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		<title>A boon for Pickens, not for America</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[At a time of economic decline and record-high gas prices, there is something refreshing in an oilman turning into one of the nation&#8217;s leading advocates of renewable energy. This could explain why T. Boone Pickens&#8217; multibillion-dollar efforts to reduce America&#8217;s oil dependence and develop clean energy have garnered so much public attention.
Pickens is right to suggest that America&#8217;s oil dependence is a source of economic ruin and that Congress must act to stop the biggest transfer of wealth in human .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ballot language battle could be key for Prop. 7</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ballot language fights are common this time of year. But they could be particularly important when it comes to Proposition 7. This is because the &#8220;Solar and Clean Energy Initiative&#8221; sounds great to a lot of people. But some environmentalists who oppose the measure say the devil is in the rather complex details.
On Wednesday at 1:30, attorneys will be trying to hash out that language in Sacramento Superior Court. Both the sponsors and the opponents of the measure have filed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Pickens: Wind turbines unlikely off California coast</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says California is leading the nation in the push for alternative energy.
&#8220;You are the model for the United States,&#8221; the Texas oil man told the Orange County Register news staff Tuesday.
But Pickens, who is traveling around the country promoting his plan for weaning the country off foreign oil, says a centerpiece of his alternative fuel campaign – wind power – would be unlikely off the Southern California coast.
Pickens, visiting Orange County as part of a nationwide .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>State utilities to miss energy deadline</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s electrical utilities probably will miss the state&#8217;s 2010 deadline for increasing their use of renewable power and could face a serious obstacle if Congress does not extend tax credits for wind farms and solar plants, according to a report issued Friday.
By the end of 2010, the state&#8217;s large, investor-owned utilities are supposed to ensure that 20 percent of the power they sell comes from such renewable sources as the sun and wind. Utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/04/state-utilities-to-miss-energy-deadline/</link>
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		<title>City opposes solar power measure</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ PASADENA &#8212; The city is opposing a green power initiative on November&#8217;s ballot that would mandate that a set percentage of a utility&#8217;s power be generated with renewable power.
Phyllis Currie, the head of Pasadena Water and Power, estimates that the initiative, called Proposition 7, could raise water and power rates in the city by 35 percent to 40 percent.
&#8220;It would mean we could be mandated to bring on renewable resources much faster than we need them, have the transmission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/03/city-opposes-solar-power-measure/</link>
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		<title>Transmission line opposition takes cartoon form</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a kid, Rik Livingston viewed transmission towers as great big monsters. So with a touch of humor, the artist from Joshua Tree composed a poster showing what a much smaller desert tortoise would think of a proposal by Los Angeles to build a new transmission line through the desert to carry renewable energy.
&#8220;There goes the neighborhood,&#8221; the tortoise tells a jack rabbit and other wildlife around him as they see giant towers marching through a desert landscape.
&#8220;I just wanted .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Prop. 10 looks &#39;green&#39; but it&#39;s the wrong shade</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does T. Boone Pickens have a bone to pick with San Jose?
It looks that way.
The billionaire oilman turned pitchman for alternative energy is the force behind Proposition 10, the initiative on the November ballot that calls for floating &#36;5 billion in bonds to develop alternative energy. As it happens, he&#8217;d also profit from it.
Part of the proposal is to divvy up &#36;200 million equally for demonstration projects in eight California cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Irvine, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Prop. 10 would do more for T. Boone Pickens than state</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is pushing a national campaign to make the United States &#8220;energy independent&#8221; through wind power and vehicles that run on natural gas. His blitz of TV ads featuring his own down-home voice has picked up a lot of admiring news coverage. To date, Pickens has yet to explain whose dime will pay for this.
Well, Californians can clarify exactly whose dime it will be: Ours. Along with being the country&#8217;s biggest wind power developer, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisors OK disputed wind park after deal struck with military contractor</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kern County supervisors Tuesday blessed a disputed wind park project proposed on 5,820 acres 15 miles west of Rosamond.
The project would produce 300 megawatts of power, enough to light at least 90,000 homes, county planners said.
