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		<title>Ontario slaps new &#8216;green&#8217; tax on electricity bills</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/21/ontario-slaps-new-green-tax-on-electricity-bills/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ontario electricity customers will soon be slapped with an additional tax to cover $53 million of the Liberal government&#8217;s new conservation and green energy programs, the Star has learned.
The levy will appear on hydro bills just as the 13 per cent harmonized sales tax is about to be charged and as smart meters are being phased in, which one industry insider described as &#8220;a perfect storm&#8221; for consumers already rattled by rising energy costs.
A government document – innocuously entitled &#8220;Ontario .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm plans upset county dwellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[GUELPH — Laura Humphrey and her family moved to the countryside in an effort to escape the proverbial concrete jungle and all its man-made noise and monolithic monstrosities.
Her rural home is situated among the spruce groves, undulating hills and myriad wildlife of Wellington County. Snowmobile trails run parallel to gravel county roads. The Grand River winds its way through the quiet, sparsely populated farmland about 50 kilometres northeast of Guelph.
“This is a precious place. The whole reason we’re here is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm opponents&#8217; signs disappear</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-farm-opponents-signs-disappear/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Residents of Guildwood Village along the Scarborough Bluffs have no idea who is stealing their signs.
The residents have been using 12&#215;24 inch lawn signs reading “Save our Shoreline” to voice their opposition to the planned windmill farm two kilometres off the Bluffs.  
According to John Laforet who lives in the Guildwood neighbourhood, at least 40 signs have been taken down in  the middle of the night. Mr. Laforet said that the Toronto Wind Action group has not had .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Final OK for wind farm project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A $60-million wind farm project in southeastern Saskatchewan is expected to soon get underway after receiving the final OK from an area rural municipality, despite concerns from some landowners.
&#8220;We&#8217;re very pleased,&#8221; Algonquin Power&#8217;s April Meyer said in an interview Thursday. Construction on the Red Lily Wind Farm Project is expected to begin this summer, with the turbines in place by the fall.
Red Lily Wind Power Limited Partnership, owned by Algonguin Power Inc. and Gaia Power, plans to construct a 25-megawatt .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hall overflowed with citizens angry over Invenergy’s wind farm plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/hall-overflowed-with-citizens-angry-over-invenergy%e2%80%99s-wind-farm-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[BELWOOD &#8212; Citizens from the area appeared to be furious while attending a wind turbine meeting here on March 9, but in the end they let their manners stifle their anger &#8211; just a little.
Over 500 people packed the Belwood Hall over the course of three hours, and many of them were furious with In­ven­ergy Wind Canada’s proposal for a wind farm with be­tween 25 to 35 turbines. They carried signs with slogans like “Farm­ers Feed Cities Not Power Them.”
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Local residents have council’s sympathy over wind turbine proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/local-residents-have-council%e2%80%99s-sympathy-over-wind-turbine-proposal/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ELORA &#8212; Centre Welling­ton council’s committee of the whole heard on Monday after­noon that several farmers who signed lease agreements for wind farms near Belwood are willing to back out of them.
A delegation led by Dave Hurlburt, Laura Humphrey, Gerry Ellen and Darryl Burnet came to council to ask for its help in opposing the wind farm planned by Invenergy that sur­rounds much of Belwood and reaches into Dufferin County. They represented a group that is opposing the proposal for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Town wants regional effort to combat offshore wind turbines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[After hearing a report from Town Planner, Danielle Truax regarding the limited and potentially costly remedies available to municipalities with regard to wind power, Kingsville Council has decided to make a concerted, cohesive, and collected effort to deal with matters concerning the potential impact of offshore wind turbines.
   Kingsville has already partnered with the Town of Leamington in hiring the Jones Consulting Group. A report from Jones completed in September 2009, which coordinated technical peer reviews found “significant .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Warring over wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/warring-over-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[With well over 1,000 people in attendance &#8211; and most of them in an unpleasant frame of mind &#8211; a public information session about the proposed Belwood Wind Farm project was held at the Lions Hall in Belwood on Tuesday, Mar 9.
At issue is the proposed wind farm project that would build 25-35 wind turbines on approximately 4,000 acres of land northwest of Belwood. Invenergy Canada, a branch of Chicago-based Invenergy LLC, is backing the proposal that would have the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>McGuinty&#8217;s ill wind blows across Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/mcguintys-ill-wind-blows-across-canada/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently did something so stupid when it comes to … uh … fighting global warming, it should warn all Canadians to keep an eye on their politicians, lest they do something equally dumb.
