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European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) also calls for study of wind power’s record to determine its true benefits, costs, and adverse impacts The Sandry home, Thompson, Iowa, 2008 Rowe, Mass., Jan. 15, 2009 — On the morning of October 4, 2008, before the second national protest against industrial wind energy development in Paris, several groups […]

 —Eugene Goodrich (New Brunswick, Canada)   “Deer River Flow,” watercolor by Sandra Hildreth RiverCityMalone was sent this essay by a reader.  It’s a concise correction to many of the exaggerations and half truths routinely expressed by the wind developers and slavishly repeated by the newspapers in Franklin & Clinton counties.  Anyone who has attended a

Painting by Grant Wood (1930), with adaptation —Calvin Luther Martin “I recently spoke with a homeowner who lives on the Number 5 Road in Chateaugay, NY.  Her farm is surrounded by the newest crop of turbines.”   So begins a letter by a lady named Flossy Powell.  Ms. Powell submitted her letter to RiverCityMalone around Christmas

 —Op-Ed by Jack Sullivan, MS Editor’s note:  This article is reprinted with minor revisions from The Empire Page, 12/13/08.  Our appreciation to Mr. Sullivan and TEP.  Adapted from www.plataformahorta.org, with appreciation Many NYS politicians, members of the media and environmentalists see wind power as an all-encompassing solution to global warming, energy independence, and much needed job

—Calvin Luther Martin Visit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) website, where you can see all the power production figures for NYS, quarter by quarter throughout the calendar year.  This includes output from coal-fired plants, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar.  The works.  Any electricity sold to the NYS Independent System Operator (“the grid”) shows up on

—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin “Smells Fishy,” by Nate Owens On October 24, 2008, Noble Environmental (there being many versions or layers of Noble, it turns out) applied to the NYS Public Service Commission for permission to do the following:

—William Tucker The following text and images are all taken from a weblog by William Tucker, author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Energy Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey.  Tucker is a seasoned journalist.  He has done us all a great service by demythologizing nuclear power.  Tucker thinks it’s time to retire

—Op-Ed by Michael Fournier Panic has set in among wind scammers and other environmental terrorists over reports that an intrepid knight has been seen battling wind turbines throughout the wind-farm wastelands of Ellenburg, Churubusco, and Chateaugay.

—Carol Thompson, Chateaugay Albert Johnson (Photo courtesy of Carol Thompson) Forget Barack Obama and John McCain.  Next door Albert Johnson and Jim Otis are battling for Burke Town Supervisor.  It’s a hot contest.  Signs, newspaper ads, flyers, door-to-door, speeches–and bitterness.

—Dr. FrankenTurbinStein WARNING:  These photos are not for the faint-hearted.

Production figures, April 2008 through June 2008 Photo ©Charlie Porter, King City, MO

—Op-Ed by Jack Sullivan The following was published in the Press Republican 9-7-08.  Jack Sulllivan subsequently submitted it to RCM for publication.  The Editor. Mr. Colin Read claims in an August 12th Press Republican “Opinion” column that the 217 wind turbines scheduled for Franklin and Clinton counties would produce enough “permanent and sustainable electric power for