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		<title>PEI Tourism Survey cannot be applied to the Gulf Shore</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Tourism Research Centre of UPEI conducted a paper and web based survey http://www.trc.upei.ca/files/Wind_Energy_Report.pdf of 1,676 residents and visitors to &#8220;capture perceptions of wind energy production and wind farms, and their perceived effects on the landscape.&#8221; 
Given there were 1.4 million visitors to the Island last year, a survey number of 1,313 visitors this summer seems rather small to be truly representative. Only 363 residents were surveyed, with a stated sampling error of 4.8% at 95%, these results verge on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Communications Commission to regulate wind turbines&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, perhaps not just wind turbines, but any tall or thick structure near an AM radio tower.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a second further notice of proposed rulemaking in MM Docket No. 93-177 regarding the regulation of construction of towers near AM radio towers to avoid radio frequency interference.  While generally aimed at the construction of communications towers (which are FCC-regulated), the FCC indicated (see paragraph 19) that in contemplating new rules it seeks:
    comment .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Mighty wind: How long will economics work in favor of clean energy?</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of the renewable-energy business is busy fretting about the extension of federal tax credits, which expire at the end of this year. But the real story, it seems, is how clean energy’s biggest historical handicap is coming to be seen as one of its biggest selling points: its predictable cost. 
Take offshore wind power, the holy grail of big renewable-energy projects. There’s lots of wind a few miles out at sea; go out far enough, and even Kennedys will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/16/mighty-wind-how-long-will-edonomics-work-in-favor-of-clean-energy/</link>
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		<title>Stop the madness</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[For those whom have read my prior post there is a link here to a petition to register protest against changing the wording of the Environmental Heritage Policy of the Tararua District Council proposed by the four power companies which would allow unhindered implementation of wind turbines and wind farms as discussed in the prior post. Please follow the link to the petition and register should you agree this wanton abuse of our natural world needs to cease, or at .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/12/stop-the-madness/</link>
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		<title>Storm clouds gathering</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from the Manawatu Evening Standard, 5 September, 2008
Article entitled: Push to end protection of ranges.
&#8221; Energy companies are pushing the Tararua District Council to loosen the rules on wind farm consents, making it easier to build on the ranges.
Genesis Energy, Trustpower, Meridian Energy, and Might River Power have all made separate submissions to the Tararua council, currently up for review. They are campaigning for new policies to make wind farms a priority in the district, and pushing for a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/06/storm-clouds-gathering/</link>
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		<title>Attack of the wind power monsters</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It started out as a simple phone call: “Would I like to have a couple of wind towers on my PA. mountain property? Some of your neighbors have already signed–how about you?” My answer was a firm no! “….Well how about the wires? You’d surely let us string some wires over your property?” My answer was, “What part of ‘no’ don’t you understand?”
Bear in mind, that by agreeing to such an offer, I would be desecrating the woodland surroundings of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/11/attack-of-the-wind-power-monsters/</link>
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		<title>Wind power is just a lot of hot air</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[At first glance, the energy proposals of Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens for wind power and increased gas usage sound good. &#8220;We can&#8217;t drill our way out of this crises&#8221;; I happen to disagree with this statement. We still need to drill to make ourselves &#8220;independent from foreign oil.&#8221; But the real issue is what is behind the clamor to expand wind power in lieu of increasing oil drilling.
To understand this you have to read between the lines. Not only .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/10/wind-power-is-just-a-lot-of-hot-air/</link>
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		<title>Residents are fed up with town officials in Clayton</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents who live in and near the proposed project called Horse Creek Wind Farm in the Townships of Clayton (lead agent) and Orleans  are fed up with the intentional neglect by members of the Town Council to amend the Local Law No 1 2007 for Wind Facilities on noise levels and turbine set backs that will protect the residents.  Over the past eight months residents have brought to both Township Councils and Planning Board members  four acoustic .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/05/residents-are-fed-up-with-town-officials-in-clayton/</link>
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		<title>Local government role in the siting of wind facilities</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[So far, the case law that has been generated on the sited of wind farms clearly indicates that the decisionmaking has been occurring at the local government level through routine land use planning and zoning (and applicable local environmental review) decision making.  However, as the promotion of wind turbines is promoted more as a viable source of much needed “green” energy, and as some courts are beginning to hold that wind farms may be considered akin to public utilities, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/02/local-government-role-in-the-siting-of-wind-facilities/</link>
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		<title>Beekmantown neighbors association loses appeal</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind developers scored an important victory in New York’s appellate courts.