Dispute over the project centered on a military testing facility nearby.
Military contractor Northrop Grumman Co. had said the radar clutter from energy company enXco&#8217;s plans would kill operations at its Tejon Test Facility, where work on the B2 bomber is under way.
A deal was hammered .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind industry, politicians dupe residents of Snow Creek</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[As longtime residents of Riverside County, after many attempts to meet with Supervisor Marion Ashley to discuss the proposed windmills in Snow Creek, we have been met with silence. The county has thrown us residents “under the bus” and do not care to hear any of our concerns.
t matters little to them that we too pay taxes and are trying to preserve our rural way of life, that the wind developers will be stealing our property values, as any property .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/29/wind-industry-politicians-dupe-residents-of-snow-creek/</link>
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		<title>For sale: Slightly used wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is negotiating to sell its wind-power project in Solano County to a private company by the end of the year.
The utility would buy the wind power, potentially at a cheaper rate than SMUD’s current costs of operating the system.
SMUD representatives would not identify the potential buyer.
“Because we’re a municipal utility, we can’t take advantage of production tax credits that are available to private companies,” said Jon Bertolino, SMUD’s superintendent of renewable generation.
 federal tax credit .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Massive wind project seeks county OK</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several thousand acres of desert scrub land west of Rosamond may eventually be dotted with massive wind turbines if Kern County Supervisors support the project Tuesday afternoon.
The PdV Wind Energy Project, proposed by enXco, would use 5,820 acres to generate electricity for Southern California Edison.
It could yield power for 90,000 homes, according to enXco.
Between 100 to 300 turbines would be placed, and construction would be phased.
The turbines could be used for 30 years.
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Co. had concerns the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/27/massive-wind-project-seeks-county-ok/</link>
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		<title>New data shows bird kills up in Altamont</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Efforts to reduce bird kills in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area may not be working, new data released this week show.
The mortality rate increased 27 percent over two years among raptors targeted in an ongoing monitoring study, according to an executive summary of the data issued by Alameda County&#8217;s Scientific Review Committee. The five member panel advises the county on progress being made to mitigate bird deaths in the Altamont Pass windmill area.
The data was gathered from October 2005 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fight is on to preserve Burney&#39;s beautiful skyline</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shasta County’s decisions regarding the Hatchet Ridge Wind Turbine Project will have a dramatic and permanent effect on the quality of life here in the Intermountain area.
The overriding problem is the proposed location. It’s hard to imagine a project site that would have greater visual impact. It is difficult to visualize how enormous these monster turbines would be. Their height of 428 feet is equivalent to a 40-story building. Think of up to 68 Transamerica Pyramids, complete with flashing red .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bird death study continued</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alameda County supervisors approved a new three-month, bird-monitoring contract Tuesday to study the impacts of the Altamont Pass wind turbines on scores of birds, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, burrowing owls and other protected species.
Supervisors approved the &#36;450,000 contract with environmental consulting firm Jones &#038; Stokes by a 3-2 vote, with Keith Carson and Gail Steele opposed. The new deal runs from July 1 to Oct. 14.
In spring 2007, the board approved a &#36;1.4 million, one-year contract with three groups .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine plan dropped</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Strong neighborhood opposition to a proposed wind turbine on a Torrance elementary school campus has prompted officials to drop the project.
Residents near Hickory Elementary School flooded Torrance Unified School District officials with calls Monday after reading in the Daily Breeze about the proposed turbine that would tower almost 40 feet over the neighborhood.
Opponents were concerned about aesthetic, noise and safety issues.
The turbine was intended as an educational project to teach children about environmentally friendly forms of energy.
School district officials announced .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy developers are overloading California&#39;s electric grid; State wants &#36;250,000 up front for new power grid connections</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Renewable energy developers are overloading California&#8217;s electric grid.
Now the state is fighting back. New generators will have to pay &#36;250,000 up front to apply for new grid connections as part of the California Independent System Operator Corp.&#8217;s new plan to reduce delays in the project approval process and to weed out speculative projects.
