Hear what environmentalists are saying about clean, renewable wind energy

The Sheffield wind farm is projected to produce 115,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy annually, enough to serve over 16,000 Vermont homes—or all the homes in Caledonia County—annually, without air or water pollution and with no greenhouse gases, a leading cause of global warming.

• Wind power doesn’t pollute: Wind farms create zero air or water pollution.
• Reduced use of climate-changing fossil fuels: The energy to be produced by Sheffield Wind will be the equivalent of burning approximately 226,000 barrels of oil or 61,000 tons of coal per year yet has none of the associated toxicity, health, or cost issues.
• No greenhouse gas emissions: Based on data recently published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA) Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (E-GRID), traditional Upstate New York generation sources producing an equivalent annual amount of electric energy would emit Greenhouse Gases (GHG) consisting of nearly 52,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and 50 tons of nitrogen oxide (NO_x). To put this in perspective, 52,000 tons of CO₂ is equivalent to the annual emissions of over 9,000 cars or over 6,000 SUVs. In addition, equivalent energy production from traditional sources would produce approximately 130 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO₂). Both SO₂ and NO_x cause acid rain, which harms our lakes and rivers.
• Spaces remain open: Wind farms enable local property owners to capture a new source of clean energy without interfering with their current use of the land, helping to maintain the Northeast Kingdom’s open spaces.
• Safe for our lakes and rivers: Unlike conventional methods of electricity production, wind power uses no water and emits no mercury, a leading cause of contamination to our rivers and lakes.