Wind Power Realities

Save Scenic Jefferson Valley Coalition

Think wind is the “greenest” energy?  Think again.

Washington Post, “Five Myths About Green Energy,” by Robert Bryce, Sunday, April 25, 2010

“Energy Sprawl” is Nature Conservancy’s term for the massive impacts of wind farms and long distance transmission on vast resources of natural habitat.  The research article is entitled “Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America.”

 

 

Think the wind boom is also a jobs boom?  Think again.

The following article by Jonathan Karl dispels the myth of American jobs being created by the massive “stimulus” spending on wind energy:

Wind Power Does Not Equal Job Power - ABC News, Feb. 9, 2010

 

This reporting by Russ Choma of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University provides more details into the detour of stimulus funding for wind development to overseas:

           Wind Energy Grants Under the Stimulus Program

           Foreign Companies Control Wind Manufacturing

           Renewable Energy Money Still Going Abroad Despite Criticism From Congress

 

 

Opposing MSTI on environmental and economic grounds does not make you an opponent of renewable energy. 

 

Please read this letter by wildlife biologist Craig Knowles that appears in the May 26 Whitehall Ledger.

 

Please read this commentary by Boulder Valley rancher Bill Pullman that aired on Montana Public Radio’s “Evening Edition” on May 21.

 

Please read text of radio ads prepared by Bill Pullman in response to NorthWestern’s advertisements.