Wind-Energy Projects Alter Ecosystem Structure
Impact of noise pollution on wildlife communication, survival, and biodiversity:
A framework for understanding noise impacts on wildlife: an urgent conservation priority
Queen’s University Belfast | Dr. Hansjoerg Kunc
Songsbirds are struggling with noise pollution
Do wind turbines harm animals?
Can wind turbines harm wildlife?
Impact of industrial wind turbines on flying creatures:
Bats Killed in Large Numbers at United States Wind Energy Facilities
Behavioral Responses of Bats to Operating Wind Turbines
Behavioural and environmental correlates of soaring-bird mortality at on-shore wind turbines
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Example of miscarriage in mammals as a part of vibroacoustic disease caused by industrial wind turbines: Mass spontaneous abortion and death at mink farm following the arrival of industrial wind turbines, necessitating closure of the farm (and abandonment of the adjacent home, also due to vibroacoustic disease) (15:19-20:16):
Invited Talk: Dr. Mariana Alves-Pereira
Example of genotoxic effects as a part of vibroacoustic disease caused by industrial wind turbines in animals (as could also occur in people):
Family with wind turbines in close proximity to home: follow-up of the case presented in 2007
Stray voltage/”dirty energy”; and examples of the harm it causes to life:
Stray Voltage and Dairy Farms Can Lead to Large Damage Awards
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Separating earthworms from organic media using an electric field
(For more on health impacts of and vibroacoustic disease resulting from industrial wind turbine exposure in humans and animals, see Health.)
Concern of industrializing the natural landscape, destroying ecosystems, disrupting migratory patterns, and thwarting and loss of life in rural areas targeted and threatened by the wind power industry:
Industrial Wind Energy: Incompatible With Hunting
Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia
(7:00-8:35): Renewable Energy is The Scam We All Fell For
Wind Farms Cause More Environmental Impact Than Previously Thought
Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context
If Renewables Are So Great for the Environment, Why Do They Keep Destroying It?
Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth
(35:52-37:33): Two NY Neighbors of Industrial Wind Farms
Examples of well contamination and water-affecting geologic changes due to industrial wind turbine construction and operation:
The Attica Reservoir, wind turbines and drinking water
Wind farms and groundwater impacts: A practice guide to EIA and Planning considerations
Wind turbines and water wells: opinion
EPA charges tied to Chatham-Kent wind projects
(34:15-34:37): Public opposes Villenova town board’s 600 ft turbines
Mercury pollution caused by large-scale concrete production such as that involved in embedding massive industrial wind turbines deep into the earth:
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UN Environment: Mercury release from the cement industry
A mercury loophole the size of a cement plant
“Rare Earths” and devastation of environments and communities in China:
PBS Newshour: Are Wind Turbine Rare Earth Minerals Too Costly for Environment?
Poison wind power: the shocking environmental damage they don’t want you to see
Pollution on a disastrous scale – Environmental Cost of Wind Turbine Manufacturing
(1:05-2:50): No wind turbines! Cassadaga NY residents
Industrial wind turbines increase local cost of electricity:
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(3:05-3:33): No wind turbines! Cassadaga NY residents
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Industrial wind power increases CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions (when it displaces nuclear and hydropower instead of power from fossil fuels or coal, as it normally does), worsening global warming, and is joined at the hip with the fossil fuel industry:
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Climate change: Electrical industry’s ‘dirty secret’ boosts warming
(37:30-38:05): Two NY Neighbors of Industrial Wind Farms
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