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	<title>National Wind Watch: News &#187; Canada</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm project to begin construction next spring</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[So far, so good.  
That&#8217;s the feeling of officials with Acciona Energy North America regarding their planned wind farm project near Amherst.  
&#8220;Everything is running according to plan right now,&#8221; company spokesman Eric Schneider said from the company&#8217;s North American headquarters in Chicago. &#8220;We have completed our environmental studies and submitted results of those to the local authorities as part of the permit process.&#8221;  
Announced in May, the project includes the erection of 20, 1.5-megawatt wind turbines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy from the ground up; Fighting city hall is always an uphill battle, but grassroots movements are still possible</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Something happens — a company wants to extract aggregate next to an asparagus farm, a mother of two is killed on a section of highway known for deer crossing, a community realizes it needs a new fire hall — and there is reaction. &#8220;I should write a letter,&#8221; someone might say. &#8220;I should call the newspaper,&#8221; says someone else. &#8220;This needs to be addressed for the sake of our community,&#8221; neighbours decide. &#8220;What can we do?&#8221;
Most of us barely muster .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/democracy-from-the-ground-up-fighting-city-hall-is-always-an-uphill-battle-but-grassroots-movements-are-still-possible/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm plan stirs up concerns; Proposed Amherst Island project could near size of Wolfe Island facility</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wind farm proposed for Amherst Island could approach the size of one of the largest such facilities in Canada, now under construction on Wolfe Island.  
Kingston-based Gaia Power Inc. is developing the Amherst Island wind-power project, called Windlectric, in conjunction with Oakville-based Algonquin Power Management Inc.  
The project is expected to produce a maximum of 200 megawatts, or enough to power roughly 75,000 homes.  
The Wolfe Island project, slated for 198 megawatts, includes 86 turbines.  .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manitoba]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Bats hang out at wind farms&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Ground-breaking research is underway across Western Canada into how wind turbines affect migratory bats, and how to save the furry mammals from being hurt as they fly around the Prairies.
This week, a University of Calgary research team revealed that many dead bats found at a wind farm in Pincher Creek, Alta., had severe internal injuries consistent with a sudden drop in air pressure near wind turbine blades.
One of the authors of the study said the bats, which usually fly .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Cottage country studies wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Madawaska Valley Councillors will go on &#8220;a tour&#8221; to investigate how wind turbine operations affect communities.
A controversy is flaring in the area over proposals to erect several wind turbine farms. One of the proposals would see six of the massive turbines built in the hills outside Wilno, Ont. and it has spawned a well-organized opposition movement called SOS, or Save Our Skyline.
Mayor John Hildebrandt, who has spoken in support of wind power, said the tour would likely take place in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/cottage-country-studies-wind-power/</link>
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		<title>What is killing the bats of Pincher Creek&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wildlife: &#8216;They aren&#8217;t seen as sexy animals&#8217;  
A mystery surrounding the large number of dead animals on a wind farm in Alberta prompted a groundbreaking study at the University of Calgary that found the drop in air pressure around some turbines resulted in fatal respiratory injuries  
Alberta proudly leads the country when it comes to producing wind energy, but in 2005, a troubling mystery began to emerge at a newly opened wind farm near Pincher Creek.  
A .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind turbine plan concerns Guildwood residents; Toronto Hydro tests possibility of wind farm in Lake Ontario</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several residents of Guildwood are concerned about the possibility of a wind farm being built two kilometres offshore in Lake Ontario. 
Roy Wright just found out about the proposal for a wind monitoring station by Toronto Hydro through a notice in the Scarborough Mirror on Aug. 13. Since then he&#8217;s spoken to many of his neighbours who he said also didn&#8217;t know about the proposal. 
&#8220;Since I&#8217;ve been telling people they&#8217;ve just been appalled at it,&#8221; he said. 
Wright&#8217;s home .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/wind-turbine-plan-concerns-guildwood-residents-toronto-hydro-tests-possibility-of-wind-farm-in-lake-ontario/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>The winds of change in our energy consumption could still be light years away</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it comes to beating our oil addiction, more and more people believe the answer is blowing in the wind.
In the global conversation taking place around clean, renewable power, wind is the It source of the moment. No less than T. Boone Pickens, the legendary 80-year-old Texan who made billions in the oil industry, is betting it will provide the gushers of tomorrow. He&#8217;s spending &#36;10-billion to build the largest wind farm in the world. 
