Installation, 43 rue Principale, Bedford, Québec
The scale models used in this installation (1:87 scale) demonstrate the enormous size of the proposed wind towers in relation to churches, houses and people.
Do these gigantic industrial wind turbines belong in the Eastern Townships landscape near villages, homes and farm buildings?
Click image to expand. Installation visible 24 hours/day at the storefront at 43, rue Principale.
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for the latest news on the new 2010 wind-farm project and opposition.
7:30 pm, Tues., 23 Mar., 2010.
George Perron Center, 14 rue Philippe Côte, Bedford. (Near the railway tracks.)
INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES AND THEIR ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS
A discussion and slide show about the negative health effects associated with industrial wind farms, by CARMEN KROGH, BScPharm. Centre Communautaire Georges-Perron, 14, rue Phillipe Côte, Bedford. All are welcome. Entry is free. Translation will be provided.
Please tell your friends about this important event, print this poster and pass it around!
BEDFORD, 2010/01/25
Less than two years after a large industrial wind farm proposal was rejected by Hydro Quebec, some land owners and elected officials in the Stanbridge Station / Pike River / Canton de Bedford region are trying to revive the project. Discussions have been held with corporate energy developer Groupe S.M. International about submitting a proposal for a smaller, so-called "community" project on May 19, 2010.
It is time to revisit the 2007-2008 website that documented local citizens' objections to the first wind project. The new proposal may be smaller but it raises exactly the same issues (see archived web page below):
* Should we destroy our beautiful Eastern Townships mix of villages and farms by creating an industrial zone dominated by 40-storey turbines?
* Do we want to live in a rural wind-tower wasteland like Ellenburg, NY, just so that Hydro-Quebec can export more power to Vermont?
Everything below this line is part of the 2007-2008 archive.
The deadline for submission of wind-power projects to Hydro-Quebec was Sept 18, 2007. More than 60 projects were received and reviewed by the power utility.
THE PIKE RIVER AND HENRYVILLE PROJECTS WERE NOT AMONG THOSE SELECTED TODAY! SEE THE CHART OF PROJECTS SELECTED BY HYDRO-QUEBEC:
http://www.hydroquebec.com/4d_includes/depdoc/cpe/fr/2000MW_final.pdf
http://www.hydroquebec.com/4d_includes/depdoc/cpe/fr/Tableau_Repartition_v4.pdf
This website is concerned with the Pike River project near Bedford, Quebec. Our objection to the project can be summed up in the one phrase that decorates our T-shirts:
"NO" to industrial wind plants near our homes and villages!
We invite you to read our information and statements about wind energy, and review the letters, articlses, and project documents that are published on this website. It is clear that the Pike River site is spectacularly inappropriate for this kind of industrial power facility. Not particularly windy, it is a farming community on the edge of the new Eastern Townships Wine Route, with villages that date from the early 19th century, with beautiful views of the mountains of Vermont and Quebec, and with some of the most fertile and well-tended agricultural fields in the province.
Quebec has millions of acres of empty crown land which could be used for wind power--why should we turn our beautiful and historic Eastern Townships communities into industrial power plants, with dozens of 45-storey wind skscrapers destroying the skyline?
Artist's impression of tower height based on project document below. Download
colour or
B&W poster.
The EOLIENNES-INFOS.COM web site (also known as WindInvasion.com) is
sponsored by local citizen volunteers and is
dedicated to collecting data and exploring issues related to wind power
in general and the industrial wind turbine plant proposed by
Le Groupe S.M. International (SMI)
for Stanbridge Station, Quebec, in particular.
Click here to download an official SMI project
statement (pdf)
.
We at EOLIENNES-INFOS.COM consider wind power to be an important option in planning for
future sources of clean electric power, but we
believe that common sense and careful environmental planning would dictate that
- the turbines should be located at least several kilometers away from human habitation due to documented health, safety and noise issues
- the turbines should not be located near villages and
historic sites (such as the planned agricultural museum in Mystic)
- the industrial wind plant's extensive grid of huge concrete foundations and wide access roads should not be built on fertile agricultural land
- a thorough and fully transparent public discussion and local referendum should occur before any advanced planning and engineering proceeds
- the site should be proven to have reliable and adequate wind conditions at reasonable altitudes so that extra tall towers are not required
- the site should not be in the path of heavy bird migrations
In terms of environmental and aesthetic impact, this is the most
massive and radical engineering project ever proposed for the
Eastern Townships countryside. Everyone should have an opinion on
such a enormous and permanent change to our region, our community, our economy, our farm landscape and our skyline.
Come to the big final meeting at the MRC in Cowansville on August 21, 2007. Attend your monthly town council meeting (1st Monday evening of the month) and bring up this issue. Contact your mayor, town councillors, MNA and other local political leaders and demand that they "do their homework" and take a public stand on this project now. That's what we pay them for!
We want to publish your comments and opinions on this issue. Please send your "Letter to the Editor" to eoliennesinfos@yahoo.ca.
LETTERS | ARTICLES. Click to open.
Petition 1 |
Petition 2 |
Petition 3
PLACE VILLE MARIE.
Artist's impression of tower height based on promoter's document (below)
presented to town of Stanbridge Station, Oct. 2006. Download
small image 1000 pixels |
large 2000.
WALBRIDGE BARN, MYSTIC.
Artist's impression of the wind turbines behind the famous 12-side Walbridge barn in Mystic, Quebec. The
oldest polygonal barn in Quebec, it was declared a historic monument in 2006 by the
Ministère de la
culture et des communications du Québec, and will be the site of the Missisquoi Museum's
agricultural collection in the near future.
View a larger version of the animation (800 pixels, 396 KB).
Download a turbine sound file (wma format, 320 KB).
PHOTO OF THE WEEK:
What is the effect on fertile farm land of 492'-tall wind tower foundation excavations and access roads?
Photo: Foundation work for a Vestas V90 wind turbine that is smaller than those proposed for Stanbridge Station:
3 MW, 262' (80 m) tower, 298' (90 m) rotor diameter.
Click to expand photo. Photo: Harvey Jones. [www.wind-watch.org]
ELEVATION.
Artist's impression of wind turbine height (left) based on promoter's document (right)
presented to town of Stanbridge Station, Oct. 2006. Note that the tower is shown five (5) times taller
than the 30-meter-high church. Click to expand.
Download colour or
B&W poster.
MAP.
Artist's impression based on promoter's site plan (below) of March 20, 2007. Click to expand.
Photos of the area.
Wind turbine plan superimposed on road map .
PLAN 1000 PIXELS | 2000 PIXELS | Colour added to increase legibility of promoter's site plan (below) dated Feb. 2, 2007. Click to expand.
PLAN
1000 PIXELS |
2000 PIXELS |
Promoter's site plan dated Feb. 2, 2007. Click to expand. | Quebec government guide to creation of a landscape impact study for a wind farm.
VIDEOS FROM OTHER WIND PROJECTS | SOUND FILES
DANGERS
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Journal Eoliennes-Infos.com, Vol. 1, No. 1, format PDF, 1.2 MB |
JPG, 124 KB
VIDEO:
Windmill in Denmark explodes in high winds. The braking system failed and pieces of the shattered turbine were thrown more than 500 meters:
windaction.org/videos/14339
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