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	<title>National Wind Watch: News Watch &#187; Alberta</title>
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		<title>Alberta wind farm approved</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/alberta-wind-farm-approved/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Alberta regulators have approved Geilectric Inc.&#8217;s application to build a 69-megawatt wind farm in the blustery southwest corner of the province. Geilectric, which touts itself as being a no-employee entity managed by Montreal-based wind power player Eolectric, proposes to build the 26-turbine Welsch wind power project approximately 13 kilometres northeast of Pincher Creek. It appears to be the company&#8217;s first project in Alberta. The Alberta Utilities Commission announced its approval of the project and substation, with conditions, late Monday. Geilectric .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm contract awarded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Capital Power Corporation has hired Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Canada Inc. as the main contractor for construction of the Halkirk Wind Project, which could become the largest wind project in Alberta. “With the construction mobilization of Halkirk, RES Canada marks its entrance into the Alberta renewable energy market. This will be our first wind construction project in Western Canada as we continue to extend our green footprint,” said Jason Zingerman, vice president of construction with RES Canada. Capital Power LP .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Local school boards support initiative to harness wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/13/local-school-boards-support-initiative-to-harness-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Central Alberta schools may soon be harnessing the power of the wind. About 40 school divisions in the province — including Red Deer Public School District and Chinook’s Edge School Division — have expressed interest in joining the estimated $150-$200 million Alberta Schools Wind Power Project. The school boards are part of a 38-school board member consortium that was formed to negotiate utility contracts in 2003. The consortium is managed by school district business officials and directors of facilities. The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Grasslands supports wind power project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/05/grasslands-supports-wind-power-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Grasslands School Board has indicated they would be willing to participate in a Wind Power Project that would supply their electricity needs for the next 25 years at a fixed price. Grasslands joined more than 40 school boards across the province to support the project created by Alberta Schools Commodity Purchasing Consortium. Grasslands does not currently belong to the CPC but has signed an intent-to-participate letter to support the advancement of the project. The wind farm will be built in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Montana-Alberta wind power line faces regulatory delays</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/22/montana-alberta-wind-power-line-faces-regulatory-delays/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[CALGARY — A merchant power line linking wind generation in Montana to Alberta’s electricity grid will be delayed, but not as long as proponents had applied for. Provincial regulators denied Enbridge Inc. a request to extend permitting deadlines on the Montana-Alberta Tie Line by a year, instead granting the pipeline and energy giant a regulatory break until May 2012. Power line builder and operator AltaLink was included in Wednesday’s decision on the 230-kilovolt transmission line by the Alberta Utilities Commission, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing wind farms away</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/25/blowing-wind-farms-away/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Duke of Edinburgh did not mince any words when he was given an opportunity to express his opinion about wind farms this week. He called them very simply a fairy tale. He blasted those in favour of sinking more of other peoples&#8217; money into the wind. The calculations, it would seem, have been based on the wind always being at an optimum level. It has meant the capacity for producing electricity from wind farms is inaccurate, said the Duke. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms need watching</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/14/wind-farms-need-watching/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Re: &#8220;Kicking at agriculture development hides hypocrisy,&#8221; Will Verboven, Opinion, Nov. 8. Will Verboven accuses the Alberta Wilderness Association of &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; because &#8220;this same conservation group does not oppose the proliferation of wind farms that have destroyed thousands of hectares of habitat and kills thousands of birds and bats every year.&#8221; Though the AWA does not oppose wind farms, we have consistently argued that wind development, like oil and gas development, has a significant footprint. Regulation of oil and gas .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>School board backs down on wind turbine after protests</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/08/school-board-backs-down-on-wind-turbine-after-protests/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The city&#8217;s public school board is abandoning its plan to install a 43-metre wind turbine that would have towered over a southeast Calgary school ground because of opposition from area residents. But a top official with the Calgary Board of Education said Monday he hasn&#8217;t given up on the idea of installing a large-scale wind generator at one of its facilities. Frank Coppinger, the CBE&#8217;s superintendent of facilities and environmental services, said that since the proposed site at Dr. E.P. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Transmission-line project &#8216;essentially out of funds,&#8217; energy watchdog says</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/08/transmission-line-project-essentially-out-of-funds-energy-watchdog-says/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Energy Department didn’t have enough safeguards to ensure protection of the $161 million the U.S. government invested in a transmission line that’s now two years behind schedule, the agency’s watchdog said. Inspector General Gregory Friedman criticized a lack of precautions taken by the Western Area Power Administration, a marketing authority within the Energy Department, before it helped finance a 214-mile (344-kilometer) line from Great Falls, Montana, to Lethbridge, Alberta. The Montana-Alberta Tie-Line would deliver electricity from wind farms in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Calgary public school board drops plan to build wind turbine at E.P. Scarlett High School</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/07/calgary-public-school-board-drops-plan-to-build-wind-turbine-at-e-p-scarlett-high-school/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The city&#8217;s public school board is abandoning its plan to install a 42.7 metre-high wind turbine in a school ground because of public concerns. When the Calgary Board of Education unveiled its proposal for the $290,000 machine at Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School during a public meeting last week, area residents complained they had not been adequately consulted. While officials said the noise from the nine-metre-long blades would not be audible in homes that are as little as 130 metres .