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/the-winds-of-change-in-our-energy-consumption-could-still-be-light-years-away/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Alta. wind farms prove deadly for bats</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Air pressure changes caused by wind farms are killing large numbers of bats, say biologists who are studying the tiny corpses falling out of the sky near turbines in southern Alberta. 
They say the bats&#8217; lungs over-inflate as air pressure drops near the fast-spinning turbines bursting blood vessels and capillaries. 
&#8220;Their lungs fill with fluid and they can no longer breathe,&#8221; says Erin Baerwald, of the University of Calgary, lead author of a report on the bat deaths released Monday .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/alta-wind-farms-prove-deadly-for-bats/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Subsidies for wind power blow over</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 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, but .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/subsidies-for-wind-power-blow-over/</link>
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		<title>Offshore wind development under discussion; US congresswoman visits Bayham to investigate international possibilities</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is an international wind power development in Lake Erie in the offing?
Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur toured the site of the Erie Shores Wind Farm Wednesday morning. She represents the stretch of Ohio shoreline from just outside of Cleveland to the Michigan border. Accompanying Kaptur were officials with the University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
A meeting between Canadian government representatives, Bayham officials including Mayor Lynn Acre and Erie .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/offshore-wind-development-under-discussion-us-congresswoman-visits-bayham-to-investigate-international-possibilities/</link>
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		<title>Sorry, can&#39;t support wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a real conflict emerging over the proposed wind turbines apparently to be installed from Dacre, all along the Opeongo Line through Wilno, Barry&#8217;s Bay and to Algonquin Park.
Neighbors are getting set against one another over this; even some families have started to split, brother against brother.
The issue has serious implications for all of Renfrew County.
Wind turbines sound great when you first hear about them. Who is against renewable energy?
Farmers who struggle to make a living are eying up .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/sorry-cant-support-wind-turbines/</link>
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		<title>Wind project not dead yet; Controversial Gulf Shore project may return</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[AMHERST &#8212; Despite failing to secure a contract with Nova Scotia Power, a controversial wind farm project proposed for the Pugwash area is not dead.
&#8220;We have not abandoned our plans to pursue that project,&#8221; Atlantic Wind Power Corporation president Charles Demond said Monday. &#8220;We&#8217;re still interested in building a wind farm there. It may be scaled back a bit from what we were proposing, but it will still be a very good wind farm.&#8221;
Atlantic Wind Farms originally planned to develop .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/wind-project-not-dead-yet-controversial-gulf-shore-project-may-return/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind firm seeks strategy shakeup</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of Canada&#8217;s up-and-coming wind power developers, EarthFirst Canada Inc. , has called in consultants to look for &#8220;strategic alternatives&#8221; after its key project in British Columbia was hit with cost overruns and a lowered estimate of potential energy production.
EarthFirst&#8217;s predicament underlines the precarious economics of the wind business &#8212; especially for small developers &#8212; even at a time of booming growth for the industry.
The Calgary-based firm said yesterday that it has hired Blair Franklin Capital Partners Inc. and GMP .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/wind-firm-seeks-strategy-shakeup/</link>
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		<title>Grey Highlands considers wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A proposal to put up some 10 Turbine wind generators in Grey Highlands will come to council soon.
Aim PowerGen is looking at spending 25 million dollars and plans to sell the Hydro to Ontario Power Generation.
Grey Highlands received public input at a recent meeting and Mayor Brian Mullin expects it come to council either tomorrow or at the September council meeting.
Aim PowerGen wants to put up two meterological towers in the area to find the best location for the permanent .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/grey-highlands-considers-wind-turbines/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm gets infusion of cash</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[SOURIS — The East Point Wind Farm received a boost from the federal government&#8217;s new ecoENERGY Initiative Thursday that could translate into as much as &#36;9 million over the next 10 years for producing green power. 
The grant is part of a &#36;1.48-billion renewable power program aimed at increasing Canada’s supply of green energy from sources like wind, biomass, hydro, geothermal, solar and ocean movement.
Mike Allen, MP for Tobique-Mactaquac, was at East Point to present the grant on behalf of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/wind-farm-gets-infusion-of-cash/</link>
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		<title>County gets primer on wind farms; Public meeting held in Picton</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A crowd of more than 200 people filled the Prince Edward Community Centre Wednesday evening to hear first hand about a large wind farm on Wolfe Island scheduled to start any day.
Frontenac Islands (which includes Wolfe Island) Mayor Jim Vanden Hoek was on hand to talk about the process his municipality went through to see construction about to begin.
