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		<title>Burney deserves to enjoy benefit of wind windfall</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/21/burney-deserves-to-enjoy-benefit-of-wind-windfall/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Construction crews have been toiling through the winter on Hatchet Mountain to prepare the ground for an array of wind turbines that will dominate the skyline of Burney.
Meanwhile, down in the Sacramento Valley, Shasta County officials are paving the way for a betrayal.
It&#8217;s a harsh word, but it&#8217;s hard to think of a better one to describe the suggestion by the county&#8217;s Resource Management Department, on the Board of Supervisors&#8217; agenda for Tuesday morning, that the county spend up to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Pronghorns, the second-fastest land animal in the world, could be re-introduced in the East Mojave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ The antelope-like pronghorns that once thrived in the California desert could make a comeback.
Federal and state officials are working on a plan to reintroduce the animals &#8212; second only to Cheetahs for speed &#8212; to a remote plateau in the East Mojave, near the California-Nevada border south of Interstate 15.
Pronghorns, once plentiful, were hunted out of the region and haven&#8217;t been seen there in nearly 100 years. 
 The reintroduction could get a boost if Sen. Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s desert .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>DWP board imposes first of four electricity rate hikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s appointees at the Department of Water and Power took the first step Thursday toward imposing electric rate increases of up to 28%, despite complaints from neighborhood activists and business groups.
On a 4-0 vote, the board agreed to increase the cost of electricity by 0.8 of a cent per kilowatt hour, the first of four increases planned over the next year to help the nation&#8217;s largest municipal utility cover its financial commitments and continue Villaraigosa&#8217;s plan .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles mayor wants to add carbon surcharge to DWP bills</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/15/los-angeles-mayor-wants-to-add-carbon-surcharge-to-dwp-bills/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today will propose a monthly carbon surcharge for Department of Water and Power customers to help the city switch from coal to renewable energy.
Villaraigosa did not specify the amount he has in mind, but Deputy Mayor Jay Carson told the Los Angeles Times 55 percent of DWP customers &#8212; those who use the smallest amount of power &#8212; would see their bills go up $2 a month.
Carson did not know the size of the increase for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bill aims to fight Chino Hills electrical tower construction</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/13/bill-aims-to-fight-chino-hills-electrical-tower-construction/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CHINO HILLS &#8211; With Southern California Edison moving to bring green wind energy from Central California to the Southland, city officials and a local lawmaker have devised a multi-pronged attack to slow the plan.
The $1.8 billion Tehachapi project will bring wind-generated electricity from Kern County to the Los Angeles Basin &#8211; part of a state mandate to use more sustainable energy. The route would bring a portion of Edison&#8217;s electric line through Chino.
City residents have voiced concern that the 200-foot .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>DWP drops plan to build 85-mile power transmission line across the desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Facing enormous costs and fierce opposition from environmental groups, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Wednesday announced that it has dropped plans to build an 85-mile-long &#8220;green&#8221; power transmission line across desert wilderness preserves and scenic ridgelines.
Controversy surrounding the proposed Green Path North Transmission Line had tarnished Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s bid to portray himself as the leader of the &#8220;cleanest, greenest big city in America.&#8221;
Villaraigosa was unavailable for comment. But interim DWP Chief S. David Freeman said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Path North project shelved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Green Path North power line project has been shelved.
Open-space preservationists celebrated the announcement Wednesday by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that it is terminating a three-year push to build new, electrical transmission lines across the desert and the San Bernardino mountains.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an exciting day,&#8221; April Sall said as the chairwoman of California Desert Coalition waved letters of notice to terminate the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management with tears .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Forest Service takes another look at renewable energy project that goes through Station Fire burn zone</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/07/u-s-forest-service-takes-another-look-at-renewable-energy-project-that-goes-through-station-fire-burn-zone/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ The Station Fire so drastically altered the Angeles National Forest&#8217;s ecology, officials will have to do a new environmental study of a utility&#8217;s project to transmit wind power through the forest.
Rosemead-based Southern California Edison planned to route energy from the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project by upgrading its power lines through the Angeles National Forest.
An earlier draft assessing the environmental impact of power lines through the forest was completed in April. Because of the changed landscape, a new environmental impact .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Chino Hills residents express fears over expansion of Edison power lines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/26/chino-hills-residents-express-fears-over-expansion-of-edison-power-lines/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CHINO HILLS &#8211; Residents on Thursday voiced their worries at the Chino Valley Community Church over planned 200-foot towers along an existing Edison right-of-way to carry wind-generated electricity in the city.
