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WIND FARM FACTS UTAH
Tuesday, 4/14/09, 10:52 PM
What I'd like to know is what gives these companies the right to destroy the habitat for all wildlife (deer, elk, etc), prairie dogs the bald eagles which are on the endangered species list among many other animals birds and plants? There are at least 4 natural underground springs in the proposed area, what's going to happen to them?
From: Scott Pace, New Harmony, UT
Email: scott_pace2001@yahoo.com
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Wednesday, 4/15/09, 10:01 AM
Not only will these turbines be visible during the day, the lights on them will be flashing at night. I am not against the idea of wind power; I am, however, against where they want to place the turbines North of New Harmony. People come from all over the world to see Zion National Park, and as far as I am concerned these windmills visually pollute our scenic vistas. What can I do to help stop this from happening? Please let me know.
I have put this site on my blogspot to get visitors to your site.
From: Brent Prince, New Harmony--St. George
Email: newharmonyrancher@gmail.com
Thursday, 4/16/09, 8:37 PM
I am horrified at the plan to put wind turbines anywhere near New Harmony. Our heritage has already been impacted by so much development and demands on the resources we have safeguarded for decades.
Email: grandmav86@hotmail.com
Monday, 4/20/09, 12:10 PM
Property Values in the New Harmony Valley will plummet. You think there is a lot of homes for sale now? Just wait, there will be more, and then values will further drop. I agree with Brent Prince. This Wind Power Plant is very close to Zion National Park. Oil drilling permits close to the Grand Staircase NM were stopped, and they were farther away in comparison.
As stated by Wasatch Wind, cell communications and radio (fire and emergency frequencies) will be disrupted. Many know, in order to make a cell phone call, you have to drive to the Cemetery to do it. You can't be in your house. How bad is it going to get? When are we going to say it is not worth it?
Show us something that will work for longer than 20 years, more often than at the most 30% of the time, produce more power with less impact to the environment.
This in NOT green power! It is a POWER PLANT that kills and impacts the environment negatively! I would like to know the "carbon footprint" of just ONE giant wind turbine. To build it, with all that steel. To ship it, with all the trucks burning fossil fuels. Times it by 50.
Are we really saving the planet? Or because they are made "internationally" it's ok. This commercial Wind Power Plant will decimate our deer herd. Bumblebee (Harmony Mountain) is, among other things, a nursery for mule deer. It is a perfect place for deer to give birth and raise their young. Once there is an increase in human activity and later sound, vibration, and shadow flicker, the doe will no longer feel it is a safe place to have their fawns. The roads that will cut across the top of Bumblebee will impact the deer. More roads built will mean during hunting season there will be a higher kill ratio, further decimating their numbers.
The "wind farm" proximity to Zion, which plays host to a number of threatened and endangered species, will undo many years of conservation. Peregrine Falcons, Bald and Golden Eagles, and the California Condor will be all be annihilated.
When asked about the Wind Turbines' affects on birds, Wasatch Wind's Permitting Specialist, Lin Alder, is quoted as saying, "They're a death trap...".
When asked what the Turbines would do to our Bald Eagle population, Wasatch Wind's "ornithologist" is quoted as saying, "You don't have Bald Eagles ..."
Why are we trusting any of these businesses, who are spending mostly Taxpayer's dollars, to place their bird and bat-killin', deer-decimating, mountain-ruining "farms" on Public Lands? Speak out - let your opinion be heard because it will make a difference!
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Wednesday, 4/22/09, 11:57 AM
Now the Gov. Hunstman is wanting more windfarms and geothermo plants to go in the state of Utah to help supply power throughout the country. If we don't do something now to stop them we'll look worse than California! Email: scott_pace2001@yahoo.com
Monday, 10/5/09, 9:34 AM
My wife and I live in an off-grid house on the south end of Bumblebee Ridge. If you've seen a house with a solar array and a small wind generator up there, that's us. You might expect that I'd be in favor of putting wind power generation all over the place but you'd be wrong. At first I thought this wind project might be okay but the more I find out about it, the less I like it. I agree with most of the comments I've seen here. Part of the problem, I think, is the huge scale that is needed in order to do business. Commercial projects need large generators and a lot of them. This creates all kinds of problems, assuming everything works as advertised. I can tell you from experience that things do not work as advertised with wind power generation. To somebody from a Big City this little part of the world probably looks like the middle of nowhere. They can do with it what they want because there is nothing going on and no one to get upset about it. The BLM land for the project was sold to the Wasatch Wind people by the government several years ago. This deal should be rescinded or changed to an unpopulated area without world-class scenary and critical habitat.
I wonder whether our elected representatives would want to help? Al Brajnikoff
Email: braj@braj.com
Monday, 9/21/09, 1:09 AM
Your photo on homepage of the turbine on fire is enough to make me shudder-another source of fire on a mountain not now subject to the "let 'er burn" wilderness fire policies. The Harmony Mountain we old settlers call North Mountain hasn't been lightning strike fire threat in my many years to my knowledge. The photo of the maze of turbines look strangely like the skeletons of burnt tall timbers on the burnt moonscape mountain to opposite side of New Harmon Valley.
Hasn't paternalistic policies of government agencies affected our environment and property values enough already?
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