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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Más presión por defender la agricultura</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/mas-presion-por-defender-la-agricultura/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[[More pressure to protect agriculture — Anxiety persists for the six detained for protesting construction of a wind energy facility on agricultural land in Santa Isabel.] El desasosiego que viven los seis detenidos por protestar contra la construcción de un parque eólico en suelo agrícola santaisabelino persiste. No obstante, al concluir ayer la segunda sesión de la Vista Judicial en Alzada, el abogado defensor Martín González Vázquez aseguró haber probado siete puntos ante Fiscalía y la jueza Gladys González Segarra. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Ocurre masacre ambiental en Guayanilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[[Environmental massacre occurring in Guayanilla — About 20,000 trees have been felled in Punta Ventana y Verraco area of Guayanilla to make way for Windmar Renewable's wind energy facility. The action has occurred without intervention from the Department of Natural Resources or reporting from nation media. José Sáez Cintrón, spokesman for the Coalición Pro Bosque Seco, and Miguel Calas Mora, the biologist in charge of the nature reserve, confirmed that the damage caused by heavy equipment to the east of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Big wind’s inconvenient truth</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/big-winds-inconvenient-truth/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The installation of wind turbines too close to houses and personal property is a major headache for the wind power industry, but headache scarcely begins to describe their impact to nearby property owners and neighbors. My property and home are scarcely three quarters of a mile from a three 1.5 megawatt turbine wind farm that went online in November 2009 with blades stretching nearly 400 feet into the air. Large scale wind turbines represent a tiny and lucrative—thanks to federal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Moratorium placed on wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/moratorium-placed-on-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Sweetwater County Commissioners approved a nine-month moratorium on Commercial Wind Farm Tuesday morning. Eric Bingham, director of land use in the county’s planning and zoning department, said the moratorium would allow the department time to bring county regulation on par with state wind farm regulations. The state requires county regulations to at least meet the minimum requirements passed by the Wyoming Legislature in 2010. Currently, Sweetwater County does not meet these requirements and any decision by the county for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Huge crowd delays Quincy meeting on Moon Island turbine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[QUINCY — An overwhelming turnout at a public hearing on Boston’s proposal to build a 400-foot wind turbine on Moon Island forced the hearing’s postponement until next month. The planning board voted to continue Wednesday’s meeting after about 100 people packed a city hall conference room. Dozens had to stand and several asked for louder microphones and better views of presentations. The meeting probably will resume March 7. The venue hasn’t been determined. The room was occupied mostly by Squantum .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Commission should listen to Bourne on wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/commission-should-listen-to-bourne-on-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The New Generation Wind Project proposes to erect four 492-foot tall wind turbines in a rural section of Bournedale. These turbines would be higher and closer to neighboring properties than the one in Falmouth that has caused such huge negative neighborhood impacts. The Patrick administration&#8217;s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs recently took the unusual step of intervening in this local Cape matter, with a letter to the Cape Cod Commission claiming it had never heard of anywhere in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.K.]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Windfarms: An ill wind of change?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/windfarms-an-ill-wind-of-change/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Less than a week ago 106 mostly Conservative MPs wrote to the Prime Minister, urging cuts in public subsidies to UK windfarms, on the grounds that these towering turbines were neither efficient to run nor pleasing on the eye. Yet today sees the opening, in Cumbria, of the world’s biggest-ever windfarm, the switch-on to be performed by Ed Davey, the new man in charge of energy and climate change (his predecessor Chris Huhne having temporarily pulled the plug on his .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Residents weigh in on wind ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/residents-weigh-in-on-wind-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[ANTRIM — In the third public hearing held Monday on a proposed large-scale wind ordinance, the Planning Board took feedback from residents on both sides of the issue, with comments focusing on tower height and noise restrictions. Jesse Lazar, vice-chair of the Planning Board, said there would be no further changes made to the ordinance before voting on March 13. However, should the ordinance pass, amendments could be made at future Town Meetings, and he encouraged residents to continue to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Controversial Palgrave wind turbine shut down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A controversial village wind turbine has been shut down while a long-term solution is found to problems with noise from the rotor blades – which neighbours say is keeping