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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Municipalities best be prepared for onslaught of power proposals</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s not clear how many municipalities have approved ordinances or taken other steps to govern windmills. It doesn&#8217;t appear to be many.
But the reality is that there could be a windmill &#8212; or windmill farm of 20 or more towering wind machines &#8212; coming to a field near you in the not-too-distant future. Thus, at least the possibility of such should be on the radar screen of every municipal governing body in the state.
Dauphin County&#8217;s Middle Paxton Twp. took .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>The Green Hornet</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Al Gore said the other day that &#8220;the future of human civilization&#8221; depends on giving up fossil fuels within a decade &#8212; and was acclaimed as a prophet by the political class. Obviously boring reality doesn&#8217;t count for much these days. Even so, when Barack Obama wheels out an energy agenda nearly as grandiose as Mr. Gore&#8217;s, shouldn&#8217;t it receive at least some media scrutiny?
On Monday, Mr. Obama said that the U.S. must &#8220;end the age of oil in our .&#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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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Forget wind power, go solar</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s good news that Caribbean Utilities Company is considering taking a look at alternative measures to produce our electricity.
CUC is looking to wind power to help bring down the high price of electricity in the Cayman Islands.
It is interesting to us that CUC is considering wind power after concluding after a year–long study in 2003 that wind energy was uneconomical, then.
While wind energy is safe, inexhaustible and free, it also has some downsides.
Wind speed is and always will be variable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Property owners blown away by easements talk</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northwest Oklahoma landowners’ concerns about their rights regarding electric company easements to build new transmission lines for wind power illustrates an issue that likely will draw more debate in the future.
Wind energy is a hot topic right now, and more private companies and government officials are showing an increased interest in building wind farms to produce electrical power.
Wind energy is considered “green,” or environmentally friendly, which is popular with the general public in this time of rising energy prices.
While most .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Windmills should stand on merits</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
The large wind farms just to our north on the Kenedy Ranch are under construction and the owners expect to have 250 wind turbines generating enough electricity to power some 90,000 homes by the end of this year. Wind energy is touted as a clean, renewable power source whose time has come as a viable alternative to help reduce dependency on fossil fuels. However, a look at the economics of wind power points to a different conclusion.
While the privately owned .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Violating a trust</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Often, the visual impact of 130 wind turbines as tall as the Statue of Liberty in the middle of Nantucket Sound is presented as a clash of aesthetic sensitivity vs. alternative energy reality. But the National Trust for Historic Preservation has reminded the U.S. Minerals Management Service that real laws and mandates exist, and it says MMS is not going by the book in its evaluation of the Cape Wind project.
In its comments on the MMS draft environmental impact statement .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Not much of a choice</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gaye Symington, speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and the Democrat&#8217;s candidate for governor, made some choices in the last few weeks that may help predict what kind of energy policy Gov. Symington would pursue in the future should she be elected.
Symington appointed Rep. Tony Klein of East Montpelier as the new chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. Klein lives in East Montpelier and is a Democrat. He&#8217;s a member of the important House Natural Resources and Energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Resist the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those attending the two-day symposium on wind energy in Virginia recently might have walked away believing this state has already accepted this industry, and that the proposed utility in Highland County has paved the way for more plants.
Think again.
As it has from its inception, the Virginia Wind Energy Collaborative based at James Madison University, which coordinated the series of seminars, failed to adequately address the very real concerns about industrial wind power with any sense of balance.
Virginia Wind, the grassroots .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Time to clip wings of wind power&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Moota&#8217;s wind turbines dominate the skyline to such an extent that they’ve become something of a symbolic gateway to West Cumbria &#8212; our ‘angels of the west’ as it were.
Let’s face it, when people from away think of this area they do now associate it with wind farms.
The masts dominate all routes around Workington; look out to sea and there’s also the fledgling Robin Rigg site which will soon become the UK’s largest offshore wind farm.
So Workington MP Tony Cunningham’s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>An unattractive development</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[This newspaper yields to no one in its enthusiasm for renewable energy. It also has sympathy with the argument by the Confederation of British Industry and others that the existing planning system is protracted and cumbersome when it comes to reaching decisions on important new pieces of infrastructure.
But opposition parties and rebel Labour backbenchers have been right to oppose the particular moves to speed up planning which the Government has been proposing. For their measures will undermine the systems by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Offshore wind pact moves forward a step, but questions remain</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The agreement between Delmarva Power and Babcock &#038; Brown now comes down to one thing: economics.