The West Beekmantown Neighborhood Association lost an appeal of an August 2007 lower court (N.Y. Supreme Court in Clinton County) decision that had dismissed the Association’s complaint against the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA). The Association challenged the ZBA’s grant to Windhorse Power LLC of a conditional use permit to develop a 700 acre wind farm and its negative declaration under New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/28/beekmantown-neighbors-association-loses-appeal/</link>
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		<title>Zoning board’s finding that wind farm is a public utility upheld by appellate court</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
The Beekmantown Zoning Board of Appeals approved an application for a conditional use permit to allow the construction of a wind farm on a 700-acre parcel in an R-2 Residential District.  According the Town’s zoning law, conditional use permits are required for essential services defined in part as, “[e]rection, construction, alteration, operation or maintenance by municipal agencies or public utilities of…electrical or gas substations…and similar facilities that provide essential use and services, an [sic] general (unidentified) public has a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/28/zoning-board%e2%80%99s-finding-that-wind-farm-is-a-public-utility-upheld-by-appellate-court/</link>
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		<title>Utah PSC asserts jurisdiction over wind farm transmission line</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reversing its earlier decision on the matter, the Utah Public Service Commission has concluded that a wind power project (&#8221;Milford Wind&#8221;) must obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity (&#8221;CPCN&#8221;) for a 90-mile transmission line that it proposes to build in connection with its wind farm to be built in southwest Utah.  Order on Petition for Rehearing, Docket No. 08-2490-01.  The Commission stuck with its decision that the power production facilities associated with the independent power project are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/utah-psc-asserts-jurisdiction-over-wind-farm-transmission-line/</link>
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		<title>Financing details revealed by Nedpower / Shell WindEnergy</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over &#36;185 million senior secured financing that will support construction and operation of NedPower Mount Storm LLC was arranged in November 2007. Dominion Power and Shell WindEnergy have joint 50/50 ownership of the project. Interestingly the original cost was estimated at &#36;300M alone, but some of that missing funding is coming from the US government subsidies. However with the weakened dollar to the Euro and the purchase of Spanish turbines from Ganesa along with the jump in diesel prices effecting .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/20/financing-details-revealed-by-nedpower-shell-windenergy/</link>
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		<title>Glyndebourne’s wind turbine and Attenborough’s shame</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From the eastern end of the South Downs it is possible, on a clear day, to look out over one of the most quintessentially English of all landscapes. A vast area of Kent and Sussex countryside lies at your feet, green, undulating, heavily wooded, and tranquil. This is The Weald, known for centuries as the Garden of England. Small villages cluster round ancient churches and farmhouses slumber among well-tended fields, timeless reminders of our rural heritage. Confronted with such beauty .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/18/glyndebourne%e2%80%99s-wind-turbine-and-attenborough%e2%80%99s-shame/</link>
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		<title>A new definition of agriculture</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When is a car not a car? When you decide to call it a bicycle. When is a horse not a horse? When you decide to call it a cow. Just because you call something a name that does not properly describe it does not change its reality, but I live in New Jersey where reality is subject to the whim of the morons we elect to represent us.
Thus, I give you a piece of legislation sponsored by State Senator .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Against the Wind: Why WVHC’s Opposition to Wind Turbines on the Allegheny Front Should not be Dimissed as a NIMBY… and other midnight reflections…</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am working this summer for the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC). At some point, visit their website www.wvhighlands.org. My job is to set up informational tables at festivals to spread awareness of mountain top removal and the work WVHC has done and continues to do to stop it. Until recently, I’m reluctant to admit, I was ignorant of the monumental advances the WVHC has made to keep West Virginia wild and wonderful.
