Notes from the Webmaster

"Notice" "Urgent"

If you are a non-participant property owner within this overlay district, any turbines only need to be 1,320 feet from your home. The setback is not from your property line.

Setbacks from two turbine manufacturers are as foll ows:

From Vestas “Health & Safety Instructions”: “If a runaway operation should occur, the plant must be evacuated immediately by running upwind, and access to surrounding area in a radius of at least 500 metres must be restricted.” 500 metres = 1,640 feet.

From Nordex: “In case of a fire in the nacelle or on the rotor, parts may fall off the wind turbine. In case of a fire, nobody is permitted within a radius of 500 m from the turbine.”

Do you want a turbine 1,320 feet from your home and even less from your yard?

Let your commissioner know how you feel. Contact your commissioner at:

John A. Nugent 734-660-5573

E-mail janugent@gmail.com

Ron Wruble 989-479-6529

E-mail boc@co.huron.mi.us (Attn. Ron Wruble)

Notice

Site Plan Review for the Harvest Wind II project in McKinley Township

To let those who were not at the site plan review it passed on conditional acceptance .

They will honor the 3 mile setback from the shoreline. Their avian study is still in process, thus the conditional acceptance.

The 5 wind turbines included in the site plan will be 476 feet in height that is from the ground to the tip of the blade.

Compare this with Detroit's Fisher Buildings 428' feet height and the Penobscot Building at 566' feet.

The turbines in the Ubly & Elkton areas are at 397' feet

Chandler Township will have 13 turbines erected.

Oliver Township will have 15 turbines erected.

Information of site plan review for the above townships please call Chandler & Oliver offices for dates and time.

We welcome two new websites.

The one that would be of interest to those who are exploring the possibility of the installation of a wind power facility should surf this site and read carefully:

Fox Islands Wind Neighbors

Also

The intense research that a community has put into this website is commendable and well worth the tour.

Save Montague

Relevant Carl Sagan Quotes to Ponder

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Electrical Energy Science & You (John Droz, jr.)

"People don't grasp the problem with windmills until it's their backyard so I put some windmills in famous places that everybody recognizes." NIMBY

The nation should prove to us that we should make the sacrifice they are asking by putting windmills in the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Teton Valley, Central Park, the National Mall, San Francisco Bay, etc. There's no difference between those places and our community. Perhaps the national parks are the best choice because nobody lives there.

Updates on Wind Energy is so overwhelming it's very hard to keep up. Recently there has been many World Press articles involving corruption and a cover up of information here in the States and abroad.. Our local newspapers seem to to be unaware, thus no coverage.

I found that the Wind Action Group is the most up to date, they continually access world news and Post their findings everyday.

There is so much information on this website and the links connected to it. It would not be possible to prioritize which is the best or even remotely advise what is more applicable to the issues connected to wind energy. But I must admit that there are some real eye catchers. The Thumb Power Website has been on line for quite a while and the information is probably some of the best reading I’ve come across. The easement contracts offered by the various developers are without a doubt candy to anyone with a sweet tooth. The pie in the ski presentation would make anyone jump at the opportunity to buy into their offer, especially if the offer is made by personally by the broker-developer. Enough said read on and be your own judge.

I would like to add the Wind Turbine Testimonies from Michigan's Thumb for the blogs submmitted from local residents. The latest is one from a resident who made comments at the November 23rd, 2009 MPSC hearing in Lansing.