Hundreds of properties in the city are located along a five-mile-long 150-foot wide easement in the city through which Southern California Edison is planning to run its Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project wind energy line.
The electrical towers, about 200-feet tall and carrying 500 kilovolts, would replace inactive Edison power lines in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Walmart wind tower prompts bird concern</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/23/walmart-wind-tower-prompts-bird-concern/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Bird migration concerns did little to stop the Planning Commission from rubber-stamping a wind turbine for the Walmart distribution center.
Two men, whose workplace or property neighbor the center, were the sole opposition present at a meeting Thursday morning, and both said they were worried the wind turbine would interfere with birds attracted to a series of retaining pools that collect on the land.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a bird watcher, but there are some really neat birds over there,&#8221; said Doug Graves, who .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Chino hills continues fight over Edison line</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/23/chino-hills-continues-fight-over-edison-line/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[California Edison plan to erect high-voltage towers that would carry wind-generated energy from Kern County through this city.
Chino Hills officials are expected to discuss the status of the challenge at a public information meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Chino Valley Community Church, 14601 Peyton Drive.
The power lines would be about 200 feet tall and replace inactive Edison power lines, which are about half that size. City officials said the power lines would pose a safety hazard as they .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t it interesting</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/22/isnt-it-interesting/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[After attending the scoping meeting for the wind turbine project proposed for Bear River Ridge, it is my contention that the rush to widen Highway 101 through Richardson Grove is to facilitate Shell Oil&#8217;s wind turbine project. They stated that huge trucks will haul all the needed equipment up Monument Road to Bear River Ridge out of Rio Dell. So how to get the trucks, cranes, turbine parts and tons of other materials, such as concrete, to Rio Dell? If .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Speakers to face off on Marin Clean Energy plan</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/19/speakers-to-face-off-on-marin-clean-energy-plan/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[MARIN COUNTY –  Supporters and opponents of the controversial Marin Energy Authority Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA, proposal will face off at the fourth-annual Impact Marin conference sponsored by the Business Journal March 11.
Dawn Weisz, principal planner for the Marin County Community Development Committee, will speak in support of the Marin Energy Authority not-for-profit public agency heading up implementation of a system that will permit cities and the county to purchase electricity for residents and businesses.
Former Assemblymember and PG&#038;E .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not green power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/19/its-not-green-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind power is not green power when its turbines are adjacent to the most concentrated nesting area in the region for a threatened species.
Much said lately about the proposed Radar Ridge Wind project is not true. True is that the Radar Ridge project has potential to harm the Marbled Murrelet, and the level of that potential harm is still in question. This bird raises one baby a year (when successful); populations have dropped significantly in past decades.
The &#8220;Independent Scientific Review&#8221; .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Garamendi visits local turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/19/garamendi-visits-local-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A blue sky Thursday afternoon perfectly backlit a series of monolithic wind turbines in the Montezuma Hills, their unmoving blades casting long shadows that shaded slumbering cattle.
The 26-story turbines, part of Solano&#8217;s Shiloh II Wind Project, and the clean energy they produce, were the impetus for an hours-long visit by Congressman John Garamendi, D-Solano, who serves on the House Science and Technology Committee.
While in the county, he also opened an office in Fairfield and fielded questions at a town hall .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ocotillo wind farm in the works</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/17/ocotillo-wind-farm-in-the-works/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ocotillo’s barren desert landscape could resemble Don Quixote’s La Mancha when 240 wind turbines dot the area to harness the mountains’ powerful winds in two years.
“What you have here is the potential for a billion-dollar wind energy project in the Imperial Valley,” said Glen Hodges, senior developer for Pattern Energy’s Ocotillo Express Wind Project.
Pattern Energy is a San Francisco-based renewable energy company and has proposed constructing a “wind farm” near the Valley’s western mountains. The development would occupy 15,000 acres .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Public comment sought for environmental review for projects in Imperial County’s West Chocolate Mountains</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/14/public-comment-sought-for-environmental-review-for-projects-in-imperial-county%e2%80%99s-west-chocolate-mountains/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Bureau of Land Management intends to conduct an environmental review for energy developments on public land in the West Chocolate Mountains area.
People can submit comments on issues, concerns, potential impacts, alternatives and mitigation measures about the land considers for geothermal, solar and wind power projects, according to a press release. The information will be used to create a draft environmental impact study.
