Resource Library

National Wind Watch is a nonprofit coalition for raising awareness of the shortcomings of industrial wind energy and its negative impacts on the environment, economy, and quality of life.

ENDLESS resources in one place

USEFUL TIP - Use the search bar to find specific information and studies (Infrasound, Wildlife, Illinois, Health, Contract, radar, landowner, aerial, decommissioning, lawsuit etc )

https://www.wind-watch.org/

"By signing that contract, I signed away the control of the family farm, and it's the biggest regret I have ever experienced and will ever experience." -Gary Steinich, Cambria, Wisconsin.

Link to full letter

REDLINE lease

• Here you can find a copy of the lease provided by a developer in Tazewell County with comments in red from an attorney explaining what it means for the landowner. We hope you find this helpful. Feel free to take this to your attorney if you would like to have another opinion, or you can find contact information for Clay below.

  REDLINE LEASE

Contracts for comparison (includes recent contract with Invenergy 2nd one)

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Wind Energy Checklist

“Early on it seemed that a proposed Wind Energy contract was simply a way of memorializing a dominant (developer) subordinate (landowner) relationship. The proposed contracts are drafted by the developer, landowners are slowing becoming more savy about what to consider and Rutherford & Bidwell Law Firm has reviewed many and can review your proposed agreement.”

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The Law of Wind: A Guide to Business and Legal Issues

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Wind energy contract legal issues to consider

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“This. This is why I'm fighting. Listen to a local Adair County resident share how her life turned upside down the moment the industrial wind turbines were constructed. Do some research. People all across the globe have reported and demonstrated the same sleep disturbances and health effects. Their testimonies, and the obvious grief on their faces from enduring these impacts, ARE VERY REAL. And, that is not a risk I’m willing to allow our local residents to suffer through. The significant costs inflicted on our residents, our communities, and our natural resources far outweigh the minimal benefits to be gained.”

• Link to video testimony

Broken Wind Farm Blades Worry Farmers

9/29/20 LEXINGTON — Tim Jolly is a fifth-generation McLean County farmer and is looking forward to a safe harvest this fall.

However, while farming in the footprint of a wind farm near Lexington, Jolly has major concerns over the potential of falling debris from nearby wind farm turbines from the Bright Stalk Wind Farm.

At least three of the turbines appear to have been damaged over the summer and Jolly is wondering why.

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Ambient Noise Is “The New Secondhand Smoke” – Daniel Fink

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Cardiovascular effects of environmental noise exposure

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Wind Turbine Syndrome

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• Same study in plain english

Infrasound: A Growing Liability for Wind Power

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Three Estimates of decommissioning cost (hint ~$500,000.00 after salvage value)

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The Cost of Decommissioning Turbines is Huge

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Thousands of decommissioned blades that are so difficult to recycle

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Illinois report - Wind turbines “adversely and measurably” impact property value

“Residential property values are adversely and measurably impacted by close proximity of industrial-scale wind energy turbine projects to the residential properties, with value losses measured up to 2-miles from the nearest turbine(s), in some instances. “

“Real estate sale data typically reveals a range of 25% to approximately 40% of value loss, with some instances of total loss as measured by abandonment and demolition of homes, some bought out by wind energy developers and others exhibiting nearly complete loss of marketability. “

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Read the Full Report here - SUMMARY OF OPINIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS pg 5-9

41 INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ON THE “NEW ENERGY ECONOMY”

• “Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined with scale realities make it clear that there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future. “

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The "New Energy Economy": An Exercise in Magical Thinking

• “There are two core flaws with the thesis that the world can soon abandon hydrocarbons. The first: physics realities do not allow energy domains to undergo the kind of revolutionary change experienced on the digital frontiers. The second: no fundamentally new energy technology has been discovered or invented in nearly a century—certainly, nothing analogous to the invention of the transistor or the Internet.”

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We Don't Need Solar And Wind To Save The Climate -- And It's A Good Thing, Too

• “While Germany has deployed some of the most solar and wind in the world, its emissions have been flat for a decade while its electricity has become the second most expensive in Europe.”

  Find out why here

Energy consumption in wind facilities

• “Wind plants, however, use electricity from the grid, which does not appear to be accounted for in their output figures”

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Addressing the high real cost of renewable generation

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These documents help landowners to mitigate the many agricultural impacts that result from the construction of large cross-country oil/natural gas pipelines, electric transmission lines and wind farm projects.

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This site contains a large variety of information. Anything you want to know, there is likely a link here “Whether you want wind turbines on your land, or don't, or whether you live near someone who does, you will need reliable information on lease agreements, set-back laws, changes in your insurance rates and liability coverage, changes in your property values, documented health and safety concerns for people and livestock associated with living within a mile of industrial wind turbines.”

• MANY resources here

Check out these links to find out what’s really going on in the USA – and to gauge the size of opposition to wind farms there

• https://stopthesethings.com/usa/

The North American Platform Against Windpower (NA-PAW) was created to stand for the interests of the ever-growing number of organizations and individuals in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Canada, and the USA who:

• oppose individual wind energy or transmission line proposals;

• question the effectiveness of wind power in helping to solve our energy problems;

• work to protect wildlife and landscapes from industrial wind power development; and/or

• fight the damage of wind energy facilities to tourism, the economy, and people’s quality of life, health, and amenity.

http://www.na-paw.org/

The U.S. Wind Turbine Database

As wind farms grow in Illinois, so do concerns

Purdue University – A landowner’s guide to commercial wind energy contracts

NDSU - Wind Turbine Lease Considerations for Landowners

Column: Why I'm Concerned About the Wind Energy Project

Umholtz Shows his opposition to wind farm

Kansas Sen. Mike Thompson invites 'fringe of the fringe' to push anti-wind energy bills

Kansas lawmaker, a clean energy skeptic, takes aim at wind and solar power in new bills

Info on most recent go round on the State wanting to take away the counties’ right to regulate siting of industrial

questions for guys with wind turbine leases

Wind farm proposed for my area-gathering information

Dewitt County Residents Against Wind Turbines

The Dawn Coyote

No Wind Farms In Piatt County

Victims of Industrial Wind

Kansas Senator Mike Thompson

Citizens concerned about wind turbines in Franklin County, Iowa

Concerned Residents of Worth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa

Moultrie County Residents Against Wind Turbines

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