Comments on: Wind turbines up close and personal http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/ Constituent Service Center Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anne http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-125 Anne Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:19:45 +0000 http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-125 Senator, Thank you for your visit to Blue Knob and your honest assessment of the impact of industrial wind turbines on Pa. citizens. There seems to have been little concern on the part of the Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection. I wonder if Ms. McGinty has ever visited and whether she would prefer to live under one of these "farms". Are there any records of what these "farms" are actually producing? The bottom line is that the citizens of Pa. need better protection from this development and that protection is not being supplied by the township supervisors. They are not equipped to deal with developers with deep pockets. There must absolutly be action on the state level for uniform siting regulations for these machines. Without it, the landscape of rural Pa. will be devastated and the quality of life for citizens in rural areas will be negatively affected. The loss of property value is undeniable. Please take a stand to stop this exploitation of rural Pa. Thanks. Senator,
Thank you for your visit to Blue Knob and your honest assessment of the impact of industrial wind turbines on Pa. citizens. There seems to have been little concern on the part of the Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection. I wonder if Ms. McGinty has ever visited and whether she would prefer to live under one of these “farms”. Are there any records of what these “farms” are actually producing? The bottom line is that the citizens of Pa. need better protection from this development and that protection is not being supplied by the township supervisors. They are not equipped to deal with developers with deep pockets. There must absolutly be action on the state level for uniform siting regulations for these machines. Without it, the landscape of rural Pa. will be devastated and the quality of life for citizens in rural areas will be negatively affected. The loss of property value is undeniable. Please take a stand to stop this exploitation of rural Pa. Thanks.

]]> By: Darrell Shildt http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-116 Darrell Shildt Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:21:56 +0000 http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-116 John, Thank you for taking the time to check out the wind turbines on Blue Knob. It is so disheartening seeing more and more of these go up in our Commonwealth. My heart sinks every time I look up at the mountain from I-99 or Logan Town Centre in Altoona and see them. Not only are these inefficient monsters a danger to the environment, to migrating birds and area wildlife, they are known to produce an unhealthy, stressful, annoying noise pollution, have a negative impact on property values, and are a great eyesore. Considering these negative factors alone, how has Gamesa got this far? Why isn't Gamesa being stopped in their tracks and being required to dismantle every one of them? Why are our taxes being used via government grants and special funding to help build them? Pennsylvanians should be screaming! John, next time you travel west, take a quick trip on Route 30 from Bedford - you will be shocked at the sight you see in the Stoystown area. Harrisburg needs to wake up and put an end to this destruction now! Hopefully you are taking a stand to stop this atrocity! Thanks again! http://www.shaffermountain.com, http://www.windaction.org, http://www.wind-watch.org John,
Thank you for taking the time to check out the wind turbines on Blue Knob. It is so disheartening seeing more and more of these go up in our Commonwealth. My heart sinks every time I look up at the mountain from I-99 or Logan Town Centre in Altoona and see them. Not only are these inefficient monsters a danger to the environment, to migrating birds and area wildlife, they are known to produce an unhealthy, stressful, annoying noise pollution, have a negative impact on property values, and are a great eyesore. Considering these negative factors alone, how has Gamesa got this far? Why isn’t Gamesa being stopped in their tracks and being required to dismantle every one of them? Why are our taxes being used via government grants and special funding to help build them? Pennsylvanians should be screaming! John, next time you travel west, take a quick trip on Route 30 from Bedford - you will be shocked at the sight you see in the Stoystown area. Harrisburg needs to wake up and put an end to this destruction now! Hopefully you are taking a stand to stop this atrocity! Thanks again! http://www.shaffermountain.com, http://www.windaction.org, http://www.wind-watch.org

]]> By: George Marsh http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-99 George Marsh Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:00:18 +0000 http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-99 Thanks so much for your efforts to investigate and write about your constituent's concerns regarding noise emitted by industrial wind turbines. You may be interested to know that since 2003 the wind turbine noise issue has been researched and written about in Europe - see brief article in Living Knowledge Journal by Dr. Fritz van den Berg concerning complaints and research into noise from huge wind turbines in Germany (in: http://www.scienceshops.org/new%20web-content/content/documents/Journal/LK1-Nov03.pdf ). The wind industry would rather ignore or dismiss concerns about wind turbine noise, but it is a real and potentially health-impacting concern for those who are unfortunate enough to be living close to them - see: http://www.ninapierpont.com/?s=wind . Thanks so much for your efforts to investigate and write about your constituent’s concerns regarding noise emitted by industrial wind turbines. You may be interested to know that since 2003 the wind turbine noise issue has been researched and written about in Europe - see brief article in Living Knowledge Journal by Dr. Fritz van den Berg concerning complaints and research into noise from huge wind turbines in Germany (in: http://www.scienceshops.org/new%20web-content/content/documents/Journal/LK1-Nov03.pdf ). The wind industry would rather ignore or dismiss concerns about wind turbine noise, but it is a real and potentially health-impacting concern for those who are unfortunate enough to be living close to them - see: http://www.ninapierpont.com/?s=wind .

]]> By: Dave http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-98 Dave Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:21:31 +0000 http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-98 This kind of concern for the environment - especially if it leads to action in Harrisburg - is why I voted for you, and will vote for you again, despite my generally liberal views. Thanks. Great to see you blogging, too, by the way. This kind of concern for the environment - especially if it leads to action in Harrisburg - is why I voted for you, and will vote for you again, despite my generally liberal views. Thanks.

Great to see you blogging, too, by the way.

]]> By: doug wolf http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-97 doug wolf Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:56:05 +0000 http://senatoreichelberger.com/2007/10/12/wind-turbines-up-close-and-personal/#comment-97 John, thank you for realizing that the placement of structures of this magnitude have a gross impact well beyond private property rights. John, thank you for realizing that the placement of structures of this magnitude have a gross impact well beyond private property rights.

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