Issues already identified include hydrology, Native American concerns, cumulative impacts of other energy projects in the area .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Congressmen voice concerns over proposed East County energy projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/14/congressmen-voice-concerns-over-proposed-east-county-energy-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine), Congressman Bob Filner (D-San Diego) have sent letters to federal and state regulatory agencies voicing serious concerns over several major energy projects proposed in East County.
Hunter called the proposed Tule wind energy project “irresponsible,” noting that the $400 million project proposed by Sempra Energy would include payment of 30% in federal stimulus funds to Iberdrola Renewables, a Spanish corporation. “If approved, American taxpayer dollars that were to be specifically utilized for the creation of American .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>75 wind turbines damaged; witness saw explosive blue light before Campo-area wind farm went dark</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/11/75-wind-turbines-damaged-witness-saw-explosive-blue-light-before-campo-area-wind-farm-went-dark/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[What happened at the wind farm?
“I saw a huge flash of blue out on the side of the hill where the windmills were. It started in the middle and spread out in all directions.  It lit up the whole hillside the white-out of a snowstorm.&#8221;&#8211;Ken Daubach, ex-firefighter, who witnessed the power go down
Battered by a winter storm on December 7, 25 wind turbines at the Kumeyaay Wind project on the Campo Indian Reservation shut down&#8212;and haven’t come back on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Valley &#8216;energy park&#8217; sought</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/11/valley-energy-park-sought/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Backers of a proposed nuclear power plant in western Fresno County are adding renewable solar and wind power to their drawing board.
John Hutson, president of the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, said in a statement that his plans now call for an &#8220;energy park&#8221; that would not only include a pair of 1,600-megawatt nuclear reactors, but alternative energy production and a large-scale plant to remove salt from seawater.
Areva, a French engineering conglomerate that builds and operates nuclear and other power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Energy project offers benefits, challenges; public review process begins</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/11/wind-energy-project-offers-benefits-challenges-public-review-process-begins/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Shell Energy unveiled its plans to build and operate a 50-megawatt wind energy farm on the Bear River Ridge between Rio Dell and the coast at scoping meetings in Fortuna and Eureka on Feb. 2 and 3.
Approximately 60 people, mostly residents of areas near the project, attended the Tuesday evening meeting at the River Lodge in Fortuna. After listening to a detailed presentation from the Shell Wind Energy Group, a Humboldt County planner, and a representative of the U.S. Fish .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New height limits set for wind turbines in San Bernardino County</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/10/new-height-limits-set-for-wind-turbines-in-san-bernardino-county/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[San Bernardino County supervisors approved new height limits for wind turbines Tuesday despite protests from industry advocates who called the rules too restrictive.
The limits were adopted as part of a group of land use code changes, including those affecting renewable energy projects.
The ordinance reduces the maximum height for wind turbines from 120 feet to 100 feet for parcels larger than 5 acres.
For smaller parcels, the maximum height was reduced from 100 feet to 80 feet.
The change only affects projects in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine getting seismic shakedown; Structure’s performance in temblors to be tested</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/wind-turbine-getting-seismic-shakedown-structure%e2%80%99s-performance-in-temblors-to-be-tested/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When it comes to earthquake engineering, the priority has always been to design and build homes, stores and offices that aren’t likely to collapse during a strong temblor.
But when the ground starts shaking, other kinds of structures also may fall or fail, including bridges, highways, electrical towers and smokestacks. The history of efforts to make these “non-building” structures more resistant to earthquakes is generally shorter and not as comprehensive.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego will start taking an .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving parts for giant Burney windmills will be massive job</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/moving-parts-for-giant-burney-windmills-will-be-massive-job/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[As enormous as they are, the effort to move parts for 44 windmills set to take over the skyline above Burney this spring will be just as massive.
As many as 350 big rigs will haul the windmill components to Hatchet Ridge, about 50 miles east of Redding. Once completed, each windmill will stand more than 400 feet tall, said Joan Inlow, a construction project manager for Pattern Energy.
The La Jolla-based company aims to have the $200 million project producing power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bats clash with wind projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/05/bats-clash-with-wind-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The endangered desert tortoise and Mojave ground squirrel are frequent headliners in the local environmental debate whenever developers seek a piece of the High Desert.
Now scientists are saying another population that’s not quite so lovable also needs an advocate — and particularly as it comes up against the dozens of companies looking to convert the region’s abundant breezes into renewable energy.
