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DO YOU WANT PRATTSBURG AND ITALY TO LOOK LIKE THIS?


NON-leasing landowner's home in Mackinaw City, Mich.
Note: these turbines are significantly smaller than the ones proposed for Prattsburg/Italy




Read what the pastor from FENNER says here

 

 




Read A FENNER WIND FARM STORY here

 


Prattsburg/Italy Wind Turbine Information

Summer Newsletter

·        Introduction

·        Wind Turbine Issues

o       Overview of the Project

o       Prattsburg vs. Fenner--the differences in the projects

o       Environmental Review

o       Efficiency (or non-efficiency) of Turbines

§        Electricity Supplied to the Grid

§        Number of Turbines Required for a Shopping Mall

o       Safety

§        Health Concerns

§        More on Health Concerns

§        Rotor Throw and Ice

§        More on Rotor Throw and Ice Projectiles

§        Fire and Lightning

 

o       Environmental Issues

§        Well Water

§        Destruction of Birds

§        More On Birds

§        Visual Impact on Your Land

§        Light Pollution

§        Noise in Prattsburg

§        Noise (general)

§        TV Interference

§        Wider Implications

 

o       Economic Realities

§        Who Really Benefits?

§        Property Values

§        More On Property Values

§        Tourism

o       NY Regulations and Guidelines

§        Environmental Justice

§        State Environmental Review Process

§        NYSERDA Guide for Local Authorities



 

·  What Can You Do?

·        STAND UP and be counted!

·        ATTENTION: Ecogen lease holders

·        Check your deed

·        Contact State Agencies

·        Attend Town Meetings!

·        Write Letters!

·        Contact Local Politicians!

·        Find Out About Noise

·        Find Out About the Visual Impact on Your Land

·        Test Your Well Water

 

·  Archive of other local information

·  Click here for an extensive list of contacts

 

 


Other Web Resources

 

·        National Wind Watch

 

·        The Country Guardian--extensive and well documented information

·        Wind Turbines in Ireland--Much Useful Data

·        South Bristol NY Wind Farm Fight

The Interesting Situation in Denmark


 

DO YOU WANT SCENES LIKE THIS TO DISAPPEAR FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD??


Comet Hyakutake, March 28, 1996 Prattsburg, N.Y.

 

 

 


Leonid Meteor Storm November, 2001 Prattsburg, N. Y.

 

 


Please send any comments on this page to Terry Matilsky, matilsky@physics.rutgers.edu.

Revised November 16, 2005

Background image: Genbu, the black tortoise of the North (Winter), one of the talismanic animals that marked the four seasons and cardinal directions in Japanese astronomy.