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| 5/12/2007 |
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| Story Name |
| GOING GREEN FANNING THE DEBATE |
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|STARKS, JOYCE MANLEY |
|18:48:40 |
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|18:48:40 DAVID MUIR |
|(OC) Tonight, in our series 'Going Green," fanning the debate over a |
|fast-growing form of renewable energy, wind power. When you hear the word |
|windmill, you probably imagine something quaint, something picturesque. |
|But some say today's windmills are anything but a pretty picture. ABC's |
|Bill Redeker reports now from Palm Springs. |
|18:48:58 BILL REDEKER, ABC NEWS |
|(VO) Palm Springs, the legendary California oasis, home to celebrities, |
|terrific weather, abundant golf. It's also one of the windiest places on |
|Earth. The perfect place for power-producing windmills, 3,000 of them, |
|generating enough of electricity to light up a city the size of San |
|Francisco. |
|18:49:18 JOHN WHITE, DIRECTOR |
|We have the potential for 20% of our nation's energy to be produced from |
|wind. |
|18:49:24 BILL REDEKER |
|(VO) In fact, there are already windmills, or turbines, as they're |
|called, in 40 states. But this rapidly growing source of energy is |
|leaving a controversial footprint. |
|18:49:34 LES STARKS, HOMEOWNER |
|They wanna go into neighborhoods where people live and say, 'Oh, gee, |
|we're making clean energy, what's your problem with that?" Well, that |
|really doesn't wash. |
|18:49:45 BILL REDEKER |
|(VO) It doesn't wash for homeowner, Les Starks, because he lives at the |
|foot of a mountain, where about 50 400-foot windmills may soon radically |
|alter the landscape. |
|18:49:56 BILL REDEKER |
|(OC) That brings to mind the old saying, 'Not in my backyard." |
|18:49:59 LES STARKS |
|Yeah. This isn't just my backyard, this is the national monument. |
|18:50:03 BILL REDEKER |
|(VO) It's a problem communities are facing across the country, a choice |
|between renewable energy and natural surroundings. Massachusetts |
|residents, including Senator Ted Kennedy, just suffered a setback in their |
|battle to block off-shore windmills like these near Cape Cod. |
|18:50:20 JOYCE MANLEY, HOMEOWNER |
|They're gonna start down there and come all the way along the road. |
|18:50:25 BILL REDEKER |
|(VO) Joyce Manley has been tilting at Palm Springs windmills for years, |
|but she hasn't always won. A wind farm was built just across the street |
|from her home, a particular nuisance at night. |
|18:50:36 JOYCE MANLEY |
|Seeing the lights, and they don't stop. They're going all the time, |
|daytime white, nighttime red. And then the sound, any time the windmills |
|are turning, if the wind is blowing, you've got a hum or a drone, or a |
|whooshing sound, depending on the speed of the wind. |
|18:50:54 BILL REDEKER |
|(OC) Windmills are not always that productive. For example, although |
|the wind is now gusting up to 50 miles per hour, some of these giant |
|turbines have been shut down and are not generating electricity. Because |
|if they spin too fast, they'll simply burn out. |
|18:51:09 BILL REDEKER |
|(VO) Critics say wind energy is unreliable. There are days when there's |
|no wind at all, no electricity, and that supporters of WIND FARMS are just |
|blowing hot air. |
|18:51:19 LES STARKS |
|We're gonna have to decide if we wanna put, protect the American |
|landscape or not, or just turn it to an - industrial zone. |
|18:51:26 BILL REDEKER |
|(VO) A decision on whether windmills should be built on top of these |
|mountains is expected later this year. Until then, these turbines will |
|continue to fan the debate. Bill Redeker, ABC News, Palm Springs. |
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