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	<title>National Wind Watch: News &#187; Idaho</title>
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		<title>F&#038;G supervisor suddenly demoted; Agency touts speak-with-one-voice policy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ David Parrish, who spent 16 years in the Magic Valley office of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, including the last eight as supervisor, has been demoted and transferred to Boise as the agency&#8217;s fisheries program coordinator.
Magic Valley Region Education Specialist Kelton Hatch declined to talk specifics but confirmed that Parrish left the Magic Valley Region offices earlier this week.
The action came a month after Parrish publicly criticized an estimated &#36;500 million wind project planned for south of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Valley Fish and Game supervisor demoted; Lawmakers call Parrish&#39;s letter about wind farm &#39;inappropriate&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has demoted David Parrish as Magic Valley regional supervisor a month after he publicly criticized an estimated &#36;500 million wind project south of Twin Falls.
Parrish&#8217;s comments prompted a high-ranking legislator to contact Gov. C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter and express concern that Parrish had violated the governor&#8217;s office&#8217;s media policy.
Fish and Game announced the demotion Monday to state employees &#8212; but did not do so publicly. Deputy Director Virgil Moore confirmed the change Wednesday, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Cedar Creek Wind Power Project</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bingham County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to override the June 25 denial by their Planning and Zoning Commission of a special use permit for the Cedar Creek Wind Power Project.
    Opponents of the project have 28 days to file for a judicial review of the decision, which didn&#8217;t come easily for the three commissioners.
    They spent nearly three hours poring over the minutes of the public hearing on the application, reading testimony that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Another energy company allowed to build wind farm in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Less than 24 hours after they unanimously approved a wind farm in Wolverine Canyon, Bingham County Commissioners gave the go-ahead for another wind farm to be built just three miles away.
Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission denied a special use permit for Western Energy Corporation in May.  Officials with the company appealed to the Bingham County Commissioners today who overturned the decision by Planning and Zoning.
Western Energy Corporation will now be allowed to build 66 wind turbines near Shelley, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Western Energy to appeal P&#038;Z wind turbine decision</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A local wind farm company hopes to get the green light to spin.
Tuesday, Western Energy will appeal the Planning and Zoning Committee&#8217;s decision that previously denied their special use permit.
The company wants to build 66 turbines on about 5,000 acres in a private ranch just east of Shelley.
The company says not only would it bring millions into the county&#8217;s tax revenue but in theory this one project would power all of the homes in the entire Bingham County and more.
&#8220;The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ridgeline Energy gets approval for wind farm in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Months of hearings, votes, re-votes and debate are finished in one wind energy company&#8217;s bid to build wind turbines in Wolverine Canyon.
Monday, Bingham County Commissioners approved Ridgeline Energy&#8217;s application to put up a 150-turbine wind farm. They had been trying since November to get the approval.
Another company wants to build 66 wind turbines on Thompson Ranch in Bingham County.
Western Energy is appealing the commissioner&#8217;s decision that would stop them from building.
You can watch that report on Local News 8 at .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm moves forward</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another meeting was held today in Bingham County to discuss the future of the proposed Wolverine wind turbine project. Stuart Summers has been following this story all day.
Bingham County has spent the past several months settling disputes about the proposed wind farm project in the Wolverine area. Today, the county commissioners discussed two appeals that had been received in regards to a recent decision. Both appeals were related to the Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission&#8217;s decision to give a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy project: No conflict-of-interest</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A proposed 150-turbine wind farm in southeastern Idaho cleared a local planning board, but local officials say a judge may ultimately decide the fate of the disputed project.
The Bingham County Planning and Zoning Board met until after midnight and decided early Thursday morning that member Larry Kohler&#8217;s vote for the project in April wasn&#8217;t a conflict of interest.
Kohler owns property near the wind farm, proposed for Wolverine Canyon. It now goes before the Bingham County Commission.
A local rancher who owns .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No re-vote on wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The proposed Goshen South Wind Project that would place 150 wind turbines in the mountains east of Blackfoot will go back to the County Commissioners to finish an appeal of its special use permit following a decision by the Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday that member Larry Kohler’s vote in favor of the permit for the turbines can stand.
The wind farm is one of the most controversial issues to come before the P&#038;Z  Commission, and it intensified Wednesday .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>County commission mulls wind farm issues</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ridgeline Energy of Seattle was back in front of the Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday after a potential conflict of interest was cited.
However, no decision regarding the future of the controversial wind farm proposed in Bingham County had been reached at press time.
The energy company&#8217;s request for a special use permit was the last item on the agenda during the regular Planning and Zoning meeting.
