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Overlooked Environmental Cost of a Wind Generation Portfolio
Author: Wolverton, Lincoln; and Bliven, Raymond
“Accounting for energy, it is likely that there is no significant environmental difference between a resource portfolio adding wind generation and one adding high-efficiency combined-cycle gas turbines. It is also likely that the wind-based portfolio results in little reduction, if any, in the need for fossil fuels and therefore little reduction in the exposure to their price swings and environmental consequences. That is, the emissions and fossil-fuel impacts of a wind-based portfolio appear little better than a non-wind-based portfolio. …
“Having to . . .
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Taylor Prefiled Testimony
Author: Taylor, David V.
Taylor Prefiled Testimony In the Matter of Application No. 2003-01 SAGEBRUSH POWER PARTNERS, LLC; KITTITAS VALLEY WIND POWER PROJECT
Download “BEFORE THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ENERGY FACILITY SITE EVALUATION COUNCIL”
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Kittitas County — Desert Claim Wind Power Project — Final EIS — Health
Author: Zilkha Renewable Energy
“The existing conditions and uses in and near the proposed project area include some identifiable mechanical and electromechanical hazards …”
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Kittitas County Desert Claim Wind Power Project Final EIS — Recreation
Author: Zilkha Renewable Energy
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Kittitas County Chapter 3 ““ Affected Environment, Environmental
Desert Claim Wind Power Project Impacts and Mitigation Measures — Recreation-
Final EIS
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Kittitas County Desert Claim Wind Power Project Final EIS — Noise
Author: Zilkha Renewable Energy
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Kittitas County, Washington State Wind project Final EIS — catagory: Noise
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Local Reaction to the Eco-Northwest "Economic" Study of Wind Farms
Author: Anon.
Critique from the Kittitas Valley, Washington.
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