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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.
Cohocton Wind Watch Seeks Wind Industry Public Accountability
Cohocton Wind Watch is gratified by the decision of New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to launch a formal investigation into the business practices of First Wind/UPC Wind and Noble Environmental Power. This groundbreaking inquiry includes conduct of Public Officials and evidence of Wind Industry Anti-Competitive Practices.
CWW has compiled comprehensive evidence, volumes of empirical data and a paper trail of proof that public officials, developers and their agents and leaseholders have acted collectively to defraud NYS. With this AG . . .
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Environment, Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
JCA encamina DIA-Final del proyecto Windmar a pesar de graves irregularidades
Guayanilla, PR — La Administración de Asuntos de Energía anunció el 27 de junio de 2008 mediante aviso público que la Junta de Calidad Ambiental (JCA) emitió ese día una Resolución Final para aprobar la Declaración de Impacto Ambiental Final (DIA-F) del proyecto industrial de molinos de viento propuesto por la empresa Windmar, en terrenos colindantes con la Reserva de la Biósfera de Guánica y el Estuario de la Bahía de Guayanilla. En dicha resolución, la JCA otorga 20 . . .
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Den Brook appeal granted for 24th and 25th July 2008
One of the key concerns of the residents who formed the Den Brook Judicial Review Group has been that noise issues relating to the proposed Den Brook Valley Wind Farm were not fairly addressed. The data used by RES, the wind farm developers, to determine noise levels was never made public.
Finally after 3 years of lobbying, and a hearing at the High Court in March 2008, a few weeks ago RES released the background noise data, and professional experts commissioned . . .
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Important Precedent to Assist Us All
Mid-Devon’s Den Brook wind farm saga has been going on for more than 4 years now. Our Judicial Review team are appalled by what they’ve recently discovered and are more than ever determined to try and achieve another important precedent to assist all who are, or who are likely to be, affected by wind turbine noise.
Permission has been given to appeal the recent high court decision and we go to the Court of Appeal in only three weeks time, on . . .
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Environment, News, Ontario, Press releases, Publications
Source: Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
Minister of Tourism approves Wolfe Island Wind Project
On June 4, 2008, the Minister of Tourism confirmed the province’s approval for the Wolfe Island Wind Project. Premier Dalton McGuinty asked the Minister to step in when the Environment Minister declared a conflict-of-interest on May 29, 2008.
Controversy over the Wolfe Island Wind Project centres on the location of a handful of the 86-wind turbines that Canadian Renewable Energy Corporation hopes to build on the island later this year.
The northwest part of Wolfe Island contains designated Important Bird Areas and . . .
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Action alerts, Press releases, Scotland, U.K., Wildlife
Source: David Bellamy and Mark Duchamp
Birdies bye bye
We have received the following message from Israel:
“Following a press release last week it seems that several of the leading industrial companies in Israel are going to enter the wind business. These are deeply connected to leading politicians. Our ministry of environment is quite hopeless. The future seems bleak.”
From Gibraltar, from Sicily, from the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and now from Israel, day by day more bad news comes in from the main bird migration flyways of the . . .
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Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
¡Exitosa! Vigilia por la conservación de Punta Ventanas Cerro Toro y Punta Verraco, en Guayanilla
[Success! Vigil for conservation]
Guayanilla – La Vigilia celebrada el pasado viernes 14 de en la cancha bajo techo del parque del Bo. Indios de Guayanilla, cumplió con las expectativas de la Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco. A pesar de que muchas personas no pudieron llegar desde el área metropolitana como la Senadora Maria de Lourdes Santiago y miembros de otras organizaciones ambientales además de otras en su carácter particular que se dirigían hacia Guayanilla, como consecuencia del accidente ocurrido . . .
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Environment, Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
El contrato entre la AEE y Windmar: un golpe al bolsillo del pueblo de Puerto Rico
[The contract between AEE and Windmar: a shock to the pocketbook of the people of Puerto Rico.]
Guayanilla – Sin permisos, sin vistas públicas para atender la Declaración de Impacto Ambiental Final, sin informe de las vistas públicas celebradas por la Junta de Planificación en junio y julio del pasado año, tanto el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica Jorge Rodríguez y el $r. Víctor González Brahona, presidente de Windmar Renewable Energy anunciaron con bombos y platillos que firmaron . . .
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Letter to N.Y. town supervisors re: Article X threat to home rule
The New York State Coalition of Concerned Citizens have come together to get the word out to all NYS municipality officials and citizens regarding the upcoming legislation, known as Article X, and the importance of maintaining Home Rule in our state. We have sent a letter to all NYS Supervisors, encouraging them and their respective boards and citizens, to contact and inform Governor Spitzer, Senate Majority Leader Bruno, Senate Energy Chairman Wright, and all their representatives that we simply refuse . . .
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Environment, Presentations, Press releases, Puerto Rico
Source: Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco
Nueva evidencia sobre esquema para favorecer proyecto industrial de molinos en el Bosque Seco
[New evidence of scheme to favor industrial wind project in the Bosque Seco]
Guayanilla, Puerto Rico — La Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas Verraco invita a la prensa y a la ciudadanía en general a una conferencia de prensa sobre el proyecto industrial de molinos de viento propuesto en el bosque seco por la empresa Windmar, este martes, 29 de enero de 2008 a las 12:00 del medio día en el Hotel Normandie en San Juan.
[The Coalición Pro Bosque Seco Ventanas . . .