Welcome

Hello, and welcome to our website!  Our goal is to provide a wealth of information and sources that discuss the issues concerning wind energy.  We chose the St. Lawrence and Cape Vincent Wind Farms as models for our discussion.  The St. Lawrence and Cape Vincent Wind Farms are located (as the name suggests) in Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York.  We settled on this choice because we believe the St. Lawrence and Cape Vincent Wind Farm provides a clear example of current wind energy developments.  Furthermore, it is an issue that is local to the North Country community.

To say a little about us, we are a student group from SUNY Potsdam.  Our names are Mark Connelly, Megan O'Keefe, and Kevin Ohol II.  We are all Environmental Studies Majors.  Our work within our Majors has made us familiar with the growing wind energy industry and the variety of related issues.  For more information, feel free to visit our About Us page on the left hand side of the page.

To assess the wind energy debate, we present summaries of research on five main topics: energy produced, permits required, bat and avian species, health and safety, and property values. We present objective summaries of strong research in order to condense the information provided in published articles, documents, and journals.  We stress that it is not our goal to persuade any opinions by presenting these summaries. We merely intend to present the published material in a concise, yet comprehensible manner.
We encourage visitors to explore our website and the material we present.  Furthermore, we encourage persons interested in wind energy in general to not limit their research to the scope of our website.  Rather, we hope our website will provide a stepping stone for those interested to begin, or continue, their research concerning wind energy.