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		<title>Wind energy companies eyeing the Fraser Valley</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alternative energy makers are eyeing the Fraser Valley as the next possible region for wind farms, after a spring call by the provincial government for submissions of bio-energy projects, such as run-of-river micro hydro facilities and windmills. BC Hydro is asking power producers to submit proposals that collectively will add up to 5,000 gigawatt hours [GWh] of clean or renewable energy per year, enough to power 500,000 homes.
The prospect has wind generation proponents, and the sector&#8217;s advocacy group, Canadian Wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Huge wind turbines arrive by rail today</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A train carrying the first wind turbines to be set up in B.C. will be passing through Prince George today.
Specially commissioned for the task, the train is tentatively expected to reach the city at 1 p.m. as it makes its way north to the future home of the Dokie wind farm, 40 kilometres northwest of Chetwynd.
It&#8217;ll will be quite the sight, said Ron Percival of Earthfirst Canada Inc., which owns the farm.
&#8220;These are pretty impressive machines and the blades on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents dig in against power line</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A small but determined group of Tsawwassen residents continued their fight to prevent high-voltage power line construction Thursday by blocking access to their neighbourhood with parked cars.
&#8220;The trucks came and tried to get in and we wouldn&#8217;t move our cars,&#8221; said resident Tina Ryan, who took part in the morning action on 13A Street.
A handful of cars were parked along the narrow roadway, apparently not violating parking laws but making access for large trucks impossible.
Ryan said the B.C. Transmission Corporation .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Grouse eyes renewable energy</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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Resort is set to begin phase one of project that could see a wind turbine installed on the peak.
Grouse Mountain took the first steps towards becoming North Vancouver’s first source of renewable energy after council approved phase one of its wind turbine project Monday night.
District councillors voted to allow the resort to build a concrete foundation that could eventually house a 65- metre tall wind turbine.
Grouse marketing manager Chris Dagenais admits that the resort has a lot of planning left .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tilting at windmills</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Creating electricity from wind that just happens to be blowing might seem like a cheap source of power, but it&#8217;s not. As we&#8217;ve already seen in Denmark, its high cost requires taxpayer handouts to develop and survive.
Subsidies in Denmark created a lot of wind power, but when the flow from the taxpayer subsidy tap ebbed, so did the industry.
In B.C., wind power will also be subsidized. Creating a welfare-dependent industry in the province may benefit the backers of these projects, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Grouse Mountain wants wind tubine at peak</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Grouse Mountain wants to install the Lower Mainland&#8217;s first commercial wind turbine.
&#8220;On the one hand we would remove 25 per cent of Grouse Mountain&#8217;s hydro needs,&#8221; mountain spokesman Chris Dagenais said yesterday.
&#8220;But on the second, we have a public-education component. There are no other [commercial] wind turbine&#8217;s in the Lower Mainland.&#8221;
Dagenais said the mountain has already hired wind-power experts to gather data on wind speeds, wind direction and impact on wildlife. Mountain managers have been working on the project for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Hays wind farm pushed back a year</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Activity on Mount Hays this summer will be quieter than initially thought as Katabatic Power, the proponents of the Mount Hays Wind Farm, have had to push the time line of the project back significantly.
“Things on the project are going OK. We had to amend our agreement with B.C. Hydro to put the wind farm into service in 2009 and not in 2008 as we first thought. The challenge was in securing turbines for 2008, and we are working on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windmill proposal was &#39;mistake&#39;, says Gabriola Land Conservancy</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 09:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was all a mistake, say Gabriola Islanders of a proposal to put windmills on some Gabriola parkland.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an unfortunate misunderstanding,&#8221; says Leigh Anne Milman, Gabriola Land Conservancy president, of Zero Emissions Development&#8217;s proposal for a wind farm to generate electricity for B.C. Hydro from Gabriola Community Park, otherwise known as 707 Lands.
The proposal made it all the way to the Regional District of Nanaimo, which is now looking into the allowed uses under existing zoning for the land, located .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power more than just hot air</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Roberts Creek Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) director Donna Shugar is raising the alarm over a proposal for wind monitoring sites in her area.
The proposal by SkyPower was presented at the SCRD planning meeting May 8 and calls for two wind monitoring sites with the eventual possibility of having 2,871.5 hectares devoted to windmills in the Roberts Creek/Howe Sound area and Elphinstone.
