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Second wind workshop should be on true nature of turbines |
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Monday, 15 June 2009 |
By Dennis Stillings
Valley City
It is a lovely thing to see that NextEra Energy Resources funded a technical workshop on wind energy (see Wednesday edition).
And I assume that it was made clear that the wind turbines produce plenty of power (when they are running in a good wind) even though there is no practical way to store it.
It is not, of course, a myth that some people don’t like the way they look. Many people don’t like their looks — that is a simple fact. I presume that NextEra is not using workshops to instruct youth on the nature of aesthetics. That is largely a personal matter.
NextEra does, however, intrude on personal matters when it is felt to be necessary.
A second workshop on wind turbines is in order — one that deals with the envy, enmity and divisiveness that North Dakota wind field projects are inducing in previously harmonious communities, one that deals with failure to fully investigate or disclose the full and accurate nature of noise pollution caused by the turbines, one that addresses the possible health and safety hazards of these prairie pinwheels.
Let’s call this workshop “BreakWind.”
Editor’s note: Stillings occasionally writes
a column for the Times-Record.
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