&#8220;It was very easy to get projects into the queue and we had lot of non-viable projects drop out and get in the way of more viable projects,&#8221; .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Rush of wind power to hit the Northwest</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Utilities and independent developers are poised to more than triple the amount of wind power in the Northwest, a huge increase that underscores the region&#8217;s push for renewable energy.
&#8220;It&#8217;s phenomenal,&#8221; said Elliot Mainzer, a transmission manager with the federal Bonneville Power Administration. &#8220;It&#8217;s more than we expected.&#8221;
Evidence of the wind rush shows up in a recent BPA assessment aimed at finding out how much more electricity will fit on transmission lines now in place for delivery to customers in urban .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Torrance windmill plan faces headwind</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Educational, environmentally responsible, free and even pastoral, the project listed on the Torrance Unified School District board meeting agenda June 16 sounded innocuous enough.
Buried in the consent calendar &#8212; reserved for routine matters for which no discussion is generally needed &#8212; the item concerned a &#36;10,000 grant from British Petroleum for a &#8220;windmill.&#8221;
&#8220;The windmill can teach as well as conserve, by introducing the students to electricity and currents, in alignment with the California Content Standards for Science, while also .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Critics assail &#39;self-serving&#39; ballot measure</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Texas billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens has made no secret of his desire to open up the market for natural gas-powered vehicles. The founder of a company that develops natural gas vehicles, Pickens believes he has a foothold in an emerging field of clean energy resources — just as soaring gas prices and carbon emissions are causing many to look for alternatives.
He&#8217;s gotten kudos from environmental leaders for mounting a national campaign to lead the country away from its reliance .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Allco sells wind farm to pay debts</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allco Finance says it has completed the sale of its US Tehachapi wind farm assets, and has cut its senior debt by &#36;230 million as a result.
Allco announced last month that it and its co-investors had agreed to offload the Californian wind farm, considered one of its best overseas assets, to a US consortium for &#36;US325 million (&#36;346 million).
The sale has resulted in an anticipated after tax net share of sale proceeds for Allco of approximately &#36;163 million, as well .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Constellation unit works to tame wily wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Constellation Energy Group is looking for ways to tame plentiful but unpredictable electricity supplies from wind, a carbon-free resource that supporters say could supply 20 percent of the U.S. power needs by 2030.
Texas now leads the nation in wind generation capacity, as entrepreneurs including billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens join others in a rush to build turbines on the state&#8217;s vast, wind-swept prairies.
But for the nation&#8217;s power grid operators, channeling these new supplies can be a headache, because wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>State&#39;s deadline for renewable power in peril</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s big electrical utilities may miss the state&#8217;s deadline for increasing their use of renewable power if Congress doesn&#8217;t extend tax credits for new solar plants and wind farms, the head of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Friday.
Like all California utilities, San Francisco&#8217;s PG&#038;E has been scrambling to sign contracts with renewable-power developers. State law requires that by the end of 2010, 20 percent of the electricity each utility sells must come from renewable sources.
But Peter Darbee, PG&#038;E&#8217;s chief .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Revised power line report out</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[State regulators Friday released a retooled draft environmental impact report for the Sunrise Powerlink, the &#36;1.5 billion, 150-mile high-voltage transmission line San Diego Gas &#038; Electric wants to string between El Centro and Carmel Valley.
The revised California Public Utilities Commission report contains a new analysis of Sempra Energy&#8217;s proposed La Rumorosa wind farm south of the U.S.-Mexico border in Baja California and discusses 13 revisions to sections of proposed and alternative transmission-line routes.
Unchanged from the original 7,000-page report put out .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Supes split over plan&#39;s windmill quota</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prompted by comments made by the public and city officials a week before, county supervisors Tuesday continued to tweak the proposed general plan update.
Among the topics discussed by the Solano County Board of Supervisors was development in rural areas, future locations of wind turbines near Highway 12 and converting 4,000 acres of land in Collinsville into ag and marsh land.