Administrator Melodie Halstead said during an appeal hearing in June it was determined that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bingham County wind farm project goes late into the night</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The future of a proposed wind farm tonight hinges on whether a Planning and Zoning committee member has a stake in that future.
Wednesday night, the 150 turbines proposed by Ridgeline Energy were not up for debate.
It was whether committee member Larry Kohler would benefit if those turbines were built in Wolverine Canyon.
At 9:45 Wednesday night, the commissioners were still on the second item of the four item agenda, and that was close to
The courtroom was about halfway full Wednesday evening, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Rush of wind power to hit the Northwest</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Utilities and independent developers are poised to more than triple the amount of wind power in the Northwest, a huge increase that underscores the region&#8217;s push for renewable energy.
&#8220;It&#8217;s phenomenal,&#8221; said Elliot Mainzer, a transmission manager with the federal Bonneville Power Administration. &#8220;It&#8217;s more than we expected.&#8221;
Evidence of the wind rush shows up in a recent BPA assessment aimed at finding out how much more electricity will fit on transmission lines now in place for delivery to customers in urban .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed wind farm meets opposition</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[BLACKFOOT, Idaho – A lifetime of running cattle above Wolverine Canyon&#8217;s limestone spires has taught Peggy Stolworthy one absolute about eastern Idaho: The wind here blows like crazy.
Looking to harness that power, Stolworthy and a Seattle-based wind energy company aim to erect dozens of energy-producing turbines on 9,000 acres that have been in her family since the 1930s.
She says the project will help keep livestock on land she could otherwise be forced to subdivide into ranchettes. But Stolworthy has encountered .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Public gets closer look at wind power project</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ELKO &#8212; The pursuit of alternative energy &#8212; and the public&#8217;s opinion on the issue &#8212; was the name of the game this week for the China Mountain Wind Power project.
The proposed 425-megawatt wind farm will be developed by Renewable Energy Systems, a private company based in Denver.
The project calls for 185 wind turbines &#8212; up to 413 feet in height &#8212; across 30,700 acres in Nevada and Idaho. About one-eighth of the project &#8212; 4,700 acres &#8212; will be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Firth wind farm proposal shot down in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The second proposal to essentially allow a wind turbine farm to be built in Bingham County has been brought up again.
The period for testimony and rebuttal has come and passed.
Wednesday night, Planning and Zoning Board Members discussed the issue and made their decision.
It came down to a tied vote, and as the Board Chairman said that means the motion passes and there is ten days for the decision to be appealed.
There were some heated moments though right before that came .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bingham County Planning &#038; Zoning rejects wind farm on private ranch</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A local energy company plans to appeal a ruling after the Bingham County Planning and Zoning Committee rejected its plans for a wind farm.
Western Energy, of Firth, proposed to build 66 turbines on a private ranch east of Shelley, but a tied vote won&#8217;t let that happen.
The Planning and Zoning Committee voted 4 to 4, which automatically means they had to deny the special use permit.
So, Western Energy has 10 days from now to appeal the decision, and they said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Misconceptions about proposed Bingham County wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a debate still up in the air.
Will the proposed 150 turbine wind farm be built in Bingham County?
Ridgeline Energy, the company hoping to put up the turbines says the wind in the Wolverine area is some of the best which makes it ideal for generating energy.
But this is just one of many projects they have going on in Eastern Idaho.
The proposed windmills would be very similar to the ones east of Idaho Falls, there would just be up to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A day in the field; BLM advisory groups tour future wind farm site</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[JACKPOT, Nev. &#8212; The rocky, uneven road could be daunting to some. But it was manageable for the caravan of sport utility vehicles that wound their way up it on Thursday.
It&#8217;s the same road that construction vehicles will use when work begins on a 185-turbine wind project southwest of Rogerson, Twin Falls consultant Stephen Hartgen said. And before the first half of the towers rise, likely in May 2011, workers will have to improve the drive.
&#8220;As you can see, these .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bureau to hold public meetings on proposed wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Land management is holding three public meetings to share information about a proposed wind power project in the Jarbidge Foothills in southern Idaho and northern Nevada.
The proposed project includes 30,700 acres of state, federal and private lands southwest of Rogerson and Twin Falls County and west of Jackpot in Elko County, Nevada.
China Mountain Wind, LLC proposes to develop an approximately 425 megawatt (MW) wind energy facility consisting of up to 185 wind turbines.
Meeting dates and times:
ELKO, NEVADA
Tuesday, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Comment period begins on large wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two weeks from tonight, Twin Falls residents will have their chance to comment on a proposed wind power project planned for southern Twin Falls County.