Shugar said the project in its totality raises concerns for her because she thinks there are implications to putting .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Squamish wind project dies down</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 18:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[After years of planning and tens of thousands of invested dollars, hopes of a wind energy system based in Squamish have been downgraded from full scale industry to mere demonstration project.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to approach the (Squamish) Oceanfront (Development Corporation) and see if they&#8217;re interested in the project,&#8221; said Dan McRae of the Squamish Sustainability Corporation. &#8220;When we talk about a demonstration project, I think we&#8217;re talking a very small micro-scale project. We don&#8217;t know what size or anything, but there .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Who has seen the wind&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER -Stephen Cheeseman has cashed out 20 years of savings, left a successful career as a uranium and base metals geologist and begged his friends and family for as much money as they would invest in him. All to chase the breeze.
Mr. Cheeseman is, like dozens of others in British Columbia, a wind prospector who is making it his life&#8217;s work to grab hold of the choicest mountain ridges with the stiffest gusts before anyone else does.
Over the past several .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Conservationist opposed to wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Al Springer thumbs through the material he&#8217;s pulled off the Internet and becomes more alarmed at what he learns about the wind farm proposed for Mount Kathleen near Peachland.
As he sits at the table in his dining room, he reads page after page detailing the environmental destruction wind farms have left in their wakes throughout the world.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of opposition to them in a lot of places,&#8221; Springer points out.
The Okanagan needs to look carefully at where these massive .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#36;5 billion power line proposed</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Project might tie California, B.C., provide Avista a link
Avista Utilities is studying ways to link with and gain benefits from a &#36;5 billion power line that a California utility has proposed to build between Northern California and British Columbia by late 2015.
The California utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., of San Francisco, says it wants to transmit renewable energy from the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, and Alberta to Northern California over the new line.
PG&#038;E says it has identified “significant” new .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fishermen worry grounds may be clawed from them</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind farm project proposed for Hecate Strait could impact more than half of Area A&#8217;s crab grounds by the time it&#8217;s completed, say the British Columbia Crab Fisherman&#8217;s Association.
NaiKun Wind Development sponsored two evening public information meetings on the Queen Charlotte Islands earlier this month, the first held in Skidegate and second the following night in Massett.
Geoff Gould, Area A Crab Association executive director, attended both meetings on behalf of the British Columbia Crab Fisherman&#8217;s Association and was not .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm will blow away crab jobs, say fishermen</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Masset will lose up to 150 crab fishing and processing jobs if a wind farm company is allowed to put turbines in the shallow waters off the east coast of Graham Island, say local crab fishermen.
Around 60 fishermen and other concerned citizens filled the Masset Rec Centre auditorium Thursday night for a public meeting organized by NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc, the company which wants to build a large wind farm in Hecate Strait.
NaiKun officials said the purpose of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm proposed for area near Summerland</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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Green renewable energy may soon be blowing into Summerland.
A wind farm project in the Mount Kathleen area 28 kilometres northwest of Summerland is being proposed by Natural Power Consultants and Fred. Olsen Renewables (Canada).
The nearly &#36;100 million project would include up to 65 wind turbine generators, a substation, transformers and service centre and would transmit as much as 160 megawatts of energy.
Mount Kathleen was selected after testing on the site showed it had fairly sustained wind speeds adequate to power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed wind farm cited as threat to caribou</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Location of planned 1,000-megawatt project raises concerns about access roads through critical habitat of threatened mountain caribou
An alpine wilderness in northern B.C. that&#8217;s critical habitat to a herd of threatened mountain caribou is being proposed as the site for hundreds of industrial wind turbines.
Aeolis Wind Power Corp. based at Sidney on Vancouver Island has provided the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office with draft terms of reference for its 1,000-megawatt Hackney Hills wind farm, about 45 kilometres northwest of Hudson&#8217;s Hope.
&#8220;This is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm proposed south of city</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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U.K.-based developer Fred.Olsen Renewables is seeking to build 50 to 75 wind turbines on the summit of Mount George, 38 km southeast of Prince George.
The proposed Mount George Wind Park could have a capacity of up to 250 megawatts, Natural Power project development manager Nicole Tuzi said. Natural Power is a contract firm hired to develop the concept.
“We’ll be submitting to B.C. Hydro’s clean energy call. [But] it’s in the very preliminary stages,” Tuzi said.
Fred.Olsen Renewables currently operates three wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Companies explore wind farm possibilities</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A number of permits are being sought by companies looking to investigate potential wind energy projects in the Prince George area.
One of those companies, Natural Power Consultants, is hoping to build a wind park at Mount George near Tabor Mountain. The company&#8217;s senior development manager, Donald Speirs, spoke with The Citizen Wednesday before lecturing at UNBC about wind energy planning from an industry perspective, and about Mount George in particular.