Monday, council cleared the path for commencement of the project that will see 86 2.5-megawatt turbines erected, by approving a site plan .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/county-gets-primer-on-wind-farms-public-meeting-held-in-picton/</link>
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		<title>Wind farm output exaggerated</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once again, I read in theWhig-Standard that the Wolfe Island wind power project is going to produce enough power for 75,000 Ontario homes (&#8221;The winds of change,&#8221;Aug. 12). This is just not true.
In response to an enquiry, Hydro One informed me that the average Ontario home with electrical heating uses 1,700 kilowatt hours of electricity per month; for homes with non-electrical heating, the figure is 850 kilowatt hours per month. Since some homes use electric heating as the primary heating .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/wind-farm-output-exaggerated/</link>
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		<title>Fate of wind farm still to weather public storm</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[NORWICH &#8212; When Ken Alan looks out his bedroom window he can see the test tower that has been erected to collect data on the feasibility of a wind farm in his neighbourhood. 
Alan lives four doors down from the potential site east of Oxford Road 59 between Oxford Road 40 (Curries Road) and Gunn’s Hill Road. 
Curious about the project, Alan along with other neighbours and citizens went to a meeting held by the company developing the project, ProWind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/fate-of-wind-farm-still-to-weather-public-storm/</link>
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		<title>Officials try to hurry pace of permits for MATL</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northcentral Montana county commissioners, frustrated by the slow pace of environmental review, called on Gov. Brian Schweitzer Tuesday to redouble efforts to a get permit approved for a 200-mile transmission line between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s just like a snail crawl,&#8221; said Harvey Worrall, chairman of the Chouteau County Commission.
Worrall&#8217;s comments came at a news conference on the steps of the Chouteau County Courthouse here. Commissioners from nine counties were in town to attend the fall meeting of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/25/officials-try-to-hurry-pace-of-permits-for-matl/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Brunswick]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind parks being studied</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shear Wind Inc., a Halifax-based energy development company with an office in Alberta, is studying two Restigouche County sites as possible locations for windmill parks. 
Last week the company announced that it is looking at sites at Benjamin River and Mann Siding. 
Speaking from her office in Calgary, Shear Wind&#8217;s managing director, Louise Clarke, said that the Benjamin River site is some distance back from the coast. She was not sure about the exact location of the Mann Siding site.
Mann .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/20/wind-parks-being-studied/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saskatchewan]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>First Nations partner with TransAlta to develop wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[REGINA &#8212; As a result of an agreement signed Monday, there could soon be a new crop of windmills springing up on the Saskatchewan prairie. 
All Nations Energy Developments Corp., which is owned by the Cowessess and George Gordon First Nations, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Calgary-based TransAlta Corp. to develop a proposed 100-megawatt wind farm, which could be located on the Cowessess First Nation. 
According to Grady Lerat, who sits on the All Nations Energy board of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/19/first-nations-partner-with-transalta-to-develop-wind-farm/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Information session to focus on wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prince Edward County Mayor Leo Finnegan is adamant a public information session on windmills this week won’t turn into a debate.
&#8220;That’s not what this is about,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have people coming to give information about windmills because it is a very important issue here right now. The presenters will take about half an hour each and then there will be a question period but it won’t turn into a debate.
While the meeting is being organized by the municipality’s Environmental .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/18/information-session-to-focus-on-wind-farms/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm debate blows</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a debate gradually becoming more polarized. 
A calm beginning at Thursday&#8217;s public meeting about the proposed wind farm project in Norwich, turned into a heated, yet respectful discussion among frustrated community members and representatives from ProWind Canada and MK Ince and Associates, the hired environmental consultant company. 
The public meetings are part of the environmental assessment process, and each visitor during the four-hour open house was asked to fill out a survey outlining their specific concerns from noise, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/18/wind-farm-debate-blows/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prince Edward Island]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Government gives OK to erect lines along trail</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[SUMMERSIDE — Maritime Electric has been given the go ahead by the province for the first phase of wind-generated energy transmission line along the Confederation Trail – but there are conditions. 
The utility company wants the line to transport wind energy from the Suez Energy North America West Cape wind park and provide capacity for other wind energy projects. The proposed route runs along about 12.5 km of Confederation Trail. 
Kim Griffin, communications director for Maritime Electric, said “We had .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/16/government-gives-ok-to-erect-lines-along-trail/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=16934</guid>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Proposed turbines continue to draw discussion</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was a full house in Norwich council chambers Tuesday morning as concerned community members and a representative from Prowind Canada addressed council about the controversial and potential Gunn&#8217;s Hill wind farm.