McGuinty struck a deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels in Ontario, plus pay inflated prices for 2,500 megawatts of so-called green energy for the next quarter century.
Samsung will invest $7 billion in return for untold .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>What works in the city does not work in the country</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/what-works-in-the-city-does-not-work-in-the-country/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[This week Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch showed yet again why every politician who tests him at the ballot box becomes cannon fodder. Simply put, he listens to people. He’s very good at it, in fact.
How else to explain the veteran politician’s extraordinary rant this week, in which he urged Toronto be hived off from the rest of the province?
Crazy, some will say. Sure. Crazy like a fox. Is he serious? Will Toronto ever be a province? Is there anything .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>City powerless, and not happy about it</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/city-powerless-and-not-happy-about-it/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[City politicians complained Monday about new environmental legislation which takes away from municipalities a say in where renewable energy projects are permitted.
I&#8217;m genuinely incensed,&#8221; said Mayor Vic Fedeli, referring to the loss of authority over planning approvals for renewable energy projects under the Green Energy Act.
Council was presented a report published in a national municipal magazine in January outlining the implications of the legislation, adopted by Queens Park in May, 2009.
The report says municipalities have lost all powers to block, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Public meeting outlines next stages in turbine development</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/public-meeting-outlines-next-stages-in-turbine-development/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Residents, landowners, politicians and interested professionals turned up at the Lucknow Community Centre March 9, to have their say in a proposed wind project from Capital Power. While information was provided as to the environmental approval of the project, there was still notable concern from the public about the unknown.
&#8220;We have (turbines) all around us,&#8221; said Rita Tigert. &#8220;I&#8217;ve read a lot about health problems and concerns.&#8221;
Tigert and husband, Jack, were among the many landowners and local residents within the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Are we acting with reckless abandon over wind energy?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/are-we-acting-with-reckless-abandon-over-wind-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The slump in the economy last year seemed to trigger a great interest in developing clean power from a renewable source and Boone Pickens and Warren Buffet, two well-known business leaders, have turned their attention to wind turbine development.
Boone Pickens was known by his successful oil discoveries and is now moving his mindset to wind energy.
Warren Buffet, with his large investment holdings and interest in respecting the environment, has recently taken a major position in GE (having acquired Scanwind) and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine proposal stirs up angst in East Gary</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/turbine-proposal-stirs-up-angst-in-east-gary/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[If a proposed East Garafraxa wind farm goes ahead, people will lose faith in politics and move away from the area, Judith Llewellyn said last week, outside an open house hosted by Invenergy Wind Canada.
“People are extremely upset about the undemocratic nature that is revealing,” the 12th Line resident said of Ontario’s new Green Energy Act, which removes planning authority for renewable energy projects from municipalities.
All necessary approvals are now handled at the provincial level, though municipalities are asked to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine meeting an eye-opener</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/wind-turbine-meeting-an-eye-opener/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I was at the wind turbine meeting hosted by WAIT! in Creemore on Sat., March 6 and I want to say it was one of the most informative and eye-opening meetings I have ever attended.
I was shocked at the vast amount of compelling evidence against wind turbines &#8211; which the government is blatantly ignoring.
There are health risks, mental and physical, including stress, high blood pressure, sleeplessness and heart problems, to name a few.
Turbines produce humming and vibration; they produce high .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Armow wind project proceeding</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/16/armow-wind-project-proceeding/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The striction on electrical capacity has delayed Acciona Energy&#8217;s 80-megawatt Armow Wind Power Project.
But the company is moving ahead in preparation for when the &#8220;Orange Zone&#8221; restriction is listed, said Acciona&#8217;s Paul Austin.
&#8220;I know there is some anxiety with the Green Energy Act,&#8221; said Austin, who knows of the perception of companies &#8220;steamrolling local councils&#8221;. &#8220;We have no intention to develop that way.&#8221;
The company dissolved its 50/50 partnership in the Ripley Wind Power Project with Suncor Energy late last year .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>McGuinty&#8217;s Green Energy Act unfair to wind turbine opponents, say critics</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/16/mcguintys-green-energy-act-unfair-to-wind-turbine-opponents-say-critics/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[LEAMINGTON &#8212; The province&#8217;s Green Energy Act has hamstrung residents ability to fight wind turbine proposals for lakes Erie and St. Clair by putting the financial onus on opponents to prove any harm to human health or the environment.