&#8220;I would say it&#8217;s (Mount George) on the larger size, but .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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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.
The towering windmills will generate 100 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy could harm bird population</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past several months there have been three notices in The Citizen regarding use of provincial lands for installation of monitoring towers to investigate the potential of wind energy.
There have been similar notices in Vanderhoof for additional lands in that area.
Taken individually, these seem not too intrusive, but cumulatively, looking at the big picture, the possibility of having one big wind farm, stretching from the south side of Cluculz Lake over to the area between Bednesti and Dahl Lakes, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power application received</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The local office of the Integrated Land Management Bureau has received another application for an investigative permit for wind power on a section of Crown land near Prince George.
The application is from a Vancouver company wishing to investigate a potential wind energy project and to install wind monitoring masts on two sections of land about 40 kilometres west of the city, north of Highway 16 near Isle Pierre.
Last month, the bureau received a similar application from C-Free Power Corp., a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power plan proposed</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[C-Free Power Corp., a renewable energy company focused on developing wind power and run-of-river hydropower projects in Western Canada, intends to apply for an investigative permit for wind power on a section of Crown land northwest of Prince George.
The 45-kilometre plot is situated between Eskers and Stuart River provincial parks.
&#8220;It&#8217;s very much a preliminary, regulatory stage they&#8217;re going through,&#8221; said Gord Humphrey of the Integrated Land Management Bureau.
If it gets past the initial stage, the company will then apply for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore wind farm approved in northern B.C.</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s full steam ahead in the new year for an offshore wind farm being proposed for the Hecate Strait.
NaiKun Wind Energy Group had the terms of reference for its environmental assessment approved this week by the federal environmental assessment office.
The terms of reference provide the company with details on the areas it will need to study during the coming months in order to get approval for its project.
&#8220;This is an important step forward for NaiKun,&#8221; said Ray Castelli, CEO and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Massive developments planned for rainforest</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Massive commercial power developments are being considered for existing and planned conservancy areas on the B.C. coast, raising doubts about a landmark multi-stakeholder agreement designed to bring peace and economic certainty to an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest.
&#8220;Premier Gordon Campbell is completely going back on his promise to protect this coast,&#8221; charged Ian McAllister, the award-winning author and conservationist who coined the term Great Bear Rainforest and who now works under the banner of Conservation Pacific.
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t world-class, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Queen Charlotte Islands crab fishermen warn offshore project could jeopardize fishery</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A green wind project off the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands has some critics seeing red.
Vancouver-based Naikun Wind Energy Group is developing a wind project in an area known as the Haida energy field. However, the company has installed an off-shore marine meteorological station in waters used by Dungeness crab fishermen.
Crab fisherman Itch Verne has written to federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn to complain.
Verne wrote that the proposed first phase of the Naikun Wind Farm project will cover about .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms get a boost as BC Hydro pays more for power</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[British Columbia&#8217;s pursuit of electricity self-sufficiency should provide an unprecedented boost for a green energy sector that has until now failed to compete with hydro power, a wind project proponent said on Wednesday.
Myke Clark, vice-president of policy and public relations for Finavera Renewables, said the prices BC Hydro is paying independent producers for green energy have reached a level that makes wind farms a viable investment.
Earlier this year, Finavera submitted four wind-farm projects to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm project advances, but angers crabbers</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The company building an offshore wind farm off the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands has recently installed a marine meteorological station, but not everyone is happy the project is proceeding.
Naikun Wind Energy Group, a Vancouver-based energy company, is engaged in the development of a major offshore wind project off the coast of British Columbia in an area known as the Haida Energy Field, which is home to some of Canada’s best wind regimes.
The first phase of the project involves .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Katabatic Power looks to secure new turbine supplier</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A dispute between the proponents of the Mount Hays Wind Farm and AAER Inc. has seen an order for 17 AAER A-1500 wind turbines for the project cancelled, a move that apparently hasn’t been fully accepted by the turbine supplier.
AAER expects Mount Hays Wind Farm Limited Partnership to comply with its covenants on the deal, due to the fact that AAER has on more than one occasion accepted modified payment terms by Mount Hays. It makes for a situation that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria approves wind-power project in Peace River district</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A controversial &#36;240 million wind-power project to be constructed on top of Bear Mountain in B.C.&#8217;s Peace River region has been granted provincial approval.