Supervisors did not take any votes, but talked with staff for about two hours before hearing more than an hour of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The energy crisis: Wind is not the answer</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Factoring in all the costs, wind power is nearly twice as expensive as fossil fuel electric power generation. Wind power is made financially viable &#8212; and, short-term, highly profitable for wind farm developers &#8212; through multiple tax incentives, power production credits, power purchase guarantees, and NYSERDA cash transfers, and this financial burden is borne by us, the taxpayers.
The electrical utility can pass on higher prices to us, the ratepayers. The green from this &#8220;green&#8221; power goes to the developers, who .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the lights on; After delays, SDG&#038;E faces two summers without Sunrise link</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it unveiled its Sunrise Powerlink project three years ago, San Diego County&#8217;s electric utility warned that rolling blackouts like those that swept California during the 2000-01 electricity crisis could return to the region in 2010 without the new power line.
Now, because of state delays in evaluating the &#36;1.5 billion project, that high-voltage transmission line &#8212;- even if it is eventually approved &#8212;- won&#8217;t be available to help meet the county&#8217;s peak summer demand for electricity in either 2010 or .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise opponents to renewable energy measure</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A November ballot measure to boost the amount of renewable energy generated by California utilities has attracted a wildly diverse group of opponents &#8212; from the Natural Resources Defense Council to the Democratic Party and Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like I&#8217;m uniting every warring group in the state,&#8221; said Jim Gonzalez, the former San Francisco supervisor who&#8217;s behind Proposition 7, the Solar and Clean Energy Act of 2008.
The opposition comes as a surprise to Gonzalez and Peter .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Second wind turbine proposed for Lucerne Valley</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A second local wind turbine project was proposed for an area near Camp Rock Road — the latest example in the statewide push for renewable energy as presented at the most recent Municipal Advisory Council meeting.
FPL Energy of Florida plans to construct 34 turbines — which are a total of 389 feet tall, the equivalent of a 40-story building — on just 52 of those acres, explained Eduardo Batalla, director of wind energy projects for the company. The utilized property .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>PG&#038;E inks Oregon wind power deal with Horizon Wind Energy</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pacific Gas &#038; Electric Co. signed a long-term agreement to buy wind power from an Oregon wind farm under development by Horizon Wind Energy LLC, the third-largest owner of wind power projects in the country.
PG&#038;E&#8217;s power purchase agreement, for 102.9 megawatts of wind power, is with Horizon subsidiary Arlington Wind Power Project LLC. Located in Gilliam County, Oregon, the Rattlesnake Road Wind Power Project is currently under construction and is expected to begin operation in the first quarter of 2009. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Extra water, wind strain Northwest power grid</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Electricity &#8212; Dams are producing more than can be sold and spilling excess water, which can harm fish
The Northwest is awash in electric power this spring.
Rivers are swollen. Columbia River dams are running full bore. Wind farm blades are spinning.
That should be good news for the Northwest, where hydropower is cheap and wind is a leader in renewable energy. And it should be good news for California, a huge electricity consumer that often sucks up Oregon&#8217;s springtime surplus.
But a doubling .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>California air board announces plan for carbon-credit trading</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[California air regulators today announced a bold plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions that would alter the way utilities generate electricity, automakers build cars and developers construct buildings, and launch the nation&#8217;s broadest market in carbon-credit trading.
California&#8217;s blueprint is the first comprehensive effort to combat global warming by any American state, and comes nearly three weeks after the U.S. Senate threw out a national greenhouse gas bill that would have set similar targets.
Virtually every sector of the state&#8217;s economy would .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Inland acres in LA power path</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six possible utility routes include razing up to 3,500 houses or infringing on wildland.
A transmission route being considered by Los Angeles to carry renewable energy from the Salton Sea could lead to the condemnation of 3,500 homes and other properties in the Inland region to make way for the needed transmission lines.
The district is seeking energy from solar and wind sources, but is chiefly hoping to capture geothermal energy, which is generated by heat stored beneath the Earth&#8217;s surface.
Known as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed power line puts construction plans on hold</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ CHINO HILLS &#8212; Plans to build the city&#8217;s first large community center are on hold because a proposed power line would run through the property.
