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		<title>Troublesome winds blowing</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/troublesome-winds-blowing/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The proposed wind energy project for North Perth and Perth East has shaken this community. Letters to the editor are arriving on a daily basis. Normally laid-back and meek residents are speaking out on their beliefs. Tensions ran high during a recent Invenergy Canada delegation at North Perth municipal council. Folks are concerned, confused and many are downright fighting mad about wind turbines. It isn’t every day that a controversy of this magnitude takes a small-town community like this by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable mythology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In its February newsletter, Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative tells customers they will soon have the chance to buy electricity from Duke Energy Renewable’s 6.4-megawatt Murfreesboro Solar Project in Hertford County — and it will cost more — practically double what they pay for electricity now. “CCEC’s Board of Directors approved the ‘solar rate’ of 18.71¢ kWh (kilowatt hour),” said the newsletter. “CCEC’s standard rates are 8.9¢ kWh during non-summer months (November through May) and 9.98¢ kWh during the summer (June through .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/turbine-trouble/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It is grimly appropriate that the Conservative MPs’ rebellion over onshore wind power, which has landed, in the form of a letter, on the desk of new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey, has coincided with the onset of Britain’s big freeze. For it is, of course, at times of very cold weather that the extra electricity provided by wind turbines is most needed. Yet it is also at such times that these machines are at their most useless, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Color hydroelectric power green</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/color-hydroelectric-power-green/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[There is a law of unintended consequences. When Gov. Brown signed a bill by state Sen. Joe Simitan (D-Palo Alto) into law, it meant private and public utilities must get 33 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020. That&#8217;s up from the present 20 percent. The senator said in a news release that the bill &#8220;confirmed California&#8217;s long-term commitment to clean green energy.&#8221; He meant power from the wind and sun. But it also put one of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Save community planning groups from developer-backed scheme to squelch local input</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/03/save-community-planning-groups-from-developer-backed-scheme-to-squelch-local-input/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[“People will never hear about projects until after they’re done if this [elimination of planning groups] goes through.” – Mark Ostrander, chair, Jacumba sponsor group February 2, 2012 (San Diego’s East County) – I&#8217;ve rarely published an editorial, reserving my opinion for only those matters with the gravest of consequences for East County. One such matter will come before San Diego&#8217;s Supervisors on February 29, when supervisors will vote on whether or not to eliminate all community planning groups countywide. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up for environment – say no to wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/03/stand-up-for-environment-say-no-to-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[We strongly support the all-party group of MPs quoted in your article &#8220;MPs call on Cameron to re-examine regulations for onshore wind farms&#8221; who are calling for the government to fundamentally review its support (through subsidy) for wind turbines, which they describe as inefficient, costly, and doing more harm than good. This timely recognition of the true nature of this over-hyped technology may possibly come just in time to save parts of Cornwall&#8217;s beautiful and extraordinary landscape from being ruined .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A misguided effort to aid Maryland wind projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/31/a-misguided-effort-to-aid-maryland-wind-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a proposal that might sound great in a stump speech: Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) wants to erect wind turbines off Maryland’s coast, eventually generating perhaps a third of the state’s electricity carbon-free. The plan is central to Mr. O’Malley’s recently announced 2012 agenda. But it’s a bad deal for nearly everyone in Maryland — including people who believe, as we do, in moving away from fossil fuels. Perversely, Mr. O’Malley’s bill would corrupt the anti-carbon policy Maryland already has. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Unneeded wind turbines can&#8217;t help environment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/30/unneeded-wind-turbines-cant-help-environment/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[We knew this day was coming but still somehow hoped a voice of reason would provide a solution to a dilemma now faced by power companies. Washington voters approved an initiative in 2006 that required power companies to create green energy or buy credits from others who do. And the first mandate, requiring many utilities to purchase 3 percent of their power from renewable sources, kicks in this month. Unfortunately, hydropower isn&#8217;t considered renewable under the initiative. If it were, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Legality only one issue in deal with Delahunt</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/legality-only-one-issue-in-deal-with-delahunt/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Cities