"The potential impacts of wind farms are many and tangible, among them being visual pollution, decrease in local property values, noise, loss of land to build the towers, access roads and transmission lines, bird kills, "flicker" effects of the blades at sunrise and sunset, possible interference with telecommunications, and safety hazards from blade throws and ice... "

by ROBERT PELLETIER, Lake Champlain Weekly, March 29, 2007.

ENERGY: Canada becoming a wind powerhouse...

Biggest growth expected in Quebec and Ontario, with B.C. poised to 'explode'

"... Almost overnight the Canadian wind power market has evolved from obscurity ... to one of the world's largest and fastest-growing wind power markets," says the report from Emerging Energy Research of Cambridge, Mass ... About $18-billion will be invested in the industry between now and 2015, EER projects, amounting to about one-quarter of the growth in North America and 5 per cent of global growth..." Continued...

by RICHARD BLACKWELL, Globe and Mail, March 9, 2007.

PQ wants 20% of power to come from wind...

Boisclair promises winds of change in energy sector. Pledges to clean up development.

"But the turbines are huge and, in some cases, noisy and -- when concentrated in wind parks -- mar the countryside that tourists flock here to see, local residents say... We should not leave the municipalities at the mercy of the promoters. People were unaware of the impact and they signed for 20 or 50 years... " Continued...

by PHILIP AUTHIER, The Gazette, Sunday, March 11, 2007

Wind farm faces protest over bird kills...

"... The freezers at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department in the Sacramento Valley are overflowing with the decapitated and mangled bodies of golden eagles, kestrels and red-tailed hawks, victims of the whirling blades of wind turbines... 'The level of bird kills is just astronomical. You couldn't have picked a worse place to put a wind farm. It's just been an accepted cost of doing business out there,' said Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological Diversity... " Continued...