Wind Power and Green jobs
Submitted by PAforClark on July 20, 2008 - 6:20am.
Climate Crisis
Here is a great example of wind power creating new jobs in Pennsylvania as well as helping the environment.
I'm one of those who chooses to pay an additional few dollars each month in my electricity bill for clean wind power from PECO Energy.
There are some interesting statistics about wind power nationally in this article as well.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20080720_Old_steel_mill_turns_to_turbines_.html
"The year Jim Bauer was born - 1952 - a massive steel mill was rising atop a former asparagus farm in Lower Bucks County.
Bauer would spend most of his working life in U.S. Steel's Fairless Works - until he was forced to retire in 2002, marking the end of an era.
Now, it's the beginning of another, and Bauer, 56, is part of that, too.
It's about wind.
Every morning at 6, Bauer is back at work in one of the old U.S. Steel buildings, heading a team that makes giant hubs for wind turbines."
is why most people support industrial-scale windpower and are totally unaware of what a scam it is.
I live in south central PA. My family and my neighbors and friends have had our lives turned upside down because of this issue.
Please take a few minutes to learn the real facts: http://www.stopillwind.org/
You soumd like you are pushing your own propaganda. Corporate and political propaganda are a seperate issue. The same forces screw us daily on conventional energy sources.
Wind power is by far the least expensive of all alternative energy sources. With the proper site selection and engineering it is the key to our energy independence.
I've witnessed one of these large wind turbines up close and it was not noisy. The large scale plants displace huge amount of conventional fossil fuel and tons of pollutents and particulate matter that would be given by their fossil fuel buring counterparts.
Sorry if it looks that way to you.
I used to think it was everything you are saying, but now I know it is not.
http://www.windaction.org/about
http://www.stopillwind.org/lowerlevel.php?content=HealthyWind
I hope the General continues to look deeply into this issue and weighs all the facts and doesn't just take the word of the AWEA. I trust he will.
in wind energy research. He said way back when he was just getting started in that field that the coming environmental crisis would trump every other problem we faced.
p>Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.