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Fibreglass From Shredded Wind Turbine Blades Renders Farming Land Useless

Farmers foolish enough to enter contracts with wind power outfits soon live to regret it. Having their land permanently contaminated by shredded fibreglass when turbines explode into balls of flame and/or their blades merely disintegrate (known in the trade as “component liberation”) is just one of a list of disasters waiting to happen.

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Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever

Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken.

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Slashed By Weather: America’s Wind Power Output Plummets 14% To Record Low

America’s wind industry is moaning about the lack of wind, much like the Ancient Mariner becalmed and befuddled by the weather.

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Chaos Rules: Massive Wind Power Output Collapses Threaten Total Grid Failure

The claim that spreading wind turbines far and wide means you’ll have power around-the-clock is just more wind industry myth. Australia’s Eastern Grid provides all the evidence required to render that story plainly risible – and it can all be done with pictures.

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Legal Issues for Landowners to Consider in Negotiating Wind Energy Easements

Wind energy agreements pose financial potential for landowners, but do create legal risk. Beforeentering into an agreement a landowner should have the agreement carefully evaluated

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ESI Energy LLC, Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Nextera Energy Resources LLC, is Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to Killing and Wounding Eagles in Its Wind Energy Operations, in Violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

ESI Energy Inc. (ESI) was sentenced today in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), announced Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim

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Expert on Dangers of Wind Turbines

Energy Engineer Bill Acker on the dangers of wind turbines.

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The True Cost of Wind Turbines and Wind Industry

The town of Forest, WI has concerns over the end results of the Highland Wind Farm. Forest has spent more than half-a-million dollars fighting the

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Wind Turbine Accidents

Watch video compilation of devastating wind turbine accidents.

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Testimonial: Not a positive project for our community

“I am not from Douglas County, but I do live in the Kansas Reading Wind Farm. Not far from the windfarm office. At first, I

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