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From Brian Jones, Atkinson, Illinois
I moved away from Ohio, Ill., Big Sky wind farm three years ago. Here is why. These are the effects of a wind farm to our household.
- Interfered with portable phone
- Interfered with AM/FM radio.
- Shadow flicker through out the house
- Obnoxious swoosh-swoosh noise
- Terrible ultra-low frequency generated noise that shook our house.
- My sleep pattern disrupted by this ultra-low frequency noise
- Eyesore.
- Devalued real estate.
- Would have to sign a gag order to be entitled to their “pay-off.”
- Wind farms are not financially sound.
- Wind farms are a scam.
I attended “turbine technician” schooling and was told by the National OSHA safety officer, who was one of our instructors that the turbine/tower cost is around $13 million per unit rather that $3 million to $4 million per unit, you hear about in the MSM because of all the ancillary material and labor involved in each and every site/unit. They also have a 20-year life expectancy.
These units would not break even in 20 years. Each unit would have to produce $650,000 worth of power, each tower, each year for 20 years to break even. And that is just not possible. These projects are 85 percent-plus subsidized by our tax dollars.
The wind farm industry is the fleecing of America and the taxpayers, period.
Veritaspac.com contacted Brian Jones to obtain permission to post the above letter to the editor of the Rock Island Argus. While agreeing to our request we were able to speak to him for a while and flesh out the particulars behind his experience. We gleaned the following additional information:
While he was not a contract recipient for rents and permissions, Jones’ residence was within an estimated 400 to 500 yards of the nearest wind electrical generating tower, one of the 114 towers in the “Big Sky” wind farm project. Having heard about the amount of money chasing such projects he initially thought “why not get in on the gravy train.” He sought employment with the operating company and after three days of instruction as part of the safety orientation decided against being part of the industry. That is where he obtained his information about the actual costs of siting and constructing a tower and safety concerns associated with operating and maintaining each tower.
That information and his direct experiences from living near a tower caused him to investigate further, in particular the effects of undissipated low-frequency waves. He accumulated enough information to file a formal complaint to the relevant local regulatory body. His complaint resulted in an offer in compensation from “Big Sky,” which included some operating and other abatements, and an offer of what he believes was a standard rate and contract for landowners with tower sites on their property. The amount he mentioned was $8300 a year. As he was quick to add, the contract included what amounted to a “gag order” and was to be settlement or compensation for any such complaints, ever. Instead of accepting the offer, Jones and his wife decided to move.
Here at veritaspac.com we have posted a number of articles about the wind energy boondoggle, its unreliability as an energy source, and studies that have indicated that wind energy creation is not environmentally sound. We have also emphasized the existence of the May 4th, 21014 statement by Warren Buffet, chairman of Berkshire -Hathaway which owns Mid American Energy, one of the preeminent wind generation utilities that:
“we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”
That statement, late in the “maturity” of wind energy development, should be impressed on every governmental entity considering subsidizing such developments. All should consider as well Brian Jones’ testimony.
And now some pictorial statements from windtoons.com:
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