The group was formed in the 60s with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling the winds of power</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[“My village has big fans that will provide all our people with nice breeze,” a kid said referring to the windmills across the hills surrounding his village, Kanavehalli, in Harapanahalli taluq, Davanagere district, Karnataka, India. The kid and many other villagers do not know that the cities, malls, and other industries have no problem with the electricity supply. However, they wonder why they cannot get their share.
Children are unable to study due to low voltage electricity at night, which restricts .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Juice: N.J. fisherman angling to develop offshore wind</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Journal’s Russell Gold reports:
File this one under if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
A group of commercial fishermen wants to get in on the rush to build offshore wind farms to generate electricity. It’s an interesting about face for the fishing industry, which has traditionally fought offshore industrialization – other than their own floating seafood factories, that is.
The effort is attracting attention in New Jersey, where the state is looking to provide grants for a pilot offshore wind farm.
One .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No to wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thumbs up to the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission for voting Monday to make it a policy to prohibit wind energy development on all of the state’s public wildlife management areas.
Earlier this year,  a controversy erupted when OG&#038;E wanted to build a wind farm on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area near Woodward. After a public outcry from sportsmen, OG&#038;E backed off and withdrew its proposal.
A committee of state wildlife commissioners, however, continued with a study on the issue with the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Texas wind: Boone Pickens&#39; big, big bet</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oilman T. Boone Pickens’ love affair with wind isn’t brand new—he’s been touting the idea of “peak-free” energy since he decided to build America’s biggest wind farm in Texas. What’s different is the way he’s going about it.
Mesa Power, Mr. Pickens’ new energy firm, placed a huge turbine order with GE Thursday, the first step toward the eventual 4 gigawatt wind farm. What’s striking is that he’s plowing ahead on the project even though federal subsidies for wind power are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blow hard: Wind to supply 20% of U.S. power&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. can follow Denmark’s lead and get 20% of its electricity from wind by 2030, the Department of Energy said today. The only obstacles, according to the DOE report, are building the wind turbines, improving them, getting them in place, and getting their electricity to where it’s used. Piece of cake.
Oh—and to meet that goal, every year between 2018 and 2030 the U.S needs to install as much wind power as it has cumulatively installed so far in its .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/12/blow-hard-wind-to-supply-20-of-us-power/</link>
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		<title>Following Rick Webb</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning at the Spring Review and Sustainable Fair: University of Virginia research scientist Rick Webb began his presentation on wind energy pros and cons and was promptly interrupted. Through a thicket of questions and counter-questions he made his way to the next point. New questions arose. Later points were anticipated. Divergent claims were made. Finally, a frustrated majority demanded that questions wait until Rick had finished. So he did, and for long afterwards remained at the front of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Conservancy shifts policy on wind energy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Board of Directors has made a significant shift in its policy on wind energy projects. Instead of focusing only on a proposed project’s impact upon the natural environment, the policy now will broaden the focus to include consideration of the role of the wind energy in overall energy policy.
This shift appears in the policy adopted at the April 20 Board meeting: The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy opposes all large, utility scale wind energy projects in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Spin this: booming wind industry still seeks subsidies</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s a challenge: How do you keep clamoring for subsidies when your industry shatters growth records with numbing regularity?