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Skip big school turbine for more smaller ones, prof urges CBE</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/05/skip-big-school-turbine-for-more-smaller-ones-prof-urges-cbe/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[CALGARY — A wind power expert says the city’s public school board should abandon plans for a 43-metre-tall turbine in favour of smaller-scale projects, if its primary goal is educating students about renewable energy. For the $290,000 it will cost to install the tower and generator at a school in the city’s southeast, mechanical engineering professor David Wood says the Calgary Board of Education could install a dozen demonstration units, similar to the one erected at Olympic Heights School two .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Waste of money</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/05/waste-of-money/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Re: &#8220;Schoolyard turbine too costly,&#8221; Nov. 4. Are you kidding me? With all the financial pressures on the CBE, the best thing they can think of to spend $290,000 on is not reducing class sizes, not repairing aging, rundown facilities, not hiring more teachers, but buying a wind turbine? Oh wait, it&#8217;s a great investment, too! It will pay out in 20 years. I have a better idea. Can the project and can the people who proposed it. Rick Bawol, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Expert questions economic sense of Calgary school board’s wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/04/expert-questions-economic-sense-of-calgary-school-boards-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[CALGARY — A 47-metre-high wind turbine that could soon tower over a school ground in a residential area of south Calgary makes no economic sense, according to a prominent renewable energy expert. The city’s public school board says the $290,000 machine planned for Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School would pay for itself in 20 years. But calculations done by the Herald using current market rates for electricity show it would take over three decades — longer than the turbine’s predicted .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Calgary residents outraged about school&#8217;s wind turbine plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/03/calgary-residents-outraged-about-schools-wind-turbine-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[CALGARY — Some Calgary residents are outraged over a plan to install a 47-metre-tall wind turbine on a school ground, saying they were not &#8220;properly informed&#8221; of the Calgary Board of Education&#8217;s plan. While board officials defended the proposal as a learning tool for students, staff and residents, visitors to the open house at E.P. Scarlett High School accused the board officials of not being transparent. &#8220;It really aggravates me that the board doesn&#8217;t bother to notify people of these .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Concerns fly over wind turbine proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/11/03/concerns-fly-over-wind-turbine-proposal/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[What began as a staid open house on a proposed 47-metre wind turbine slated for a school ground turned stormy Wednesday when some southwest residents demanded to know why they weren&#8217;t &#8220;properly informed&#8221; of the Calgary Board of Education&#8217;s plan and questioned how such a project will benefit the community or even the environment. While board officials defended the plan as a superior learning tool for students, staff and residents, visitors to the open house at Dr. E.P. Scarlett High .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Alberta&#8217;s wind power producers face energy storage challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/10/21/albertas-wind-power-producers-face-energy-storage-challenge/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Alberta&#8217;s wind power producers hope to more than double their output over the next few years, but a new economic and technical report suggests there are major challenges ahead. The key to making green energy profitable is the ability to store the energy &#8211; most likely by using excess electricity to run large air compressors that fill underground caverns with pressurized air. The pressure would then be released on demand to turn a turbine that produces electricity. Provincial wholesale power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Plans advance for embattled Montana power line</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/08/17/plans-advance-for-embattled-montana-power-line/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — A Canadian energy company said Tuesday that it is buying an embattled Montana power transmission line project that has seen its plans of shipping wind energy across the border become mired in landowner disputes. Alberta-based Enbridge Inc.&#8217;s announcement came the same day the company announced a significant settlement with a leader of the opposition. Enbridge&#8217;s plans to purchase Tonbridge Power Inc. &#8211; whose main business involves the Montana-Alberta Tie Line power transmission project &#8211; in a deal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MATL facing issues on several fronts</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/07/21/matl-facing-issues-on-several-fronts/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The controversial MATL transmission line continues to generate news, running the gambit from table talk to a Montana Supreme Court decision. The issues stem mostly from placement of the 500-foot transmission line corridor, a process that involved the state, the public and the company through the Major Facilities Siting Act process, but the project’s complexity has created an expanded list of concerns. Chris Stephens, who has advocated for landowner rights since the MATL project was started, and whose brother, Robert, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power line slowed by cash crunch; Montana link faces $5.8M