That&#8217;s when the Bureau of Land Management will host the last of three public meetings regarding the environmental impact of China Mountain, a 185-turbine project developed by Portland-based Renewable Energy Systems America Developments. Targeted at a 30,700-acre area southwest of Rogerson, the development could produce as much as 425 megawatts, at least 200 of which is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project debated in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems the planning and zoning committee in Bingham County is just filling its nights with listening to people for and against wind farm projects, and after Wednesday night, it looks like they&#8217;ll have another go around.
Wednesday night the committee continued a meeting from May to listen to testimony of local people for and against a proposal for 66 wind turbines.
Western Energy is proposing the project. It&#8217;s a company out of Firth, Idaho. If the project is approved Western Energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Gateway scoping process rolls on</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[CASPER – The first of nine scoping meetings was held yesterday by the Bureau of Land Management and focused on a  &#36;4 billion, 1,700-mile electric transmission line project  planned by Idaho Power and Rocky Mountain Power, including a 1,000-mile line that will run across southern Wyoming and Idaho.
“It was time,” said Bob Tarantola, a Rocky Mountain Power consultant. “We’ve had wind farm developers frustrated for years by lack of opportunity to deliver their power to customers.”
Tarantola said the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm debate continues</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission is again accepting opinions on a proposed special use permit. That permit would allow Ridgeline Energy to build 150 wind turbines near Wolverine Canyon &#8212; east of Firth.
Then on July 9th, a public meeting has been scheduled to allow landowners to comment on the plan. Aaron Kunz has been covering this story and has the latest for us.
To truly get an idea of where the proposed wind turbines would be, you have to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine debate continues</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The commissioners meeting ended almost as quickly as it began. A decision trumped by yet another technicality that will send the issue back to the Bingham County Planning &#038; Zoning.
&#8220;One of the members of the planning and zoning board&#8230;Mr. Collier owns property adjecent to the proposed project.&#8221;
That makes the earlier decision by the P&#038;Z a possible conflict of interest. Now, a controversial issue over a wind farm in Bingham County will have to be re-heard by the planning and zoning .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plan sent back to commissioners</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[BLACKFOOT &#8212; It could be months before a decision is made on a controversial wind farm project in Wolverine Canyon.
On Monday, Bingham County commissioners sent Ridgeline Energy&#8217;s proposal &#8212; which asks for a conditional-use permit to erect 150 turbines in the canyon &#8212; back to the county&#8217;s planning commission for another public hearing to discuss board member Larry Kohler&#8217;s potential conflict of interest.
Kohler, who voted in favor of the proposal when the planning commission granted the conditional-use permit by a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine project goes back to Planning &#038; Zoning</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[After months of controversy, a decision about the wind turbine project in the Wolverine Canyon is still up in the air.
Monday afternoon Bingham County Commissioners decided to send the project back to the Planning and Zoning committee because of a potential conflict of interest.
After last week&#8217;s public meeting, the commissioners were notified that one of the Planning and Zoning board members, Larry Kohler, owned property in the adjacent vicinity of the proposed Ridgeline Energy project.
The commissioners believe that the committee .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No decision on latest wind project application</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 11:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[BLACKFOOT — No decision was made Wednesday night to allow or deny Western Energy a special use permit to place 66 electricity-generating windmills in the hills east of Firth because the Planning &#038; Zoning commissioners want to give everyone who attended the meeting a chance to voice their testimony.
    Everyone in attendance at the Wednesday meeting who did not get a chance to testify will be allowed to testify at the next meeting in which P&#038;Z staff .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project decision delayed</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The question of whether Ridgeline Energy Corp. will receive a  special use permit for its proposed 150-turbine Goshen South Wind Project in a Natural Resources/Agriculture Zone in the mountains east of Blackfoot remains unanswered following a public meeting Tuesday of the Bingham County Commission.
    The commissioners met to consider two appeals of the  County Planning and Zoning Commission decision when it  voted 4-3 on April 23 to grant the special use permit for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New wind farm proposal in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 09:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wind must be great in Bingham County, because another company is asking to build wind turbines in the area.
Wednesday night they went before the Bingham County Planning and Zoning Committee, with their 66 wind turbine proposal.
Committee members from the planning and zoning board grilled Western Energy on every aspect on its proposal.
Altogether about 50 people showed up to learn more, and to voice their opinion.
Western Energy is a company out of Firth, Idaho.  Their proposal would put 66 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ruling on wind farm put on hold</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fate of a controversial proposal to build a wind farm in Wolverine Canyon remains unknown.
