Wind mill article was scare-mongering
To the Editor,
Re: the letter attempting to be a scare monger - considering the article in The Oregonian about the windmills. The Oregonian needed something to sell copy so that was a good article to provide some sensationalism. Very dramatic but the "proof" is a bit far-fetched.
First, the "1,000's" of windmills that are going to "pop up" - there are only so many ridges around here. Definitely an exaggeration of numbers.
Next is the claims of noise, vibration, trains rumbling by (probably was just that, a train. They rumble up and down both sides of the river all the time). We drove right up under the local ones and they were running full on. We couldn't hear anything - nothing. Tried them at 50 ft., 100 ft, 200 ft., no noise, no vibrations, no rumbling; especially no psychological or physical ills. I've been up close to fields of mills in California, Alberta, Colorado, Texas - all varieties, all sizes, all numbers. Guess what? Only heard the wind. The wind makes noise. It can scream, rumble, howl, whistle - lots of varieties of sound and I guarantee it doesn't take a windmill to make the wind make noise. It does it all on its own.
Hearing a windmill over a half-mile away? Get real!
Hearing a train? Yup. I can hear them down on the river and it's over a mile away.
So perhaps a little less scare mongering and a little more common sense.
There will always be naysayers, some because they're getting no money, some for the "nothing can change," some just to start trouble. Take them all with a grain of salt.
Jo Van Hoy
Goldendale |
