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		<title>Farmers can appeal power line</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of southern Alberta farmers Thursday won the right to a full Alberta Court of Appeal hearing on the fate of the proposed Montana Alberta Tie merchant electrical transmission line.
Mr. Justice Peter Martin of Calgary, in a hearing designed to decide if the landowners should be given leave to appeal the Alberta Energy and Utility Board licence for the MATL line, ruled the group and its lawyer, Scott Stenbeck, earned leave to appeal to .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Carmangay area residents in favour of wind power project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Lennon could think of nothing wrong with a proposed wind power project near the village.
Greengate Power Corporation held an open house at Carmangay School on June 24 to allow the public to see diagrams of the project and talk to company representatives.
“I can’t think of anything that would bother me,” she said during an interview.
Anything that keeps companies from taking non-renewable resources out of the ground is a good thing, she said.
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		<title>Altalink proposal sparks MD debate</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was electricity in the air when an Altalink representative walked into a Municipal District of Pincher Creek council meeting on Monday.
Currently, Altalink has a preferred route for its proposed 240Kv line that will connect Pincher’s future wind farms to the grid. That route runs from Goose Lake, just west of Pincher Creek to Lethbridge through Piikani and Blood lands. If Altalink doesn’t receive approval from the two tribes, company representative, Conrad Journault said there .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Whither Windmills&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[They seem to spring up from the green fields overnight, these turreted Cyclops, escaped from some alien war of the worlds, spinning their 30-metre-long blades into the wind.
Such aerospace monoliths have no literal connections with the ancient hills and mountains of southwest Alberta; they are stranger than science fiction to pygmy horses and horsemen huddling below their wings. These are the outriders of a coming invasion. One day they may even straddle the mountaintops in .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Turmoil over power line upgrade; &#39;Nobody seems to like these towers,&#39; transmission official says</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonita Colling-Holland says the electromagnetic energy that emits from the transmission line that crosses her property near Eckville is so intense it will light a fluorescent light in her hands.
The 29-year-old mother of two says that&#8217;s enough to worry her that the lines may pose a health risk to her 10-month-old daughter and four-year-old son.
&#8220;It scares me,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to prove an electromagnetic field is dangerous, but I am not willing to take .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Canada&#39;s biggest CO2 emitter invests &#36;123M in wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 18:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[TransAlta Corp., Canada&#8217;s biggest carbon-dioxide emitter, plans to add 66 megawatts to its Summerview wind farm in southern Alberta to meet rising demand for power.
The cost of the expansion is estimated at &#36;123-million, the Calgary-based company said Tuesday in a statement. Construction is scheduled to start next year and power generation in the first quarter of 2010.
A growing population and increased industrial demand, partly from rising tar-sands output in Alberta, are forecast to boost electricity .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Windfarm updates expansion plans</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changes to plans for Summerview windfarm’s second phase, should make the project a little more palatable for those anti-wind.
“We’re putting in fewer turbines than planned, but using a different technology,” explained Jason Edworthy, director of stakeholder relations for Transalta Wind, at an open house held last week.
Instead of using V80 turbines as originally proposed, TransAlta will be expanding the windfarm using V90s, which are larger, but with a bigger megawatt output. As a result fewer .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>AESO nears verdict on wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 09:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) is conducting another round of open houses throughout southern Alberta as it nears a critical stage in its 10-year planning study to expand wind power in the region.
AESO set up an open house at the Nanton community centre May 14 to gather feedback from local residents, which will be used in determining the direction wind power and transmission line development takes in the future.
In November, AESO held similar open .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power being considered</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 10:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several businesses are interested in tapping into the County of Grande Prairie’s wind potential to generate electricity, the county’s economic development officer said last week in his report to county council.
It could take one to three years before a windmill appears in the county’s landscape but, if it goes ahead, it would be a first for the county, possibly even for northwestern Alberta.
Walter Paszkowski presented county council with a map showing the key potential sites .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind-power projects proliferate as market restrictions ease</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of proposed Alberta wind projects has dramatically increased since the province removed restrictions on the sale of wind power last fall.
The Alberta Electric System Operator now has applications from companies hoping to generate 10,500 megawatts of wind power, said Neil Millar, vice-president of transmission.
To put that into perspective, Alberta&#8217;s record electricity demand, set one January evening earlier this year, was 9,710 megawatts.