or towns that hire former U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt as a lobbyist must follow more than just the letter of the law; they must also consider perceptions tied to the fact that they could be paying Delahunt with money he approved while in Congress. This could happen anywhere in the many communities Delahunt represented in Congress, but this week’s controversy is in Hull, where officials now say they will let the U.S. Department of Energy decide if it is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Stick with what is known</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/stick-with-what-is-known/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The neighbors of the West Falmouth wind turbines want an epidemiological study done on the health impacts of turbines. They are convinced that some in the area have suffered physical harm from the machines. Research done to date, according to a state ordered review of the data, reveals no connection between wind turbines and health effects. That doesn’t mean there is no connection; it just means the data collected so far does not show it. It is possible that further .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Winds of change</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/winds-of-change-4/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[As Prime Minister, David Cameron is one of the most photographed men in Britain. Yet one of the most iconic images comes from the early months of his Tory leadership, hugging a husky on a visit to the Scott-Turner glacier in Norway. Even though he had hired a private jet to see evidence of global warming, Mr Cameron wanted to embrace the environment as a campaigning issue and show to voters that the Conservative Party would be radically different under .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Now the fight&#8217;s above ground</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/26/now-the-fights-above-ground/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It isn’t possible that the directors of the Suffolk County Water Authority would harbor a grudge, is it? They wouldn’t seek to erect a power-generating windmill, as big as any standing anywhere on the North Fork, in the middle of wooded preserve teeming with wildlife near the shores of a tranquil lake as a “gotcha!” for the town’s unyielding — and ultimately successful — opposition to their cockamamie scheme to spend millions to bring public water to Orient, where the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Keep wind turbines far from homes</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/23/editorial-keep-wind-turbines-far-from-homes/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A Massachusetts report last week that concludes there is no evidence to support the existence of &#8220;Wind Turbine Syndrome&#8221; is welcome news to wind energy proponents. But the study does not invalidate the complaints and suggestions raised by residents who live in their shadow and think that homes and wind turbines are a bad combination. Like any other power generator, wind turbines come with their own unique set of annoyances and potential dangers. Those who live near them have raised .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Behind The Headlines: Wind farm arguments go on</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/23/behind-the-headlines-wind-farm-arguments-go-on/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In recent months it seems rarely a week goes by in our newsroom when information about a wind farm proposal, application or appeal does not land in our inboxes at the Chronicle &#038; Echo. With an ever-growing list of sites for me to keep an eye on for updates – currently standing at 21 – it wasn’t much of a surprise when the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) contacted us this week about its fears that Northamptonshire is becoming .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Project Hayes: counting the costs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/23/project-hayes-counting-the-costs/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The extent to which Meridian Energy&#8217;s ditching of its controversial Project Hayes wind farm has been met with mixed reactions by even ardent environmentalists gives some clues as to the complexity of the energy issues the decision anticipates. On the one hand, while many people who are not otherwise particularly &#8220;green&#8221; have been able to appreciate, and react against, the visual pollution the wind farm on the Lammermoor Range would have represented, other environmentalists who believe staunchly in renewable energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Going green has its hiccups</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/22/going-green-has-its-hiccups/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Having crafted its Green Energy Act in too much of a hurry, Ontario’s government is making changes on the fly. Its exclusive and secret development deal with Samsung was so lucrative for the Korean industrial giant and potentially so costly to Ontario’s economy and its power consumers (i.e., everyone) that the government said it would pay less. It rushed to get solar energy customers signed into power deals that were also lucrative but it failed to measure the ability of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm report: when spin meets research</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/20/wind-farm-report-when-spin-meets-research/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The evolution of spin and manipulation of fact reached new levels this week following the release of a CSIRO report which detailed research into community sentiment about wind farms. Included in the report was an analysis of media coverage of wind farm developments and a conclusion that a minority opposed to such projects received better coverage than those who held more supportive views. The Courier, which was not assessed as part of the research, was one of the few media .