“Dead bats are turning up beneath wind turbines all over the world,” a report from the United States Geological Survey .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbines continue to kill birds</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/05/wind-turbines-continue-to-kill-birds/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Golden Gate Audubon and four other local Audubon chapters sent a letter Jan. 28 to Alameda County demanding that the county ensure that wind turbines operating in the Altamont Pass remain shut down until the county implements a management plan that significantly reduces avian mortality resulting from wind turbine operations in the Altamont.
“Wind turbine operations in the Altamont Pass kill as many as 9,600 birds each year, including many species that are fully protected by state and federal laws,” said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power project taking comments</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/wind-power-project-taking-comments/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The location of a proposed project wind power project is situated along Bear River Ridge in the northern Coast Ranges and around Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County. Humboldt County is the designated lead agency and is preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the project and the USFWS will be the lead agency for an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) prepared for the same project. A Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS was published in the Federal Register on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbines can be harmful to beneficial bats</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/04/wind-turbines-can-be-harmful-to-beneficial-bats/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines and bats don&#8217;t mix.
As energy companies work to tap the wind as a clean energy source, research is showing that turbines can kill bats, even if they don&#8217;t touch the machines. Extreme variations in air pressure caused by the rotation of turbine blades can fatally damage the bats&#8217; lungs.
Researchers say care should be taken when selecting turbine sites to avoid the bats&#8217; flight routes.
The desert region has at least two dozen bat species. Many people consider them creepy, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Three county energy projects debated; Border-town residents still smarting over Powerlink</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/30/three-county-energy-projects-debated-border-town-residents-still-smarting-over-powerlink/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A battle between backers of wind projects in the mountains east of San Diego and those who say big windmills don’t belong in rural communities because they damage the environment is being taken up by state and federal agencies working on a tight deadline.
Opponents and supporters of three big projects clashed this week at standing-room-only meetings in small towns just north of the U.S.-Mexico border and about 70 miles east of San Diego.
At issue: which factors state regulators and federal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Community controversy over proposed energy projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/29/community-controversy-over-proposed-energy-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[GLORIA PENNER (Host): An Oregon-based company wants to build a wind farm in southeastern San Diego County. The location for the proposed farm is just north of Interstate-8 and the town of Boulevard &#8211; next to an existing wind farm in Campo. And, as KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce tells us, people living in the rural area disagree whether the Tule Wind Project and other proposed energy projects are a good fit for the community.
ED JOYCE (KPBS Reporter): Southern California .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Hearings set for Loleta wind energy plan; public meetings in Fortuna on Feb. 2 and Eureka on Feb. 3</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/28/hearings-set-for-loleta-wind-energy-plan-public-meetings-in-fortuna-on-feb-2-and-eureka-on-feb-3/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the beginning of a process to develop a plan to reduce harm to endangered birds by a Humboldt County wind power project.
The agency is asking the public to weigh in on how birds, especially marbled murrelets and northern spotted owls, might be affected by the turbines and other elements of the project on Bear River Ridge outside Ferndale. As part of generating an Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report, Fish and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy proposal gets mixed reviews in Boulevard</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/27/wind-energy-proposal-gets-mixed-reviews-in-boulevard/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A Portland, Oregon-based company wants to build a wind farm in Southeastern San Diego County. The first of several public hearings on the project will be held Wednesday evening in Jacumba. The proposal is one of three interconnected energy projects in the same area.
Iberdrola Renewables has proposed building a wind energy project on 1,600 acres in southeastern San Diego County near Boulevardl.
Ed Clark with Iberdrola Renewables says the plan calls for at least 100, and possibly 133, wind turbines stretching .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Put the kibosh on PG&amp;E&#8217;s plan for a wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/24/put-the-kibosh-on-pges-plan-for-a-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[PG&#038;E is again requesting an increase in our electricity rates, according to an insert in our latest power bill. Why? To subsidize yet another wind farm project in the Tehachapi area. We are invited to offer our comments to the California PUC. Here are the comments I offered:
* Generation of electric power by wind is not economically sustainable without subsidization on a massive scale. For analysis and support of my position, I refer you to &#8220;Clean Energy Sources: Sun, Wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal raises local concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/23/proposal-raises-local-concerns/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Mojave Desert is a precious and finite economic, historic, recreational and environmental resource.
