Court against the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). For two years, neighbors of the Vinalhaven wind turbines fought for restoration of the peace and quiet they used to enjoy.<br/><br/>The neighbors sought to obtain compliance on the violation of state noise standards. Fox Islands Wind repeatedly mischaracterized the effort by neighbors who, as a result, endured and continue to endure a well-organized campaign to minimize the troubles and expenses shouldered by neighbors whose property, through no fault of their own, is close to the industrial wind turbines.<br/><br/>We are still waiting to learn if Superior Court will provide neighbors with an avenue of judicial appeal. DEP and Fox Islands Wind are objecting, arguing that the 2008 Wind Energy Act provides no legal recourse to plaintiffs. (For a good backgrounder though written in 2010, <a href="<a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://pinetreewatchdog.org/2010/08/09/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/" target="_blank">http://pinetreewatchdog.org/2010/08/09/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/</a>">read Pine Tree Watchdog here</a>.)<br/><br/>Our suit alleges that the DEP regulatory decision on the Vinalhaven wind turbine noise was politically motivated and, moreover, ignored the recommendations of staff. Some DEP staff members have since been re-assigned or resigned as a result of unprecedented political interference.<br/><br/>The neighbors had diligently worked and invested considerable efforts and money to improve noise evaluation and analysis that the state’s own experts discovered to be deficient. Some Vinalhaven residents think that the neighbors have sued the town or FIW. That is not true. We sued the state of Maine for denying due process; a right every citizen ought to believe is worth protecting.<br/><br/>We don't use the term "politically motivated" carelessly: our search of records from the Governor's Office shows Fox Islands Wind imploring the Governor's Office to block DEP staff who had proposed an amendment to the FIW permit allowing for a more equitable way to address the noise issue on Vinalhaven. FIW is entitled to its own opinion, but not its own facts.<br/><br/>In October, the Maine BEP recommended lowering the night time noise level to 42 dBA for all new wind turbine projects. The difficulties on Vinalhaven and other early Maine turbine locations substantially guided the amended policy determination. More recently, Maine's LURC decided that a new wind farm should operate at a night time level of 40 dBA at the nearest property line. Fox Islands Wind operates, in its opinion, at night time 45 decibel level (A weighted) and the daytime 55 dBA limit. Neighbors close to the turbine know that FIW is not sharing data because the turbines continue to run out of compliance.<br/><br/>With respect to the pending matter in Superior Court, Fox Islands Wind, through its attorney Pierce Atwood, writes: “Petitioners (are not) bereft of any remedy as they claim. First they can complain to their town authorities—the ordinary avenue for relief for any other small-scale project.”<br/><br/>How a complaint to town authorities would work is not up for debate. Local Vinalhaven selectmen cannot deal with the complexity of the noise issue and will continue to defer in all matters to Fox Islands Wind. Pierce Atwood's attorney adds, “Second, like any other land owner and as to any other project, small or large scale, nothing would foreclose Petitioners from suing for nuisance—if they had reasonable grounds for so complaining under established law.”<br/><br/>Offensive as it may be to suggest the neighbors sue for their rights, Pierce Atwood knows that the next step of litigation is much more costly than anything that has come before.<br/><br/>In the meantime the wind turbines churn noisily, threatening the health, property values and spirit of an island community. It takes a lot of "greenwashing" to ignore what is happening to property owners near the wind turbines. DEP staff – only months ago—recommended that Fox Islands Wind reach out to neighbors to discuss legitimate grievances and options. The noise continues but FIW is silent.<br/><br/>Neighbors on Vinalhaven and some other early turbine locations in Maine like Mars Hill are a “test” for the wind turbine industry. The results of that test are clear—at least so far as wind turbine noise are concerned: if developers can overcome a few unfortunate victims of wind turbine noise, there is money to be made. Many communities in Maine are turning away from industrial wind. Restrictive ordinances approved by Maine citizens on and since Election Day last month include Frankfort, Deer Isle, Caratunk, Peru (Moratorium, not ordinance), Brooksville, Cushing, and Rumford. Mainers are smart enough to see for themselves what happened here and can think for themselves: eight recent votes on wind power...eight votes against wind power.<br/><br/>The neighbors’ case to Superior Court will likely be heard in January or February, 2012. Until that time, interested observers ought to question the claims of how much money has been “saved” by industrial wind power on Vinalhaven. If power prices have been declining, why are utility bill costs going up. We asked FIW for specific detail. No answer. Hopefully other Vinalhaven residents will have better luck finding out why their electric rates have increased so dramatically.<br/><br/>Our best wishes for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.</font></div>