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>When spin meets research</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/20/when-spin-meets-research/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The evolution of spin and manipulation of facts reached new levels of clarity this week following the release of a CSIRO report which detailed research into community sentiment about wind farms. Included in the report was an analysis of media coverage of wind farm developments and a conclusion that a minority opposed to such projects received better coverage than those who held more supportive views. The Courier, which was not assessed as part of the research, was one of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbulent times ahead for SNP energy policy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/19/turbulent-times-ahead-for-snp-energy-policy/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Scotland has an energy policy but is it sustainable? A precursor to the tensions ahead was indicated yesterday when Highland councillors rejected plans for a major windfarm on the borders of the Cairngorm National Park. The application must now go to a public inquiry before Scottish ministers decide whether to give it the go-ahead. A public inquiry will delay this proposal by months or years but it will allow Scotland to have a debate it desperately needs about the relative .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fairhaven needs answers before turbines are built</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/15/fairhaven-needs-answers-before-turbines-are-built/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[If opponents of the two industrial wind turbines being constructed in Fairhaven have followed all the rules, they will succeed in forcing a special Town Meeting vote on the project, perhaps in February. We hope such an election can take place, because there has been little to demonstrate what the deliberative body feels about a wind project initially approved by a vote of 141-98 almost five years ago. The democratic process isn&#8217;t limited to Town Meeting, however, and based on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A solution depends on unity</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/14/a-solution-depends-on-unity/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[We are growing weary of the issue. We are weary of the accusations of conflict of interest and incompetence of town officials, the silence of town officials. The problem at this point could not be clearer: the town’s wind turbines have intruded on the lives of residents in that area. The community must now find a solution. More bickering, more accusations of unfairness, of conspiracy will do nothing, nothing whatsoever, to help get to that solution. We understand the distress .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New ordinance bans windmills on most lots</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/14/new-ordinance-bans-windmills-on-most-lots/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Most Elko County residents won’t need to worry about their neighbor installing a loud, unsightly wind turbine next door, thanks to a new ordinance that broadly interprets a state law regulating the alternative energy devices. The battle between green-energy advocates and their opponents has been going on at the state level for the past few years. In 2009, a Democrat-sponsored bill greatly limited the factors local governments could take into account in crafting regulations for solar and wind generators. Windmill .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Not all birds equal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/14/not-all-birds-equal/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The federal government has shown a curious inconsistency in its concern for wildlife over the past quarter century or so. Early in that period, the plight of the spotted owl was deemed so dire that, by way of a federal judge’s ruling and the subsequent policies of several federal agencies, it was decided that only a drastic curtailment of logging on public lands could fix the problem. Northwest salmon and steelhead runs were afforded similarly aggressive protection. By contrast, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>For wind turbines, ticking the boxes is not good enough</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/13/for-wind-turbines-ticking-the-boxes-is-not-good-enough/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It will be deeply ironic if the damage to a wind turbine which has temporarily closed a windfarm in Mid Wales was caused by high winds. It will not, though, be unprecedented, as there has been at least one case of a turbine elsewhere catching fire in a gale. Serious question have to be asked about whether windfarms are fulfilling all the promises that their supporters claim in their favour. The argument that they are environmentally friendly is perverse when .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy issue will not blow over</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/12/wind-energy-issue-will-not-blow-over/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Listowel Banner has been carrying weekly editorial coverage recently on the local wind energy debate in the forms of interviews, photos, questions and answers and letters to the editor. Wind turbines are coming to North Perth and many folks don’t want them here. It’s time large companies stopped assuming this opinion is due to ignorance and began realizing it’s because these folks have, in fact, done their homework. They have to. Many feel they have no one to depend .