them awake at night and causing health problems. The Palgrave Community Centre committee has switched off the 24m turbine on the edge of the village playing fields after villagers in Lows Lane, the Green and Upper Rose Lane complained they could not sleep due to the “whirring” sound which was causing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Peru committee considers wind turbine noise levels</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/peru-committee-considers-wind-turbine-noise-levels/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[PERU — The town Wind Ordinance Committee discussed the issue of turbine sound at its Wednesday night meeting. The committee voted to have a safety setback from property lines, roadways and public areas that is three times the height of a turbine, which would most likely amount to 1,500 feet, Chairman Bill Hine said. When discussion switched to turbine sound, questions and concerns were raised. Ann Erickson, of Sumner, said she attended a meeting in Augusta with the Bureau of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farms not welcome in Shellharbour</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/wind-farms-not-welcome-in-shellharbour/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind farms will not be welcome anywhere in Shellharbour after the city’s council decided to oppose future developments and to make its views known to the State Government. Mayor Kellie Marsh used her casting vote to pass the motion on Tuesday night, with support from her Liberal colleague Paul Rankin and independent councillor Helen Stewart. Labor Deputy Mayor Marianne Saliba yesterday said the council had ‘‘jumped the gun’’ ahead of the State Government’s draft wind farm guidelines, which are now .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Second developer dumps wind turbine project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/second-developer-dumps-wind-turbine-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[BLISSFIELD — A second developer involved in a wind-turbine project proposed for southern Lenawee County has bailed out. juwi Wind USA, the Colorado-based domestic subsidiary of a German company, has terminated a study of the 493-foot towers’ potential impact on aviation at Toledo Express Airport, and a company spokesman said Wednesday the reason is that juwi is withdrawing from the area. “We have terminated the study because we were going to receive a Declaration of Hazard,” said Aaron Peterson, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Green Energy Act divides Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/green-energy-act-divides-ontario-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nobody knows what&#8217;s best for a community better than the people, small businesses and local councillors who live there. That is why it is so maddening to see signs of large industrial wind and solar projects pushing ahead despite endless local opposition. Under any other circumstance, ratepayers would have a say in what is built in their community. Your local council can determine where a hot dog stand can go, but because of Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s Green Energy Act, they are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Judge says Austin has standing to appeal Dennis turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/judge-says-austin-has-standing-to-appeal-dennis-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[ORLEANS DISTRICT COURT — Orleans District Court Judge Brian Merrick on Feb. 3 confirmed Rosemarie Austin’s right to appeal the Dennis Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District Committee’s decision to allow Aquacultural Research Corporation to build a 242-foot wind turbine on its property adjacent to Chapin Beach in Dennis. Claiming that the turbine would obstruct her view and devalue her property, Austin’s appeal sent the case to the regional Old King’s Highway Commission, which overturned the local decision. ARC appealed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Second wind energy project called off</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/second-wind-energy-project-called-off/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[ADRIAN, Mich. — The second wind energy developer considering building turbines in southeastern Lenawee County has canceled its project. New zoning regulations in Riga and Palmyra townships and a Federal Aviation Administration finding that several of the proposed 492-foot turbines encroached on the airspace around Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio, were too much to overcome, juwi Wind spokesman Aaron Peterson said. After the initial notices of hazard were issued by the FAA, juwi, a German energy company with its .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Panel hears wind farm concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/panel-hears-wind-farm-concerns/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A risk to Australia’s defence capability and migrating whales were among concerns raised at a public meeting chaired by the Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) on Thursday, February 2. The panel was in Eden to hear public submissions from 16 individuals and group representatives as part of the planning application process for the seven-turbine wind farm at the South East Fibre Export site on Twofold Bay. Applicant Epuron explained their proposal to the panel and around 30 concerned locals, before .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Derby Line trustees seek info on wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/derby-line-trustees-seek-info-on-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Derby Line Board of Trustees is waiting to decide whether to participate in the upcoming hearings on the Derby Line wind project. In the meantime, the trustees Tuesday said they wanted Village Clerk Karen Jenne to attend a meeting before state utility regulators next week and bring back information for the board. Jenne, who is also a Derby selectman, offered to attend the 1 p.m. pre-hearing conference Monday on behalf of both the town of Derby and the village .