November 18, 2013
ORANGEVILLE, N.Y. — A 160-foot-long blade has broken off a turbine at a western New York wind farm, but no injuries resulted from its plummet to the ground.
Hunters tell WIVB in Buffalo (http://bit.ly/17eK5SR ) that … Read more...
Category: Dangers of Turbines
Taming Turbine Fires Before They Start: It’s when, not if…
Author: Scott Starr
Volume: May/June 2011
According to reports, the cost of a fire that damages or destroys a wind turbine can be as much as $2 million. Property damage to the turbine, and nearby areas, from fires reported … Read more...
Dead in fire wind turbine Ooltgensplaat
October 30, 2013
A wind turbine caught fire Tuesday afternoon in Ooltgensplaat on Goeree-Overflakkee, costing the lives of two mechanics. Four mechanics were at work in the wind turbine on the Mariadijk, about 80 meters above ground, Tuesday … Read more...
Letter to Premier Wynne and Ministers Dangers of Catastrophic Failure
April 9, 2013
Letter to Premier Wynne and Ministers,
In the early morning hours of April 2, 2013 there was a catastrophic failure of a wind turbine in the K1 Wind Project located in the Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh (ACW) … Read more...
Three million dollar 187 Ton Wind Turbine Crashes From 200 Feet
Mar-10-10
http://www.democraticunderground.com
Three million dollar 187 Ton Wind Turbine Crashes From 200 Feet, Waking the Neighbor Across the Street. The guy who lives across the street – who probably hasn’t slept a solid night since the grease sticks in … Read more...
Concern over wind farms and fires
March 13, 2013
Residents around the Yass Valley are worried wind turbines will put their properties at risk from bushfires.
The recent Cobbler Road fire tore through land where the Yass Valley and Conroy’s Gap wind farms are … Read more...
A Huge Flash of Blue
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/2734
“I saw a huge flash of blue out on the side of the hill where the windmills were. It started in the middle and spread out in all directions. It lit up the whole hillside the white-out of … Read more...
Wuthering Heights: The Dangers of Wind Power
08/20/2007
Wuthering Heights: The Dangers of Wind Power
By Simone Kaiser and Michael Fröhlingsdorf
Dangers of Wind Power
Credits: ©Augu Spiegel Online International
By Simone Kaiser and Michael Fröhlingsdorf
http://www.solaripedia.com/13/25/dangers_of_wind_power.html
August 2007
Spiegel Online International
Wind turbines continue to multiply the world over. But as they grow bigger and bigger, the number of dangerous accidents is … Read more...
A timely reminder before fire seasons start in Australia
Dr Sarah Laurie, MD, September 26, 2011
Many of us have expressed our ongoing legitimate concerns about the fire issues with respect to turbines, which include the following:
1. Currently no restrictions on operations of turbines on days of
… Read more...