A long, protracted battle may now be at an end. A lot of people are claiming victory and Delaware seems closer to a cleaner source of energy. But a big question remains: Can the participants make the offshore wind project work economically?
It has the potential to do so. The coastline in this part of the country seems prime for a larger offshore wind farm. A .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/06/24/offshore-wind-pact-moves-forward-a-step-but-questions-remain/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Put the turbine plans on hold</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[We should be alarmed at the news that another 200 wind turbines could be coming to Cumbria.
Judging by reports from the North West Regional Assembly, the most beautiful county in the region – if not in the country – is being expected to bear the brunt of the new turbines.
But surely it is time to ask why it should be up to us. Cumbria has long been home to nuclear reprocessing plants and already has more than its fair share .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farming is not a panacea</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The proposal by environmentalists for an alternative to strip mining no doubt was sincere.
A group of residents from the coalfields asked the Raleigh County Commission to support a proposed wind farm on Coal River Mountain.
They worry that their hills will be topped in the pursuit of the coal that is used to generate half of the electricity in the United States.
&#8220;I live in the west end of the county, which has been heavily impacted by coal mining,&#8221; Lorelei Scarbro of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Honeybees, wind farms and the triumph of greed over green</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Einstein said that if the honeybee becomes extinct, then so will mankind. Oh joy, another environmental issue to worry about.
I stumbled across an article called &#8220;Last Flight of the Honeybee.&#8221; It was published in the British newspaper The Guardian on June 2. It described the tragic plight of the world&#8217;s honeybees. They are disappearing and no one really knows why. There are theories -overwork, viruses, bacteria, climate -but most think their demise is due to pesticides that play havoc with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Loud and clear</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Freedom residents will vote June 10 on a proposal to reinstate the town&#8217;s Commercial Development Review Ordinance, which was rescinded June 12, 2007.
Supporters of the proposed wind power project on Beaver Ridge launched the drive to overturn the project after the town&#8217;s Board of Appeals voted to overturn the Planning Board&#8217;s approval of the development.
Among other things, the appeals board members found the Planning Board was wrong to conclude the project would meet the tough noise standards that were part .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Caution; County must proceed with care on wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Allegany County planners begin studying how the county should regulate wind turbines, there should be plenty of examples of how best to proceed.
Communities in many parts of the nation have been grappling with windmill issues and how to balance environmental and aesthetic concerns with energy needs.
No better example can be found than in Garrett County, where there has been a huge outcry against placing windmills on state forests lands. Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley finally vetoed the idea of having the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>The N-word</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ There is not much that isn&#8217;t talked about in today&#8217;s open and &#8220;progressive&#8221; society, but there is one subject the mention of which is guaranteed to set teeth on edge, send nerves jangling and raise hackles.
The N-word, for a complex mix of sociological, historical and political reasons, has become New Zealand&#8217;s last taboo, and when Central Otago artist Grahame Sydney had the temerity to raise it last week in the context of a discussion on potential alternative power sources, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>In Our View: Questions in the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 18:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines have been in the local news in recent months because they’ve come across Port of Vancouver docks en route to the windy east side of the Cascade Mountains, where wind farms generate electricity in places such as Klickitat, Kittitas and Walla Walla counties. But now, the rush toward renewable energy sources could be expanding into Clark County. We welcome it. But, plenty of questions surround this week’s stunning development.
A company called Evergreen Wind Power Partners LLC expects to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power still needs caution</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Judging by the results of recent study on wind power it isn’t any wonder that Nova Scotia Power and the provincial government are putting a lot of emphasis on developing an industry that is still in relative infancy here.
In recent months, officials from both the power corporation and the Energy Department have crisscrossed the province announcing a series of wind energy projects, including ones in both Colchester County (Nuttby Mountain) and near Amherst in Cumberland County.
While there has been considerable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/21/wind-power-still-needs-caution/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Michigan&#39;s utility scam</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michigan&#8217;s two largest electric companies are enthusiastic about a package of &#8220;green energy&#8221; bills that the state House overwhelmingly passed, and which are now before the Senate. They tout these as being consumer-friendly and environmentally sound. The legislation would, they say, both enable them to do more to meet coming Michigan&#8217;s power needs and commit the utilities in a major way to greater use of &#8220;renewable energy,&#8221; meaning wind and solar power.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
Nothing &#8212; until .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/19/michigans-utility-scam/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Spoiling the electrifying view</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 09:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The reason people build windmills is because they are a way to generate electricity to power our homes and factories.
As well, wind is a renewable resource that doesn&#8217;t emit pollutants or create huge river diversions or reservoirs. Windmills don&#8217;t require complicated storage of dangerous nuclear waste. They don&#8217;t use coal. You build them and they spin relentlessly.
