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

Oklahoma bill limits wind turbines’ encroachment 

Credit:  Dan Namowitz, Aviation Writer | Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association | April 28, 2015 | www.aopa.org ~~

Legislation signed into law by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin should enhance flight safety by setting a minimum mile-and-a-half distance from airports for the construction of new wind-energy turbines.

Fallin signed Senate Bill 808 on April 17. The bill will take effect 90 days after the legislature adjourns, scheduled for May 29, said Yasmina Platt, AOPA Central/Southwest regional manager.

The AOPA-supported measure was spearheaded by Sen. Brian Bingman (R-District 2) and Rep. Earl Sears (R-District 11).

The provision on setback of wind-energy facilities from airports requires that “the base of any tower must be no closer than one and one-half miles from a public-use, private-use, or municipal airport, a public school, or a hospital.”

Although the state’s 2010 law known as the Aircraft Pilot and Passenger Protection Act only applies to public-use airports, the new law also applies this minimum-distance protection to Oklahoma’s 245 private-use airports, Platt said.

That distance, while a safety improvement, falls short of recommendations in a Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program report on the compatibility of energy facilities and airports. It said some wind-energy installations should be no closer to an airport than 7 nautical miles, and others no closer than 3.6 nm and 1.8 nm depending on their height.

Platt also pointed to a 2013 university study that concluded that “the turbines on a wind farm can set up a circular vortex as far away as three miles.”

“While we would have liked to restrict wind turbines from being built within three miles of airports, what we are getting with this law is better than what we currently have, and introduces protection for private-use airports for the first time,” she said.

Source:  Dan Namowitz, Aviation Writer | Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association | April 28, 2015 | www.aopa.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