By Miriam Raftery
April 4, 2012 (San Diego’s East County) – Today marks the “International Protest Day Against Wind Power” with 765 websites participating.
A dark side of the wind industry that many media outlets
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Tom Harris: The conservative case for real environmentalism and the reality of green energy
Source: https://www.rebelnews.com/
The American climate realists at the Heartland Institute hosted a counter gathering to the UN’s annual global warming conference in Madrid last week.
And it wasn’t all Americans talking.
Ottawa’s own Tom Harris from the International Climate Science … Read more...
Witnesses say broken wind turbine caused several hundred acre fire
Source: wattsupwiththat.com
The Juniper Fire is now 40 percent contained, according to a press release. The fire is mostly burning in the Pine Creek Drainage area south of Bickleton, WA.
As of Sunday evening, the fire has burned 242 acres.… Read more...
Twisting in the Wind
Source: abcofire.com
Wind turbines are impressive structures. At times towering over 300’ tall, their blades measure over 100’ long apiece and the tips of those spinning blades can reach speeds of 180 miles per hour. These machines are an … Read more...
Nextera Energy investigates cause of wind turbine fire in West Pubnico
Source: cbc.ca
Wind company says work to remove and replace the burned parts will take place in the spring
The company that operates a wind farm in West Pubnico where a turbine caught fire and burned Friday is investigating the … Read more...
Crews respond to wind turbine on fire in Columbia County
Crews are responding Monday to a wind turbine in Columbia County that is on fire.
According to Columbia County dispatch, officials received a call at 3:40 p.m. after a report of a wind turbine on fire near Friesland at East … Read more...
Overheated bearings, gearboxes among causes of wind turbine fires
Wind turbines often catch fire and burn much more frequently than is reported, a study from the UK and Sweden maintains. Researchers at Imperial College London, Edinburgh University and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden report that while an average … Read more...
Wind turbine blamed for Rhodes Ranch 3 Fire in Mulberry Canyon south of Merkel
A motor on a wind turbine caught fire and is blamed for sparking a wildfire Monday in Mulberry Canyon in southwest Taylor County that has burned about 250 acres.
The Texas A&M Forest Service was called about 6:30 p.m. Monday to assist several … Read more...
It’s ‘exceedingly rare’ for a fire to have engulfed this wind turbine in Iowa
A wind turbine in northwest Iowa caught on fire and one of its blades fell to the ground as seen in a video captured by a resident early Monday.
Chief Deputy Kevin Wollmuth of the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said the initial … Read more...
Fanning the Flames… What do we really know about wind turbine fires?
By Suzanne Albright
The answer is pretty clear when it comes to fires that make the headlines; impressive videos of fires burning out of control, toxic black smoke filling the sky, burning turbine blades, and other parts shooting through the … Read more...