Linda Ohkagawa, wind turbine neighbor to Wind 2 in Falmouth, questioned Governor Patrick July 11th on the "Ask the Governor" segment of the Jim Braude and Margery Eagan show on Boston Public Radio WGBH.

Linda very cleverly asked Patrick if he would want his new grandchild to be exposed to the strobing (an hour a day) and noise pressure that she experiences.  She said she fears for her grandchildren when they visit her West Falmouth home.  She said she fears the effects on them when she sees them holding their ears.

Linda asked for Patrick's support of Rep Peake's bill H.2048 which calls for the establishment of an independent commission to study the impacts of wind turbines on health. Linda said a study that does not put the burden of proof on those that are suffering is needed. The Governor said he woud sign such a bill.

Governor Deval Patrick on Bill 2048

A clip from the discussion of the recent decision to spend another $1.8 Million on Falmouth's noisy industrial wind turbines.... Ed Lambert Morning Show 3/28/2014

For more information: http://windwisema.org/

Ed Lambert takes calls on $1.8 Million turbine bailout in Falmouth

Louise Barteau discusses her experience observing the MassDEP noise testing of Fairhaven's two turbines which have already caused 420 complaints to the Board of Health.  Is everything on the up and up?

Here is the promo clip for the upcoming 11pm show they discuss:

FAIRHAVEN WIND TURBINES A POWER PLAY A MARK CURTIS INVESTIGATION TONIGHT ON ABC6 NEWS AT ELEVEN    2/27/2013
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilYwTklA24

Here is the video clip of Sumul Shah at the Scituate Board of Health talking about his ability to control sound output by lowering power output: 

Impossible huh?

http://youtu.be/HNTwcDfx56c

Louise Barteau Fairhaven's Noise Testing on Phil Paleologos

Rhona Weir is the widow of celebrated climber, author and broadcaster Tom Weir. Tom was the first recipient of the John Muir Trust's Lifetime Achievement award. Like Tom, Rhona is a great champion of the Scottish landscape and has carried on her husband's pioneering work in protecting it.

This interview originally aired as a part of Wind Wise Radio's special "Scotland Against Spin" program on 3/10/2013.

The petition to save Scotland can be found at http://chn.ge/VJ0gUn.  The deadline for signatures is Friday, March 15th.  Sign and share.

Get up.  Get out. Get on the train. Get to Inverness on March 23rd!  

More information about the demonstration can be found at http://scotlandagainstspin.org

A very special interview with the very special Rhona Weir

Laura is a thirteen-year-old who will travel to Inverness to help deliver the petition to Save Scotland's scenic lands to Alex Salmond.  Please sign and share: http://chn.ge/VJ0gUn 

As she says, "If you feel strongly about wind farms going up everywhere, and you're free, it would be really, really good to come.

We need as many people as possible so we can make an impact and really make the Government think about what they're doing.  

We need every person's help at Inverness."

This clip is from the 3/10/12 episode of Wind Wise Radio -- our special on Scotland against Spin.  (Full episode: http://bit.ly/Y5KrDB )

Laura will help deliver the petition in Inverness.  Will you be there?

WWR caught up with Mr. Stuart Young of the Caithness Windfarm Information Forum (CWIF) travelling with the bound copy of the petition to save Scotland for delivery at tomorrow's demonstration (March 23rd) in Inverness...

Sign and share the petition: http://chn.ge/VJ0gUn

Visit CWIF at http://caithnesswindfarms.co.uk

Petition to Save Scotland arrives in Inverness

Harley Keisch from Wind Wise Radio spoke with Rhona Weir after she returned home from her journey to Edinburgh to deliver the petition to Alex Salmond.  Rhona gives her account and impressions of the meeting.

Mrs Weir has a message for the First Minister which says                                                                                                

“We in Scotland have inherited an irreplaceable legacy – a unique, varied and very beautiful environment that is free for all to appreciate and enjoy. Any unnecessary development which will have a detrimental effect on this heritage should be considered an act of vandalism. 

I know my late husband, Tom Weir would have been appalled at the present proliferation of wind turbines defacing the land he loved.

 In a country now short of productive industry, the pecuniary importance of tourism should not be understated, especially as it is the mainstay of the economy in rural Scotland and the Islands. 

Wind turbines however are already having an impact on tourism as indicated by the 40% of those questioned in a recent survey who said they would not return if the landscape continued to be industrialised by wind turbines. This attitude is endorsed by many of the 4,500 strong potential visitors, many from overseas, who have signed the petition I am handing over to you today.

Also, not to be ignored is the recent call by Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park planners for research into the effect turbines are having on tourism.  

We need electricity, but surely in a country renowned for its engineering skills, alternative means of production could be developed. We don’t lack water. Could we not harness river power and hydro schemes constructed in suitable locations?   

As it is, we as citizens are footing unacceptable rises in our electricity bills for power emanating from a source that is intrusive, spasmodic (and therefore unreliable), inefficient and requiring back-up, damaging to the earth’s sub-structure, costly to construct and operate, noisy, with a limited life-span and without obvious means of eventual annihilation.

I rest my case but will never rest my efforts to save the country I love from this needless blight.”       

Rhona M Weir

The petition handed to the First Minister today is an updated copy of the one offered to him in Inverness on 23 March 2013 at the SNP Spring Conference. 

On that date he declined to accept the petition publicly from Mrs Rhona Weir, offering a junior minister in a private location instead.

In doing so, Mr Salmond demonstrated his lack of respect and care for the thousands of people world-wide who took the opportunity to complete the petition – many of whom wrote heartrending accounts of their own circumstances as victims of wind farm development.   

The original printing of the petition stays in the Highlands and will appear at future protests and marches, much like the Wake for the Wild coffin, as a symbol of the heedless arrogance with which we in Scotland are nowadays governed in relentless pursuit of a ruinous political dogma. 

Links:                                                                                                                                         

 http://www.change.org/petitions/first-minister-alex-salmond-stop-the-reckless-siting-of-wind-turbines-in-scotland-s-scenic-landscapes                                                                                    

 http://windwiseradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/petitionwithcomments.pdf

Rhona Weir describes meeting with Alex Salmond April 16, 2013

Dave Moriarty and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick talk about the situation with the Falmouth turbines.  Dave surprises us by advocating for 660K turbines and Deval surprises us with his statements about the turbines and the effort to take them down and get some financial help from the state to do it:

"They're not working well, right?"

"At least one of them needs to come down"

"I’m sending love [to Falmouth] through this microphone"

"Let's see if we can't close on it [getting State financial help] soon"

The original is at http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/bpr-governor-deval-patrick-open-mic-charlie-baker-and-finding-boston-marathon-edge

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