The electric system operator is forecasting a need for an additional 5,000 .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power for Buffalo Lake scanned</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large windmill could generate almost enough power to run the Buffalo Lake pumping station, according to data just presented to the Buffalo Lake Management Team.
A year-long study into the possibility of running the station with wind power found that a 1.5 megawatt turbine on an 80 metre-high windmill would generate about 2.9 gigawatts of power a year. That is slightly less than what the team had hoped to find, Al Corbett, manager of water .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Economic benefits, costs of MATL line debated</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not since the Farm Bill that idled thousands of acres of dry cropland in the 1980s, has something-the proposed Great Falls to Alberta high-voltage power line-created such high stakes for area farmers, businesses and politicians.
The most recent event in a three-year long saga was the third and final public hearing in Conrad on March 13 for a privately-funded transmission line that would be built over cropland and grazing lands between a NorthWestern Energy substation near .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Transmission line hearing generates praise, concerns</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A public hearing on what would be the first merchant transmission line between Canada and the United States drew 100 residents to Great Falls on Tuesday, with economic development officials and elected officials singing its praises and farmers raising concerns.
The &#36;150 million Montana Alberta Tie Line would stretch 230 miles — 129 of them in Montana — between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta. It&#8217;s being proposed by Montana Alberta Tie Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farm proposed for Hat area</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another wind energy company is looking at developing a wind farm in the Medicine Hat area that could be producing 120 megawatts of electricity by late 2009.
The Calgary-based company, Pteragen Canada Inc.’s proposed Peace Butte Wind Power Project would be located 22 km due south of the city and be intersected by the Black and White Trail.
According to the company’s vice president for Western Canada, Carlo Plava, the project — if eventually approved by the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>TransAlta to build wind power project in Alberta</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power company TransAlta Corp. plans to spend &#36;115 million to build and operate the 66-megawatt Blue Trail wind power project in southern Alberta.
The 22-turbine wind farm planned near Fort Macleod is expected to produce provide an average of 195,000 megawatt hours per year, enough electricity for about 29,000 homes, the company said Wednesday in a release.
&#8220;This project will be ready to be commissioned by December 2009, which will help alleviate some of the supply concerns .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Environmental study released on proposed Alberta-Montana power line</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study of environmental effects from a proposed Alberta-Montana power line has been released, opening a 45-day period for public comment.
The Montana Alberta tie line proposed by a subsidiary of Toronto-based Tonbridge Power would extend 325 kilometres from Lethbridge, Alta., to Great Falls, Mont..
Developers have said the line and related wind-energy projects could lead to &#36;1 billion in investment.
Critics include farmers who would have to work around some of the power apparatus.
Tom Ring of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Epcor wind plan blows into B.C.</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[City-owned Epcor Utilities Inc. launched a new plan Monday to spread its wings into wind power in British Columbia, atop breezy highlands 500 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
The proposed Quality Wind Project will erect 60 to 120 turbines on a windswept plateau near the mining town of Tumbler Ridge, on the eastern fringe of the Rocky Mountains, and hook them up to the B.C. electricity grid with 18 kilometres to 25 kilometres of new transmission lines.
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		<title>Federal agency set to release tie line study</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major developments in the regulatory review of what would be the first merchant transmission line between Lethbridge, Alberta, and Great Falls are occurring north and south of the border.
The Montana Alberta Tie Line, which is expected to spawn wind farms in northcentral Montana, would be owned by Tonbridge Corp., a Toronto-based energy firm.
State officials announced Friday that an environmental study of the project would be released for public review sometime next week.
On Jan. 31, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Controversial powerline gets tentative nod</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberta landowners oppose route through irrigated fields and farms
Shares in Tonbridge Power Inc. (TSXV:TBZ) rose after its subsidiary Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. won conditional approval to construct and operate a 230-kilovolt powerline between Lethbridge and Great Falls, Mont.
The OK from the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board gives authority to proceed with details for the 346-kilometre preferred route, along a corridor approved last April by the National Energy Board.
A public hearing was held for three weeks .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Greengate catches wind power wave</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Calgary company is first in line for the next wave of new wind power projects in Alberta, after the province announced in September it was lifting a cap on the so-called green energy projects &#8212; a move expected to unleash billions of dollars in investment in alternative power.
