The location of the WV wind farms are spread out alot more. The area also has hiking, Mtn biking, cross country sking, snowmobiling, trout fishing, the NRAO, hunting and tons of other things.

In the summer months the area can have several hundred thousand visitors. Winter months the area is like a big city. You have to make reservations months in advance.

This may be the biggest reason people don’t complain about the wind farm. It’s a much larger area.

And no sir you should not “accept” anything you don’t beleive in. This is a free country you fight for what you think is right, no matter the outcome.

The funny thing about my niece is that her husband is a mine owner. He has made millions in the fossil fuel industry and wind energy powers his home. Anyway I wish you the best of luck on wolfe Island, very pretty place.

The story I did on my site isn’t the county with the ski resort wind farm. This is another county(Grant)

The county and town is Randolph county, Elkins wv. Here is the website for the ski resort wind farm. fsrengineering.com/sector_energy.htm

You can also check out these sites.

windpoweringamercia.gov

wvcommerce.org/energy

When I did a search on wind energy in my state my site keeps popping up lol. So I did a little digging to find these. Wind farms and renewable energy are dirty words in my state.
I looked at your town, it is very pretty. I would buy property and vacation there. I think the wind farms make it even more beautiful. I bet the air and water is much cleaner also. No coal fire power plants in the back ground dumping black dust all over your property and ruining the water. I’m jealous now.

Yes — you found some good links. My home is on Wolfe Island where there are 86 turbines up and running. About 2000 people live on this beautiful once quiet island. A few farmers are happy with their new wind lease income. Everyone else is pretty much miserable about it. Deals were struck with the farmers before the rest of the townspeople even knew what was happening.

Other wind projects are being fiercely fought over in small towns right now in other communites along the St. Lawrence River. Is this how energy policy should be imposed on rural Americans?

But I am not clear on what you meant to say by your statement in your last comment: “Sounds little bit like WV, we get stuff forced on us also.” Does that mean that we should all expect and accept “stuff” being forced on us?

And please give me some info on the wind farm near where your niece lives in WV. I would like to study more about that one. If she is seeing a reduction in her electric rates that could be a saving grace. But that is sure not the case where I live. Just the opposite.

Thanks.

I wouldn’t blame wind when we are all in exactly the same situation

I would like to learn more about this WV wind farm that has resulted in an experience and community response that is exactly opposite than that experienced by my community.

Can you tell me the name of it and the town/county where it is located? How amny turbines are in the wind farm?

Thanks.

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20110114/NEWS05/301149971

http://www.thousandislandslife.com/BackIssues/Archive/tabid/393/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/236/Wolfe-Island-Wind-Turbines.aspx

Think I did the links right lol.
Sounds little bit like WV, we get stuff forced on us also.

The location of this wind farm is in the middle of our biggest tourism community. These people rely on tourism to make a living. These homes sell from basic $210,000 up to $3.4 million. This part of WV that is going with renewable energy has the lowest unemployment rate in our state and the fastest growth. (low crime rate also) The fact that there are jobs and low crime have a huge impact on the area too.

I think my biggest arguement is that the fossil fuel industry has ruined our planet. Green house gasses are killing our planet and everything on it. Fossil fuels bring nothing but death and destruction, to any and all in its path.

The only ones I have heard complain about the wind farms in my state are the Coal and gas companies. Some think it’s ok to blow a Mtn to heck and shoot gallons of chemicals in to the ground by fracking. But when a wind turbine is installed some have a mental breakdown, because it hurts there wallets.

Anyway I wish you and your community the best of luck.

http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2965724

The wind farm that has come to be the dominant physical feature of my town (86 turbines!) is not a community-based wind project that is going to feed power to the local community. This is a utility scale wind project that will provide its power to the regional power grid. Consumers are going to pay more for their electricity because of this project and others like it – – due to the premium feed in tariffs that subsidize renewably generated power. This doesn’t mean that I would prefer my power to come from burning coal. I am only pointing out that it is anything but a consumer cost saver as the example you cited near a ski area in West Virginia.

Also, my community lies on the shore of the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands Region between New York State and Canada. Our area is a flat coastal plain along the water. The turbines in my town can be seen in all directions for many miles. The red blinking lights atop the turbines are particularly unsightly at night – – against a sky that was previously pristine and undisturbed by ground light.

The arrival of the wind farm has significantly harmed the summer home based recreational economy in our particular part of the Thousand Islands region. Summer homes that previously sold for very handsome prices are suddenly not selling at all. This does not come as just an unfortunate circumstance for the affluent. The much broader economy is dependent in many ways on this seasonal recreational economy. The tax base of my community and nearby communities is largely supported by this seasonal recreational economy.

When developers working together with a handful of large landowners have chosen to completely ignore the implications for the broader economy of the community. The wind developer wanted to get the turbines up and get out of town. That’s exactly what they did and they have left behind A community who social fabric has been ripped apart.