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Wind energy developers seek places for turbines in Ohio
Jon Berry has spent much of his life bracing against the wind.
It blows especially hard where he lives, on top of a modest ridge in Champaign County, not far northwest of Columbus. It races unobstructed out of the southwest, across fields of corn and soybeans, before climbing the ridge to Berry’s two-story white farmhouse.
“It takes your breath away in the winter,” said Berry, who farms about 175 acres when he’s not selling tractors, seed …
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Residents challenge meteorological tower decision
A group of Jefferson Township residents have filed an appeal against the township zoning appeals board’s decision to allow a meteorological tower on the property of Ralph and Rick Amerine.
The board of zoning appeals decided the issue April 30, but cited no clear reason why they believed Mr. Amerine and his representative, Roger Brown, should be allowed to construct the wind measurement towers.
The appeal, however, states no specific reason the residents believe the board …
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‘Wind farms in Northeast Ohio?’
Alternative energy sources have certainly been a topic that the Farm Bureau has made a priority to be involved with and we at the SWCD are happy to be a partner in that realm. There have already been meetings between Farm Bureau leadership, and Ohio State University Extension offices with our stategovernmental officials, as well as conducting reviews of potential grants for energy sources. Our Governor and U.S. Senators pledged to make Ohio ’’the Silicon …
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One of two towers approved in Jefferson Township
Proposed meteorological tower preliminary step before siting of wind turbines
One of two meteorological towers proposed in Jefferson Township was given the nod of approval Wednesday while the second was snared by a technical snafu that requires a legal opinion.
At the conclusion of a somewhat heated 90- minute hearing, the Jefferson Township Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously approved a variance request by Ralph and Rick Amerine to install a 200-foot tower that collects wind data …
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New wind turbine report lacks data, critics say
A report released by the Ohio Department of Health this week does not go far enough in investigating and analyzing the potential health impacts of wind turbines on nearby residents, according to some local residents and an acoustical consultant familiar with the local effort to develop wind turbines.
The 13-page literature search, which consists of a title page, three pages of introduction , five pages on the health issues, a comparison of wind and coal …
Who got what in the energy debate
The Ohio Senate today unanimously approved Gov. Ted Strickland’s energy and utility bill, just 24 hours after the House vote.
The governor is expected to sign the 61-page document into law within a week — almost a year to the day since he announced the framework for the landmark legislation.
The bill was aimed at protecting consumers from skyrocketing electric bills when the state moved to full deregulation as planned on Jan. 1, 2009.
There are no …
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Cuyahoga gets $2.5 million toward wind turbines
Cuyahoga County has been awarded $2.5 million in renewable-energy bonds to help finance a proposal to build off-shore wind turbines.
The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded the bonding capacity to the county, on behalf of the Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force.
The task force is in the early stages of a 13-month feasibility study, looking at erecting a handful of turbines off the shore of downtown Cleveland as a demonstration project. The proposal also includes establishing …
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Compromise may have been reached on energy bill
Ohio’s movers talk over weekend
A weekend flurry of phone calls between some of the state’s most powerful political and business figures may have set the stage for compromise on Gov. Ted Strickland’s utility and energy bill.
Hearings on the latest and most controversial version of the bill get under way today in Columbus before the House Public Utilities Committee, where critics are expected to offer a raft of amendments.
Ohio Consumers’ Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander, praised last …
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Utility surveying area to develop wind farm
Firm is in talks with landowners in Seneca County
BASCOM, Ohio — Ohio’s first utility-scale wind farm could be developed north of this tiny Seneca County village — instead of rural Bowling Green which already is home to large turbines.
While the four utility-scale turbines at the Wood County landfill off U.S. 6 made history as the first to be installed in Ohio, that site isn’t really what renewable energy buffs consider to be a wind farm.
Not …
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Ohio Farm Bureau official explains wind farm possibilities, downplays costs, shortcomings
Wind turbines can be beneficial to farmers and communities, but they also come with challenges.
“There are a number of benefits and there are also a number of responsibilities,” said Dale Arnold, 15-year director of energy services for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. “I want you to think of it as a business partnership. There is risk, but there’s also reward.”
Arnold spoke Tuesday to a full house at the Public Safety Building at the Seneca County …
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