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm bid sees farmers&#8217; tempers flare</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/wind-farm-bid-sees-farmers-tempers-flare/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A group of Erris landowners have reacted angrily to a planning application for a wind-farm in Cordoverry. Just before Christmas, the newly-formed Cordoverry Wind Farm Ltd lodged a planning application with Mayo County Council for a 10-turbine windfarm covering 190 hectares. The proposed wind farm would be situated on part of the lands acquired by Bord na Mona between the 1950s and the 1990s for the purpose of extracting peat to fuel Bellacor-rick station. Known as the Oweninny acquisition, it .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Troublesome winds blowing</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/troublesome-winds-blowing/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The proposed wind energy project for North Perth and Perth East has shaken this community. Letters to the editor are arriving on a daily basis. Normally laid-back and meek residents are speaking out on their beliefs. Tensions ran high during a recent Invenergy Canada delegation at North Perth municipal council. Folks are concerned, confused and many are downright fighting mad about wind turbines. It isn’t every day that a controversy of this magnitude takes a small-town community like this by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Saxby Wold wind turbines plan refused by councillors</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/saxby-wold-wind-turbines-plan-refused-by-councillors/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Controversial plans for wind turbines in a rural area of North Lincolnshire were turned down by councillors meeting in Scunthorpe this afternoon. RWE npower renewables Ltd was refused permission to construct 16 wind turbines and associated infrastructure. The development, on land to the west of Brigg Road, Horkstow, was turned down by North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee. The proposed site is close to the Viking Way – a major public right of way. The company has the right of appeal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Renewables report a blueprint for ignoring communities, says MEP</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/renewables-report-a-blueprint-for-ignoring-communities-says-mep/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Today’s release by the Scottish Government of a blueprint to streamline the scoping, planning and consenting of offshore renewables developments is yet more bad news for Scotland’s coastal communities and businesses, Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson has said. The report, prepared by a task force comprising government agencies and renewable developers, sets out a number of recommendations to speed up the whole-sale development of off-shore wind farms. Although it recommends that, &#8220;Developers and regulators should use a mandatory multilateral pre-application .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind committee concludes shadow flicker not an issue</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/wind-committee-concludes-shadow-flicker-not-an-issue/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[When siting a wind turbine in a populated area, one of the issues that needs to be addressed is shadow flicker. In the early days of the wind energy industry in the U.S. this was not an issue as projects were being installed in remote areas. As wind energy use has increased and wind turbines are being installed closer to where people live and work –more like they are in Europe – the issue has become more important. Shadow flicker .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Mother&#8217;s plea to wind farm public inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/mothers-plea-to-wind-farm-public-inquiry/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A mother asked a planning inspector to throw out applications for two wind farms as the Norfolk countryside is helping her son to adjust to life in this country. Kathy Chalk told a public inquiry into two wind farms near Stanhoe and Syderstone, that her family had recently moved to South Creake from Hong Kong and the wildlife seen on their school runs help to distract her 10-year-old son. On Friday, Mrs Chalk made an impassioned speech to inspector Robert .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Walnut approves wind turbine ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/walnut-approves-wind-turbine-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[WALNUT — After a lengthy debate and months of meetings, the village of Walnut finally has an ordinance to regulate wind turbines outside the village limits. The board approved the ordinance at its meeting Monday. “Finally it’s over,” said Walnut Village Board President Rob Brasen. The Walnut Village Board approved the final version of the ordinance at its meeting Monday on a 5-1 vote, with Duane Christensen casting the negative vote. The ordinance had moved back and forth between the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Town is taking steps to control its wind energy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/town-is-taking-steps-to-control-its-wind-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[CANAJOHARIE — During last Thursday’s Town Board of Canajoharie meeting, the board appointed the Town Planning Board as lead agency responsible for completing a SEQRA report in regards to a local law the town hopes to adopt, titled “Wind Energy Facility Law of the Town of Canajoharie.” The SEQRA (State Environ-mental Quality Review Act) report is a basic environmental quality report, which will detail the environmental impact the law will have, if any, if adopted. It