Council was asked to weigh both sides of the debate, with the opposition requesting a moratorium on any further development until a decision is reached. They were also reminded municipalities have the right to enforce the setback distance of their choice.
Currently the Ministry of the Environment only sets distances .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/15/proposed-turbines-continue-to-draw-discussion/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind projects could score big in New England; N.B. sites could reach lucrative American market</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Brunswick has all of the factors required for wind energy exports, say industry representatives.
&#8220;It&#8217;s great to have a whole bunch of renewable generation sitting up here, but if you don&#8217;t have the pipeline to get it there, it&#8217;s not going to happen,&#8221; said Wayne Snowdon, vice-president of generation with NB Power.
Snowdon&#8217;s comments come on the heels of an announcement by Shear Wind Inc. that it&#8217;s studying the idea of building up to 1,000 megawatts of wind energy at two .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/15/wind-projects-could-score-big-in-new-england-nb-sites-could-reach-lucrative-american-market/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Alberta issues permit for MATL tie line</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. was granted a permit from the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board on Tuesday to construct the Canadian stretch of a 215-mile electrical transmission line between Great Falls and Lethbridge.
The line is expected to spur wind farm construction in northcentral Montana.
The EUB permit was the final OK needed for the Alberta portion, which makes up about 40 percent of the entire project, said Bob Curran, an EUB spokesman. Canada&#8217;s National Energy Board previously approved the plan.
&#8220;It means .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/14/alberta-issues-permit-for-matl-tie-line/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Could wind-farm project drive boom in northern N.B.&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two proposed wind farms in northern New Brunswick could become an extension of the southern energy hub, says one expert.
Shear Wind Inc. announced Tuesday it&#8217;s studying two sites in the province, one in Benjamin River near Campbellton, and another at Mann Siding, between Campbellton and Grand Falls.
Both projects, which could bring &#36;2 billion into the province, would begin as 150-megawatt farms with the potential to expand up to 500 megawatts each.
The estimated cost of both projects is &#36;585 million.
&#8220;It&#8217;s good .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/14/could-wind-farm-project-drive-boom-in-northern-nb/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Transmission line permit granted</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board on Tuesday granted a permit to a Calgary-based company to construct a 230-kilovolt transmission line between Lethbridge, Alberta, and Great Falls.
The Montana Alberta Tie Ltd., a subsidiary of Tonbridge Power out of Toronto, announced the decision this morning. The transmission line is called the Montana Alberta Tie Line.
“We want to thank all landowners who have and continue to meet and work with us,” said Bob Williams, the company’s vice president of regulatory.
As a condition .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/transmission-line-permit-granted/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Developers should pay for wind turbine vandalism</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Americans are barking up the wrong tree by promoting wind turbine construction, regardless of where it is proposed to build the turbines.
Many people have tunnel vision, believing that wind turbine-generated energy is somehow linked to reversing the growth in, and impact of, greenhouse gas emissions.
There is no evidence anywhere that wind turbine energy is displacing fossil fuel dependence, or slowing the rate of greenhouse gas emissions growth. Wind turbine energy is a non-factor in the endless growth agenda of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/developers-should-pay-for-wind-turbine-vandalism/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prince Edward Island]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbines returned to work</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[All 10 turbines at a wind farm in eastern P.E.I. are back in operation for the first time since March, when six of them were taken offline due to problems in their gear boxes.
The &#36;47 million project at East Point had only been spinning for a little over a year when the problem was discovered. Originally, the province thought repairs would be done two months ago, but testing on the final repair was only completed Tuesday.
In the spring, strong winds .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/wind-turbines-returned-to-work/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>AltaLink to consider going underground</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ It’s been thwarted in its attempt to build a new Calgary-Edmonton transmission line. But now AltaLink — Canada’s largest “independent” electrical carrier — is hoping for better luck with its plans for an upgraded line to carry wind-power energy between Pincher Creek and Lethbridge.
The Calgary-based company, which took control of TransAlta transmission lines in 2002 as part of the Klein government’s deregulation scheme, has been planning the 240-kilovolt link since 2005. It also spent three years promoting a 500-kV .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/altalink-to-consider-going-underground/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Sask. First Nation announces wind power project</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
A Saskatchewan First Nation is getting into the wind power business.