Dozens of critics and supporters showed up Tuesday at the Bingham County Courthouse for a public meeting on Ridgeline
Energy&#8217;s quest to erect 150 turbines on more than 20,000 acres in the popular canyon south of Idaho Falls. After nearly three hours, though, county commissioners decided to postpone their decision for a few days.
The Bingham County planning commission on April 23 approved Ridgeline&#8217;s request for a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bingham County Commissioners: no decision on wind turbine controversy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a controversy spinning with opposition.
The proposed wind farm in Bingham County isn&#8217;t going anywhere, anytime soon.
This morning, the commissioners met to discuss whether the Planning and Zoning Committee acted appropriately in their 4-to-3 vote to approve the project.
After three hours of questions and bouncing thoughts back and forth, they couldn&#8217;t come up with an answer leaving the decision still up in the air.
Ridgeline Energy believes bringing in the wind turbines will bring a big economic boost to Bingham County .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Melaleuca man passionate about Wolverine Cayon controversy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an area rich in natural beauty and it&#8217;s right in Eastern Idaho&#8217;s backyard. But some people aren&#8217;t seeing eye-to-eye about its future.
More than 20,000 acres of the Wolverine Canyon, east of Shelley, may be blanketed with more than 150 wind turbines.
This, after the Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission approved the installation in a 4 to 3 vote nearly a month ago.
But this vision has one local man taking a stand against what he believes will destroy Mother Nature.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wolverine Canyon controversy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents of Bingham County are worried that Wolverine Canyon may be come home to industrial wind mills.
The controversial sign reads, &#8220;The natural peace and beauty you find here will soon be lost forever by the installation of three hundred 490 foot tall windmills.&#8221;
This sign was erected by the VanderSloots on the Bingham County Road on the west entrance of Wolverine Canyon. According to the county&#8217;s zoning ordinance, it is a misdemeanor to place such a sign in a natural resources .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm profiteers damaging southeast Idaho</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five years ago the hills and mountains of Southeast Idaho were a beautiful site to see on the horizon. I remember growing up and looking towards the east seeing the sun come up over the mountains and thinking to myself what a beautiful site it was, and how lucky I was to be living in a place of such calm and beauty.
Then, a few years ago I remember seeing the white towers start appearing on top of the mountains to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing set on wind project appeal</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A public meeting has been scheduled by the Bingham County Commissioners for 9 a.m. on May 27 in Courtroom 1 of the County Courthouse to hear two appeals filed by a group of area residents trying to stop a wind power project in the Wolverine area.
    County Commission Chairman Wayne Brower said no testimony from the public will be taken at the meeting, but the commissioners may ask questions.
    The group is appealing an .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm approved By Planning &#038; Zoning Commission in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[For more than a month now, Bingham County Planning and Zoning has been trying to decide about a wind farm proposed by Ridgeline Energy.  Twice the company has gone before the committee, and twice there&#8217;s been no decision.
Third time is a charm.  Because Wednesday night the zoning and planning commission finally voted four to three to approve the wind farm in the Wolverine Canyon area in Bingham County.  But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s official, now it will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm wars in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For weeks now we&#8217;ve been telling you about a possible windmill farm that could be built in Bingham County. The Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission has had two public hearings on the matter and tomorrow night, they will vote on whether to allow a special use permit that would make way for the wind farm to be built. But not everyone is happy about the possibility.
Hear that, that&#8217;s gold for some people, but others feel robbed by it. Orin .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Decision on proposed wind farm in Bingham County still being decided</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[No decision yet on a proposed wind farm in Bingham County.  As of 9 p.m. Wednesday night, the meeting is still going on and it started at 7 p.m.
Back at the end of March, the Bingham County Zoning and Planning Commission held a hearing until close to 1 a.m. morning but no decision was made.  So again Wednesday night, Ridgeline Energy was back to share their plans for 150 wind turbines in the Wolverine Canyon area, northeast of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Controversy over wind farm in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Controversy in Bingham County over a wind farm that will be built in the Wolverine Canyon area. Over 100 people packed into courtroom one in the Bingham County courthouse, all to give their opinion on whether Ridgeline Energy should be allowed to build a 150 turbine wind farm in Bingham County.
This is the second public hearing. The first two weeks ago lasted until almost 1am and only about half of them got to speak.
This hearing started with hearing people in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Program to measure Cassia County winds</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Don’t feel bad if you don’t know what an anemometer is. Most people can barely pronounce the word.
Nonetheless, anemometers, which measure wind speed, are important scientific instruments, especially for anyone interested in building a wind farm or just plain interested in wind.
Now, Cassia County is looking for residents who might want to have anemometers installed on their land.