We erect windmills because they are gentle on the environment and, oh yes, they create profit for the owners. But we want a planet .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/18/spoiling-the-electrifying-view/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>The cost of dissent</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 18:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not for the first time, TrustPower&#8217;s community relations manager Graeme Purches has converted his job description into an oxymoron, with reported comments that &#8220;lobby groups&#8221; and one of Trustpower&#8217;s competitors have &#8220;hijacked&#8221; the Resource Management Act consents and appeal process.
Mr Purches, himself a paid lobbyist for the company he represents, leaves the impression TrustPower&#8217;s costs for the Environment Court hearing into the Mahinerangi wind farm should somehow be alleviated by the Government, since it supports the wind farm.
Furthermore, Trustpower appears .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/17/the-cost-of-dissent/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Pollution from the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The reason people build windmills is because they are a way to generate electricity to power our homes and factories.
As well, wind is a renewable resource that doesn&#8217;t emit pollutants or create huge river diversions or reservoirs. Windmills don&#8217;t require complicated storage of dangerous nuclear waste. They don&#8217;t use coal. You build them and they spin relentlessly.
We erect windmills because they are gentle on the environment and, oh yes, they create profit for the owners. But we want a planet .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/15/pollution-from-the-wind/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Power and perception</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Righteous indignation is a wholly appropriate response when one is falsely accused of impropriety.
But when the perception of wrongdoing extends to multiple incidents, as in the case of House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, then all the finger-pointing bluster by the longtime North End representative should and will do nothing to dissuade the state Ethics Commission from investigating all of DiMasi’s ties to friends who have profited from legislative action under his watch.
Perhaps DiMasi was wronged by allegations that a Canadian software .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/15/power-and-perception/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Justice in Freedom&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Putting aside the merits and flaws of a proposal to build three, 400-foot-tall wind turbines on Beaver Ridge in Freedom, we have to ask: What the heck are local officials thinking?
On May 1, the town&#8217;s Board of Appeals heard a request by opponents of the project to revoke a building permit issued to the developers in July 2007. The opponents said work had not &#8220;substantially commenced&#8221; within the six-month period required by local ordinance.
The appeals board ultimately rejected that argument, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/09/justice-in-freedom/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Stacking the deck</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last of two parts:
The U.S. Fish &#038; Wildlife Service has exposed the federal government&#8217;s review of Cape Wind&#8217;s alternative sites for what it is: a sham.
When the Minerals Management Service, which is reviewing the proposal to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, defined the purpose of the process, it stacked the deck in favor of the developer.
The &#8220;purpose and need statement&#8221; developed by MMS describes &#8220;a facility that utilizes the unique wind resources in the waters offshore of New .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/08/stacking-the-deck/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>&#39;Do this right&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Numerous conclusions in draft report on Cape Wind in draft report on Cape Wind are unsupportable.
First of two parts:
The U.S. Fish &#038; Wildlife Service has delivered a blistering assessment of the federal government&#8217;s review of the Cape Wind project.
Seven years after Cape Wind staked a claim on 24 square miles of Nantucket Sound, the developer and the U.S. Minerals Management Service have failed to answer critical questions about the effects of the project on the environment.
&#8220;With respect to natural resources .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/08/do-this-right/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Don&#39;t force overreliance on renewable energy; Consumers will decide viability of solar and wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind farms will have a niche role in generating electricity for Michigan. But their role should not be mandated by legislation.
The economics of wind power will determine if it is viable and cost effective. Mandating or subsidizing a marginal player in the power industry will, in the long run, be costly.
Wind power&#8217;s chief drawback is obvious: The wind doesn&#8217;t blow constantly. A too-heavy reliance on wind generators risks brownouts and blackouts. No industry or household will put up with part-time .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/04/25/dont-force-overreliance-on-renewable-energy-consumers-will-decide-viability-of-solar-and-wind-power/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Talk about a dilemma&#8230;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Public Service Commission yet again heard testimony at a hearing yesterday from several local residents who do not want giant wind turbines in Garrett County. Thanks to legislation passed a year ago, some wind-generation projects, such as the one Clipper Windpower Inc. wants to erect on Backbone Mountain, qualify for what is referred to as &#8220;fast-track approval,&#8221; a move designed to circumvent much of the resistance created by those who are opposed to wind farms.
Besides all of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/04/24/talk-about-a-dilemma/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Where now for wind energy?</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lewis plans turned down
The decision by the Scottish Government to scupper controversial plans for Europe’s biggest windfarm on Lewis raises many questions about the country’s future energy policy, but fails to give clear answers.