Beardy&#8217;s and Okemasis First Nation, located about 90 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, plans to develop a 100-megawatt wind farm in the rural municipality of Big Quill.
The First Nation is partnering on the project with SkyPower, a Toronto wind power company.
Beardy&#8217;s and Ogemais Chief Rick Gamble said the project will provide local benefits, including job training programs and employment for locals.
It will also have a positive impact on local tourism, he .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/sask-first-nation-announces-wind-power-project/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Shear wind power play; 1,000 megawatts N.S. firm exploring feasibility of two new wind farms in New Brunswick</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shear Wind Inc. is studying the idea of building up to 1,000 megawatts of wind energy in northern New Brunswick, a move that could pump as much as &#36;2 billion into the province.
The Halifax-based firm (TSX:V:SWX) is studying two sites in the province, one at Benjamin River outside of Campbellton an another at Mann Siding, which is located between Campbellton and Grand Falls, near Kedgwick.
Both projects would begin as 150 megawatt farms and could expand up to 500 megawatts each, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/shear-wind-power-play-1000-megawatts-ns-firm-exploring-feasibility-of-two-new-wind-farms-in-new-brunswick/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=16645</guid>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm plan breezes through</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind-power project to erect six turbines in Lakeshore met little opposition at a public meeting in St. Joachim Tuesday.
Wind Prospect Inc., a U.K.-based company which has an office in Windsor, plans to erect the 80-metre turbines between Belle River and St. Joachim. The turbines will be in farm fields near Concession 3 north of County Road 42 and south of the CP railway line.
Lucas Reindler, the project manager, estimated the turbines would power 3,000 homes.
Four property owners have agreed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/13/wind-farm-plan-breezes-through/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind tower company pulls out of Beaverton plan</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[An alternative energy company has pulled the plug on a proposed wind farm in the area.
Township council recently received a letter from Matt Ladner, vice president of corporate affairs for AIM PowerGen, saying the company would not pursue its project any further.
&#8220;It is with great disappointment that we write this letter to inform you of AIM PowerGen Corporation&#8217;s decision to officially withdraw our interest association with the proposed Simcoe Shores Wind Farm,&#8221; the letter reads.
Despite numerous attempts, Mr. Ladner could .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/12/wind-tower-company-pulls-out-of-beaverton-plan/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Green power OK&#39;d</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chatham-Kent council reaffirmed on Monday that it is open for business when it comes to renewable energy.
The decision followed a presentation of a wind turbine action plan by economic development services.
Kim Cooper, agricultural co-ordinator with the department, said there were concerns with mixed messages, especially since council recently voted to increase turbine minimum setback distances.
&#8220;It has raised some issues and we&#8217;re trying to address those,&#8221; he said.
The report was requested in April and discussed building relationships with wind energy companies, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/12/green-power-okd/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Metlakatla wind farm deal</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The company hoping to build a huge wind farm off the Queen Charlotte Islands says it has signed a commercial agreement with the Metlakatla First Nation.
The transmission line from Naikun Wind Energy&#8217;s proposed farm would run through the First Nation&#8217;s traditional territory to connect with the B.C. Hydro grid south of Prince Rupert.
The agreement provides economic and financial benefits for Metlakatla and access for Naikun.
The company reached an agreement with the Lax Kw&#8217;alaams First Nation earlier this year.
Metlakatla Chief Harold .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/12/metlakatla-wind-farm-deal/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nova Scotia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbine will remain inactive</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[AMHERST – The wind turbine at the Cumberland RCMP detachment likely won’t be spinning anytime soon.
Detachment head Staff Sgt. Frank Kingston said Thursday he is awaiting word from the company on what caused a fire in an electrical panel before he allows the turbine to be reactivated.
“We had a fire in one of our panels and subsequently it has been shut down,” Kingston said. “I’m waiting for a report from the company as to the cause of the fire. Until .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/12/wind-turbine-will-remain-inactive/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wellington County finally sets its wind turbine policies</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[After many months, Wellington County coun­cil has formally approved its policy for hydro generation by wind power.
Council passed an official plan amendment at its June meet­ing to make formal all the rules for wind turbines.
There was only one person who addressed council the day it made its decision. Gary Pundsack, of Energy Wind Can­ada, told council his com­pany has been planning for wind energy in Mapleton since 2004. “I’m very keen to get started,” he said, noting that phase one .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/07/wellington-county-finally-sets-its-wind-turbine-policies/</link>
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		<title>Suncor signing agreements with land owners for wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A spokesperson for Suncor Energy says the company has been signing land optioning agreements with Huron East residents to gain access to their land to study wind resources with plans to develop a wind power project over the next few years.
