VERMILION CO. (ECWd) - As reported in the North American Windpower Magazine: GE has begun investigating another blade break involving its 1.6-100 turbine and 48.7-meter blade, this time at Invenergy's California Ridge wind farm in Illinois. In addition, reports of other recent GE blade failures have surfaced,...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - “The Edgar County Airport is receiving close to $1,000,000.00 for new construction!” That was the statement (or close to it) of the airport board and the airport manager earlier this year. It kind of made us wonder why the federal government would take...
SARAH LAURIE, MD. (ECWd) - Waubra Foundation - Sarah Laurie, MD - November 25, 2013   US Justice Muse has just ruled [1] that two 1.65 VESTAS Wind Turbines in Falmouth cause “irreparable physical and psychological harm” to the health of neighbours. He has ordered that the turbines...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Early in the morning on October 29, 2013, I was driving past the airport road and decided to see if there were still items stored in the "Ag" buildings without any rent being paid. You might remember these articles: 1, 2, 3. To...
DANVILLE, IL (ECWd) - Vermilion County Board  November 12, 2013 Meeting Prior to the November meeting, the October meeting was reconvened for the purpose of approving the 2013/2014 budget and the Annual Tax levy. Without approval at this time, the county would be shut down. The budget was...
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...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Late last night, November 22, 2013, after working all day on loading, cutting, and securing the fire-bombed remains of the two airplanes at the Edgar County Airport in Paris, Illinois, a recovery crew from Wisconsin finally started moving the remaining pieces to...
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...