There are so many contradictory issues at play in this complex application, which has far-reaching effects for similar plans elsewhere in Scotland.
Much was made by the windfarm’s backers of the huge potential economic benefits for the Western Isles. Yet the plan attracted nearly 11,000 written objections, mostly .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/04/22/where-now-for-wind-energy/</link>
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		<title>Obstructed sunrise</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The United South and Eastern Tribes, an organization of 25 federally recognized Indian tribes in 12 states, has joined with the Wampanoag of Gay Head (Aquinnah) in their opposition to the wind factory on Nantucket Sound.
The board of directors of the organization called upon the U.S. Minerals Management Service, which is reviewing the Cape Wind application, to &#8220;respect the Traditional, Cultural, Spiritual and Religious beliefs of the Wampanoag People and preserve the spiritual integrity and sanctity of the eastern horizon, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/04/21/obstructed-sunrise/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>In rush for wind farm action, science must come first</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gov. Carcieri’s call for bids to develop a wind farm near Block Island, due in five weeks, came as a surprise to islanders, and apparently to most of Rhode Island and even, perhaps, the governor’s administration. That’s a little disturbing.
Is this a bold attempt to speed progress toward the governor’s alternative energy goal, or a lurch into unknown quicksand? Does the state intend to lay the legal and scientific foundation for a huge enterprise, or is it trusting corporations to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Energy project raises alarms</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve had a couple of calm weeks after initial gusts of blustery rhetoric over a wind energy project proposed for the southern extremity of Cape Breton County. The debate will pick up again, perhaps more in a spirit of consultation than confrontation.
On paper the plan by Cape Breton Explorations Ltd. to combine a wind farm with pumped water storage has an elegant appeal for those with a taste for engineering. Up to 44 wind turbines would deliver electricity to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/29/energy-project-raises-alarms/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Ohio House&#8217;s renewable-energy bill has its warts</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ House Speaker Jon Husted and his GOP caucus drafted a solid Ohio renewable- energy bill, but as the General Assembly&#8217;s research arm points out, it&#8217;s not without its potential pitfalls.
The truth, never denied but certainly understated, is that power from renewable sources probably will cost more, not less. Still, the environmental and health costs posed by conventional generating fuels could drop as renew- able-energy production rises.
Further, as this page has said before, Husted&#8217;s draft improves on earlier versions, including .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Contact the PSC…</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems that the bottom line in the ongoing wind turbine controversy is that, since Garrett County does not have countywide zoning, there are few legal recourses with any real teeth that are at the disposal of those who oppose the installation of these giants, either on state property or private property. The Department of Natural Resources is obviously taking its good old time before rendering a decision on whether or not to allow state forestland to be utilized for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/20/contact-the-psc%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Time to say no to windfarm farce</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Suddenly wind turbines are all the rage. More applications for the establishment of windfarms are landing on the desks of planners in Stirling and Perth than anywhere else in Scotland.
Is this a sign that we are becoming increasingly green in our effort to produce energy in a more environmentally friendly way?
Or is this merely a means to an end, another way whereby a few people may make large sums of money at everyone else’s expense?
The installation of 36 turbines on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/13/time-to-say-no-to-windfarm-farce/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Last gasp for FPL plan</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[With a majority of St. Lucie County commissioners opposing Florida Power &#038; Light Co.&#8217;s plans to put three giant wind turbines on conservation land at Blind Creek Park, that part of the nine-windmill project is dead. Three cheers.
The project does not belong on land the county and state paid to preserve. FPL still could place six 400-foot windmills on its land near the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant on Hutchinson Island, if the county approves a change to height restrictions, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/10/last-gasp-for-fpl-plan/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Have YOUR say</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The time for protest is almost over for the planned windfarm at Crook Hill on the hills above Littleborough, Summit and Wardle.
When the planning application first went in, we used words and photomontages to show the effect the dozen giant turbines would have on the landscape.
Now you can see for yourselves. Just take a look over the Owd Betts Road from Rochdale to Edenfield where the first seven similar-sized turbines of the Scout Moor windfarm have gone up.
Even though there .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/03/08/have-your-say-3/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>It’s wind farms vs. whoopers</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are those who don’t like wind farms because of the unsightly tall turbines that are erected. There are those who don’t like wind farms because larger groups of the wind turbines can require new electric transmission lines to be constructed, which also are unsightly and controversial.