Officials said plans for the &#36;6million community center conflict with the &#36;1.8billion Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project, which would bring wind energy from Kern County to the Long Angeles Basin.
The proposed transmission line would run through 5 miles of now inactive Southern California Edison lines in Chino Hills, and the route cuts through what would be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green energy fund is nearly out of steam</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ A fund that helps the state&#8217;s largest utilities buy renewable energy at above-market rates won&#8217;t last much longer, possibly providing the big power firms with a loophole to get out of looming renewable energy mandates.
The state&#8217;s three main investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas &#038; Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas &#038; Electric, get &#36;770 million over eight years between them to purchase renewable energy at above-market rates to help them meet state mandates.
The mandates, established in 2002, require .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power line decision delayed until November; State orders review of wind project, economic benefits</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a setback for San Diego Gas &#038; Electric Co.&#8217;s controversial transmission line, state regulators Friday ordered that a draft report examining the Sunrise Powerlink&#8217;s environmental impacts be expanded to include new information about a Mexico wind power project.
The four-page ruling by California Public Utilities Commissioner Dian Grueneich and Administrative Law Judge Steven Weissman also directs the agency that runs the state power grid to recalculate the economic benefits of Sunrise and project alternatives.
The ruling marked the second time in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>District begins negotiations with wind farmers</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Lassen Municipal Utility District Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee and authorized its general manager to begin negotiations regarding an interconnection agreement with one of the companies proposing the construction of a wind-generation project in Lassen County.
President Bud Bowden said the item was placed on the board’s agenda to give Ray Luhring, the district’s general manager, formal approval to begin negotiations with Invenergy, a wind-generation company proposing a wind farm in the Horse Lake area.
Last month Invenergy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Allco Finance sells Tehachapi wind farm; Shares surge &#40;Update4&#41;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Allco Finance Group, facing a June 30 debt deadline, said it will raise A&#36;165 million (&#36;155 million) from the sale of California&#8217;s largest wind power project to help reduce borrowings.
Allco led a group of investors that agreed to sell the Tehachapi development for &#36;325 million to ArcLight Capital Partners LLC and Terra-Gen Power, the Sydney-based company said in a statement today.
Shares of Allco surged 86 percent to 54 Australian cents at the close of Sydney trading, their biggest gain in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>California utilities scramble to secure renewable power</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Pacific Gas &#038;Electric Co. has under contract all of the renewable power it needs to meet state mandates by 2010, if the promised power systems can be built in time.
It&#8217;s a big if.
Expiring tax credits, the lag in building utility-scale renewable energy and increased competition for renewable power sources are potential roadblocks for the Northern California utility and the state&#8217;s two other major utilities.
California has the strictest renewable mandates in the country. The state requires an investor-owned utility&#8217;s energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power blows away development</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Always concerned about the height of buildings in Palm Springs, Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet recently admonished us to &#8220;get on board&#8221; with wind energy development in the valley (powering up the valley with windmills).
This is a perfect example of economic and environmental injustice where windmills are concerned. Pougnet and his fellow City Council members know that when they advocate wind energy it won&#8217;t be in Palm Springs, in their backyards, wrecking their mountain views and decimating their property values.
Instead, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Utility finds foes to renewable energy line plan</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems like an idea any environmentalist would embrace: Build one of the world&#8217;s largest solar power operations in the Southern California desert and surround it with plants that run on wind and underground heat.
Yet San Diego Gas &#038; Electric Co. and its potential partners face fierce opposition because the plan also calls for a 150-mile, high-voltage transmission line that would cut through pristine parkland to reach the nation&#8217;s eighth-largest city.
The showdown over how to get renewable energy to consumers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>BLM schedules public meetings for West Fry wind energy project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled public scoping meetings for the West Fry wind energy generation facility project, which proposes to install approximately 34 wind turbines and ancillary electric facilities on approximately 3,100 acres of public lands in the West Fry Mountains, within the Johnson Valley off-highway vehicle area northeast of Lucerne Valley, in San Bernardino County, California.