Municipalities need to do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of studies to fight 715 wind turbines proposed for the two lake, Gord Meuser, a member of Citizens Against Lake Erie Wind Turbines, told Leamington council Monday.
“This artificial forest pounded into our .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green act unfair, turbine foes say</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/16/green-act-unfair-turbine-foes-say/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The province&#8217;s Green Energy Act has hamstrung residents&#8217; ability to fight wind turbine proposals for lakes Erie and St. Clair by putting the financial onus on opponents to prove any harm to human health or the environment.
Municipalities need to do hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of studies to fight 715 wind turbines proposed for the two lakes, Gord Meuser, a member of Citizens Against Lake Erie Wind Turbines, told Leamington council Monday.
&#8220;This artificial forest pounded into our bay is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Boralex gets $194-million loan for Ontario wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/16/boralex-gets-194-million-loan-for-ontario-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Boralex Inc. has secured financing of $194.5 million for the construction and operation of its Thames River wind farm in southern Ontario. The funds will be used to finance the second phase of the 90-megawatt wind farm and to refinance Phase 1. The first phase involved the construction of four of nine 10 MW wind farms, which were commissioned in January. The remaining five 10 MW farms are under construction and scheduled to be finished by December.
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Énergie éolienne les opposants se mobilisent</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/15/energie-eolienne-les-opposants-se-mobilisent/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[[Wind energy opponents are mobilizing]
(Montréal) Même si Enerfin est sur le point de commencer à planter ses éoliennes dans leur décor bucolique, les opposants croient encore que le projet ne se réalisera pas.
«Si j&#8217;étais le gouvernement du Québec, jamais je n&#8217;autoriserais ce projet», dit Michel Vachon, porte-parole des opposants au projet.
[Even if Enerfin is ready to start erecting wind turbines in their bucolic setting, opponents still believe the project won't happen. "If I was the Québec government, I would never .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Four wind projects get purchase agreements in Tumbler Ridge</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/15/four-wind-projects-get-purchase-agreements-in-tumbler-ridge/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[With four of a possible five Tumbler Ridge area wind projects receiving electricity purchase agreements (EPAs) last week, wind energy took another step closer to reality in Tumbler Ridge &#8211; but no projects are yet in the clear.
Last Thursday’s (March 11) announcement by BC Hydro gave EPAs to three Finavera Renewables projects and one Capital Power project, together making up 364 megawatts of generating capacity. But it was mute on the status of Aeolis Wind Power Corporation’s 320-megawatt Thunder Mountain .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Province aims to protect bats</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/15/province-aims-to-protect-bats/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[With the growth of the wind energy industry in Southern Alberta, the development of protocol to protect the province’s migratory bat population is now underway.
Lisa Wilkinson, a species at risk biologist with Alberta Fish and Wildlife and head of the Alberta Bat Action Team (ABAT), said Alberta was a North American pioneer in establishing pre-construction guidelines for wind farm operators.
Now, ABAT is working with the provincial government and representatives from the wind energy industry to create post-construction protocol in order .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Council wants voice in offshore wind turbine issue</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/14/council-wants-voice-in-offshore-wind-turbine-issue/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[AMHERSTBURG – Town council has agreed with a motion put forth by Councillor Rick Fryer concerning the potential for offshore wind turbines near Essex County.
Council passed the motion at its March 8 regular session.
Fryer originally put forth a notice of motion Feb. 22 stating that &#8220;local municipalities should have a voice in matters that affect local watershed planning&#8221; and that &#8220;we all are concerned about the potential impact that offshore wind turbines might have on water quality, human health along .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Operation Minoa: Sicilian anti-Mafia initiative stretches from the Mediterranean to Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/13/operation-minoa-sicilian-anti-mafia-initiative-stretches-from-the-mediterranean-to-canada/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The sun had not yet risen when 80 police officers gathered along the narrow roads that twist through the rocky hills on the outskirts of a sleeping town on the Italian island of Sicily.