Privately owned Greengate Power Corp. said Monday it has received an interconnection proposal for its proposed 300-megawatt Blackspring Ridge wind power facility near Lethbridge. Planned to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Energy board approves power line between Montana and Lethbridge, Alta.</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberta&#8217;s energy regulator has approved the construction and operation of a power line into the province from Montana.
The Montana Alberta Tie-Line has been given conditional approval for the 230-kilovolt power line that will import and export electricity between Lethbridge, Alta., and Great Falls, Mont.
The Alberta Energy and Utility Board said in a news release late Thursday afternoon that the Montana company must hold discussions with affected landowners along the approved route &#8220;to address the mitigation .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Huge gust of wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#36;600-million project would generate 300 Megawatts
A proposed wind power project near Carmangay would be the largest in Canada if it were operating today, according to the company behind it.
Calgary-based Greengate Power Corporation has a 300-Megawatt power project in the works, on a place called Blackspring Ridge, that would put about 150 wind towers on the ground near Carmangay.
The company hopes to put three wind-monitoring towers in place in February to gather wind data. Greengate must .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power project gaining strength</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compared with the coulees surrounding Lethbridge and the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Lacombe County doesn’t exactly stand out as a windy destination. However one wind power group sees it as a place of potential.
Greengate Power Corp. is looking at establishing wind power turbines on two sites near Lacombe &#8212; one to the north bordering Ponoka County – and one five kilometres east of town, dubbed the Chigwell Project.
“Traditionally wind hasn’t been looked at .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Power-line hearings in Canada conclude</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 22 days of testimony, the Alberta Energy Utilities Board on Nov. 21, concluded its hearings on a proposed international transmission line between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alta.
The EUB has up to 90 days to render its decision whether to approve or deny Montana Alberta Tie Ltd.&#8217;s project to build a 300-megawatt transmission line to carry proposed wind energy and other power through the farmlands of northcentral Montana and southern Alberta.
The project would be a .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power vision grows</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Calgary wind power group has announced two more proposals to harness Central Alberta breezes.
Greengate Power Corp. is looking at two sites in Lacombe and Ponoka Counties as part of its aggressive campaign to develop 1,100 megawatts of electricity on seven Alberta wind farms over the next two to four years.
Another project in the Radar Hill area, about 16 km east of Red Deer Regional Airport, was announced in October.
A separate project, by Finavera Renewable, .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Alberta company&#39;s turbines spin wind into gold</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Calgary wind power group hopes to take advantage of Alberta&#8217;s limited transmission capacity at a time when interest in this province in so-called renewable energy generally &#8212; and wind power in particular &#8212; is red hot.
Wind power advocates and government officials believe that as many as 3,000 megawatts, or nearly &#36;7 billion in wind power projects, could be developed in Alberta in the near term, with up to 5,500 megawatts, or more than &#36;12 .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>More wind power for southern Alberta; Input needed from residents</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[With viable wind energy in the works, Alberta Electrical Systems Operator (AESO) is holding a series of open houses across southern Alberta this month.
The open houses have a dual purpose. On one hand, they allow AESO to create awareness for its wind energy plans in southern Alberta. At the same time, it gives local residents an opportunity to voice their concerns and opinions while development is still in the planning stages.
“Right now, we’re at the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>More wind power for southern Alberta; input needed from residents</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[With viable wind energy in the works, Alberta Electrical Systems Operator (AESO) is holding a series of open houses across southern Alberta this month.
The open houses have a dual purpose. On one hand, they allow AESO to create awareness for its wind energy plans in southern Alberta. At the same time, it gives local residents an opportunity to voice their concerns and opinions while development is still in the planning stages.
“Right now, we’re at the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind project pursued</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Vancouver-based company is seeking approval for a &#36;150-million wind farm near Trochu.
The wind project is one of several proposed in Central Alberta by companies looking to fill the province’s growing power needs.
Finavera Renewable is planning an open house on Thursday in Trochu to discuss its plan for about 45 windmills on 8,000 acres.
The Ghost Pine project, 3.5 km northwest of Trochu, would provide 75 megawatts of power — enough to power 26,000 homes. The .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>MD considers facilitation</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Municipal District Council will meet Nov. 6 to determine how to proceed with approaching the hotly-debated land-use bylaws. 
Bylaws 1134-07 and 1133-07 propose to respectively create an exclusion zone for turbines and force windfarmers to produce cumulative analysis reports on the effects of harvesting wind energy.
