filed: January 24, 2025 • North Carolina
Impact of Timbermill’s wind turbines: Light pollution angers locals
Credit: Miles Layton · January 23, 2025 · albemarleobserver.news ~~
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Residents in Bertie County expressed their frustrations over the blinding lights of Timbermill’s wind turbines at a meeting with NC legislators. Approximately 60 attendees called for action against the lights’ disruptive nature, which blink 81,000 times per hour, significantly impacting local tranquility.
Around 60 very upset people attended a meeting featuring NC Senator Bobby Hanig, R-Currituck, and NC Representative Ed Goodwin, R-Chowan, to share their concerns Tuesday evening at the Occano Pool House in Bertie County.
That pool house has a commanding view of the Chowan River. As the night sky grew darker during the meeting, this ink stained wretch looked out the bay windows to see a long line of the wind turbines’ orangish/red lights blinking nonstop across the river. OMG – those lights are insane!
To say those lights are terrible is a gross understatement – those annoying lights blink 81,000 times an hour, according to folks at the meeting. This is not the kind of light pollution that one can ignore as if it were a radio tower topped off with a red light high in the sky.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2025/01/24/impact-of-timbermills-wind-turbines-light-pollution-angers-locals/
