Plans for a new Caithness wind farm have prompted a national campaigner to warn of the “misery and strife” that can arise when communities become divided over renewable energy developments. .Opponents of the two-turbine Swarclett scheme claim support has been targeted in Castletown, several miles away from the wind farm site.
There have been years of fighting between residents and wind farm developers, and over the years Latvia has fallen well behind its neighbors in the development of wind energy. Latvia now plans to implement a compensation system for those whose properties are close to wind turbines, Latvian Television reported on May 5.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland struggled to answer basic questions about a major wind farm development in Idaho during a Thursday hearing on Capitol Hill. Republican Idaho Sen. Jim Risch asked Haaland to list the names of people or groups that support the Lava Ridge wind farm development, a major wind project in the southern, central part of the state. Haaland suggested that there is local support for the project, but she did not name a single entity or individual supporting the project in response to multiple inquiries from Risch.
A coalition of more than a dozen Schoharie County towns is suing the state, contending the prescribed method for taxing solar and wind farms is unconstitutional as it usurps the authority of local assessors and shortchanges municipalities of needed property tax revenue. And while state law dictates how solar and wind farms are assessed, local assessors are still required to defend the towns if the owner of a solar or wind farm contests their property tax bill, according to the suit.
Dominion Energy is under fire from homeowners in one Virginia Beach neighborhood as residents say all the trees the company has taken down as part of its offshore wind project has put their homes in danger. Right behind John Rooney’s property line in the Pine Ridge neighborhood, Dominion Energy has cleared a 140-foot wide strip of trees to make way for power lines that will carry power from the offshore wind turbines to a substation in Chesapeake.