Champaign County Wind

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone... -Song of Solomon 2:11-12 The official petition to withdraw from Buckeye Wind

http://www.urbanacitizen.com/ news/editorial/5035999/ Turbines-imperiled-by- shifting-political-winds Turbines imperiled by shifting political winds After seven years of development, controversy and exhaustive legal examination, the two wind farms planned for Champaign County might soon be put on the scrap heap because of recent state legislation that discourages their construction. It’s too soon to say for certain because the proposed projects continue to be affected by ambiguity on many fronts, but EverPower’s comments to the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday sounded like the beginning of the end of Buckeye Wind. “It’s clear this development isn’t wanted here … and it gives us less confidence in where Ohio is moving forward,” Michael Speerschneider, EverPower’s chief permitting and public-policy officer, told the Dispatch . “We’ll take that message to heart.” After Gov. John Kasich signed legislation on Friday that stops increases in requirements f

Proud NIMBYISM Against Windpower by Nick Stanger October 11, 2012 SOURCE: http://www.masterresource.org/2012/10/proud-nimbyism-against-windpower/ “If protecting my individual property rights and values makes me a NIMBY, then I wear the label proudly.” I am a confessed NIMBY with strong feelings about government-enabled environmental degradation. I am not anti-windpower per se; I am, however, anti-bad ideas and anti-wasteful government spending of taxpayer money . I am a NIMBY, but so is just about everyone. There are 314 million people in the U.S., virtually all of whom care about protecting their private property against intrusion, particularly unnecessary, wasteful, government-enabled intrusion. Critics are in denial of their own behavior when they criticize NIMBYs in the face of what some of us have faced with a proposed windpower development in our backyard. “Quiet Enjoyment” ‘Quiet enjoyment’ is the legal right of a property owner to enjoy his/her

HCP Comment : Put your message in your own words.  Are you a gardener? Ride a horse? Play golf?  We enjoy the outdoors and the contributions made by bats to the environment which, in turn, makes Champaign County an enjoyable place to be outdoors .  The 1,000+ families that live inside the project footprint enjoy the outdoors. There are two 18-hole golf courses inside the footprint.  The US Fish and Wildlife Service needs to understand that this is not some remote, unpopulated area.  Our only alternative to the loss of bats will be to use insecticides and pesticides. These have costs - both financial and environmental - for our families, our children, our pets, livestock and crops.  Everpower proposes to employ one of the least restrictive strategies to protect bats because they feel the cost to employ more protective alternatives is too much - it might reduce their profits.  So what?  The message is simple: the Everpower Preferred Alternative poses an unacceptable risk t

Champaign County Wind received an email about an upcoming deadline and we are asking you, as our friends and neighbors, to consider submitting a comment on Everpower's plan to mitigate the environmental impacts of installing their turbines. The fact is that, with reduced bat populations, pests and insects will increase and it is estimated that Champaign County Farmers will have to spend an additional $12 million per year on pesticides. This money will devastate any potential income that farmers will gain from hosting a turbine on their land. Not to mention the increased health concerns as the environmental difficulties of increased pesticide use become more and more apparent. The following information is from the email we received -- please feel free to spread the word: "The deadline to comment on Everpower's Environmental Impact Statement and Habitat Conservation Plan is this week on Thursday, September 27th . Attached is Everpower's proposed Action Plan to

  From the UK's Daily Mail By James Delingpole A wind turbine in Bedfordshire; while some people have welcomed the wind farms, others say they have a detrimental effect on their health Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2199284/Wind-farms-Are-wind-farms-saving-killing-A-provocative-investigation-claims-thousands-people-falling-sick-live-near-them.html#ixzz260mqadne "It was Uplawmoor’s tranquility and wild beauty that drew civil servant Aileen Jackson to settle there 28 years ago. She’d had enough of life in the big city. Now she wanted somewhere quiet and rural to start a family, keep her horses, and enjoy the magnificent views down the valley and out to sea to the western Scottish isles of Arran and Ailsa Craig. Then, two years ago, she says, it all turned sour. A neighbour with whom she and her family had been friends decided to take advantage of the massive public subsidies for ‘renewable’ energy. He put up a 64ft-high wind

Don't miss this opportunity to see this new documentary about members of a rural community, much like Champaign County, experiencing the promises of an out-of-state Big Wind company followed by living with industrial turbines after they're installed. Check out the trailer below and read the reviews of this well-received documentary. The official website is www.windfallthemovie.com See you there! Feb 2 @ 7pm Mechanicsburg Christian Fellowship 4401 Allison Rd., Mechanicsburg Feb 4 @ 7pm Champaign County Community Center