Wind farms vs. neighbors - Solar, Wind and Land: Conflicts in Renewable Energy Development - page 45

77 Jeffrey M. Ellenbogan, et al., Wind Turbine Health Impact Study at ES 4.3
(January 2012).
78 Wahl & Giguere, Ice Shedding and Ice Throw (2006) (citing Temmelin, et al.,
Wind Energy Production in Cold Climate (2007).
79 Kate Galbraith, Ice-Tossing Turbines: Myth or Hazard? , New York Times Green
Blog (Dec. 9, 2008), available at http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/
ice-tossing-turbines-myth-or-hazard/ (last visited June 20, 2012).
80 Id.
81 Wahl & Giguere, Ice Shedding and Ice Throw (2006).
82 Kate Galbraith, Winter Cold Puts a Chill on Energy Renewables , New York
Times B1 (Dec. 26, 2008), available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/
business/26winter.html (last visited June 20, 2012).
83 See NASA's Imagine the Universe!: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Introduction,
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, Goddard Space
Flight Center, http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.
html (last visited Feb. 25, 2011) (comparing and contrasting radio waves,
light, microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, and other types of electromagnetic
radiation).
84 Wind Energy Siting Handbook § 5.9 (2008).
85 William Kates, Wind Farms Interfering with Weather Radar in N.Y. , USA Today
(Oct. 13, 2009), available at www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2009-10-
13-wind-farms-weather-radar_N.htm (last visited June 22, 2012).
86 See generally Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, The
Effect of Windmill Farms on Military Readiness at 52 (2006), available at
www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/windfarmreport.pdf (last visited Feb. 24, 2014).
87 See Donald Zillman, M. E. Walta, & I. D. G. Castiella, More than Tilting at
Windmills , 49 Washburn L.J. 1, 17-18 (2009).
88 Id.
89 Structures that are shorter than 200 feet can sometimes necessitate the filing
of a Notice of Proposed Construction when situated near an airport. Roger
L. Freeman & Ben Kass, Siting Wind Energy Facilities on Private Land in
Colorado: Common Legal Issues, 39 Colo. Law. 43, 49 (May 2010)
90 Id.
91 See Kate Galbraith, Gulf Coast Wind Farms Spring Up, As Do Worries , New
York Times (Feb. 10, 2011) (suggesting that the “Navy would like wind
farm construction to stay outside a 30-mile radius of its facilities”). See also
Donald Zillman, et al., More than Tilting at Windmills, 49 Washburn L.J. 1,
19 (2009) (stating that, in 2006, the Department of Defense “began issuing
notices of 'presumed hazard' to wind project contractors … for sites within 60
nautical miles of long-range radar installations”).
92 Leora Broydo Vestel, Wind Turbine Projects Run Into Resistance , New York
Times B1 (Aug. 27, 2010).
93 Scott Learn, Air Force Concerns about Radar Interference Stall Huge Oregon
Wind Energy Farm , OregonLive.com (Apr. 14, 2010), available at www.
oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/04/air_force_concerns_about_
radar.html (last visited June 22, 2012).
94 Id.
95 Juliet Eilperin, Pentagon Objections Hold Up Oregon Wind Farm , Washington
Post (Apr. 15, 2012), available at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2010/04/15/AR2010041503120.html (last visited June 22, 2012).
96 Scott Learn, Pentagon Drops Opposition to Big Oregon Wind Farm , OregonLive.
com (Apr. 30, 2010), available at www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.
ssf/2010/04/air_forces_drops_opposition_to.html (last visited June 22, 2012).