Cuomo’s SolarCity disaster could become a monument to corruption

By E.J. McMahon

New York Post

September 22, 2016

Earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo paid a visit to the centerpiece of his upstate economic development strategy: a massive, still-unfinished “gigafactory” taxpayers spent $750 million to build and equip for SolarCity, a money-losing company with a foggy future. Continue reading via this link to the NYPost

Fort Drum land use study outlined at public hearing

By Gordon Block

Watertown Daily Times

03/30/2017

EVANS MILLS — Local residents had a chance to give their opinions on a new land use study, one button-push at a time, as researchers consider future growth on and off-post. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times

Wind Turbines led to last September’s statewide blackout in South Australia.

By Michael Owen

The Australian

A key report highlights the problems with South Australia’s high level of renewable generation, finding that control settings on wind farm turbines led to last September’s statewide blackout in South Australia. Continue reading via this link to The Austrlian

Schumer loses cool with Trump supporter at swanky restaurant

Sen. Chuck Schumer caused a scene at a Manhattan restaurant when he began yelling at a wealthy and well-connected Donald Trump supporter that the POTUS is “a liar.”
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N.C. Republicans target wind farms that would impact military sites

by World Tribune Staff, March 26, 2017

A group of North Carolina Republican lawmakers is seeking a 3-year moratorium on the construction of wind farms that they say pose potential safety risks to the state’s military installations Continue reading via this link to World tribune

The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico

“Before, I could hear all the animals living in the areas. Through their songs and sounds, I knew when it was going to rain or when it was the best time to plant. Now though, it seems the animals have left due to the wind turbines,” Teran shared with sadness and rage in his voice.

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A palm hat worn down by time covers the face of Celestino Bortolo Teran, a sixty-year-old indigenous Zapotec man. He walks behind his ox team as they open furrows in the earth, a seventeen-year-old youth trails behind sowing white, red, and black corn, a ritual of ancient knowledge shared between local people and the earth. Neither of the two notices the sound of our car as we arrive “because of the wind turbines,” says Teran. Just fifty meters away, a wind farm has been installed by the Spanish company Natural Gas Fenosa. It will generate, at least for the next three decades, what governments and energy companies have declared clean energy. Continue reading via this link to Upside Down World.org



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Weather service concerned that wind farm could interfere with local forecasts

By MARCUS WOLF

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017  

National Weather Service officials are concerned that the latest wind project from Avangrid Renewables proposed in Worth and Redfield would interfere with collecting data for local weather forecasts. Continue reading via this link to the Watertown Daily Times