shortfall</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/28/power-line-slowed-by-cash-crunch-montana-link-faces-5-8m-shortfall/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Lack of funds has slowed action on the proposed 300-megawatt Alberta Montana Tie Line transmission line, the company behind the province&#8217;s first intertie with the U.S. said. Costs have escalated on the proposed $213 million US merchant power line, which would flow electricity from wind farms in each jurisdiction to their respective power grids, said Tonbridge Power Inc. Regulatory delays, a contentious court decision, landowner and contractor disputes have increased costs by about $25 million US on the Lethbridge to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Contract dispute halts transmission line work</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/15/contract-dispute-halts-transmission-line-work/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The construction of a cross-border transmission line between Canada and the United States has been halted pending the resolution of a dispute between Montana Alberta Tie Ltd and its contractor. &#8220;The EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) has a specific section related to permitted change orders, where the actual costs related to design changes, lack of access to land, inclement weather days in excess of twenty, changes in law, and other elements outside the control of RMC provide a basis .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Heritage Wind Farm approved</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/06/04/heritage-wind-farm-approved/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Alberta regulators have approved the 291-megawatt Heritage Wind Farm power plant, a renewable project outside of Pincher Creek. The Alberta Utilities Commission gave the green light to the project which will include 97 Vesta V90 turbines atop 80-metre tall towers straddling two townships along Alberta&#8217;s premier wind corridor. Privately held Heritage Wind Farm Development Inc., headed by Allan Kettles, is developing the project, which originally was proposed by Benign Energy Canada Inc. in 2006. The approval, June 2, was a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaks raise questions over power projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/05/18/leaks-raise-questions-over-power-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 12:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[New questions are surfacing over the Stelmach government&#8217;s plans for $14 billion in power line projects, as newly released U.S. diplomatic cables reveal the province and American officials have been eyeing additional Alberta electricity exports but that more transmission capacity is necessary. Premier Ed Stelmach and his ministers have maintained the new power lines are necessary to keep the lights on in Alberta and ensure reliable flow of electricity on a system that hasn&#8217;t seen any major upgrades in more .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable energy still too expensive, says report</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/04/06/renewable-energy-still-too-expensive-says-report/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Despite high oil prices, fossil fuels will continue to trump renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power without massive government subsidies, a new investment bank says. A report by Calgary-based AltaCorp Capital says the “economic realities” of oil and natural gas mean that the world will remain largely dependent on non-renewable energy sources for the foreseeable future. Author John Mawdsley said he didn’t set out to make a case for oil and gas, but found that hydrocarbon fuels .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>MATL files brief in appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/03/23/matl-files-brief-in-appeal/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A Canadian company building a high voltage for-profit power line through Teton County has fired the first salvo to reverse a judge’s order stating that the private company has no eminent domain authority. MATL L.L.P. filed an appeal in the Montana Supreme Court on March 7 of 9th Judicial District Judge Laurie McKinnon’s order last December dismissing the company’s condemnation lawsuit against Larry Salois, guardian of his disabled mother who owns property in Glacier County. MATL L.L.P., standing for “Montana .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Greengate wind farm approved</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/03/11/greengate-wind-farm-approved/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Greengate Power Corp. has been given the regulatory green light on what could be Canada&#8217;s largest wind farm, the privately-owned company said Thursday. The Calgary-based company expects to start building the Blackspring Ridge I project in 2012, with an in-service date of 2013. Located near the village of Carmangay, about 30 kilometres north of Lethbridge, the project will add 300 megawatts of power to the provincial grid, said CEO Dan Balaban. &#8220;We are very pleased to have received AUC approval .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing won’t make wind energy viable</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/17/wishing-wont-make-wind-energy-viable/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the last year, there has been a change to the landscape along Hwy 21 southeast of Red Deer as a windswept ridgeline has become home to a new type of farm in the region — a windmill farm. Within a year or so, another larger one will sprout on the windy prairie east of Stettler. Armed with tremendous amounts of taxpayers’ cash, utility giants are looking to wind power to bolster their bottom line, and our .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bats don&#8217;t deserve bad rap</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/01/bats-dont-deserve-bad-rap/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Their reputation might peg them as disease-ridden vermin, but bats aren&#8217;t so bad after all, a new University of Calgary study claims. In an article published in the Journal of Wildlife Disease, U of C researchers dispute the notion that the creatures of the night are riddled with rabies. &#8220;It&#8217;s completely not true,&#8221; said Brandon Klug, a graduate student and the lead author of the paper. &#8220;They&#8217;re just all negative stigmas that have been passed down.