Under the cloak of darkness, the men pulled black hoods over their faces and donned blue vests emblazoned with the distinctive logo of the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), a national agency facing the dangerous task of rooting out the Mafia. They surrounded the town of Cattolica Eraclea .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm lease remains</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/13/wind-farm-lease-remains/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[City councillors spent several hours behind closed doors last Monday discussing the proposed Big Thunder Wind Park, and while concrete details of that meeting aren&#8217;t known, it appears most decided not to make any changes to the controversial lease agreement with Horizon Wind Inc.
Details of the discussion are confidential at this time, but city solicitor Rosalie Evans confirmed that as of Friday afternoon no changes had been made regarding the lease of city-owned land on the Nor&#8217;Wester mountain range.
She adds .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Battle lines drawn in lake turbine issue</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/12/battle-lines-drawn-in-lake-turbine-issue/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A Leamington-based company that is proposing to put 700 wind turbines in lakes Erie and St. Clair has hired a high-profile Michigan public relations strategist and former spokesman for the mayor of Detroit.
Daniel Cherrin, who was chief communications officer under former Detroit mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., said Thursday he was hired last week by SouthPoint Wind to speak on its behalf about the controversial project.
&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a lot of emotions on both sides. &#8230; And it&#8217;s a very small .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Heard this promise before</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/12/heard-this-promise-before/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Re:Ring of fire development good for all, chamber says, March 10
So, &#8220;The Ontario government has promised to protect 50 per cent of the boreal forest&#8230;&#8221; from development. I&#8217;ve heard that before. I live in the Oak Ridges Moraine in a section currently under consideration for (surprise!) industrial wind farm development.
The new Green Energy Act overrides the protections in the Oak Ridges Moraine plan and the act&#8217;s environmental assessment requirements are so lax as to be ludicrous. We are now faced .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Resident protests 700 wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/12/resident-protests-700-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[It is with great dismay that I find I have to write this statement in response to the notification in the local daily paper that there&#8217;s a plan afoot to install up to 700 wind turbines just offshore in Lake Erie. I know that this is part of the provincial government&#8217;s Green Energy Act but just who is it going to be green for? In the first paragraph of the act, the government states that it will &#8220;boost investment in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green energy bubbles</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/green-energy-bubbles/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot.combubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown. If you can&#8217;t hear it, you are not alone. While investment analysts are telling their clients to get out of solar power firms and warning about the continuing risks in wind and bioenergy schemes, Ottawa and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Opposition to turbines generates no wind at Wellington North council</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/opposition-to-turbines-generates-no-wind-at-wellington-north-council/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[KENILWORTH &#8212; A petition voicing concers to Schneider Power’s wind farm near Arthur failed to generate any wind at Wellington North council.
On March 8, council discussed a petition from 20 area residents. Some are neighboring property owners, while others are residents of Arthur. The petition was about concerns about a project on Lots 2 and 3 on Line 2.
“We submit that the location of this project, less than a kilometer from in excess of 2,000 people, is very poorly thought .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Actions fall short of health study, wind group says</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/actions-fall-short-of-health-study-wind-group-says/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[KAWARTHA LAKES &#8211; Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Rick Johnson has written City of Kawartha Lakes council in the aftermath of local school concerns over wind turbines.
The Trillium Lakelands District School Board has officially given its backing to the Manvers Gone With The Wind group, which is looking for the Ontario government to produce an independent study on the health effects of wind turbines.
&#8220;Although interest has been expressed by various energy companies in locating wind turbines in this area, I have been .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Serious concerns&#8217; about wind farm raised in petition</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/serious-concerns-about-wind-farm-raised-in-petition/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A petition signed by neighbours and adjacent landowners expressing “serious concerns” about the wind farm being built on Lots 2 and 3, Line 2, Wellington North was presented to council Monday evening. 
Those signing the petition said the project, “less than a kilometer from an excess of 2000 people, is very poorly thought out in light of recent articles in the local press relating to individuals living in close proximity to wind turbines and the resulting negative health effects some .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Belwood wind project draws huge crowd</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/belwood-wind-project-draws-huge-crowd/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[An overflow crowd said to be close to 1,500 converged on the community hall in Belwood Tuesday night to attend an open house for the proposed Belwood Wind Energy Centre.
For the most part, they were not a happy lot.
A similar open house was scheduled for Wednesday night at the community hall in Marsville.
