Champaign County Wind

The following letter, written by Steve Rusk of Van Wert, Ohio, is one resident's experience with life inside a wind project's "footprint". It addresses some of the intangible factors in assessing damage to property values and health for residents living in a wind industrial zone. 3/29/2013 Hello, I used to live in the Blue Creek Wind Farm at 10038 Elm Sugar Rd. Scott, Ohio. In July 2012 the bank sold my home at considerable loss for $16,500, down from a prewind farm appraised value of $73,000. This devaluation wasn't due to any obvious aesthetic damage the property had suffered nor the fact that no one looking to move to the country wants to live in an industrial zone. This depreciation was caused by the risk factors associated with living there, primarily infrasound exposure. Besides adverse health effects, selling a residence in a wind farm is also risky. Failure to 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 ...

Description: Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds Summary The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on June 6, 2012 to address concerns about the integrity of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Jobs Reporting. An important exchange between Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Mr. John Galvin, Acting Commissioner at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on the definition of a 'green job' is provided below. REP. DARRELL ISSA: Well, let me — let me run you through some questions here because you’re here because we’re having a green jobs counting discussion. Does someone who assembles turbines — is that a green job? MS. JANE OATES: Wind turbines? REP. ISSA: Yeah. Wind turbines. MS. OATES: I think we would call any kind of sustainable manufacturing – REP. ISSA: OK. MS. OATES: — fitting the definition that was – REP. ISSA: Does someone who sweeps — does someone who sweeps the floor in a facility that makes solar panels, is tha...