Wind power in the U.S. is going great guns. The American Wind Energy Association said today the industry added 1,400 megawatts in the first quarter. That’s basically the equivalent of a new nuclear plant, and one of the best quarters ever for wind in the U.S. It comes on top of two record-breaking years, when the U.S. added more wind power than .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/07/spin-this-booming-wind-industry-still-seeks-subsidies/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin county implements strict noise regulations on wind turbines; Company declares “war to end all wars”</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Calumet County, in eastern Wisconsin, recently faced a dilemma that is increasingly common in rural America: an outside company had appeared in their region, planning to build wind farms and seeking permits. Many local governmental bodies have taken a cursory look at complex reports submitted by companies, taken assurances of “no noise” at face value, and later regretted not learning more. The Calumet County Board of Supervisors took two years to consider the issue, and in March instituted a carefully .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The Abominable &#34;Whoooosh&#34;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Fenlands of England,my dear niece,and Godchild,Suzanne,her husband Chris and many others in the area -are fighting against these wind turbines being erected nearby.I don&#8217;t know much about them&#8211;I think they&#8217;re ugly and I wouldnt want them next to me&#8211;at the same time they are supposed to be environmentaly good and we have to have these type of things. But where ? &#8211;well not next to me&#8211;and certainly not nextdoor to Suzanne.
It used to be nice,to sit out here
with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Mr. John Gerretsen, M.P &#8212; Minister of the Environment &#8212; Ontario</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Ron Stephens
Independent candidate for Grey &#8212; Bruce
The letter below is from Hugh Christopher Brown of Wolfe Island, Ontario.
He, like many others in this province, is frustrated with the Minister of Environment. From the office of Premier McGuinty to the office of your local MPP, the government has shown absolute disrespect for the citizens of this province.
From the dismantling of Ont. Hydro by Maurice Strong, the father of Kyoto, to the present day, our electrical system has been guided, not .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Celtic bet: little Ireland puts big money into renewables</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom holds that one straightforward way to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and improve energy security is by boosting the use of renewable energy, like wind and solar power. And just how big an effort does it take to make renewable energy a key—and dependable—part of the energy mix?
A sobering hint today from the Emerald Isle, which has ambitious targets for renewables. Ireland has to produce 16% of its electricity from renewables by 2020 under European mandates, but has an even .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/27/celtic-bet-little-ireland-puts-big-money-into-renewables/</link>
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		<title>We&#39;ve Got A Friend In The PA State Senate</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[As most of you know, the ugly thorn in our side, yes those ugly, noisy, landscape-scarring, dark sky-eliminating electric generating wind turbines are also an enemy to none other than State Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-9th Dist.). St. Sen. Pileggi, who happens to be my State Senator in Chester (and in my former home in Aston Township), strongly opposes the building of these turbines on our State Game Lands and State Forests. After sending an e-mail to him in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Biologist will study wind turbine effects on wildlife</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wildlife biologist whose area of expertise is bat and bird activity, has joined the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to study the effects of wind turbines on native and migrating wildlife, especially in the Lake Erie Basin.
Keith DeWitt Lott will study the impact that the rotating blades of wind turbines have on the 300 species of birds and nine species of bats found in the state.
&#8220;As Ohio moves into the realm of wind-based energy, it&#8217;s important that we do .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Travis Airforce Base paid off by developer? It&#8217;s your safety</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[EnXco, a developer wanting to build additional wind tubines in the Montezuma Hills, offered $1 million at a Feb. 21 Solano County Planning Commission meeting.  The money is to be used to improve the radar system at Travis.  Travis Air Force base officials withdrew their long standing objections to the additional wind turbines after they were informed by their superiors that there were no &#8220;reasonable expectations&#8221; of problems with the system.
My question is, has anyone ruled out a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/08/travis-airforce-base-paid-off-by-developer-its-your-safety/</link>
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		<title>The Hill and the Hall week in review</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each Friday, Paul McMorrow will take you inside the smoke-filled rooms and darkly-lit corridors of government to bring you the hottest and juiciest political tidbits. This week: Coastal legislators are peeved, casino proponents are suspicious, and the new Pike Director offers a bleak, yet highly quotable, assessment.
These are strange times for the state’s coastal legislators. First, in November, they were subjected to an energy bill sneak attack that opened up their coastlines to unfettered wind farm development. They balked, as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Gloves off &#40;again&#41; in 48th &#40;updated&#41;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So much for that no-negative-campaigning pledge in the increasingly dirty 48th SD special election race, which was basically a blink-and-you-missed it moment.
