[MassHistPres] Fwd: Wind Farms

Fri Apr 30 23:47:59 EDT 2010

Barbara:

You make fine points in a respectful  manner.  I particularly appreciate 
the sensitivity you demonstrate  toward Native Americans whose leaders 
describe Secretary Salazar's decision  as a slap in their face.  The Tribes contend 
that locating  their ancients' countless remains over 10,000 years is not  
realistic.      

I think you romanticize Cape Wind  windmills of yesteryear that bear no 
resemblance whatsoever to 130, 440'  steel and fiberglass industrial turbines, 
spanning an area the size of Manhattan  Island, with red flashing lights, 
day and night, along with sirens and fog  horns.  

I embrace historic preservation,  particularly of Nantucket Sound, 
conservation and nuclear power that is  efficient, with a small "footprint", clean, 
and half as expensive as offshore  wind energy.  Industrial wind energy 
requires constant fossil fuel  back-up energy sources as wind is intermittent, 
and wind energy is  unreliable.  There have been no conventional energy 
plants taken  off-line by introduction of wind documented in the world.   
Denmark, the cradle of wind energy, has not decreased their harmful  emissions.  We 
do not tie by index our generous public subsidies wind  requires to 
reduction in harmful emission by wind energy.  So, wind energy  is a faith-based 
initiative.   The driver is public  subsidies.  

I agree.   Let's come together and explore sound scientific and economic 
energy solutions  that will allow us to retain the integrity of the windows to 
 our Nations' past.   

Most Respectfully, 

Barbara  Durkin
Northboro,  MA 

Resources:

There is a growing  international resistance to wind energy for the 
aforementioned reasons as  the following protest schedules reveal.  

TORONTO April 28. 2010 -Wind Concerns  Ontario, a coalition of 44 citizen’s 
groups from across the  province protest against Big Wind. 

"Each and every one of you need  to take the time, one day, a workday, to 
travel to Queen's Park to stand up and  to speak up! Take one day to support 
all who say NO to twenty years+ of an  industrial wind installation in our  
communities!"

http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/ontarians-to-march-at-qu
eens-park-halt-to-wind-development/

30th  of April there is a demonstration in Tokyo Japan.

15th of May Germans  demonstrate in Berlin.

21st of June there is a second demonstration in  Canada.

29th of August a protest concert in South Sweden. 

Nettie Pena's 'They're not green'  documentaries well worth viewing on  
YouTube:    

_http://www.youtube.com/user/penaproductionsinc_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/user/penaproductionsinc) 

My colleague and friend, Mark Duchamp, of  Spain has command of 
environmental issues related to wind turbines regarding  Scotland, in particular.  This 
is his Website:  

_http://www.iberica2000.org/es/Articulo.asp?Id=1228_ 
(http://www.iberica2000.org/es/Articulo.asp?Id=1228) 

'Wind Energy Myths vs Reality' (context fossil fuels v wind) 

_http://www.masterresource.org/category/energy-myths-vs-reality/_ 
(http://www.masterresource.org/category/energy-myths-vs-reality/) 

Getting deeper, Robert L. Bradley, Jr. Policy Analysis, well  referenced 
cost v. benefits:  

_http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-280.html_ 
(http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-280.html) 

'UK offshore wind costs at least twice nuclear: study'
LONDON
Mon Mar  8, 2010 1:05pm EST
Related News
LONDON (Reuters) - Generating Britain's  electricity from offshore wind 
farms is likely to be at least twice as expensive  as nuclear power, according 
to a new report by engineering consultants Parsons  Brinckerhoff.
_http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6274S520100308_ 
(http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6274S520100308) 

In a message dated 4/30/2010 9:46:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
beb100acrewood at comcast.net writes:

Has anyone seen the beautiful wind farms on Prince Edward  Island?   
Although they are built on the island they are  visible from both land and sea.  
The people of Canada appear to embrace  this source of clean energy as well 
as continuing to preserving their  heritage. 
Cape Cod and many towns that lie on oceans and bays had windmills  built on 
the shores.  We consider any remaining as historic properties  and will 
fight to preserve them, rightly so. 
As former chair of Wareham's Historical Commission I fought long and hard  
to remove the stigma of "hysterical historians" from being used in our town 
by  preserving our history while being realistic.   I see this  continuing 
battle against Cape Wind becoming labeled as such. 
Isn't it possible for us to work together for the greater good of this  
state, country and the world and continue to honor our past? 
Archaeological surveys could identify and document any remaining Native  
American burial grounds.  However the ocean is destructive in its own way  and 
I wonder what it anything remains. This is an emotional issue for many  
people including the First People and I would not presume to understand why  
they feel as they do about Nantucket Sound.  I have not walked in their  
moccasins. 
The issue of their sunrise ceremonies is more difficult.  However if  it 
was part of my belief system I would prefer to honor it with a ceremony  that 
includes wind turbines than ever increasing toxic pollution.  In my  humble 
opinion this would fit in with their belief to think of the impact  of their 
actions for five generations.   
This is written with deep respect for the people who have lived here for  
thousands of years. 
I feel that environmental concerns should be the foremost consideration in  
whether or not to build wind farms.   
As a proud Scot I would not be adverse to clean energy wind turbines built  
in the seas surrounding Scotland.  I do not think it is  environmentally 
appropriate that oil wells have been driven there  especially after the recent 
oil well explosion and spreading oil  slick. We hopefully learn from our 
mistakes.  
I am sure that at sometime in the past my ancestors from many parts of  the 
world used land that is now under the sea.  What peoples in the  world have 
not occupied land that is now under water? 
We must try to come together and make decisions that preserve our  
environment.  The alternative will not be so very pleasant for  our descendants. 
Barbara Bailey

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