&#8221; In the article, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Beleaguered bats not diseased, say researchers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/02/01/beleaguered-bats-not-diseased-say-researchers/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Alberta’s bat population now has some solid research on its side debunking the myth that the flying mammals are disease carriers. Using the carcasses of hoary and silver-haired bats killed by wind turbines in Southern Alberta, researchers at the University of Calgary and the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta found the rate of rabies among bats is surprisingly low. “There’s a stigma that bats are highly diseased,” said Brandon Klug, a.k.a Bat Boy, who is the lead author of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sale of energy credits in California supports wind projects in Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/29/sale-of-energy-credits-in-california-supports-wind-projects-in-canada/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s recently revived market for tradable renewable energy credits has helped two wind farms in Alberta, Canada, qualify for financing. Under a deal approved yesterday by the California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas &#038; Electric Co. is buying renewable energy credits associated with two projects that Greengate Power Corp. will build in the Canadian province. The sale lets PG&#038;E receive credit in California for using renewable energy that it will not sell in the state, or even .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wildrosers vow to repeal land-use law</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/13/wildrosers-vow-to-repeal-land-use-law/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Political battle lines are being drawn over the issue of diminishing land rights in Alberta with the Wildrose Alliance saying Wednesday they will repeal land-use legislation if elected. The Land Stewardship and Electric Statutes Amendment acts — which were known as bills 36 and 50 prior to their passage in 2009 — are eroding property rights across the province, say opponents of the legislation including Drew Barnes, a candidate for the Wildrose Alliance Party in Cypress-Medicine Hat. &#8220;Its been the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No case for wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/09/no-case-for-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[With the province having given Medicine Hat the approval to build a wind farm, the decision as to whether to proceed now rests with city council. Our aldermen should pass on this one. As it stands, the proposed wind farm will cost about $25 million to build and would potentially supply enough electricity to power some 3,000 homes. Wind power, of course, has been in the news for quite some time. There are wind farms sprinkled across southern Alberta and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Alberta okays wind farm; Ball in city&#8217;s court to fund $25M project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/01/06/alberta-okays-wind-farm-ball-in-citys-court-to-fund-25m-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The provincial government has given the go-ahead to the City of Medicine Hat&#8217;s proposed wind farm. Now it is up to council to decide if it wants to cough up the approximately $25 million it will cost to build it. The wind farm was granted regulatory approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission in late December. The proposed eight megawatt project involves four wind turbines that would be built on the east side of Box Springs Road near the city&#8217;s northern .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green-washed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/11/17/green-washed/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Are we being green-washed into paying for unproven and inherently inefficient power generating technologies? Currently, Hatters are paying a hefty &#8220;green&#8221; surcharge to help pay for the utilities dabbling in alternative energies. It&#8217;s not a whole lot of money, but it adds up. It&#8217;s all being done in the name of saving the environment and weaning us off &#8220;bad&#8221; fossil fuels. Are the extra taxes we&#8217;re paying out as tax breaks to alternative energy producers and consumers really worth it? .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm sprouts up in Trochu</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/11/01/wind-farm-sprouts-up-in-trochu/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A new crop has started sprouting among the grain fields surrounding Trochu and Huxley. Over the last month, more than a dozen turbines have been erected for a wind farm that will have 51 when complete. After a drawn-out legal battle with landowners worried about the effects of the project, the Ghost Pine Wind Power project is now underway, with preparations being made to connect into the provincial grid when it is complete. Dale Moran, one of a handful of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Another wind farm approved for area</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/10/27/another-wind-farm-approved-for-area/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A Calgary-based company and an international green energy developer have received approval from the provincial regulator to construct and operate a $120-million wind farm in southern Alberta. This will be the second phase of an already existing wind farm. According to Mainstream Canada the AUC (Alberta Utilities Commission) approval is a very significant milestone in the development of the Oldman 2 Wind Farm and we&#8217;re now focused on bringing it through the construction process and into commercial operation. The AUC .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Alberta wind farm approved</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/09/29/southern-alberta-wind-farm-approved/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Alberta Utilities Commission has approved the 46-megawatt Oldman 2 wind farm, with conditions, but has denied both permit and licence for a substation and interconnection order. Oldman 2 Wind Farm Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Luxembourg Mainstream Renewable Power and Alberta Wind Energy Corporation, will have to mitigate higher noise volumes if two now-empty dwellings on the farm site are occupied. As well, the company will have to conduct and submit a post-construction comprehensive sound level survey once .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm hearings adjourned</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/09/04/wind-farm-hearings-adjourned/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Oral hearings in relation to the Ghostpine Wind Farm near Trochu have been adjourned until Sept. 22. Fortuna GP, the Canadian subsidiary of Florida Light &#038; Power, has amended its application to erect 51 wind turbines and related facilities in the area. The amendments opened the application to new objections, with the result that one area resident has raised new concerns about noise, vibration and other effects of having the turbines near her home. Originally set for Aug. 30, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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