was up to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Group seeks to inform on wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/group-seeks-to-inform-on-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[f an international corporation builds the wind farm north of Wapa-koneta, the towers and blades will stretch more than 40 stories into the sky — visible to people as far away as three miles, members of a new local group say — and they believe local people should have input regarding if the project should proceed or stop. The group — Auglaize Neighbors United — recently formed to disseminate information to the public about the advantages and disadvantages of wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Renewable mythology</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/renewable-mythology/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In its February newsletter, Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative tells customers they will soon have the chance to buy electricity from Duke Energy Renewable’s 6.4-megawatt Murfreesboro Solar Project in Hertford County — and it will cost more — practically double what they pay for electricity now. “CCEC’s Board of Directors approved the ‘solar rate’ of 18.71¢ kWh (kilowatt hour),” said the newsletter. “CCEC’s standard rates are 8.9¢ kWh during non-summer months (November through May) and 9.98¢ kWh during the summer (June through .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine debate blows into town</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/turbine-debate-blows-into-town/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind farms would impede Shellharbour City’s views and adversely affect its economic future, two councillors have argued. Cr Paul Rankin has also labelled wind farm technology “unproven” and sought more solid research on any potential health issues. Cr Rankin and Mayor Kellie Marsh submitted a Notice of Motion to Tuesday night’s council meeting. They proposed that council oppose any attempt to erect wind farms or wind turbines within the Shellharbour LGA. They also said the LGA’s unique features afforded a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Man electrocuted while cleaning wind turbine in Solano County</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/man-electrocuted-while-cleaning-wind-turbine-in-solano-county/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A man in his 30s was hospitalized Wednesday morning after being electrocuted as he worked on a wind turbine in eastern Solano County, officials reported. The unidentified victim was cleaning inside the turbine&#8217;s tower out at the end of Stewart Lane in Rio Vista shortly before 11 a.m. when the accident took place, said Montezuma Fire Protection District Asst. Chief Dan Schindler. Part of an ongoing project, the turbine supposedly did not have power running to it but had been .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Calls for research on wind turbines impact on Northumberland tourism</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/calls-for-research-on-wind-turbines-impact-on-northumberland-tourism/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A study should be carried out into the potential impacts of the growing number of wind farms being approved in Northumberland on the county’s vital tourism industry, it is claimed. County councillor Wayne Daley says the huge importance of the visitor industry means a detailed local assessment is needed on whether tourists and their spending power will be affected by scores of huge turbines going up in the next few years. His call for local research to be commissioned on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Appraisers following suit over power-line easement valuation</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/appraisers-following-suit-over-power-line-easement-valuation/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A suit challenging the Gillespie Central Appraisal District&#8217;s valuation of a new electrical line through the Hill Country holds tax implications for other power corridors statewide. Plaintiff Horse Hollow Generation Tie LLC , a Florida power company subsidiary, is fighting the $14.3 million taxable value that the district put on easements in Gillespie County that the firm obtained for the 345-kilovolt line that went into service in late 2009. The line carries energy generated by wind farms from Taylor County .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Bid to extend wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/bid-to-extend-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Proposals to extend the second-largest wind farm in the UK by 11 turbines go on display at two public exhibitions. Crystal Rig wind farm, about seven miles south of Dunbar in the Lammermuirs Hills, currently operates with 85 wind turbines (25 turbines of phase I and Ia, and 60 of phase II and IIa) giving it a capacity of 200.5 megawatts. The proposed phase III extension for 11 new turbines would be located on the northern side of Crystal Rig .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turmoil over turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/turmoil-over-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In response to the proposal of building a wind turbine in Selkirk Park, Ed Marchuk, a concerned resident, and Ruby Tekauz, president of the local Birdwatchers Club, came before City council in a delegation opposing the structure Feb. 6. The two told council the purposed turbine would be in an unsatisfactory location, would be harmful as it would disturb wildlife and the structure would be in violation of several agreements made between the City and the Selkirk Canoe and Kayak .