At issue is a proposal by Invenergy Wind Canada ULC, a branch of Chicago-based Invenergy LLC, to develop a wind farm with between 25 and 35 turbine locations .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>‘Not simply a case of NIMBY . . .’</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/%e2%80%98not-simply-a-case-of-nimby-%e2%80%99/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A large and quickly increasing number of residents in our county and township, as well as in neighbouring Wellington, are deeply concerned about the proposed Belwood Wind Energy Centre Project that Invenergy is seeking approval for. Seeing that there seems to be little awareness of how close to Orangeville this massive proposal will be, we would like to draw your attention why we, and many more residents in this area, do not deem the proposed site appropriate for a sustainable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Belwood residents protest wind farm project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/10/belwood-residents-protest-wind-farm-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of residents gathered in Belwood on Tuesday night for a public meeting into a proposed wind farm project.
Many chose the meeting as an opportunity to protest. Opponents say they&#8217;re worried about the landscape as well as the possible health hazards and economic impact of the turbines.
Invenergy held the public meeting in hopes of easing tensions.
The proposal calls for up to 35 wind turbines to be constructed.
[visit the CTV website for video]
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		<title>Wind farm concern widespread</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/10/wind-farm-concern-widespread/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Open letter to the voters of Ontario:
I live in rural Ontario.
I have been labeled by our premier and other politicians as a NIMBY and by others as &#8220;anti-green,&#8221; an &#8220;opponent,&#8221; a &#8220;detractor&#8221; to wind energy. Why? Because I am concerned about the risk to health of Ontario families.
These statements are lobbyist language and more suitable to a playground bully. It is unbecoming for a leader who was elected to look after the wellbeing of our democratic society to dismiss legitimate .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>North Gower Citizens Group Hires Law Firm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/10/north-gower-citizens-group-hires-law-firm/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA &#8212; In its fight to ensure that a proposed development of industrial wind turbines is located a safe distance from hundreds of homes in the North Gower-Richmond area, the North Gower Wind Action Group has retained the services of an environmental lawyer in the Ottawa office of Fogler, Rubinoff LLP.
The group has asked the developer to share documents related to the development process with the community.
“As a member of Wind Concerns Ontario, we hear reports every day of people .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition left blowing in the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/10/opposition-left-blowing-in-the-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[DAWN-EUPHEMIA — Two years after hundreds of local residents and the township&#8217;s council vehemently opposed a large wind farm, plans are moving forward to start construction.
Officials with the Sydenham Wind Energy Centre say they will start building their $160-million farm in 2011 if Ontario Power Authority (OPA) approval comes through and once an environmental assessment is complete.
The farm will have 29 to 37 wind turbines capable of producing about 70 MW, enough to power 20,000 households, says Sherra Zulerons, national .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind opponents blow off steam in Creemore</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/09/wind-opponents-blow-off-steam-in-creemore/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A March 6 meeting, outlining the downside of wind turbines, drew close to 200 people to Creemore&#8217;s Station on the Green.
Only six or eight people would have shown up 18 months ago, said one speaker, concluding that the groundswell of opposition to wind turbines is gaining momentum.
An area just north of Creemore is proposed for the tower installations as well as a smaller area to the west of the village.
The meeting was organized by WAIT, an acronym for Warning About .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents band together to fight wind turbine proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/09/residents-band-together-to-fight-wind-turbine-proposals/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Schaut says he moved his family to Meaford last year to escape the turbine-covered landscape of Melancthon Township.
A plan for a small, locally-run wind farm north of Shelburne quickly evolved into a 133-tower development that surrounded his home, workplace and the area&#8217;s countryside, he said.
&#8220;For us, it was an enormous nuisance,&#8221; said the organic vegetable farmer.
He said the swooshing, &#8220;cyclical humming&#8221; sound of the massive turbines disturbed his family&#8217;s sleep and caused his young children to wake up in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>United front urged over wind farms; 700 turbines proposed for lakes</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/09/united-front-urged-over-wind-farms-700-turbines-proposed-for-lakes/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Area municipalities and the Essex Region Conservation Authority should develop a regional response to the 700 offshore turbines proposed for lakes Erie and St. Clair, Kingsville council agreed Monday.
&#8220;It appears to me the whole thing is stacked against municipalities and citizens,&#8221; Coun. Tamara Stomp said of the new Green Energy Act.