</div>Huge Multi-Million Dollar Design Flaw in 3 off shore wind farms!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2010-11-10:4401701:BlogPost:57072010-11-10T06:30:39.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
I got this from one of my trade papers, European Foundations Summer 2010.<br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561528581?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p>
I got this from one of my trade papers, European Foundations Summer 2010.<br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561528581?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p>You said CO2, There is NO CO2 problem, the facts were faked.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2010-03-29:4401701:BlogPost:29142010-03-29T16:28:07.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
I am really up set with the fact that the CO2, green house gas, and the linkage to global warming or climate change are lies, and yet it's still used. Why do people continue with CO2 and climate change? The records that were hacked from Britain's University of East Anglia have been proven to be true, the facts were faked to promote C02 Green House Gas, Climate Change & Cap on Trade. But people are still ignore that, false facts so they can tax us to death with cap on trade. The fact is we…
I am really up set with the fact that the CO2, green house gas, and the linkage to global warming or climate change are lies, and yet it's still used. Why do people continue with CO2 and climate change? The records that were hacked from Britain's University of East Anglia have been proven to be true, the facts were faked to promote C02 Green House Gas, Climate Change & Cap on Trade. But people are still ignore that, false facts so they can tax us to death with cap on trade. The fact is we have been in climate cooling since 1998. We have NO Energy Policy. Van Jones getting convicts to work on Green Jobs is no Energy Policy. We cannot continue down this road, we can put a lot of people back to work in America producing energy that is cheep and wont damage the environment.<br/> California has pass AB-32 "Cap on Trade" which is driving nails into the coffin each day, Calif. dies each day 20%+ unemployment & 65 billion
deficit, this is the USA model!<br/>
What a shame, to kill USA with good intentions!<br/><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">If you let the government it will charge you for the CO2 that comes out your mouth, with a tax or a fee, and tell you how much you can breath!</span><br/><br/>John Coleman | KUSI - News, Weather and Sports - San Diego, CA |<br/>John Coleman founder of the Weather Channel and weatherman<br/>for 55 years debunks Global Warming!<br/><a href="http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a">http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a</a> <br/><br/>This sums up the UN scam, <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/2383-climategate-e-mail-scandal-could-melt-copenhagen-plans">http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/2383-climategate-e-mail-scandal-could-melt-copenhagen-plans</a><br/><br/>EPA Dept. Director Kills Report and Author Warned "Stop Talking About It" <br/><a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907035313/energy-and-environment/epa-director-kills-report-and-author-warned-qstop-talking-about-itq.html" class="postlink">http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907035313/energy-and-environment/epa-director-kills-report-and-author-warned-qstop-talking-about-itq.html</a><br/><br/>There are lots more articles about the myth of Global Warming!<br/><br/><br/>Hit them were it hurts.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2010-03-27:4401701:BlogPost:28612010-03-27T16:00:00.000ZDarrylMuellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DarrylMueller
They say green jobs! For every green job, you loose 7 to 20 jobs that produce. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Most turbines are not made in the USA, were is the green manufacturing jobs?</span> Look at how this crap has wrecked Spain and other leading green energy country's. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The end is high priced power that needs conventional power plants on standby when no wind blows.</span> Again we have people in power that are not doing the will of the people that elected…
They say green jobs! For every green job, you loose 7 to 20 jobs that produce. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Most turbines are not made in the USA, were is the green manufacturing jobs?</span> Look at how this crap has wrecked Spain and other leading green energy country's. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The end is high priced power that needs conventional power plants on standby when no wind blows.</span> Again we have people in power that are not doing the will of the people that elected them. Then we have a corrupt education system that promotes training the young minds that they are in control of brain washing them into this green mind set. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We are all environmentalist but to level mountain tops for what, high priced, unreliable power is stupid, and UnAmerican and not good for the environment!</span> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561521032?profile=original">6junk_lichtenau.jpeg</a>