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Concerned neighbors of the Back Bay/Route 1 area of Newburyport, MA, recognize the need for green, alternative energies to help remove our dependence on foreign oil and help clean up the planet. However, as evidenced by many sources, wind technology has some drawbacks. It is with concern for the neighborhoods and others that may be potentially impacted that we ask for your consideration.
If you feel that careful consideration in siting these facilities is a must to protect residents and the general public, and would wish to see the ordinance changed to assure that is the case, please contact the following city officials and let this be known.
Newburyport City Council (click on pictures of council members for email links)
BackbayWind.org is an affiliate of National Wind Watch:
India's Suzlon Energy Ltd., the world's fifth-largest wind-turbine maker by unit sales, is facing additional questions about its technology after a 140-foot-long blade broke off a tower in Illinois. Click here to read more.
Are there health dangers from multiple wind turbines? Click here to read more USA Today article about living next to a wind farm.
This info from Barrington RI, which is considering an Elecon Wind Turbine too. Click here to read more. Be sure to look at the exhibits.
Med flights refuse to fly near wind turbines in Wisconsin: Click here to read more.
No worry for Sherrard turbine, superintendent says. Click here to read more about 6 ton falling blade.
Turbine #10 of the 11-turbine Searsburg wind facility in Searsburg VT collapsed on September 15 in high wind conditions. One of the turbine blades hit the base causing the tower to buckle and the nacelle and rotor assembly to crash to the ground. Click here to read more. (pdf)
What about noise, health and human rights issues? Click here to read more.
See these and other videos at the National Wind Watch You Tube page
In the below video, the braking mechanism that limits the speed of the wind turbine fails and the turbine collapses.
Click here for a recent ABC news video on Wind Turbine Noise.
Click here to view: How Close is Too Close-The Wind Farm at Little Bay (11 min)
Does a wind turbine sound like a refrigerator to you in the video below? (2 min)
What is wind turbine shadow flicker? (35 seconds)
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
U.S. Dept of Energy, search "sound" (EERE)
Danish Wind Industry Association (DWIA)
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