Here&#8217;s the latest hit on Democrat Darrel Aubertine from Republican Will Barclay&#8217;s campaign &#8212; a spot that accuses Aubertine of failing to abstain on windmill-related votes while profiting off the sale of wind rights on his dairy farm to turbine prospectors.
According to Aubertine spokesman Cort Ruddy, who&#8217;s on vacation from Sen. Dave Valesky&#8217;s staff to work on this campaign, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Do we resist or agree to be sacrificed for dogma&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I started to hear about the scale and the potential impact of the Bank’s proposal to install industrial wind turbines on Went Edge, like many I was startled. I know that there is a huge concern expressed about global warming and our future energy needs and that all the political parties have emerging views about the need to come up with viable alternative energy sources.
The more that I learned however, the more concerned I became that the people on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbines coming to West Ranch&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rumor has it that a land owner who has 80 acres on the northern edge between Old West Ranch and Mountain Meadows has signed a lease to allow Oak Creek to put in several large wind turbines. This would bring turbines to the south side of Tehachapi-Willow Springs Road in a location in the hills behind the glider port.
As a property owner in both West Ranch and Mountain Meadows, this is of great concern to me. It is a documented .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bourton Wind Farm meeting</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UKIP North Dorset Constituency Chairman John Baxter and I turned up on Friday to the public meeting about the Silton wind farm proposals at Bourton School.
A very impressive turn out, and not the first. There must have been between 250-300 at Bourton and on Wednesday evening a similar number turned up in Milton on Stour.
Given that the first anybody knew about the proposal was a couple of weeks ago when some people were approached to affix noise monitors on their .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>And they call the wind, pariah</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
Talk about a disconnect in U.S. energy policy.
Over the past few years, several U.S. states have imposed mandates requiring that electric utilities operating within their borders generate a certain amount of their juice from renewable sources. And over the past few years, the federal government has cooperated by serving up a tax credit that defrays the cost of that clean power.
The state and federal policy combination explains why wind power — the most economically viable among renewable energies –has grown .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The desecration of the Lammermuir hills</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In all the rhetoric and argument over the Lewis wind farm proposal what is happening on our doorstep is largely ignored. Of course it is not such an emotive argument as that concerning the Outer Hebrides, but it is arguably more significant. Last week the Scottish Government&#8217;s approved a 68-turbine site in Perthshire, it’s great news according to the energy minister Jim Mather. &#8220;There is no doubt that this country can become the green energy capital of Europe.&#8221; This mantra&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms, cui bono?</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opposition to proposed wind farms on state forest land in Western Maryland is vocal and growing. More than 500 folks showed up at a public hearing to protest US Wind Force LLC&#8217;s proposal to lease 400 acres of forest land in Garrett County to build 100 forty-story wind turbines in two state forests.
The Department of Natural Resources must decide the policy matter of whether or not wind turbines are a proper use of state lands before the Board of Public .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MMS Report on Cape Wind project opens door to 7 Million Dollar Contract</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is the Massachusetts Audubon Society, with a mission to protect birds, selling them out for a contract worth over 7,000,000 dollars to monitor their deaths?
The saga of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Cape Wind project continues with the January 14, 2008 release of the MMS Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Massachusetts Audubon’s lack of follow through on its Challenge to Cape Wind and its permitting agencies, to “Get it right.”
According to a story written by reporter Beth Delay of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for Kibby Mountain</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind power is coming to Kibby Mountain.
But not to Black Nubble.
So decided Maine&#8217;s LURC yesterday. 
I have asked this question in the past and I ask it again today: Why is Kibby Mountain any less valuable than Black Nubble?
Why will we now adorn the Kibby Mountain Range with wind towers, but not Black Nubble? Please understand, of course, that I prefer not to have wind power projects on either location.
Let&#8217;s try a little exercise&#8230;
Read this from today&#8217;s news story:
&#8220;During their .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm threatens Horicon NWR</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Fond du Lac Reporter in southeastern Wisconsin is reporting that the Horicon Marsh Systems Advocates — an environmental advocacy group — has pledged to closely monitor the wind farm that will soon be built at least two miles from Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.
