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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Reducing Bat Deaths at Wind Farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/reducing-bat-deaths-at-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Podolsky, Richard</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[With the current level of Knowledge and technology, wind developers have two options to reduce the risk of harming bats at wind farms. First, developers can site projects in areas with the lowest bat populations possible. Second, they can curtail the operation of turbines in such a way as to reduce the risk of bat deaths. Unfortunately, both siting and curtailment are costly for wind developers to implement in addition to being limited in their ability to protect bats. The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Grid]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Identifying Ramp Events</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/identifying-ramp-events/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedman, Jeffrey, and Zack, John</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Wind energy forecasters and utility operators are presented with a variety of meteorological phenomena that can affect power production and grid operations on varying temporal and spatial scales. In the short term (zero to six hours), these features can be difficult to forecast and can result in the grid operators&#8217; inability to handle rapid changes in wind speed and direction. These phenomena can also produce undesirable effects on the power grid, especially issues associated with ramp events. Although there is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind Turbine Acoustic Pollution Assessment Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbine-acoustic-pollution-assessment-requirements/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waubra Foundation</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of the many people around the world, suffering acute and chronic health damage from living near wind turbines, the Waubra Foundation demands that relevant authorities initiate: full frequency spectrum acoustic monitoring inside and outside the homes and workplaces of people claiming health problems caused by the proximity of operating wind turbines; the monitoring must be conducted for sufficient time, under the weather and wind conditions indicated by victims as being contributive to their symptoms; measurements must specifically include, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Property values]]></category>
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		<title>&#8216;Detrimental Amenity Effects&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/detrimental-amenity-effects/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>South Gippsland Shire Council</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[South Gippsland Shire Council Minutes, 7 November 2007 Mirboo North C.8 BUFFALO WARATAH ROAD, TARWIN LOWER (LOT 1 ON TP805426P) – SUBDIVISION (REFERENCE: 2006/151) [pp. 34-39] &#160;&#8230; MOVED: Cr Newton SECONDED: Cr Hutchinson-Brooks THAT NOTIFIES THE VICTORIAN CIVIL AND COUNCIL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL THAT IT OFFERS NO OBJECTION TO THE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION OF THE LAND INTO 4 LOTS, AT BUFFALO WARATAH ROAD, TARWIN LOWER (LOT 1 ON TP805426P) SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:&#160;&#8230; 2. PRIOR TO THE ISSUE OF A STATEMENT .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Impacts of wind farms on land surface temperature</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impacts-of-wind-farms-on-land-surface-temperature/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zhou, Liming; Tian, Yuhong; Baidya Roy, Somnath; Thorncroft, Chris; Bosart, Lance; and Hu, Yuanlong</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[[abstract] The wind industry in the United States has experienced a remarkably rapid expansion of capacity in recent years and this fast growth is expected to continue in the future. While converting wind’s kinetic energy into electricity, wind turbines modify surface–atmosphere exchanges and the transfer of energy, momentum, mass and moisture within the atmosphere. These changes, if spatially large enough, may have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate. Here we present observational evidence for such impacts based .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noise]]></category>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Assessment of low-frequency noise from wind turbines in Maastricht</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/assessment-of-low-frequency-noise-from-wind-turbines-in-maastricht/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Møller, Henrik; Pedersen, Steffen; Kloster Staunstsrup, Jan; and Sejer Pedersen, Christian</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Sound and noise can be characterized by their frequency. The range from 20 Hz to 20 kHz (20 cycles per second to 20,000 cycles per second) is usually called the normal hearing range or the audio frequency range. Sound with frequencies above 20 kHz is denoted ultrasound and cannot be heard by humans. Sound with frequencies below 20 Hz is denoted infrasound. It is usually understood that also infrasound cannot be heard, but this is wrong. Infrasound is audible .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Five questions to ask before signing a wind-energy lease</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/five-questions-to-ask-before-signing-a-wind-energy-lease/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morrison, Liz</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[Leasing your farmland for wind power offers another source of income &#8212; one that lets you continue farming the land. But wind agreements create complex legal and financial issues, and affect your property rights far into the future, says Jennifer Jambor-Delgado, a staff attorney at Minnesota-based Farmers&#8217; Legal Action Group. Because of this complexity &#8212; and the enormous sums of money and time involved in a wind project &#8212; you need competent legal advice from someone well-versed in wind power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Trees, Forests and Wind Turbines — A Manufacturer&#8217;s View</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/trees-forests-and-wind-turbines-a-manufacturers-view/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Schou Nielsen, Bo; and Stiesdal, Henrik</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[High shear (different wind speeds at different heights) creates problems with power curves. A 2.3 MW with 82.4 m rotor and 60 m hub height has 3.5% less apparent power at 10 m/s if sited near a 20 m forest with m = 0.25 than if sited in open terrain with m = 0.14 (where m is shear). Bonus uses following rules of thumb for evaluation of possibility of power curve measurement: Shear not to exceed 0.20 This shear expected .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noise]]></category>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Environmental Issues: Noise</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/environmental-issues-noise/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>California Energy Commission</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[—“Wind Energy Development in California: Status Report”, April 1985, California Energy Commission report Both audible and low frequency impulse noise can be produced by operating WTGs. The noises produced and their impacts will differ according to machine design and size, and site specific characteristics such as topography. Noise has not been a primary issue where wind farms are in isolated locations. However, some counties are beginning to receive complaints about noise where wind development is occurring near populated areas. Alameda .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulations]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Review of NSW Draft Wind Farm Guidelines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/review-of-nsw-draft-wind-farm-guidelines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Acoustic Group</dc:creator>
		<description><![CDATA[EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In late 2011 The Acoustic Group performed a desk-top review of the acoustic documents comprising the acoustic assessment for the Flyers Creek Wind Farm and conducted preliminary sound monitoring at an existing operational wind farm (the Capital Wind Farm) which was approved in New South Wales on the basis of similar analyses, guidelines and reports to that provided for the Flyers Creek Wind Farm. The assessment found deficiencies and inadequate information in the acoustic assessment of the Flyers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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