Coral Hulse says the Alberta-based company has been meeting with local landowners since January and has been studying wind conditions in the rural area bordered by Winthrop Road, Manley Line, Highway 8 and Division Line.
But plans for the project can .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/07/suncor-signing-agreements-with-land-owners-for-wind-project/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>NSP tries to clean up logjam; Utility asks regulator to let projects breeze through</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lineup of clean energy projects looking to hook up to Nova Scotia’s power grid could impede Nova Scotia Power from meeting the province’s 2010 renewable energy target.
&#8220;It is an obstacle and a hurdle that we need to overcome,&#8221; said Margaret Murphy, spokeswoman for the utility.
On Wednesday, NSP asked its regulator, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, to step in and allow seven wind projects that won renewable energy contracts from the company this spring, to jump the queue .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/07/nsp-tries-to-clean-up-logjam-utility-asks-regulator-to-let-projects-breeze-through/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<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>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/05/wind-energy-companies-eyeing-the-fraser-valley/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=16130</guid>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Prime property for wind turbines; County on radar of green power companies</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The high cost of energy and the push for green power has prompted a gold rush of sorts, as companies eye Renfrew County as a host for a series of ambitious wind power projects.
While still far from certain, several companies have made serious inroads into making large scale wind generation here a reality, with others making inquiries.
Test sites and leasing agreements with landowners are being lined up, some of which could be ready to proceed as early as the next .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/02/prime-property-for-wind-turbines-county-on-radar-of-green-power-companies/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=15999</guid>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Bigger states balk at chipping in for N.H. transmission lines</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Positions taken by officials in Connecticut and Massachusetts are thwarting plans to construct several renewable energy projects in New Hampshire’s North Country.
Governors of the six New England states met July 9 for their New England Governors Conference meeting in Boston to discuss energy and try to forge, among other things, an agreement on funding new transmission lines to bring electricity from remote wind and biomass power plants in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire to the urban centers on the Eastern .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/01/bigger-states-balk-at-chipping-in-for-nh-transmission-lines/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=15954</guid>
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		<title>Not much benefit to wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The Intelligencer&#8217;s July 25th editorial, &#8220;Trenton should carefully consider wind energy&#8221; is as ill-informed about wind turbines as the title suggests. Wind energy concerns Prince Edward County; Picton, not Trenton, is the seat of government; and the highly proclaimed economic benefits of wind farms are questionable.
The financial gains are modest. Lump-sum payments under amenities agreements do little more than compensate for the cost of new or improved infrastructure. After the wind farm is constructed, there remain only a few .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/31/not-much-benefit-to-wind-turbines/</link>
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		<title>Shoreline turbines may double</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans are in the works to double the number of Kruger Energy Company&#8217;s 44 wind turbines along the Lake Erie shoreline.
The Chatham Daily News learned Wednesday the Quebec- based company plans to submit its project expansion proposal to the Ontario Power Authority before November.
Jean Roy, Kruger&#8217;s vice-president of operations, said the current &#36;270-million project will be fully operational by late September.
Roy, along with other top company officials, including vice-president Jacques Gauthier of Montreal, held a wind farm construction update and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/31/shoreline-turbines-may-double/</link>
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		<title>Road use is only wind farm issue for KHR</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even though there are no wind turbines planned for properties in the township of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards, that hasn’t stopped concerned residents from voicing their opinions to Mayor Janice Visneskie and the councillors.
The mayor, who is also the warden of Renfrew County, said at last week’s KHR council meeting that she’s hearing both positive and negative comments about wind farms. Her concern for KHR is “whether our roads will be used and what protection we have if they’re damaged.”
She .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/30/road-use-is-only-wind-farm-issue-for-khr/</link>
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		<title>Green Shift more a wealth shift</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a person with an environmental engineering degree, I was very eager to attend Liberal party leader Stephane Dion&#8217;s town hall meeting last week to gain more information about the Green Shift. However, what I saw was less of an environmental plan and more about winning votes through wealth redistribution.
I&#8217;m sure many in the crowd loved the platitudes. After all, who doesn&#8217;t care about our children&#8217;s future? Who doesn&#8217;t want a cleaner, more prosperous country? Dion is being a demagogue .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/30/green-shift-more-a-wealth-shift/</link>
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