cuz you know, those turbines could be mistaken fer terrorists

[Guest guest]

FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms

 

The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down work on at least 15 Midwest

wind farms pending ... wait for it ... more research. Last year, Sen. John

Warner (R-Va.), a critic of the Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound,

added an amendment to a military spending bill directing the Defense Department

to study wind turbines' effect on small-aircraft radar signals. Since then,

despite the fact that dozens of wind projects currently operate within sight of

radar systems and have caused no discernable problems, all proposed turbines

within the scope of military radar have been blocked. The stalled projects

include an Illinois wind farm that would have been the nation's largest. " Until

the potential effects can be quantified and possible mitigation techniques

developed, it is prudent to temporarily postpone wind-turbine construction in

areas where the ability of these long-range radars that protect our country

might be compromised, " says a Pentagon spokesflack. That sounds not-at-all

promising.

 

 

straight to the source: Chicago Tribune, Michael Hawthorne, 31 May 2006

 

 

straight to the source: Peoria Journal Star, Andrea Frampton and Erinn

Deshinsky, 02 Jun 2006

 

 

I don't wanna be no war hero

Don't want a movie made about me

I don't wanna be no war hero

Just get away from the madness I see