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National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News- Another wind project may threaten condors
- Cape Cod community to vote on status of wind turbines
- Peer-reviewed commentary published in Canadian family physician journal
- Anger at turbines on battle site
- Xcel, wind project at odds over 2010 agreement
- Villagers turn down proposal for community-owned wind turbine
- Proposed wind farm setbacks would kill projects
- Evidence inconclusive as to whether turbines affect property values
- Industrial Wind Action: News Watch
- Xcel, wind project at odds over 2010 agreement
- Massive SoCal wind turbine blade breaks off
- Laws not enforced as wind industry kills more birds and bats
- Can wind turbines make you sick? No easy answers as turbines pop up around the world
- Turbine blade plummets in Ocotillo
- Company Shuts Down Wind Turbines Worldwide After SoCal Accident
- Ocotillo Wind Project Shut Down After Blade Throw
- Lee County wind: Board leader pushes compromise
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Category Archives: Aviation Safety
Dunnville airport set to close May 30
By Lori Maracle, The Saachem An opportunity to take a flight in a 1940s Fort Erie built Fleet Finch 16 aircraft does not come around every day, and it might never come around again. Russ Cameron is the owner of … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Setbacks, Subsidies / Costs, Tourism, Wind Industry
7 Comments
Council not sold on Armow Wind mitigation measures for airport
The Kincardine Independent The atmosphere inside Kincardine council chambers was ripe with tension last Wednesday as a Pattern Renewable Holdings developer took the floor to review a plan aimed to avoid impacts to Kincardine’s airport from the Armow Wind Project. … Continue reading
Half of Armow turbines would impact airport
The Kincardine Independent Wind energy is once again in the spotlight after the Municipality learned that 43 wind turbines, part of the proposed Armow Wind Project, will impact the Kincardine municipal airport. In an unexpected turn of events, the Municipality … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Safety
3 Comments
Turbine placement violates airport agreement
By Sarah Sutter, Kincardine News A NAV Canada letter addressed to Samsung-Pattern Armow Wind Ontario has revealed that 43 of 99 turbines in the proposed Armow wind development violate current procedures at Kincardine Municipal Airport. Kincardine’s chief administrative officer Murray … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Safety
5 Comments
WPD news release on airport misleading
Morgan Ian Adams, Enterprise-Bulletin COLLINGWOOD — The federal agency that governs air traffic says regional airport authorities will have to restrict circling movements south of the facility’s main runway if a wind power developer’s plans to erect turbines in Clearview … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Safety, Wind Industry
6 Comments
Wind Turbine Turmoil
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Wind turbines in Collingwood will create perfect storm
By Christina Blizzard, Toronto Sun Talk about a wing and a prayer. As if the soaring cost of wind energy weren’t enough, a plan to put 152-metre (500-feet) tall wind turbines next to Collingwood Regional Airport is just plain dumb. … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, OWR
14 Comments
Canadian Owners & Pilots Association letter to C-K mayor on wind turbines
Posted in Aviation Safety, Municipalities of Ontario
Tagged Aviation, Safety, wind turbines
23 Comments
‘Notice to airmen’ declared in Chatham-Kent
Chatham-Kent continues to be the laughing stock of the province as a prostitute for the wind industry. Just a week ago…C-K Mayor is very happy with the “independent” study done that finds turbines won’t be an issue for the airport. … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Municipalities of Ontario, Safety, Setbacks, Wind Industry
Tagged wind energy industry
23 Comments
Council voices disapproval of wind project
By Morgan Ian Adams, Enterprise-Bulletin COLLINGWOOD — Collingwood councillors are tilting against windmills. Literally. While lining up to oppose the construction of wind turbines in Ontario, in the face of the Green Energy Act, may seem slightly quixotic, councillors forged … Continue reading
Airport charts
Skyvector – airport charts – check for airports near wind projects in your area
Posted in Aviation Safety, Safety
Turbines too close says airport board
Simcoe.com COLLINGWOOD – Charlie Tatham says it’s inevitable that aircraft flying into Collingwood Regional Airport will collide with a wind turbine. “You think a grade school kid would understand, you wouldn’t put 50-storey buildings beside the bloody airport. It’s so … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety
13 Comments
Two events target eight-turbine development in Clearview Township
By Morgan Ian Adams, Enterprise-Bulletin CLEARVIEW TWP. - Proponents and opponents of WPD Canada’s Fairview Wind Project hosted competing events, Thursday, as the clock ticked down to a decision by the township council whether to give the eight-turbine development its blessing. Clearview … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Safety
Concerns raised over turbines in air ambulance corridors
The Wellington Advertiser Members of a Multi-Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group are calling on provincial health minister Deb Matthews to consider the potential effect of wind power projects on emergency air ambulance access. Last week the group, which consists of … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Safety
1 Comment
Turbine firm willing to pay