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hot air</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/10/hot-air/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Miller, Vermont Department of Public Service commissioner, said recently that when the Lowell wind project is finished, Vermont won&#8217;t see or need any more big wind projects. Her comments would be welcome, if they were credible. They&#8217;re neither. The state and federal governments have worked hard to incent industrial wind projects. The eco-nuts, led by Pete Shumlin and Barack Obama, let the wind monkey out of the cage by promising huge subsidies and tax credits. There&#8217;s no getting him .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>County wind power debate entering fifth year</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/05/county-wind-power-debate-entering-fifth-year/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A legal, and neighbor-against-neighbor, battle in northeastern St. Croix County continues as the pros and cons of wind-generated power are debated. The issue has already been brewing for four years and it may not be settled anytime soon as we enter the fifth year of the controversy. Talk to anyone and they will, in general terms, talk about wind power as a good, efficient and cheap energy source for the times — that’s the easy part. But then, try finding .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power not looking as &#8216;green&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/02/wind-power-not-looking-as-green/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Green&#8221; depends greatly on your point of view in terms of energy sources. As they tout wind power as the answer to all America&#8217;s energy needs, President Barack Obama and other liberals ignore that. Here in West Virginia, many residents of the Potomac Highlands worry wind turbine towers will drive away the region&#8217;s economic lifeblood &#8211; tourism. In Mineral County, 75 people signed a petition asking that a wind farm near them be shut down between 10 p.m. and 7 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power far from trouble-free</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/30/wind-power-far-from-trouble-free/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Green&#8221; depends greatly on your point of view in terms of energy sources. As they tout wind power as the answer to all America&#8217;s energy needs, President Barack Obama and other liberals ignore that. Here in West Virginia, many residents of the Potomac Highlands worry wind turbine towers will drive away the region&#8217;s economic lifeblood &#8211; tourism. In Mineral County, 75 people signed a petition asking that a wind farm near them be shut down between 10 p.m. and 7 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind of change for West Cumbria</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/30/wind-of-change-for-west-cumbria/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A wind of change has blown through West Cumbria as a government inspector has bucked the trend by rejecting an appeal for three turbines near Great Broughton. Throwing out the application by Peel Energy to build the turbines at the former Broughton Lodge surface coal mine, the inspector cited the cumulative impact on the area. The move has delighted Workington MP Tony Cunningham and Cumbria County Council leader Eddie Martin, who have both said “enough is enough” when it comes .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ill wind for ratepayers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/29/ill-wind-for-ratepayers/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Just because a business deal is legal doesn’t mean it’s a good deal. Take the Supreme Judicial Court’s finding yesterday that the $1.6 billion power-purchase agreement between Cape Wind and the energy company National Grid is, in fact, legally sound. It’s still a raw deal for ratepayers. The state’s high court ruled that the Department of Public Utilities was within its legal rights to approve the 15-year contract for National Grid to buy half of Cape Wind’s energy output, rejecting .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windmills &amp; pipe dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/27/windmills-pipe-dreams/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Gov. Peter Shumlin&#8217;s oft-heralded energy plan for the next 40 years features another chapter in his tiresome harangue to put Vermont Yankee out of business, despite VY&#8217;s employing 600-plus highly paid employees, paying millions of dollars in taxes, supplying 40 percent of the state&#8217;s electricity at rock bottom prices and contributing not one ounce of pollution to the atmosphere. The state, slavishly salaaming to Shumlin&#8217;s bidding, is pushing to close the Vernon reactor when its initial 40-year license expires in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Keep those subsidies flowing</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/24/keep-those-subsidies-flowing/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It now is federal policy that we buy electricity we do not need, or pay Californians to take it, while curtailing power made far more cheaply, putting the stability of the regional electrical grid at risk, possibly endangering salmon and violating environmental law, all so owners of windmills not have their federal subsidies diminished. This is baffling, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled this month that not doing all this amounts to wrongful discrimination against windmills. Though inefficient, expensive .