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Wind Turbines – What Should Be a New Auto Industry
May. 22 | from http://www.manitowoccranes.com/site/GB/NREN20091030a.aspx - also a lesson in getting the camera lined up correctly, as that is not a leaning tower of Pisa knockoff. It actually stands 113 meters tall (370 feet) and if it is not vertical it won't...
Visiting Author Inspires Young Stewards for the Planet
May. 12 | By David Kowalski Lynne Cherry, a children's author, illustrator and filmmaker, visited Windermere and Smallwood Elementary Schools this week to interact with the children and encourage them to explore Nature through observation, drawing and writing. Cherry...
The Fracking Window
May. 3 | One of the new RE Power 2.05 MW MM92 wind turbines installed by Everpower at their Howard Wind Farm in Steuben County, NY (so far 25 installed, two more to go). It sure beats looking at a pontification advertisement by noted horse admirer and local...
Senator Grisanti’s bill to reclassify the Buffalo River as an inland waterway passes the New York State Senate
May. 1 | Senator Mark Grisanti (R-60) today announced passage in the New York Senate of his bill S-6646 that amends the executive law to make the Buffalo River classified an inland waterway paving the way for the application of federal funds to assist with the...
Carbon (Dioxide Pollution) Pricing – A Fast Road to Nowhere
Apr. 22 | One of the winners in this year's European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) photo-contest. The EWEA 2012 annual conference was just held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was a big success by most accounts. This picture is from http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=917...
Carbon (Dioxide Pollution) Pricing – A Fast Road to Nowhere
Apr. 22 | One of the winners in this year's European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) photo-contest. The EWEA 2012 annual conference was just held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was a big success by most accounts. This picture is from http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=917...
Grisanti repair program for pesticide containers signed into law by governor
Apr. 11 | Senator Mark Grisanti (R-60) today announced that Governor Cuomo has signed into law Grisanti’s legislation which extends for two years the provision of the environmental conservation law that allows merchants in the State of New York to implement...
French Lesson
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Senator Grisanti announces legislative package aimed at protecting our environment with regards to hydrofracking
Apr. 4 | As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation for these last sixteen months, I have advanced a number of reforms aimed at protecting the environment, from sponsoring New York’s Water Withdrawal legislation that ensures compliance...
Fukushima – It’s Been a Year since "Oops" Had an Exclamation Mark
Mar. 10 | From the good folks at the Union (of Concerned Scientists): http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/safety/fukushima-anniversary-report.html?utm_source=SP&utm_medium=link2&utm_campaign=fukushima-anniversary And the GOOD news...
A CLEAN-FIT Read
Feb. 24 | The recent additions to the Steelwinds site - six new Clipper C96 units known officially as "Steelwinds 2" in Lackawanna and Hamburg. Picture from http://www.buffalonews.com/business/local-business/article736169.ece. At the "christening", lots of positive...
New York State pursues uniform, national ballast water requirements
Feb. 22 | In comments filed today with the Environmental Protection Agency, DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens indicated that New York will pursue a uniform, national ballast water standard that will leave in place the EPA’s current standards in New York for the...
2011 – The World of Wind part 2
Feb. 21 | From http://www.power-technology.com/projects/hornsreefwind/images/2-offshore-wind-farm.jpg - a picture of the Horns Rev 1 wind farm on a rare sunny day in the array.IntroductionThe Horns Rev 1 wind farm was completed on December 11, 2002 - at 160 MW,...
Climate Ignorance
Feb. 15 | From http://citizentom.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hummer-gas-prices_jpg_w300h300.jpgAnd yeah, it's a "two-fer" - using all that gasoline to drive a few tons of metal around for one relatively tiny person by comparison not only cranks up demand for imported...
The Natural Gas Trickster Problem
Feb. 9 | From http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_b87ec744-d1ea-11e0-abad-001cc4c03286.htmlMany decades ago, natural gas (methane, fossil fuel form, alias Ngas) was proposed as the fossil fuel "bridge" between coal and a nuclear future. But then that nuclear future...
Wanted: A Mission for 1.8 Million USA Engineers
Feb. 5 | An Enercon E126 x 7.5 MW wind turbine, installed and operating in Austria (one of a pair of them). Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockenbauer/6702504217/. Even though this turbine model is a few years old, it is still one of the most advanced...
Proposed LIPA Feed-In Tariff Bills/Pilot Project
Jan. 25 | A PV system on the property of the US Energy lab at Brookhaven, on Long Island, NYfrom http://www.lipower.org/company/powering/solar-bp.htmlIntroductionAssemblyman Fred Thiele (Independent, AD2) who caucuses with the Democrats (used to be a Republican...
Your NY Electric Bill Explained – And What It Means
Jan. 20 | IntroductionIt now can be logically argued that we now have less freedom (= less rights) than even a decade ago - for example, via indefinite detention, "legal" assassination of Americans, (lack of) on-line privacy, the "death" of "habeus corpus" and...
Lake Ontario Idea
Jan. 18 | See http://www.principlepowerinc.com/products/windfloat.html for detailsThis is a picture of a big deployment of wind turbines in deep waters, sometime in the future. So far, just one of these units has been deployed off of the coast of Portugal, in deep...
Calling for independent investigation of Niagara County SPCA; move toward "no kill" methods for sheltering animals
Jan. 17 | http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/calling-independent-investigation-niagara-county-spca-move-toward-no-kill-methods-shel
Senator Mark Grisanti named recipient of William B. Hoyt Environmental Excellence Award
Jan. 8 | New York State Senator Grisanti was named the winner of the 2012 William B. Hoyt Environmental Excellence Award for his outstanding work on behalf of conservation and the environment. The full award letter can be viewed by clicking here. “Typically...
Macroeconomics, WNY and Wind Power
Jan. 5 | Graph by Jerome Guillet, from http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2011/12/19/121933/16 Long Introduction Macroeconomics is so important, and generally so misunderstood, especially by right wing economists and associated business types. But rather than launch...
NY New Years Resolution – Real Wealth Creating Jobs, En Masse
Dec. 26 | from http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/windmaps/offshore_states.asp?stateab=ny - your tax dollars at workIntroductionThere are many famous sayings with respect to "too late". A classic is "shutting the barn door after the horse has got out". Or "better...