The latest strike against wind farms came this past week when the United States Fish and Wildlife Service said wind turbines are the latest serious threat against whooping cranes. Whooping cranes are protected by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Weigh the impact of windmills, just as is done for cell towers</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ What&#8217;s good for communications towers should be good for wind turbines, which can be 200 feet tall.
A federal court ruled last week that the Federal Communications Commission must consider the impact that communications or cellular towers have on migratory birds and allow the public time to comment on the environmental findings.
The order of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit applies to the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida, where many birds migrate, but the FCC is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Supervisor should avoid conflict of interest</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Calumet County Board Supv. Jerry Criter may have held onto his seat last week, but he needs to watch his step as the county moves forward on the emotionally charged wind turbine issue.
Citizens for Responsible Government Calumet County tried without success to remove Criter from office in a recall election due to what its members saw as a conflict of interest. Understably so.
Criter, a Town of Brothertown farmer, continued to vote on matters tied to the proposed turbines, while also .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Book published on concerns of wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winkler takes on firms trying to build towers
Most of the firms trying to put up wind farms in east central and northeast Wisconsin are familiar with Mike Winkler. He has been fighting them for five years.
A resident of Malone, in Fond du Lac County, Winkler considers the rush to build networks of wind energy towers a folly that will do little to meet the region&#8217;s needs for electricity.
Now, Winkler has written and is privately publishing a book that raises his .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>FPL&#39;s same old tricks</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week, Florida should avoid setting a bad precedent. The state should not allow Florida Power &#038; Light to build giant wind turbines on land the state and St. Lucie County bought to preserve.
FPL is trying to rush a state decision at a Thursday hearing in Tallahassee before the Acquisition and Restoration Council, an advisory board. A decision could come on Friday. If the council approves the plan, Gov. Crist and the Florida Cabinet would cast the final vote.
St. Lucie .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power should not cost public land</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Termination of OG&#038;E plans to construct a new power-generating facility at Sooner Lake has the electric provider eyeing state land held by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
One of the state’s wildlife management areas may be sold or leased to OG&#038;E for wind power development. A public meeting is to be held March 12 in Woodward to gather public input on the sale or lease of Cooper WMA to OG&#038;E. The Wildlife Conservation Commission has created a subcommittee to look .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Thumbs up</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thumbs up to the state of New York setting guidelines on how the ecological impact of proposed wind farms must be measured. 
The heavily taxpayer-subsidized wind farms being developed around the state can, indeed, be a way to harness wind energy, but they can also have profoundly negative effects on the environment. 
For example, if, as has happened in other states, multitudes of insect-eating bats are killed by the rotating blades and farmers then have to resort to chemicals to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm project is too good to be true</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the western classic &#8220;The Magnificent Seven,&#8221; Steve McQueen is facing the business end of a revolver and several rifles when he&#8217;s asked why he had teamed up with a group of peasant farmers, some of whom ultimately betrayed him and his six gunslinging partners.
His deadpan response: &#8220;It seemed like a good idea at the time.&#8221;
Fortunately, it appears that the seven-member Rochester School Board won&#8217;t face a similar moment, now that they&#8217;ve backed out of a proposal that would have .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farms: millionaire playgrounds for Green fat cats</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Energy policy in Great Britain has been a shambles for years. Cowardly governments have turned a blind eye to repeated warnings over prices and supply. Disaster has been avoided thanks only to lucky escapes rather than good stewardship. A case study in the stupidity of the British government’s attitude to energy – aided and abetted by the European Union – is its continuing obsession with wind farms, a so-called sustainable source of energy which is costly, inefficient, unreliable – and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/02/08/wind-farms-millionaire-playgrounds-for-green-fat-cats/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Just change the code&#8230;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The heat is intensifying to stop wind turbines from being built on state forestlands in Garrett County, with the Garrett County commissioners voting this week to oppose the proposal, and the Garrett County Planning Commission agreeing yesterday to recommend imposition of a moratorium on the placement of wind turbines in the county anywhere, on private and public lands.
However, the commissioners responded that, under current county regulations, any such moratorium would have to be on all building construction in the county, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>What&#8217;s really at risk with federal permit?</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The well-orchestrated and carefully stated position presented by supervisors Tuesday on Highland New Wind Development&#8217;s project requirements is baffling, at best.
Two of three supervisors (Robin Sullenberger and David Blanchard) had considered whether to require the developer to seek a federal incidental take permit and habitat conservation plan to protect the proposed wind energy utility, and its projected tax revenue to the county, from being shut down if endangered species were killed by the spinning blades of the utility&#8217;s turbines. Obtaining .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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