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy rebate disguises merger&#8217;s higher energy costs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/22/energy-rebate-disguises-mergers-higher-energy-costs/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Maryland Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley is declaring victory for dropping his initial opposition to the proposed $7.9 billion merger of Chicago-based Exelon with Constellation Energy Group, the parent company of Baltimore Gas &#038; Electric Co. (the last Fortune 500 company remaining in the city he once ran as mayor) and squeezing $1 billion worth of concessions in return for his support. The 11th-hour settlement requires the new company to give each residential customer a $100 rebate within three months of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine sound report is invalid</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/22/wind-turbine-sound-report-is-invalid/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Province of Ontario sent out a media release Friday stating &#8220;Expert Report Confirms No Direct Health Effects From Wind Turbines.&#8221; [Click here for analysis.] Conducted by private engineers, the province states that because of what it learned from this individual report, wind turbine sounds pose &#8220;no direct health risk.&#8221; We are not relieved in the slightest. The document is laden with information, much of it dated and taken from international sources, to outline the impact wind turbines have on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Make wind towers more safe for birds</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/21/make-wind-towers-more-safe-for-birds/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[When the federal government charged seven oil companies with killing migratory birds during drilling operations in North Dakota, critics cried foul. Or was it fowl? In any event, the critics had a point. When the justice department makes a federal case out of 28 dead birds found in oil pits while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of birds killed by wind towers, something’s not right. But the critics are wrong when they say society should respond by cutting oil companies .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green dreams dashed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/20/green-dreams-dashed/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[As the federal Energy Department blew billions of dollars on green-energy pipe dreams, the Labor Department shoveled away its share, too, dumping $162 million into so-called &#8220;green&#8221; jobs. That is, for 1,336 people as of October. That&#8217;s more than $121,000 per job created, reports Sean Higgins of Investor&#8217;s Business Daily, based on findings from Labor&#8217;s inspector general. The IG said millions of dollars in unspent funds should be returned to the Treasury. &#8220;(T)here is no evidence that grantees will effectively .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore windpower / Growing doubts</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/20/offshore-windpower-growing-doubts/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of people, we have been enthusiastic supporters of offshore wind turbines. Imagine: An endless, nonpolluting source of electrical power. No greenhouse gases contributing to global warming. Safer than nuclear power. And coastal South Jersey could be the hub of a burgeoning offshore-wind industry, boosting the regional economy in dozens of ways. It&#8217;s a pretty picture. That&#8217;s for sure. Problem is, it may be a flawed picture. Last week, NRG Energy, of Princeton, announced it was abandoning its .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy plan &#8230; dream on</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/17/energy-plan-dream-on/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Vermont has its very own energy plan and isn&#8217;t that a relief? The plan envisions a day not so far in the future (2050, to be exact) when 90 percent of the energy consumed by Vermont will be generated by renewable sources. Ninety percent seems like a pretty good number. Better than eighty but not as good as one hundred which some soreheads were no doubt holding out for. But most of us would settle for realizing ninety percent of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbines swirl up a debate</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/17/turbines-swirl-up-a-debate/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Few people will be sorry that plans to build one of the tallest windfarms in the UK at Solway Moss near Longtown were turned down by Carlisle City Council. While the nation generally embraces greener methods of producing power, many Cumbrians believe our own green a pleasant land has reached turbine saturation point. It prompted all six of the county’s MPs to come together recently and present a united cross-party front, declaring opposition to any more windfarms on Cumbrian land. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers pay to dump water over BPA dams</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/15/consumers-pay-to-dump-water-over-bpa-dams/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind generators won a victory this week. Come next spring runoff, the Bonneville Power Administration must accommodate the electricity coming from the turbines. It will not matter if that means dumping excess spring runoff over the dams, hurting fish and the pocketbook of consumers. According to the Associated Press story, “Federal regulators ruled in favor of Northwest wind power generators who objected to being ordered to shut down at times this spring when the Columbia River basin was brimming with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Paying wind farms for zip FERC&#8217;s idea of level field</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/13/paying-wind-farms-for-zip-fercs-idea-of-level-field/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Even as the state and the nation cut back on food for the hungry, education for the poor and care for veterans, there is one industry so close to the politicians&#8217; hearts that it may never have to suffer at all. Wind power. Leading government personalities accept as &#8220;green&#8221; energy something that blights our landscape and is economically unfeasible without taking money from people who could actually use it. Our linkage between the poor and government subsidies is not a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind wins and you lose</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/11/wind-wins-and-you-lose/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Now the other shoe has dropped as the result of the wrongheaded policy of promoting, with subsidies, the development of massive amounts of wind power well before it is needed. Wind power generation has seen big growth in eastern Oregon because the state and federal governments give it various breaks. But in order to get the breaks, the industry has to sell the power. Last spring, the Bonneville Power Administration was forced to tell the wind generators to curtail their .