The BLM published a notice of intent (NOI) to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) and plan amendment for the project on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fairfax, PG&#038;E clash over power plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was plenty of electricity but little warmth in Fairfax when a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. representative criticized county plans to provide an alternative source of power.
&#8220;We think the county&#8217;s plan is optimistic with regards to the costs of rene wable power,&#8221; Peter Griffes, director of market design and analysis for PG&#038;E, told the Fairfax Town Council on Wednesday. &#8220;We think the costs will be higher than those specified in its business plan, that its opt-out program is idealistic .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable-energy push puts all eyes on desert; Federal agency flooded with developer proposals</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Speculators have filed applications to develop more than 1 million acres of desert in Southern California with solar, wind and geothermal power plants, setting up a classic clash over land use with environmentalists and off-road enthusiasts.
 They have submitted at least 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees all of the territory, in recent years and especially since 2007. The interest is so hot that even if many of the projects fall through, the remaining ones would .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/06/03/renewable-energy-push-puts-all-eyes-on-desert-federal-agency-flooded-with-developer-proposals/</link>
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		<title>Renewable energy projects meet opposition from environmentalists</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ A rush to build environmentally friendly renewable energy in the windy, sunny Inland region has stirred up some unlikely foes: environmentalists.
They say the projects mean new transmission lines and towers across some of the very mountains and desert vistas people have fought to protect.
&#8220;It seems kind of silly to have a solar project in Blythe (in eastern Riverside County) and send it along transmission lines,&#8221; said Jeff Morgan, chairman of the Sierra Club group in the Coachella Valley. &#8220;They .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>San Bernardino County could be next stop for wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 10:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[PALM SPRINGS &#8212; On Friday morning, elected officials, environmentalists and energy company representatives heralded the unveiling of the Dillon Wind Power Project, a group of 45 turbines towering more than 300 feet above the Coachella Valley.
Experts were quick to talk about how the project will reduce California&#8217;s carbon footprint. Missing from the discussion, though, was a revelation with big import for San Bernardino County.
Energy companies are looking to higher elevations of San Bernardino County as the next frontier for renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Massive wind turbines stirring up green energy and a bit of controversy</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been years in the making and now the new giant windmills are going strong. The Dillion Wind Power Project in North Palm Springs is now complete.
45 new wind turbines, each standing more than 200 feet tall, will now provide valley residents with 45 megawatts of clean, green, renewable energy. This is enough power for more than 13,000 valley homes.
&#8220;It reduces the emissions that would be the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road,&#8221; said Jan Johnson of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sonoma County considers harnessing the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Wind-powered turbines up to 300 feet tall could sprout in Sonoma County, including near Highway 101 at Cotati, as power companies and local governments take advantage of the stiff winds that rush over the region&#8217;s ridges and hills.
Both the county of Sonoma and the Sonoma County Water Agency, which own promising wind power sites, are considering installation of turbines that would help ease reliance on carbon-generating power plants.
&#8220;The potential is here for small-scale generation,&#8221; said John Haig, Sonoma County .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy needs vs. landscape; Giant turbines may be great for environment but not for neighborhood</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ They are an environmentalist&#8217;s dream but possibly a neighborhood nightmare.
Clean and renewable, wind power turbines from 30 feet to 300 feet tall could pepper the Sonoma County landscape, especially at higher, visually prominent locations.
Their kilowatt-hours of electricity would be carbon-free and completely sustainable, wind power advocates say, but their presence might require a profound shift in sensibilities.
&#8220;You&#8217;re not going to ignore them,&#8221; said Alexandra von Meier, associate professor of energy management and design at Sonoma State University.
Von Meier said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation groups urge caution</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[DEATH VALLEY, Calif. &#8212; Green energy projects might be all the fad, but members of conservation groups urged that plans be studied carefully to prevent negative effects on the environment at the annual Devil&#8217;s Hole workshop here last week.
Walt Kuver, who shared a presentation with Donna Lamm, representing the Southern Nye County Conservation District, showed a map highlighting a half-dozen right-of-way permits filed with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for wind and solar projects along most of the south .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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