 According to a government media release issued Monday, B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner and Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister Richard Neufeld made their decision to grant an environmental assessment certificate to the project proponent, Bear Mountain Wind Limited Partnership, following a review of a project assessment conducted earlier this year by the provincial Environmental Assessment .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project gets environmental nod</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The provincial government has granted an environmental certificate to British Columbia&#8217;s first wind energy project, a 120-megawatt, &#36;240-million development proposed for a mountain ridge near Dawson Creek.
On Monday, Environment Minister Barry Penner and Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister Richard Neufeld revealed the decision approving Bear Mountain Wind LP&#8217;s application to build a 57-turbine project 16 km southwest of Dawson Creek, which could pave the way for construction before October.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an important milestone,&#8221; Jim Bracken, president of the Bear Mountain .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed wind farm raises concerns about marine animals</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A proposed wind farm off the coast of B.C. is raising questions about the effects it could have on marine animals in the area.
NaiKun Wind Development Inc. is currently in the process of establishing an extensive wind farm project off the north coast of B.C., between Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands.
&#8220;We are looking at the impact and will be conducting relevant research studies through the environmental impact assessment process,&#8221; said company spokeswoman Sara MacIntyre.
The proposed site would be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>U.K. wind farm company studying report on noise pollution&#39;s effects</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A U.K. company planning to develop a wind farm off B.C.&#8217;s north coast is studying the effects of noise pollution on marine mammals after a report found that whales and dolphins were being stranded.
Sara MacIntyre, director of public affairs and communications at NaiKun Wind Development, said the company is studying the potential impact, following the report by the Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology.
NaiKun Wind Development is establishing a farm between Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands., which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Some bluster at prospect of wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The proposal to put a wind farm on the south side of Mount Hays had recreational users questioning just how the project would impact the community both now and in the future.
The city held a public hearing to amend its zoning bylaw to allow wind farms to be included as a use in the A1 zone, a zone that currently includes such uses a power lines and generating stations.
“This is to amend the bylaw to allow a wind farm on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting set for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Katabatic Power Corporation continues to pursue the development of a wind power project on Mount Hays with a public hearing scheduled for seven p.m. on July 23 following the late June application for a zoning bylaw amendment, a case without precedence in British Columbia.
“What’s unique about this is that it’s a wind power project taking place within the municipal boundary,” explained Mayor Herb Pond, enthusiastic about the future opportunities the project could bring to the community.
“There’s a small amount of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>British Columbia sets guidelines for noise produced by wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[People living near a wind farm in B.C. should be able to sleep easy.
Taking a page from the World Health Organization&#8217;s Guidelines For Community Noise, the province has developed a policy to limit the sound produced by commercial wind developments.
As such, no wind farms in B.C. may produce sound louder than 40 decibels as measured outside a pre-existing residence near the project. Sound is produced at wind turbines by rotor blades slicing through the air and by their mechanical components.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>City council begins process to approve Katabatic wind farm on Mount Hays</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The path to wind power on the North coast began its official journey at Monday night&#8217;s Prince Rupert city council meeting, as the recommendation to place the windfarms as an A1 &#8212; Amenities Zone’, received its first two readings.
Next up for the process will be an open public hearing on the proposed change to its zoning bylaw July 23 at 7 p.m. at city hall, where the public will be asked to provide its input to the Mount Hays windfarm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Some northeast B.C. residents worried about effects of proposed wind power project</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[DAWSON CREEK, B.C. &#8212; Bear Mountain area residents say they just want their voices heard as a nearby wind power project gets closer to being developed.
The Community For Responsible Wind Power formed last year to keep tabs on the proposed wind park.
The project, which would feature 60 78-metre turbines is entering the final days of the environmental assessment process. Should it receive environmental certification, preliminary work in the area could begin this fall
The project would be the first of its .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power the latest energy darling at the green debutantes&#39; ball</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The B.C. push for green sources of electricity appears to have generated unprecedented interest in developing wind power.
Eight major projects are before the provincial environmental assessment office in either the preliminary or subsequent stages of review and approval.
Together they offer several billion dollars in investment, hundreds of construction jobs and enough electrical capacity to make B.C. a national leader in wind-driven power generation.
North Coast Wind Energy is proposing a giant wind farm &#8212; more than 200 turbines spread over 7,000 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm wants Kitimat connection</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday residents had a chance to view a wind power project that is considering Kitimat as the destination for its power.
And it was views that were a concern for the local Naturalist club.
Katabatic Power proposes to install 234 wind turbines on Banks Island, 150 kilometres west of Kitimat.