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>On making bad decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/11/on-making-bad-decisions/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Chris Braithwaite, a long-time journalist and publisher of the award-winning Barton Chronicle, was arrested on Lowell Mountain Monday. He was reporting on the protests of GMP&#8217;s industrial wind farm when an Orleans County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy arrested him. He was cited with trespassing and processed at the state police barracks in Derby along with six protesters. The arresting officer was Orleans County Chief Deputy Sheriff Phil Brooks. The arrest was later explained by Sheriff Kirk Martin who stated, &#8220;He [Braithwaite] was .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Costly power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/09/costly-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has approved Black Hills Energy’s request to increase rates to pay for its new gas-fired generating plant near Pueblo Memorial Airport. The increase will allow the utility to raise an additional $10.1 million a year to pay for the new plant, which was necessitated by a decision by Xcel Energy to end its agreement to supply Black Hills with electricity from its Comanche Generating Station. The PUC’s approval this week will mean an increase of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>McGuinty&#8217;s green energy disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/08/mcguintys-green-energy-disaster/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[We have long argued that the Ontario government’s headlong rush to convert Canada’s industrial heartland to “green” energy would turn out to be nothing but a colossal waste of money. Since most alternative energies remain commercially impractical (that’s why they’re still alternative and not mainstream), the blind rush by Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government to substitute wind, solar and bio energy for coal and oil was never likely to produce much new energy, just higher power rates for residential and industrial .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Expensive, inefficient &amp; just plain ugly</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/07/expensive-inefficient-just-plain-ugly/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte Planning Commission is reviewing a proposal to build 345 solar panels in a field off Hinesburg Road and Spear Street. The panels will be 4 feet off the ground on the bottom and 10 feet high in the air. They will cover about 50 acres of land. Last week, in the face of rich subsidies and friendly court rulings in favor of Lowell&#8217;s GMP wind farm, we predicted that Vermont will become carpeted with ridgeline wind towers and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Lowell wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/05/stop-the-lowell-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In a much simpler world, we might say to Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP) to the Vermont Public Service Board, to our state’s congressional delegation, to the state’s major environmental organizations, such as the Green Mountain Club and VPIRG and the Vermont Natural Resources Council, to the voters in the Northeast Kingdom town of Lowell, who overwhelmingly voted for industrial wind turbines on the ridgeline of Lowell — we might say to them: “These mountain ridgelines have been here for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms will end up as expensive follies</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/05/wind-farms-will-end-up-as-expensive-follies/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[What will future generations think when they look at decisions made early in the 21st century to guarantee future energy supplies and cut carbon emissions? Will they regard us as rational and far-sighted? Or will they wonder at our reckless folly in erecting tens of thousands of wind turbines that will soon become obsolete? Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, is struggling to keep the government green. In the long run he thinks he has plenty of cards up his sleeve. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The high cost of wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/02/the-high-cost-of-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind power, or more specifically wind dreams, is stirring comment. In November, Carina Barnett-Loro, conservation program coordinator of the N.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club, aided by Will Stanley, East Carteret High School student, told Beaufort commissioners about wind power. They said North Carolina has the largest offshore wind resource on the East Coast, state government is examining offshore wind resources and Carteret County is an area with the best potential. The John Locke Foundation will present a counter argument .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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