Whether you&#8217;re a hiker, an artist, an environmentalist, an off-highway vehicle or equestrian rider, a tourist or a rock hound, you probably appreciate the desert&#8217;s sweeping vistas, its striking and rugged beauty, and its peace and quiet far from crowded urban centers.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein recently proposed her second major piece of legislation concerning the California desert. This most recent bill, entitled the Desert Protection Act of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Group opposes power lines on river</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/group-opposes-power-lines-on-river/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[While they are in favor of the concept of renewable energy, members of the Cascabel Working Group (CWG) are opposed to the construction of a 460-mile, high-voltage power line across the middle San Pedro River.
An estimated 100 people attended an informal meeting in Cascabel last week, where they told members of the Southwest Transmission Group that building power lines across the San Pedro would damage one of the world&#8217;s only free-running rivers.
The proposed project is known as the Southwest Transmission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project to get full review</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/wind-project-to-get-full-review/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A wind power project proposed for Bear River Ridge will go through a full federal and state environmental review, the Humboldt County Community Development Services Department said Wednesday.
The 50-megawatt project being pitched by Shell Wind Energy would use 25 wind turbines along the ridge south of Ferndale, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already said it will affect protected marbled murrelets. The service is working with Shell to develop a habitat conservation plan meant to reduce and mitigate .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council adopts turbine ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/21/council-adopts-turbine-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Even as blustery conditions swept through Del Norte County on Tuesday, the Crescent City Council almost didn’t budge on an ordinance designed to set guidelines for residents who wanted to capture that energy using wind turbines.
Despite council members voicing numerous concerns about the new small wind energy ordinance and almost tabling the issue to allow for more refining, they voted 3 to 1 to pass the new law in order to give the city Planning Commission an outline to work .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>State regulators say no to Pleasure Point wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/19/state-regulators-say-no-to-pleasure-point-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[PLEASURE POINT &#8212; In a case that tested the bounds of wind power&#8217;s expansion, the California Coastal Commission last week denied a bid by a Santa Cruz County couple to install a wind turbine in a residential neighborhood.
Voting 8 to 3 against the proposal, commissioners on the powerful regulatory board expressed concern that energy won from a 35-foot-high windmill might not be worth the visual jolt the project would have on the Pleasure Point area as well as harm the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Granite Mtn. turbine project moves forward</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/18/granite-mtn-turbine-project-moves-forward/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[APPLE VALLEY • It’s been nearly two years since residents first heard about a proposal to place some 28 wind turbines along the ridge of Granite Mountain, between Apple Valley and Lucerne Valley.
Now the project is moving forward again, with the developer trying to address many of the concerns raised in 2008 over how it would impact views, noise and more.
“Even though there are a number of them, it’s pretty difficult to see them from town,” Carey Kling, development manager .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Granite Wind facing criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/13/granite-wind-facing-criticism/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[LUCERNE VALLEY • With a pair of public relations people sitting nearby, Carey Kling stood before a roomful of local residents and gave an update on the Granite Wind energy project. The reception was mostly polite, though a bit skeptical.
Kling is a development manager for Renewable Energy Systems Americas, a division of a United Kingdom-based company which is overseeing Granite Wind. Kling’s presentation in front of about 40 people at the Lucerne Valley Economic Development Association meeting on Jan. 5 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A damaging blow: Wind farm making inspections, repairs after storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Workers are inspecting and repairing 75 wind turbine blades at a wind farm some 60 miles east of San Diego after a storm a month ago caused catastrophic damage to some of them.
“We’re mobilizing equipment and spare parts to the site,” said David Barnes, chief executive of Dallas-based Bluarc Management, which operates the Kumeyaay Wind project at the Campo Indian Reservation.
The last blade from the 25 turbines came down Monday.
The blades were damaged in a winter storm Dec. 7, when .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia company proposing wind farm visible from Barstow</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/10/virginia-company-proposing-wind-farm-visible-from-barstow/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[BARSTOW • Thirty-three wind turbines could be sprouting up on 1,957 acres of public and private land about six miles southeast of Barstow. The turbines could be visible from within Barstow city limits and from Barstow Road, according to a representative from the company proposing the wind farm.
AES Wind Generation, a Virginia-based company, plans to build the 82.5 megawatt wind farm — enough to power about 60,000 homes — on about 1,577 acres of land managed by the Bureau of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm projects raise environmental concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/07/wind-farm-projects-raise-environmental-concerns/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Two wind farms proposed near Barstow and Apple Valley would help the state meet its renewable energy goals, but at least one poses a significant threat to desert tortoises and other wildlife and plant habitats, officials say.