Leroy Jarolimek, who is planning to build a 19-unit wind farm near his home west of Burley, said wind can be a powerful .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Standing room only at wind farm meeting</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Standing room only Wednesday in Bingham County, where an energy company is trying to get approval to build 150 wind turbines.  The public meeting was still going on as of 10 p.m.
Ridgeline Energy, the same folks who built the wind turbines on Taylor Mountain and Wolverine Canyon need approval to get their turbines built on more than 22,000 acres in the Goshen Area.
Ridgeline Energy is looking for approval to build up at 150 wind turbines no taller than 492 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windmill farm back in the works in Bingham County</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The application has been re-filed and Bingham County residents will have another chance to voice their opinions about a proposed wind farm.
Ridgeline Energy has resubmitted its application for a special use permit. The permit would allow Ridgeline to place 150 windmills in Wolverine Canyon.
Last fall a special use permit was approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, but after learning more than a dozen people didn&#8217;t get notice of the public meeting, Bingham County commissioners overturned the decision.
Ridgeline withdrew their .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Deal struck on Idaho wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Idaho&#8217;s utilities, wind developers and state regulators have reached consensus on how much it costs to add wind power to utilities&#8217; transmission grids.
Three orders issued this week by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission established the amount of discounts utilities can assess against wind developers to account for the cost of integrating wind into their systems.
The orders also remove a cap on the size of small-power projects that can qualify for a rate published by the commission.
Also, the commission disallowed utilities .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill would put renewable energy sources on public land</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new House bill, gaining support among lawmakers in Boise, could spearhead the construction of renewable energy plants on Idaho&#8217;s federal lands.
If enacted, HB 500 would open up some of Idaho&#8217;s endowment lands for the capture of renewable energy such as wind, geothermal or solar rays. That power could be used to satiate Idaho&#8217;s growing energy needs or be sold to neighboring states.
&#8220;This bill has tremendous potential,&#8221; said Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake. &#8220;Idaho has some of the best wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Cotterel Mountains still turbine free</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A year and a half after securing Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approval for a 100-unit wind farm on the Cotterel Mountains near Albion, Windland, Inc. has yet to lay definite plans for building the project.
Windland Director of Marketing and Development Mike Heckler said the windmills will eventually be built, but doing so depends on Windland’s ability to sell the up to 200 megawatts of power its Cotterel facility will produce.
“We continue to work with the BLM and collect wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Utilities commission says wind developer must pay deposits</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind developer must pay deposits to Idaho Power Co. if it wants its five Magic Valley area wind projects to remain in line to interconnect with Idaho Power&#8217;s transmission grid, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission has ruled. 
Exergy Development Group and Idaho Power entered into sales agreements that will permit Exergy to sell all output from five wind projects to Idaho Power. In a complaint filed last July, Exergy claimed Idaho Power was improperly seeking another $255,000 in deposits .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Mega-wind project south of T.F. progresses; Bulk of electricity likely to go out of state</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Developers are hoping you won&#8217;t see one of the largest building projects in Idaho history.
They are hoping, however, that Nevada residents will reap the bulk of the project&#8217;s rewards.
In the next two years, the first of nearly 200 planned wind turbines could begin to gently spin on seldom seen federal, state and private lands, hidden by hills just west of U.S. Highway 93 between Twin Falls and Jackpot, Nev.
Though most of the turbines will be in Idaho, a Nevada utility .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Company seeking wind generation in Twin Falls County</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.K. based, Renewable Energy Systems, develops and constructs wind farms all over the world. Officials with the company say that wind power is becoming the world&#8217;s fastest growing energy source and there is a high demand for it in the United States.
Twin Falls County Commissioner Terry Kramer said, &#8220;Twin Falls County has a real unique opportunity to become a fairly large player in the wind–generation business and because of our high bluffs that we have that surround the Snake .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho Power wants to invest in wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Idaho Power Co. wants state regulators to let the company invest in wind power and sustainable energy instead of using a pollution credit to reduce rates for its customers.
The company says the change may cost ratepayers more initially, but has the potential to save money.
The extra cash comes from the sale of sulfur dioxide emission allowances that Idaho Power doesn&#8217;t use.
The Environmental Protection Agency regulates the amount of pollution that can be released from power plants, and it provides utilities .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Kempthorne taps Boisean for wind panel</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Boisean Rich Rayhill has been named to a new advisory committee to study ways wind power producers can reduce their impact on wildlife.
Rayhill, vice president of the Seattle-based company Ridgeline Energy, was named to the committee by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.
He will join 21 others who will meet first in February and about four times a year to come up with guidelines to protect wildlife.
Wind farms can kill birds and bats when the animals fly into the turbines.
This .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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