The HMS Advocates have been fighting the wind farm project for some time, as they worked to ensure the company would be forced to build the turbines at least five miles from the eastern edge .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Size Matters</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wind industry’s new mantra: Mine is bigger than yours.
It must be a Texas thing. Italy’s Enel SpA and GE Energy Financial Services just finished a wind farm in Snyder, TX, that boasts the tallest turbines in the U.S. The massive towers soar 345 feet to take advantage of higher sustained wind speeds at altitude.
Snyder’s 63-megawatt farm is the first in the U.S. to use the giant 3-megawatt turbines, which have gained traction elsewhere in the world. Most other U.S .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/01/12/size-matters/</link>
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		<title>After Wind Farm Gets Green Light, UPC Lashes Out at Regulations</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wind in New England blows mainly against big green-energy projects. At least that’s the assessment of Matt Kearns, an audibly frazzled project manager for Newton, MA-based UPC Wind.
Despite winning final approval last week for the creation of New England’s largest wind-energy installation, now under construction on a ridge in northern Maine, Kearns says the regulatory and political barriers to placing major cleantech facilities in the region are high enough to scare off all but the most persistent and well-funded .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines in State Forests&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is holding hearings on whether to allow a private wind company to lease state land for a wind farm.
    A Pennsylvania company, U.S. Wind Force, is asking the state for leases in Potomac and Savage River state forests so it can clear about 400 mountaintop acres and erect about 100 wind turbines, each about 40 stories tall. The turbines would be visible from Deep Creek Lake and much of Western Maryland.
 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle of Naseby……continues</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[No study of English history or modern democracy would be complete without reference to the decisive Battle of the English Civil War at Naseby in Northamptonshire. The Battle of Naseby marked the triumph of Parliament over the Monarchy and the birth of modern democracy.
Early on the morning of Saturday 14th June 1645 Parliament’s New Model Army, including Lieutenant General Oliver Cromwell, lined up at Naseby to face down the Royalists headed by Charles I.
Plans leaked recently, show that the current .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Jiminy&#39;s juice story is part of a tall tale</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[O. Henry stories are famous for their endings with surprise plot twists.
Here&#8217;s an incident that happened at Jiminy Peak Resort in western Massachusetts that would have made O. Henry proud (he died in 1910).
In August, Jiminy Peak owner Brian Fairbank had a wind turbine (wind mill) installed near the top of the mountain. http://green.jiminypeak.com/page.php?PageID=295
It&#8217;s quite a sight to see (the three 123 foot long blades sit atop a 253 foot tall tower), although it was placed in an area near .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A message from the Town Clerk</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[[SAVOY, Mass.]  I am writing this article in response to a deluge of phone calls to my home and the Town Clerk’s office concerning a report in the North Adams Transcript.
On Wednesday, January 3rd, residents will be asked to consider accepting or rejecting a bylaw that addresses the wind tower project on West Hill. This is the first of two bylaws that have been submitted to the town for approval by the voters. Townspeople are understandably confused with this .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power, habitat fragmentation and the promise of work</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you travel I-68 and any of the joining roads in the near future, you will almost certainly see creeping flat beds hauling gargantuan turbines, blades and other pieces of future wind towersup the mountain to join those already adorning the Western MD/PA ridgelines.
One or two car escorts follow close behind in the far right lanes. Some of the pieces are so large that you have to pull halfway in to the adjacent lane to avoid them. Despite your feelings .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>SNP&#8217;s wind farm turnaround</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Scotsman today there&#8217;s a report on Jim Mather and the SNP wanting to fast track decisions on wind farms shows how the SNP&#8217;s attitude has changed since they came to power. Back in January 2007 Alex Salmond said. &#8220;There is a real difficulty with public acceptance of onshore wind. There should be a cap on future developments. We should concentrate the development of onshore wind into suitable areas.&#8221; He also said that financial support for onshore wind farms .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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