The controversial bylaws have been accused of hurting the area economically while supporters see them as responsibly evaluating and monitoring windfarms to protect the rights of the human, animal .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power project eyed for region</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fledgling Calgary company proposes a &#36;200-million wind farm near Red Deer to feed Alberta’s growing power needs.
Greengate Power Corp. has talked to landowners about setting up 50 windmills on 30 quarter sections on and around Radar Hill.
Radar Hill is between Pine Lake and Red Deer, 16 km east of the Red Deer Regional Airport. The area is a high point of land once used by the Department of National Defence as a NORAD radar .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Regulators gearing up for power line final reviews</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a summer of relative quiet on a proposal to build a transmission line between Montana and Alberta, the project is again generating news as it heads toward the backstretch of its final regulatory races.
Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. has sold to three wind farm developers its proposed power line&#8217;s total capacity of 600 megawatts (300 mw in each direction) between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alta., through eastern Teton County. The company, a subsidiary of Tonbridge .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>WECS bylaw on hold</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decision on a controversial land-use bylaw amending planning requirements for wind turbines in the area has been put on hold by the Municipal District of Pincher Creek.
MD council had hoped to update its land use bylaw 1133-07 to include new regulations for wind farm developers in the municipality, however after a recent public hearing on the proposed bylaw, council has decided not to go ahead with changes to the bylaw until it has conducted .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Power line hearings set to begin soon</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board will begin hearings Oct. 16 on the Alberta portion of a proposed cross-border power transmission line connecting electric systems in the Canadian province and Montana.
The hearings in Lethbridge will involve a three-member panel examining the evidence and listening to testimony. The panel will make a decision within 90 days of the conclusion of the hearings.
Approval from the Alberta board is the last of two clearances required in Canada. In .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>DEQ studying impacts of proposed power line</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spin-off wind farms are getting a closer look as part of a new study assessing the impacts of the U.S. stretch of a proposed power transmission line between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta, according to the state Department of Environmental Quality.
However, a DEQ regulator said it is difficult gathering information because the DEQ doesn&#8217;t specifically regulate the wind industry.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to do the best (we can) with the information we have,&#8221; the DEQ&#8217;s Tom Ring .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Alberta regulators free the wind: electric power generation cap removed</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alberta government and its electric system operator are lifting a controversial cap on wind power generation that critics say has stymied growth in the province of one of the fastest-growing sources of power in the world.
&#8220;It&#8217;s removing the threshold,&#8221; said Alberta Electric System Operator spokesperson Ally Taylor of an event today that will see Alberta Energy Minister Mel Knight and AESO chief executive Dale McMaster announce the change and next steps for potential generation .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Kettles appeal announced</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[An appeal filed on behalf of Alan Kettles’ Benign Energy Canada Inc. and Heritage Wind Farm Development Inc. regarding a request to install 112 Vestas V90 wind turbines as part of a new development project was settled on Aug. 14.
The Municipal District of Pincher Creek’s Subdivision and Development Appeal Board heard the appeal on July 26. At the conclusion of the appeal hearing, a recess was implemented in order to reassess new information that had .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Bylaw threatens wind industry</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposed changes to the Municipal District of Pincher Creek’s Land-use bylaws have local wind farmers threatening to withdraw from the area.
Wind tycoon and Chief Executive Officer of Benign Energy, the group behind Kettles Hill windfarm, Allan Kettles, describes the new measures to regulate wind energy as draconian.
“It’s more difficult to get a windfarm here than a sour gas well,” said Kettles last week. “People are simply going to say thank you very much MD #9, .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Altalink to make transmission line announcement</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Altalink may be making headway in its bid to install a 1,250 megawatt-capacity transmission line that will transport power generated by Pincher Creek wind farms to Lethbridge.
“Right now we’re just in the final stages of something,” AltaLink spokesman Scott Schreiner told The Echo recently.
He declined to elaborate, but added that details would be made available soon.
A proposal to run the line underground was examined in March but ultimately deemed infeasible due to its unproven life .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farm up in air</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[After seven hours of calculations, presentations and protestations, the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board for the Municipal District of Pincher Creek decided to take a recess before announcing its decision regarding a local developer’s appeal.
“We need to sit down and go through the new information that’s been presented, and to clarify things,” said Appeal Board Chairman Wade Mitchell, concluding the July 26 proceedings.
