U.K. (ECWd) - According to ClickGreen - GreenWeek Magazine's November 22, 2013 Issue, UK wind farms were put on alert after a series of turbine blade failures in the United States - We reported on one of those failures occuring last week in the California Ridge...
WYOMING COUNTY, N.Y. Gay's home in Varysburg is surrounded by wind turbines - 58 of them. The General Electric 1.6 megawatt turbines were recently installed by Invenergy at the Orangeville Wind Farm. Each individual blade is 160 feet long and weighs 20,000 pounds. (windaction.org) "My husband and...
OAKWOOD, IL. (ECWd) - I contacted the Director of Communications at Invenergy this morning and asked them to comment on the Oakwood Turbine failure and their plan on lighting the warning lights during power outages. They responded by declining to comment on the warning light question and...
OAKWOOD, IL. (ECWd) - Early this morning, there was a wind turbine failure at the California Ridge Wind Farm just north of Oakwood, Illinois near the Newtown Middle School location. What we do know at this time is that blade debris was thrown an unknown distance from...
Danville, IL. (ECWd) - Just when we thought we would no longer hear about the Vermilion County Nursing Home disaster, where 30+ jobs were lost after the sale of the nursing home, the situation continues to smell bad. In fact, it smells like there's a sewage...
Danville, IL. (ECWd) - You might remember our October 14, 2013 article on the Two (False) Memos in which we talked about the two memos that Mr. Donahue referenced during a county board meeting. These memos basically accused members of the public of harrassing, bullying, and speaking...
Danville, IL. (ECWd) - October 8th 2013. Vermilion County Board Meeting. Meeting video at the bottom of this post. After the embarrassment of board members walking out during the audience comments, agenda item #9, audience comments, was moved back to earlier in the meeting format. In addition,...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Video is finally uploaded for the September 10, 2013 Vermilion County Board Meeting Read this article while watching the video, it follows what is happening in the video...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - For someone who hangs his hat on literal and legal definitions of words and phrases, it is quite odd that Mr. Bill Donahue, from the Vermilion County State's Attorney's office, would stoop to saying that a citizen was being childish for questioning...
DANVILLE, IL (ECWd) - During the October 8, 2013 Vermilion County Board Meeting, the Assistant State's Attorney, Mr. Donahue, refered the board to two memos he distributed to them. One being a memo on audio and video recording, the other on his definition of "professional services"...