By QMI Agency London Free Press CHATHAM – A 500-foot runway extension and other major upgrades totalling $2.5 million could be in store for the Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport. The Chatham Daily News learned that South Kent Wind Energy – the … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Ethics, Safety, Wind Industry
8 Comments
Wind Turbines and Airports Don’t Mix: Wilson
(Queen’s Park) Jim Wilson wants the province to put a stop to wpd Canada’s proposal to build wind turbines near the Collingwood Regional Airport. The Simcoe-Grey MPP used Question Period to urge Dalton McGuinty to start paying attention to the … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Ontario government
2 Comments
‘I don’t plan on moving because of wind turbines’ says Stayner man
BY ANDREW SMITH, BANNER STAFF STAYNER – Kevin Elwood is all too familiar with North and East Perth’s concern about wind turbines disturbing their small rural community. For years, Elwood has been involved in his own fight. The owner of … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Legal, Protest
8 Comments
Samsung-Pattern yet to sign municipal agreement or commit to turbine sites outside airport buffer zone
By Sarah Boychuk, http://www.kincardinenews.com A representative for Pattern Energy revealed there’s a possibility wind turbines will be put within airport buffer zones. Representatives for the wind project also failed to produce documents that would commit the project to guidelines laid … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety
3 Comments
Pilot puts wind energy company on notice
By Morgan Ian Adams, Enterprise Bulletin STAYNER — The owner of a private airstrip west of Stayner has put a wind farm company on notice, should they erect any turbines that could potentially interfere with his runway. In a letter … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, OWR
4 Comments
Wind farms could impact Grimsby airport, says manager
by Scott Rosts, Niagara This Week Concerns about flight safety and the impact wind turbines could have on operations of planes falls much closer to home than Hamilton. The Grimsby Airpark, located on Mud Street on the Grimsby-West Lincoln border … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety
1 Comment
Siting turbines near busy airport runway “just plain loony”
by John Spears, Toronto Star A proposed array of giant wind turbines could crimp plans for Collingwood Regional Airport to build its business, says an airport official. The developer of the wind farm says the turbines – the closest of … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety
11 Comments
Hamilton area wind project hits airport turbulence
by Matthew Van Dongen, Hamilton Spectator Flight safety concerns at the city airport may blow one of Canada’s largest planned wind farms out of the Hamilton area. Niagara Region Wind Corp. won a provincial green energy contract in February for … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety
2 Comments
Collingwood Airport Board ready to fight wind turbine locations
by Morgan Ian Adams, Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin Airplanes and windmills don’t mix. That’s the message the Collingwood Regional Airport board hopes to take to a public meeting in two weeks that will hear comments on the W.P.D. Wind Turbines’ Fairview … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety
3 Comments
The perils of wind turbines to aviation
By Paul Hayes, Director of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA), Canadian Plane Trade Magazine A matter of increasing concern to our members is the almost uncontrolled spread of wind turbines across many areas of our country with, in … Continue reading
Purveyors of ‘junk science’
Welland Tribune I don’t take too much exception to IPC Energy president John Andrews refusing to comment on my ‘junk science.’ When anyone refuses to answer reasonable questions it implies they have no credible answers. And incidentally, just for the … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Viability
1 Comment
Green technology on Wolfe Island has its neighbours seeing red
MARYSVILLE — The red, blinking aircraft navigation night lights atop many of the island’s wind turbines have attracted widespread condemnation in the area, from Howe Island, Kingston and even upstate New York. Not to mention a growing number of people … Continue reading
Skypower pulls plug on project in PE County
Too close to CFB Mountainview W. BRICE MCVICAR The Intelligencer The winds of change have closed the door on a plan for one wind farm in Prince Edward County while another has blown wide open. Residents have been informed by … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation Safety, Investment, Subsidies / Costs
Tagged CFB Mountainview, Skypower
3 Comments
Innisfil may attempt to protect Cookstown Aerodrome
By Chris Simon Innisfil Scope Municipal staff can bark, but they have very little bite when protecting the Cookstown Aerodrome from provincial and federal regulations, according to town planning manager Ross Cotton. A town committee has endorsed plans to consider … Continue reading
CFB Trenton is not just another “regulatory agency”
by Rick Conroy Wellington Times “The DND air traffic control radar at 8 Wing Trenton is essential to the safe transportation of Canadian Forces cargo and personnel in direct support of Canada’s Defence Commitments.” Already staggering through insolvency, Skypower’s Byran … Continue reading
Industrial Wind Turbines Interfere with Doppler Radar
DIRK LAMMERS, AP Writer Toronto Star The phenomenon has affected several National Weather Service radar sites in different parts the country, even leading to a false tornado alert near Dodge City, Kansas, in the heart of Tornado Alley. SIOUX FALLS, … Continue reading