If Kitimat is chosen as the destination for the power produced, a transmission line would run up the Douglas Channel and connect with the BC Transmission Corporation lines here, explained Katabatic president .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BC&#39;s billion-dollar wind power giveaway</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 10:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell recently had a tête-á-tête to discuss how B.C. could assist California in dealing with its energy crisis. At the same time, the California Utilities Commission gave Pacific Gas and Electric US&#36;14 million to explore renewable energy sources in B.C. and the feasibility of a new transmission corridor stretching from B.C. to the Golden State.
Conspicuously absent from the self-congratulatory press releases about co-operation between the jurisdictions in pursuing a &#8220;green&#8221; agenda was .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Construction time line pushed back</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 21:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Katabatic Power secured a B.C. Hydro contract for a wind farm on Mount Hays on July 27, 2006, company officials had hoped to start construction on the project this month. However it now appears that the construction on the 25.2 MegaWatt power project won&#8217;t get underway until this fall at the earliest.
&#8220;We are hoping to get our contribution agreement from the Federal Government in the coming months. We&#8217;re just working on our construction plan and we&#8217;re in the middle .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore wind farm looking for direction</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Apr 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An offshore wind farm development in the Hecate Strait is diving into new waters and looking for direction.
The NaiKun Wind Energy Group, the company proposing a wind farm in the shallow waters northeast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, is the first company in Canada to have officially entered into the environmental assessment process for an offshore wind farm.
Archie Riddell, project assessment director of the provincial environmental assessment office, said NaiKun has submitted its draft terms of reference and now it .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm begins environmental assessment</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Apr 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The people of Haida Gwaii have only two chances to comment on the environmental assessment for the proposed NaiKun wind farm project.
The first public input period is happening now and ends April 28.
The proponent, NaiKun Wind Development Inc, wants to put 67 to 110 wind turbines in Hecate Strait, off the northeast coast of Graham Island. This first phase of the project would generate 320 MW of power, although Naikun wants to eventually expand the wind farm and produce up .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power company wants to export to U.S.</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Mar 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A California utility&#8217;s plan to scoop green power from British Columbia and ship it south is attracting strong interest from a company with a huge wind-power resource on the central coast.
Katabatic Power says it has about 3,000 megawatts of potential wind-power resources at a 40,000-hectare Banks Island property near Kitimat.
That&#8217;s about twice the total amount of generating capacity that was accepted in BC Hydro&#8217;s 2006 call for power.
The company &#8212; with offices in Richmond and San Francisco &#8212; wants to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Naikun preparing to start environmental assessment</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The president of Naikun Wind Development was in town for four days last week to meet with stakeholder groups to discuss the company&#8217;s proposed 1,750 Megawatt wind farm in Hecate Strait and to bring them news on the project&#8217;s progress.
&#8220;We are going to be kicking off the environmental assessment process in the next week or so and there will be a terms of reference document released once it is approved by the regulators. That will be of interest to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms and crabs may not mix</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crab fishermen don&#8217;t want to get pushed off their fishing ground by a wind energy project in Hecate Strait. 
Geoff Gould, director for Area A Crab Association says crab fishermen are competing with Nai Kun Wind Development for the same 550 square kilometre piece of real estate in Hecate Strait. 
When fully operational, Nai Kun&#8217;s proposed wind farm is projected to produce enough electricity to power 240,000 homes from 350 windmills. 
Mr. Gould says although the company has not divulged .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Katabatic Power secures funding for wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[British Columbia wind farm developer Katabatic Power Corp. has signed a joint venture deal with Deutsche Bank AG, which will see the German financial giant help fund the potentially huge Banks Island wind project near Prince Rupert in northwestern B.C. The bank will contribute an undisclosed amount of money to help pay for design and engineering, the costs of getting environmental permits and negotiating with power buyers, and the purchase of turbines. If Katabatic is successful in bidding for a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Finavera Renewables Collects Wind Data at Five Canadian Sites</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Dec 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finavera Renewables Limited announces a further step in the development of five Canadian wind projects with the erection of meteorological towers on proposed wind power project sites in the Peace Region of British Columbia (BC).
The company is collecting and analyzing wind speed and weather data from the towers in order to determine optimal sites for wind turbines, as well as the potential revenue generated from each project site.
The meteorological tower installation program is key in the development of five projects .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Developer purchases turbines for Mount Hays wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Katabatic Power, the developers of the proposed Mount Hays Wind Farm, took a huge step in making the project a reality last week with the purchase of the wind turbines that will sit atop Mount Hays.
Under the terms of the deal, which represents a value of between &#36;35 million and &#36;80 million Canadian when all options and maintenance agreements are considered, Montreal based AAER will deliver 17 of its 1.5 megawatt turbines to Katabatic Power in the last quarter of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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