The appeal, launched by Allan Kettles, follows the MD’s Municipal Planning Commission’s (MPC’s) .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Alberta set to double wind-power generation</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stelmach government foresees nearly doubling the amount of wind-power generation allowed in Alberta, says Energy Minister Mel Knight, even as the province remains the only jurisdiction in Canada to cap the production of wind energy.
Industry groups are demanding the province go further than raising the amount of production permitted and remove the cap.
Alberta&#8217;s Electric System Operator introduced in 2006 a limit of 900 megawatts of wind-energy generation because it was uncertain whether wind conditions .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power not cut and dry: opponents</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of the Wild Rose 1 Wind Farm project in the area bordering the Cypress Hills Provincial Park say the public perception of wind power is inaccurate.
Paul Huene, and environmental scientist who gave a power-point presentation on the topic at Tuesday&#8217;s Cypress County Council meeting where the Wild Rose project was approved, says wind power is a complicated issue with an oversimplified image.
&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed with the decision (to go ahead with the wind farm,) Huene .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Conservationists fail to block Alberta wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial wind farm slated for a pristine piece of prairie in southeastern Alberta has cleared a major hurdle, despite opposition from environmentalists who are now bracing for a deluge of similar proposals in the region.
Medicine Hat-based West WindEau Inc. is planning to erect 86 turbines, just outside the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, that are aimed at churning out 200 megawatts of power.
Farmers &#8212; who would be paid for the use of their land &#8212; .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>County gives wind farm green light</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[After close to five years of planning and an investment of more than &#36;4 million, West WindEau Inc. got the go ahead from Cypress County Council Tuesday for two land use amendments that would permit the development of a 200 megawatt Wild Rose 1 Wind Farm.
Claude Mindorff, president of the Hat-based wind energy company, acknowledged that council’s approval was an important step, but there’s still a ways to go. Development permits still need to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Windfall for energy farm; Kettles Hill project to get &#36;16.5M from feds</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A wind farm near Pincher Creek yesterday became the first company to receive funding under the feds&#8217; ecoENERGY for Renewable Power initiative.
The Kettles Hill Wind Energy Project consists of 35 interconnected wind turbines that, in full operation, are expected to produce 200,000 megawatt hours of emissions-free power each year &#8212; enough to power more than 27,000 average Alberta homes.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn yesterday announced Creststreet Kettles Hill Windpower will receive &#36;16.5 million .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>DOE requires more analysis on proposed MATL power line</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some grain growers in northcentral Montana and Alberta, used to government bureaucracy and bad weather eroding their bottom line, are determined to get a fair shake from another adversary &#8212; big business &#8212; in the form of a Canadian company proposing to build a private or &#8220;merchant&#8221; transmission line across their cropland.
The federal and state/provincial governments on both sides of the border are set to approve or deny the permits for Montana Alberta Tie Ltd.&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power projects in limbo</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least nine known wind power projects in southeast Alberta continue to be in limbo following a meeting with a director of the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) in Medicine Hat Friday afternoon.
Bill Strongman, director, regional system planning, for AESO was here to provide his organization’s recommendations on addressing transmission system requirements required in southeastern Alberta.
AESO is a non-profit organization created by provincial legislation which operates the province’s wholesale electric market. It also plans the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Cap on wind power lifting</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s an end in sight to the cap that put the kibosh on further development of wind power in the province that once led all the rest in developing wind farms.
With billions of dollars of wind power projects stalled by a year-long cap on further development, it looked like Albertans could be getting their electricity from nuclear reactors before the province jumped on the green bandwagon sweeping the rest of North America.
But the Alberta Electric .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Power line, wind farm projects hold during stringent U.S. review</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy plans its toughest environmental review of the proposed power transmission line between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alta., after farmers complained about the proposed type and routing of the power poles.
In March, the U.S. Department of Energy and Montana Department of Environmental Quality issued a draft environmental study of the 230-kilovolt line. But on June 1, after concluding the project might have “a significant effect upon the environment,” the DOE announced .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Developers hatch plan to save birds</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 00:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 May 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nesting birds have developers Alberta Wind Energy Corporation back before the Municipal District&#8217;s planning commission seeking to relocate three turbines on their proposed wind farm near the Oldman River Dam.
Arthur Lee from the company says that a pair of nesting ferruginous hawks and prairie falcons have been spotted close to three of the proposed turbines. Alberta Sustainable Resources guidelines recommend that wind turbines are located at least 500 metres away from nest sites. As a .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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