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Developer pulls out of Lenawee Co. wind turbine project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/developer-pulls-out-of-lenawee-co-wind-turbine-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The last developer of a wind turbine farm set for construction in Lenawee County, Michigan says it is abandoning the project. Aaron Peterson, a community liaison with Juwi Wind, says Federal Aviation Administration height restrictions and recently enacted restrictive zoning laws have coupled to make the project unfeasible. In late fall the FAA told developers 63 turbines in the project were too tall because they were to be built in a restricted area due to flight paths into Toledo Express .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine proposal could face more legal action</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/turbine-proposal-could-face-more-legal-action/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[STAYNER &#8211; There could be more legal action against WPD Canada and Beattie Brothers regarding the wind turbine development that is proposed near Stayner. WPD is the company that wants to erect eight turbines on land that would be leased from the Beattie Brothers. More than 50 landowners against the project met at the Nottawasaga Community Centre in Duntroon on Saturday, Feb. 4 to discuss their options. Sylvia Wiggins and her husband John own a property on Nottawasaga Concession 6 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Rebuttal to Avram Patt</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/rebuttal-to-avram-patt/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I am writing in response to Avram Patt’s Opinion piece titled, “Wind farms: Large, visible … and necessary” published by VTDigger on Jan. 31, 2012. While Mr. Patt made some interesting points, there are issues in his piece that must be addressed. For example, he asserts that there is a one-to-one ratio between wind power generated and the reduction of power generated from other sources. There is no reliable data to support this assertion. Here in the New England grid .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Sierra Club pitches wind energy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/sierra-club-pitches-wind-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[MOREHEAD CITY — North Carolina has a lot of potential for offshore wind energy, according to a Sierra Club forum panel assembled Tuesday night at Carteret Community College. The North Carolina chapter of the club held an offshore wind energy forum at the college, which drew a crowd of about 170 people. Steve Benbow, a Sierra Club volunteer, said offshore wind may not be the cure-all, fix-all for the state’s energy needs, but he believes it can be a viable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Proposed windmills would be state&#8217;s tallest; Company wants 492-foot turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/proposed-windmills-would-be-states-tallest-company-wants-492-foot-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[An Antrim wind project will be the tallest in the state and may power as many as 13,000 New Hampshire homes if a state committee determines it belongs on Tuttle Hill. Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of Delaware, last week submitted its formal application to build a 30 megawatt wind farm on the ridgeline of Tuttle Hill. Much of the town has embraced the project. The town itself has large-scale wind energy as part of its .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Tribes say no to large wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/tribes-say-no-to-large-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It’s safe to say there will not be any huge wind farms coming to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the near future. Decision makers, including the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s Board of Trustees, have said “no” to wind farms on tribal land. Wind-energy companies have had their eyes on the foothills of the Blue Mountains as a potential site for wind turbines. The Natural Resources Commission has twice met without coming to consensus over the potential use .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Council approves motion to write wind turbine amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/council-approves-motion-to-write-wind-turbine-amendment/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In a surprise move during Monday night’s meeting, Town Council members voted 4-1 in favor of writing a Zoning Ordinance amendment that would ban wind turbines in Middletown everywhere but on farms. Although the agenda for last night’s regular monthly Town Council meeting included a memo (see PDF) signed jointly by Town Council President Art Weber and Vice President Bruce Long proposing a study to help determine guidelines for wind turbine siting, a motion introduced by Councillor Chris Semonelli derailed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Health fears over wind farms unite Coalition, Greens</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/health-fears-over-wind-farms-unite-coalition-greens/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Greens and Coalition senators have joined forces to demand the Gillard government immediately fund independent studies into the health impacts of wind turbines. An amended motion calling on the government to adopt the recommendations of a Senate inquiry into the impact of wind farm developments on rural areas was passed without a vote, as only Labor was against the motion. Before being accepted, the motion was amended to remove a call for an immediate moratorium on wind farm developments. Negotiations .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>&#8216;Go someplace else,&#8217; Invenergy told</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/go-someplace-else-invenergy-told/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[LISTOWEL — “How do you live with yourself?” “Where’s your conscious?” These and other questions and comments were hurled at Invenergy Canada director of business development James Murphy by members of the public following his delegation at a North Perth council meeting Monday evening. Tensions ran so high in the crowded council chambers that Murphy had to leave via a back exit as a crowd of angry picketers had gathered around the main doors. Murphy had been addressing municipal council .