Alerts Category: Minnesota
These postings are provided to help publicize the efforts of affiliated groups and individuals related to industrial wind energy development. Most of the notices posted here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch.
A concrete example
“19,500 ft. of roads, 43,000 ft. collection system and 20 foundations in 22 days … All it took was 17,000 tons of concrete … The 20-turbine Jeffers, MN Wind Farm project began in November and was completed before the ground froze.” –Carstensen Contracting, Inc., ad in April 2009 North American Windpower
News for Minnesota Residents concerned with the regulation of Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Representative Andrew Falk is trying to unravel the County’s authority to delineate more stringent standards and abolish a key PUC Order that is used by counties through introduction of a Bill titled: H.F No. 2019. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2019.0.html&session=ls86 On 1/11/08 the Minnesota PUC issued an Order, DOCKET NO. EG-999/M-07-l-102 PUC ORDER ESTABLISHING GENERAL WIND PERMIT STANDARDS. http://energyfacilities.puc.state.mn.us/resource.html?Id=19461 This document was created in collaboration with many private citizens, local Planning and Zoning Administrators and the technical folks within the Department of Commerce. This . . .
Action alerts, Impacts, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, U.S. •
Source: Western Area Power Administration
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement planned for upper great plains wind development
Western Area Power Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Agencies) will prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to evaluate the impacts of wind energy development in Western’s Upper Great Plains Region (all or parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota), and on the Service’s grassland and wetland easements in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. The PEIS also will identify mitigation strategies, standard construction practices, and best management practices; and establish a . . .
Minnesota "Noise" Setbacks to Wind Turbines
An examination of how Minnesota’s “Model Wind Ordinance” does not conform to Minnesota’s noise regulations (Rule 7030). Download “Minnesota “Noise” Setbacks to Wind Turbines”
