Turbine Trouble in Paradise on WWR Tonight, Sunday 5/6/12, 7pm ET

Wind Wise Radio will visit with folks fighting the scourge of industrial wind in some very special places, talk about the weeks headlines, and take listener calls.

There is a dangerous trend brewing as even precious unspoiled places with regional or world wide significance are being prospected and proposed for industrial scale wind development.  For example, this past week in California a vote to approve a project on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, the Deerfield Wind project in Green Mountain National Forest is being fast tracked by the Feds, the Gallitzin State Forest in Pennsylvania is threatened by IWT.  The country around the Grand Canyon is targeted for industrialization.  On Lana’i and Molokai the storm clouds have gathered.  The forces arrayed against these precious places are numerous, well funded, and well protected.  We have only the truth and our voices.

 

Please join us this Sunday for a conversation about big wind and the threat to precious environments.  We will be talking with leaders on Lana’i, on Molokai, and in Arizona’s Canyon Country who are all standing up to Big Wind’s deep pockets, greedy corporations, hordes of lobbyists, and misguided politicians.

Linda Webb, Anne Wittke, and Lisa Paffrathare all on the board of directors of Canyon Country Coalition for Responsible Renewable Energy (CCCRRE) which is a an organization of local Coconino County citizens working towards responsible wind energy here in Northern Arizona. Our mission is to work closely with the Planning & Zoning Committee of Coconino County as well as the County Supervisors to develop a sound plan for Wind Energy here in Northern Arizona.

 

Linda Webb is a retired Elementary Teacher.  Linda has a Masters in Gifted Education, and headed up the environmental projects for one of  the first “Bay School’s” in Maryland, where she taught for 20 yes.  She and her husband Ernie, a physicist for U.S. Army, retired to the Canyon Country of Arizona in 2003. They have a 10 acre lot in the Howard Mesa area and built a log home surrounded by pinyon and juniper scrubland. You can see for at least 50 miles in almost every direction, including the North Rim of the Grand Canyon from the back deck. They never expected that they would be able to see the Perrin Ranch wind project from their front windows which look south towards Bill Williams Mountain norr that they would end up spending two years fighting to block its construction and learn more than they ever wanted to know about wind energy and politics.

 

Anne Wittke has lived in Flagstaff, Arizona for the past 21 years, and enjoys getting away to the surrounding areas to enjoy the quiet and observe the wildlife. She is taking on new projects in her retirement, such as fighting for dark skies and running the Flagstaff Folk Festival.
 
Lisa Paffrath – Lisa first came to Northern Arizona and the Grand Canyon country in 1998. She immediately fell in love with the area, the spectacular views, the rolling hills and the wide open space minus industry. In 2004 she moved here to Arizona with her husband Rudy and three children. After spending 20 years in the Information Technology field, she decided to do something very different here in this beautiful area and became a licensed realtor. Most of her career and work has been in the Williams/Grand Canyon area and she specializes in the land and ranches near and surrounding what has become the Perrin Ranch Industrial Wind Project. She is seeing first hand what industrial wind does to an area. And, yes, it does have an affect on values no matter what government report or wind company tells you.
 
 

I Aloha Molokai (IAM) President Kanohowailuku Helm was born and raised on Molokai. He’s a husband, father of three, farmer, fisherman, musician/singer/songwriter and two-time Na Hoku Hanohano award nominee.

Robin Kaye lives on the Hawaiian island of Lāna‛i.  In 1974, Robin and his wife moved to Lana’i to document a threatened lifestyle as the island was facing a transition from a pineapple plantation economy to resort development.  While that shift was postponed until the late 1980‘s, Robin’s resulting book of photographs — Lana’i Folks— was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 1981 (and subsequently reprinted in 2010 by the Lana’i Culture and Heritage Center.)

In 1981, Robin began a career in the arts and nonprofit sectors, working for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. In 1992, he and a partner launched the management consulting firm of Dewey & Kaye, Inc. (DKI) www.deweykaye.com, which works with nonprofit organizations, foundations and government agencies. Robin’s work with nonprofits has involved board development, long range planning, and executive searches for foundation program staff and nonprofit executive directors.  He was deeply involved in the conception, launch and implementation of a five-year, million dollar community grants program for an international corporate foundation.  Robin is a certified meeting facilitator.

Robin serves as spokesperson for Friends of Lāna‛i,www.friendsoflanai.org

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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