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power and corporate greed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/wind-power-and-corporate-greed/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In a tiny upstate New York hamlet called Meredith, amid the abandoned barns and fallow pastures of one of the poorest counties of the Northeast, a civil war was recently fought over one of the catchphrases of the ecology movement &#8212; wind power. Now, when I use that phrase, I&#8217;ll bet most people react as I used to, with a kind of warm, cozy feeling, as befits a clean, renewable source of energy that can get this nation off our .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>&#8216;Highland Wind&#8217; group drops $25 million claim against town of Forest</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/highland-wind-group-drops-25-claim-against-town-of-forest/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The development group that wants to erect 41 wind turbines in the towns of Forest and Cylon announced Tuesday that they&#8217;ve dropped their $25 million claim against town officials on the basis &#8220;we owe it to the greater good to work together, figure this out and deliver the economic, social and environmental benefits that this project offers,&#8221; said Highland Wind Project spokesman Jay Mundinger. &#8220;This project too important to the economic vitality of the region and Wisconsin&#8217;s commitment to developing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Foes air concerns at wind forum</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/foes-air-concerns-at-wind-forum/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[FAIRHAVEN — Wind turbines will not yield the economic and environmental benefits that supporters claim, but will disrupt people&#8217;s lives and causing ill health, critics said at a forum Tuesday. About 70 people gathered in the VFW hall at a town meeting organized by Wind Wise, a group that wants to halt the town&#8217;s plan to build two 397-foot wind turbines off Arsene Street. Eleanor Tillinghast, an environmental advocate and member of the steering committee of Wind Wise Massachusetts, a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Cape Vincent passes wind moratorium</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/cape-vincent-passes-wind-moratorium/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new twist in the ongoing debate over wind power in the town of Cape Vincent The town board Tuesday night passed a seven-month moratorium on such projects. Industrial wind projects have been a hot-button issue in the town for years and now even individual wind projects are being put on hold. After a public hearing, the board voted 4 to 1 in favor of the moratorium, putting all wind projects on hold. A letter was sent last week .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Nova Scotia warned of wind power glut</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/nova-scotia-warned-of-wind-power-glut/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nova Scotia&#8217;s consumer advocates say there could soon be too much wind power in the province, which may lead to higher power rates. The warning comes as a bidding war gets underway to supply more wind power to meet renewable energy targets. The provincial government says 25 per cent of electricity must come from these sources by 2015. Existing wind farms and new players are responding to a request for proposals to supply an extra 300 gigawatt hours to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Derby board argues about Derby Line wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/derby-board-argues-about-derby-line-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Derby Board of Selectmen will be represented at a meeting Monday before state regulators about the Derby Line wind project. But Selectman Karen Jenne, who opposes the project, won&#8217;t be speaking on behalf of the board. Jenne offered to represent selectmen&#8217;s interests at what&#8217;s called a pre-hearing conference before the Vermont Public Service Board in Montpelier. The board will look at the issues being raised by those interested in the project before figuring out a hearing schedule and inviting .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Sprott Power wind farm under fire</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/sprott-power-wind-farm-under-fire/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[AMHERST &#8211; It&#8217;s only in the planning stages, but a proposed wind farm on the east side of the Trans-Canada Highway already has people asking questions about noise. Sprott Power announced last month plans to expand its Amherst wind project and is looking at land across the highway from the existing $61-million development that includes 15 turbines and will generate 31.5 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 10,000 homes. That has some Amherst homeowners, living along the marsh, concerned. &#8220;I .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Eastern moves ahead on wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/eastern-moves-ahead-on-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Greentown — A packed room of remonstrators Tuesday held little sway over the Eastern Howard Schools board, which voted unanimously to move ahead on a $2.75 million wind turbine project. More than 60 residents showed up for the meeting, where they heard for the first time about the potential tax impact of the project. According to information released at the meeting, the project is expected to add about 21 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to the property tax rate. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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