She put forward a motion that Amherstburg Coun. Rick Fryer was expected to take to Amherstburg council expressing concerns about the impact of offshore turbines on water quality, human health .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget takes the wind out of clean energy sails</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/07/budget-takes-the-wind-out-of-clean-energy-sails/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA–Glen Estill is one of a small group of entrepreneurs across the country trudging along a narrow green path.
After seeing this week&#8217;s federal budget, which effectively ended a popular subsidy program to encourage renewable energy producers, the president of Sky Generation Inc., a small wind energy firm in Lion&#8217;s Head, north of Owen Sound, Ont., says he may have to cool his heels.
He built three wind farms between 2002 and December 2009. Two of those have benefited from a federal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council sold out to wind industry</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/07/council-sold-out-to-wind-industry/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Chatham-Kent council complains at the ROMA conference they want control of industrial wind development. How can you complain the horse is out of the barn when you opened the door yourself?
C-K council has ignored and ridiculed concerns over industrial wind turbines from citizens for over three years now.
I have watched them favour developers and do everything in their power to bring this to C-K.
The snake oil salesmen came to town promising C-K it will be the &#8220;leader&#8221; in renewable energy.
They .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing away taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/06/blowing-away-taxpayers/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The  Ontario government’s rush into renewable energy, and industrial wind turbine-generated electricity in particular, is likely to reveal the law of unintended consequences. The government needs to rigorously re-evaluate this precipitous policy before committing billions more in subsidies to it.
First, as to the cost of wind-generated electricity, the feed-in tariff for on-shore wind turbines in Ontario provided for under the Green Energy Act is 13.5¢ per kWh (and higher for smaller projects). This is more than twice the prevailing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farms causing health problems?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/wind-farms-causing-health-problems/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Energy Tribune Managing Editor Robert Bryce on wind turbines&#8217; impact on people&#8217;s health.

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		<title>Protest over wind farms growing in two counties</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/protest-over-wind-farms-growing-in-two-counties/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[BELWOOD &#8212; The com­mu­nity hall here might not be big enough to hold all the citi­zens concerned about a pro­posed wind farm that is plan­ned for the area.
Citizens have started a peti­tion against the proposal and one of them, James Virgin, of Belwood, took out a half-page advertisement in this week’s Advertiser to inform residents of the concerns there are for the wind farm proposal.
A few years ago, the pro­vincial government told muni­cipalities to determine policies for allowing wind farms, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power proponent planning to resubmit East Bay hills project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/wind-power-proponent-planning-to-resubmit-east-bay-hills-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[SYDNEY — The man behind a wind power project planned for the East Bay hills says he plans to resubmit the project to federal regulators within the next quarter.
Luciano Lisi of Cape Breton Explorations Ltd. said when he reapplies to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, it will be for a 200 megawatt wind farm.
Initially, Lisi planned a combination wind/hydro project, with the latter component involving Lake Uist. Each component would have provided 100 megawatts of power. Cape Breton Explorations has .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to rewind turbine commitment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/time-to-rewind-turbine-commitment/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[News that wind turbines were coming to Southern Manitoba was greeted with delight by many. Farmers and municipal politicians embraced what they envisioned as a new revenue stream producing clean power. A small group of people didn&#8217;t see it that way, and they spoke out bringing up everything from turbine noise to safety and health to the ugliness of the forever changing skyline, as reasons to walk away.
Nobody listened and somehow those opposed became a group likened to the granola .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm will still happen &#8211; MB Hydro says</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/wind-farm-will-still-happen-mb-hydro-says/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The company that will be building the St. Joseph Wind Farm is not the same one that started the process, and the planned project is now a completely new vision, but Manitoba Hydro will not seek more requests for proposals.
&#8220;The same thing happened with St. Leon,&#8221; Glenn Schneider, division manager of public affairs said.
Originally Manitoba Hydro was looking for three separate projects totalling 300 MW of power. Instead they chose a contract with BowArk Energy, who had submitted one large .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tories let wind energy incentive die</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/tories-let-wind-energy-incentive-die/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A Pictou County wind developer is “disappointed” with the federal government’s decision not to extend a production incentive for wind energy producers.
“It’s certainly very important to the development of renewables,&#8221; Reuben Burge, president of RMSenergy of New Glasgow, said Thursday night.
&#8220;If there’s no commitment then there’s uncertainty. It’s like they are saying they don’t support it.”
He said the federal government’s financial incentives helped to promote wind energy projects and give confidence in the industry.
“When the government isn’t behind it, it .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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