The county has received two applications for wind-driven energy plants at Daggett Ridge near Barstow and Granite Mountain between Apple Valley and Lucerne Valley that would bring some of the nation&#8217;s biggest wind turbines to the High Desert.
A total of 60 wind turbines are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal protects turtle&#8217;s sea habitat</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/07/proposal-protects-turtles-sea-habitat/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[GRANTS PASS — Federal biologists on Tuesday proposed the first open ocean habitat protections for the endangered leatherback sea turtle along the West Coast, an action that could affect future development of offshore renewable energy, aquaculture and desalination plants.
The areas were chosen to cover the best feeding areas and migration routes used by leatherbacks within the 200-mile U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, while taking into account potential economic impacts, said NOAA Fisheries Service sea turtle ecologist Sara McNulty.
The three areas described .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Marin entering power &#8216;minefield&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/04/marin-entering-power-minefield/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very  concerned for county residents and their venture into the electric power business with Marin Clean Energy.
MCE&#8217;s proponents fail to understand its competitive role in driving up renewable energy prices while doing little to reduce Marin&#8217;s carbon footprint.
The clean-energy authority accomplishes this after assuming unrealistically high customer participation that promises to lash unwilling taxpayers to a financial bailout.
How can I say this?
Supervisors Judy Arnold and Charles McGlashan, the promoter and architect of MCE, recently assured a Novato audience .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tortoises slow sun power plan; Rare reptiles could block proposed solar-energy complex</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/02/tortoises-slow-sun-power-plan-rare-reptiles-could-block-proposed-solar-energy-complex/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES &#8212; On a strip of California&#8217;s Mojave Desert within view of Primm, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation&#8217;s quest for cleaner power.
Oakland, Calif.-based BrightSource Energy has been pushing for more than two years for permission to erect 400,000 mirrors on the site to gather the sun&#8217;s energy. It could become the first project of its kind on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Council gets look at noise law</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/02/council-gets-look-at-noise-law/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Crescent City Council members will discuss a proposed noise ordinance Monday that, if eventually approved, would regulate sounds within city limits.
Currently there is no municipal law governing noise in Crescent City, but over the past several months, as the Planning Commission has attempted to draft an ordinance for small wind energy systems, it was apparent that rules for noise were needed.
“There are a lot of reasons that it makes sense for a city to have a noise ordinance,” Crescent City .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New Desert Protection Act worth a look</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/01/01/new-desert-protection-act-worth-a-look/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jan 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The only reason the original Desert Protection Act passed in 1994 was because the environmental community finally realized it needed hunters&#8217; support to get enough votes to pass the legislation.
Sportsmen/conservationists had been frustrated with the management of the desert, too, and recognized the greatest threat to desert wildlife and hunting was ever-expanding mining, solar, and wind-farm operations, poorly managed cattle grazing and unregulated off-road vehicle use &#8211; all benchmarks of the Bureau of Land Management back then.
But hunters couldn&#8217;t support .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Cruz County wind turbine presents conundrum for state regulators</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/12/31/santa-cruz-county-wind-turbine-presents-conundrum-for-state-regulators/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Dec 2009</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[SANTA CRUZ — The state&#8217;s powerful Coastal Commission encourages California&#8217;s seaside communities to embrace clean energy — with a caveat. It&#8217;s got to look good.
The regulatory agency has told a Santa Cruz County couple that a wind turbine planned for their new home in the quaint Pleasure Point neighborhood is too tall. Suggesting it would add to the area&#8217;s &#8220;visual clutter,&#8221; the commission recommends the residents lower their proposed 35-foot-high, electricity-generating windmill, an idea the home&#8217;s architect says is simply .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Rancho Water rejects wind power pitch; Cost effectiveness, aesthetics cited</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/12/31/rancho-water-rejects-wind-power-pitch-cost-effectiveness-aesthetics-cited/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Dec 2009</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Despite its &#8220;green&#8221; credentials, a wind power pitch by a Northern California-based company wasn&#8217;t greeted with much enthusiasm Wednesday morning by the Rancho California Water District officials.
The engineering and operations committee, which consists of board members Lawrence Libeu, Stephen Corona and John Hoagland, agreed with district staff members&#8217; recommendation to reject the proposal that had been submitted by Energy Alchemy.
&#8220;Now is not the time to move forward,&#8221; said Andrew Webster, a district engineer.
The San Francisco-based wind power company was looking .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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