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Wind power's benefits outweigh risk to scenery
Hill Country Observer
by Charles Komanoff
September 2005
In the past few years I've read dozens of tracts by opponents of electricity-generating wind turbines in
New York and New England. Two things come through loud and clear: The anti-wind forces care more about
their picture-perfect views than about preserving the earth... (Click to read more)
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Environmental activist's legacy would include support for windmills in the Adirondacks
Albany Times Union
by Charles Komanoff
September 18, 2005
David Brower, the 20th century's leading champion of wilderness, died in 2000 at age 88. The re-founder of the Sierra Club,
creator of Friends of the Earth, mountaineer and conservationist extraordinary -- our latter-day John Muir -- didn't live
to see his movement bitterly divided over the proposed siting of wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, the Berkshires and the
Adirondacks..... (Click to read more)
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Serious Wind
Orion Magazine
by Bill Mckibben
August, 2005
If you want to understand how difficult it will be for our society to make the transition away from fossil fuel addiction,
consider one small report that slipped out of the Department of Energy in early December of last year. It found that, despite
melting poles and rising sea levels, the overall consumption of renewable energy in America fell 12%
in 2001...... (Click to read more)
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So far, windmills seem our best bet
Plattsburgh Press Republican
May 29, 2005
It has been six months since we took up the issue of wind farms on these pages, urging people to study the
facts and stay informed... (Click to read more)
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Windmills of Controversy
Albany Times Union
May 22, 2005
If there's one topic on which environmentalists are likely to agree, it's the promise of so-called green power.
Indeed, when Gov. Pataki proposed to have New York use renewable sources, such as wind and solar, to generate 25
percent of the state's energy needs, the environmental community was quick to applaud him.... (Click to read more)
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Debating Windmills
Post Star
April 10, 2005
Like many North Country residents, the staff of the Adirondack Council is still weighing the pros and cons of
developing a wind power plant on the top of Gore and Pete Gay mountains in Warren County... (Click to read more)
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Wind has benefits
Post Star
April 24, 2005
The other day, we got a letter to the editor from someone who opposes the windmills in the Adirondacks because it
will spoil his view from the top of the gondola at Gore Mountain.... (Click to read more)
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Clouded thinking makes for a hazy future
Post Star
by Ken Tingley, Managing Editor
March 27, 2005
They were flying kites on Lake George earlier this winter as part of the Winter Carnival. The temperature was near 40, and there was enough of
a breeze to keep the kite aloft and the kids busy running across the frozen lake. All around us, the snowmobiles roared, as they usually do
during the Winter Carnival. It was then that I noticed something I had never seen in these parts. Hanging between the hills on each side of
the lake was this dirty brown haze.... (Click to read more)
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Why windmills at Gore have a better chance to score
The Chronicle
by Mark Frost, Editor
February 24, 2005
Now that Barton Mines in North Creek has gone public with its proposal to erect up to 10 electricity-generating
wind turbines on the north side of Gore Mountain, they face the daunting gauntlet of environmentalist fervor
and state regulation that makes any major initiative problematic within the Adirondack Park... (Click to read more)
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Tired of the Hypocrisy
Post Star
by Mark Freeman
February 20, 2005
Everybody, or nearly everybody, wants a clean, healthy, safe environment. Everybody, or nearly everybody, wants
to end our dependence on Middle Eastern oil....
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How ‘green’ are we really?
News-Enterprise, North Creek, NY
by Katy Odel, Editor
February 17, 2005
Development of solar, wind and hydropower is on the increase globally as society works on solutions to
our energy needs that will reduce the need for fossil fuels in the 21st century and beyond. According to
the May-June 2004 issue of “Renewable Energy World”, the U.S. is second only to Germany in terms of the
amount of energy it produces from wind...
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Tilting at Windmills
New York Times
by Bill McKibben
February 16, 2005
Finally, American environmentalists have a chance to get it right about wind power. News broke this
week of plans for the first big wind energy installation in the Adirondack Park. Ten towering turbines
would sprout on the site of an old garnet mine in this tiny town...(Click to read more)
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