Kahuku wind farm fire spreads concerns over future projects
hawaiinewsnow.com By Tim Sakahara KAHUKU (Hawaii News Now) – The fire at the Kahuku wind farm is contained but environmental concerns within the community have spread including to the North Shore where First Wind is building another win ...
Do wind turbines lead to more forest fires?
By Clyde MacDonald, Special to the Bangor Daily News July 30, 2012 Our three Penobscot County Commissioners made an astute decision today when they decided to defer action on whether to grant an advance tax increment financing deal to the wind ...
Wind Turbines a Fire Danger to Wildlands, Forests
SUNDAY, APRIL 01, 2012 A recent wind turbine fire in Germany exposes the risk of constructing wind farms in drylands and wild lands subject to wildfire. The image below of a turbine explosion and fire in Scotland, illustrates the danger. And now we ...
Wind Turbines – Fire Protection Guideline
With the politically declared objective to support renewable energy sources and to increase their share in the overall energy supply significantly, wind turbines have developed rapidly over the last few years. In addition to the expansion of location ...
Residents countywide should urge supervisors to ban wind turbines in fire-prone regions
August 25, 2012 Credit: By Miriam Raftery | East County Magazine | eastcountymagazine.org http://www.syris.com.au/syrenew/index.php/renewerg/39-wind/99-turbines-in-bushfire-prone-regions The San Diego Democratic Central Committee this week passed a ...
SUPERVISORS IGNORE HEALTH AND FIRE SAFETY CONCERNS, APPROVE TULE WIND AND ENERGIA SIERRA JUAREZ SUBSTATION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSMISSION LINES IN EAST COUNTY
By Miriam Raftery http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/10673 “This will impede firefighting efforts to a frightening degree…a wind-drive fire is not going to stay in the backcountry. We must not roll the dice…There are other, safer alternatives… ...