LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Wind turbines on farms 

Credit:  excerpted from: Human cloning, GMOs and wind on farms | By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff | April 30, 2013 | www.ecori.org ~~

The Senate Committee on the Environment and Agriculture took its turn holding a hearing on a bill to allow wind turbines on Rhode Island farms. Much like the House hearing on a similar bill, the Senate hearing was mostly a debate about allowing a wind turbine on Stamp Farm in North Kingstown.

William Stamp Jr. said the town initially asked him to consider erecting a turbine. An alternate three-turbine project was also proposed for “a neighbor,” he said. “I did not pursue wind turbines on my farm until North Kingstown … came to me and said, ‘We’d like to have you look at it.’” After public outcry, the town enacted a moratorium on wind turbines in 2010.

Opponents said they wanted to wait for wind turbine siting guidelines are issued by the state. But they also feared that a turbine would hurt property values of nearby homes.

“If a turbine goes up there, my property value immediately goes down,” North Kingstown resident Robin Wilson said. Wilson also objected to a provision in the bill that gives the state the final authority in setting siting guidelines. “It’s as if I have no say, my property value is simply taken away from me for the greater good.”

Wilson also warned of debris thrown from turbines hitting nearby homes.

Stamp said wind turbines create jobs and protect open space by generating badly needed income for farmers. “It’s only wind. It’s not sending smoke up into the air,” he said. “We can stand next to it and breath.”

The bill was held for further study.

Source:  excerpted from: Human cloning, GMOs and wind on farms | By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff | April 30, 2013 | www.ecori.org

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon