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Up to September 2005


October

17-Oct-2005 – (News)  Added New Research Explains Wind Turbine Noise Problem (from Renewable Energy Foundation website, Sept. 20, 2004)
17-Oct-2005 – (News)  Added Malone Bans Large Scale Wind Projects (from WNBZ AM 1210 website, Oct. 12, 2005)
17-Oct-2005 – (News)  Added The National Academies study…environmental impacts of wind-energy projects (The NAS Current Projects List, June 24, 2005)
17-Oct-2005 – (Stories)  Added Leadership Requires Vision...  by the Springwater Preservation Committee
17-Oct-2005 – (Stories)  Added Don’t Buy My House – with picture! by Tom Dey, Springwater, NY
12-Oct-2005 – (Links) Added Wind Turbine Project Threatens Lake Erie Migration (article by Gil Randell, Originally Hawk Migration Studies, February 2005)
12-Oct-2005 – (News)  Added Windmill project destroying Tug Hill's beauty (The Watertown Daily Times, Oct. 6, 2005)
05-Oct-2005 – (News)  Added complete DRAFT of Proposed Ordinance Regulating Wind Energy Conversion Systems (Town of Springwater, Draft #3)
05-Oct-2005 – (Stories)  Added A reply to Mr. Toland’s letter to the editor of the Genesee Country Express by Bob Radell, Springwater, NY
05-Oct-2005 – (Stories)  Added Letter to the editor… (submitted by Kerry Lipp, Prattsburg, NY)
05-Oct-2005 – (Stories)  Added cartoon Supervisor Walker’s intended site of the first wind turbinesubmitted by Laura Curtis, Springwater

September

25-Sep-2005 – (Stories)  Added editorial on the National Academy of Science Directive on Wind Energy
25-Sep-2005 – (Links) Added link to Questioning the faith of wind power (article by David Roberson. Originally published in the Shelburne Falls (Mass.) Independent)
July

27-Jul-2005 – (Contact Us)  Added information on how to acquire “No Wind Turbines” signs

18-Jul-2005 – (Stories)  Added editorial The Sham goes on
June

23-Jun-2005 – (Stories)  Added editorial The Sham of It
23-Jun-2005 – (Meetings)  Added brief update of the Springwater Town Board Meeting (Monday, June 20th)
07-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added link Town rejects wind-farm halt (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 7, 2005)
07-Jun-2005 – (About Us)  Added “Why a Moratorium is needed…”
07-Jun-2005 – (Meetings)  Added brief update of the Springwater Town Board Meeting (Monday, June 6th)
07-Jun-2005 – (Meetings)  Added the date/time of the next Springwater Town Board Meeting (Monday, June 20th, 7:00p.m.)
07-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added Bitter feud; Wind farm controversy is taking its toll on small town politics (Livingston County News – May 19, 2005)
01-Jun-2005 – (Links) Added link to Save Upstate NY (concerned citizens and landowners in the Finger Lakes)
01-Jun-2005 – (Stories)  Added a letter to our state and local officials from Warren and Jean Doremus
01-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added link Tom Golisano fighting wind farms  (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 29, 2005)
01-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added Wind farms not appropriate for Finger Lakes region - by B. Thomas Golisano (The Evening Tribune, May 23, 2005)
01-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added Springwater Wind Farm Meeting sheds little new data (Genesee Country Express, April 28, 2005)
01-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added Wind Resistance - Springwater residents want to squash plan to harness wind energy (Livingston County News - February 10, 2005)
01-Jun-2005 – (News)  Added Springwater wind farm project could start next year (Genesee Country Express, Oct. 5, 2003)
01-Jun-2005 – (Meetings)  Added the date/time of the next Springwater Town Board Meeting (Monday, June 6th, 7:00p.m.)
May

17-May-2005 – (Meetings)  Added an update on the Public Hearing Meeting held Sunday, May 15th
17-May-2005 – (News)  Added article Wind farm plan takes a licking in Livingston County (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 16, 2005)
17-May-2005 – (Links) Added link to Issues and Concerns for Wind Power in Highland County (Virginia) (numerous articles and links relevant to wind power)
08-May-2005 – (Stories)  Added a letter entitled Windfarm Windfall? from Bob Radell
05-May-2005 – (Meetings)  Added a summary of the May 2nd, Springwater Town Board Meeting which includes the format of the public hearing (Past Meetings)

05-May-2005 – (Meetings)  Added a response to Bill Moore’s disregard for resident’s concerns at the April 23rd public information meeting
03-May-2005 – (Meetings)  Added an update on the Public Hearing Meeting and a form letter to the Town Board opposing the Bishop Wind Farm

03-May-2005 – (News)  Added article Cornell halts planning for wind project (The Ithaca Journal, April 30, 2005)
03-May-2005 – (News)  Added link to County denies EnXco wind farm (The Daily Record, Ellensburg, WA.,  March 25, 2005)
April

27-Apr-2005 – (Meetings)  Added a summary of the April 23rd public information meeting and a tentative date (May 15th) for the public hearing

27-Apr-2005 – (News)  Added a response to the Rochester D&C article
27-Apr-2005 – (News)  Added link to the Rochester D&C coverage of the April 23rd town meeting “Wind power talks aren’t a breeze

27-Apr-2005 – (Meetings)  As a service to our site visitors, recent Town Board Meeting Minutes have been posted

27-Apr-2005 – (Links) Added links to the article The Dark Sides of Wind Power
23-Apr-2005 – (Stories)  Added a letter from Sancho Panza “In Response to PPM Atlantic Renewable’s Valley News Ad
18-Apr-2005 – (News)  Added the April 17th newsletter
18-Apr-2005 – (News)  Added link to recent Rochester D&C article  “Anxiety Over Wind Power Plan” (in Springwater)

18-Apr-2005 – (Stories)  Added a letter from Springwater Bob “How Widgets are Made

16-Apr-2005 – (Meetings)  Additional details on the April 23rd “Public Information Meeting” posted on “Meetings” page

16-Apr-2005 – (Pictures)  Added links to our wind farm picture gallery

16-Apr-2005 – (Links) Added links to: South Bristol (NY) Views & Wind Energy Economics in the State of New York
16-Apr-2005 – (Wind Power)  Added additional graphic comparing wind turbine to Boeing 747 on “Wind Power” page
16-Apr-2005 – (News)  Added links to Wind farms make people sick who live up to a mile away & Wind farms feel the chill of public rejection

09-Apr-2005 – (Meetings)  The date, time and place of an important upcoming “Public Information Meeting” posted on “Meetings” page

09-Apr-2005 – (Stories)  Added a letter from Jon Goyette of Springwater titled “Just a Note

09-Apr-2005 – (News)  Added the March 24th newsletter

03-Apr-2005 – (Pictures)  Added additional picture (a rotor blade in transit) on “Pictures” page

March

30-Mar-2005 – (Links) Added links to: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/mb/springwaterscenic, http://www.aweo.org/ & ”The Meadowlark” 

30-Mar-2005 – (Meetings) Added additional info about the SPC memorandum presented at the March 21st meeting on “Meetings” page

29-Mar-2005 – (Home Page) Added ability to subscribe (via email) to receive all future updates to this website

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