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				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>State wind power plans stir up local concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/state-wind-power-plans-stir-up-local-concerns/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slow down, the Franklin Regional Planning Board has advised the state about its proposed &#8216;fast-track&#8217; wind energy siting legislation.
The Legislature should conduct a hearing in Franklin County, the regional board wrote this week in its comments on the fast-track bill.
The letter, to the House and Senate chairmen of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, follows similar expressions of concern by the Rowe, Heath and Hawley planning boards that the proposed Wind Energy Siting Reform Act would &#8217;significantly restrict .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm neighbours say they had to move</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/wind-farm-neighbours-say-they-had-to-move/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Ripley families say they’ve moved out of their homes because of what they say is the negative health effects of living too close to wind turbines.
“We can’t live in our house anymore. We bought a house and moved to Kincardine. My son and daughter-in-law and two-year-old who live on a different farm . . . the wind company is paying for them to stay in Kincardine,” said Glen Wild, one of a half-dozen speakers at a public information session .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Huron agricultural group seeks moratorium on wind power projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/huron-agricultural-group-seeks-moratorium-on-wind-power-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huron County Federation of Agriculture will be visiting municipalities throughout Huron County asking them to follow Huron East&#8217;s lead by passing interim control bylaws on commercial wind energy projects within their borders.
The federation&#8217;s directors discussed the current debate around wind turbine developments at their June meeting and passed two resolutions.
One was to request lower-tier municipalities in Huron to enact a moratorium on commercial wind energy projects pending results of an epidemiological study conducted into the health impacts of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm exhibition didn’t tell full story</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/wind-farm-exhibition-didn%e2%80%99t-tell-full-story/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended one of the exhibitions with regards to the new Auchencairn windfarm and found the information misleading.
The photographic images did not portray the true images of turbines as we view them on a daily basis.
Nor did the futuristic views include the soon-to-be-built 71 turbine wind farm which will commence shortly in Ae forest.
Information sheets state that the electricity produced will “supply consumption of between 11,500-15,500 homes, equating to 17-23 per cent of the households in Dumfries and Galloway.”
Will Dumfries .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nova Scotia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Towers on horizon for windfarm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/towers-on-horizon-for-windfarm/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALHOUSIE MOUNTAIN – If all things go according to plan, and they are so far, towers for the wind farm project here should start peeking over the horizon in a couple of weeks.
Reuben Burge, president of RMS Energy which is developing the project, said about 100 truckloads of equipment have been delivered so far to the site with approximately another 300 still to come.
&#8220;We hope to start assembling in two weeks, around July 15. We should be assembling one per .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>State requires marking towers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/state-requires-marking-towers/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wyoming is working to prevent low-flying aviators from crashing into the hundreds of towers that wind-energy speculators have erected to measure development potential.
Wind developers put up the meteorological towers &#8212; known as met towers &#8212; to measure a location&#8217;s wind speed, direction and turbulence. The towers generally range from 164 feet to 197 feet tall, which means they&#8217;re not subject to federal marking requirements for towers at least 200 feet tall.
This spring, the state began requiring all new met towers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Backyard wind turbine rejected by Ontario Municipal Board</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/backyard-wind-turbine-rejected-by-ontario-municipal-board/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Ottawa resident who has been lobbying to put a wind turbine in his backyard in the city&#8217;s Westboro neighbourhood has been told that his project is grinding to a halt.
Graham Findlay had applied for a variance to install what&#8217;s known as an &#8220;energy ball&#8221; on his property near Island Park Drive.
Findlay is a commercial wind arm developer with Ottawa-based 3G Energy Corporation and has said that he wants to mount that &#8220;energy ball&#8221; on a pole in his backyard .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Helicopter lift of blades to Grouse Mountain windmill delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/helicopter-lift-of-blades-to-grouse-mountain-windmill-delayed/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction work on a windmill as tall as a 20-storey building on the peak of Grouse Mountain was halted Friday because of safety concerns about lifting the massive blades.
A Skycrane helicopter was expected to lift the three 37-metre-long blades up to the mountain ski resort from a barge in Indian Arm on Friday morning, but the lift was postponed after the pilot asked more time to work out some technical details.
The plan now is to fly the blades up at .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Evidence blows away wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/evidence-blows-away-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[In regard to George Will&#8217;s column of June 26 (Green energy: Riddle in an enigma?&#8221;), and the excellent sources he cites: Gabriel Calzada&#8217;s report on wind energy in Spain and Sen. Kit Bond&#8217;s &#8220;Yellow Light on Green Jobs.&#8221;
The euphoria that accompanied the initial interest in wind energy continues to wane as more and more &#8220;methodical economic reasoning&#8221; comes to light about wind energy.
How these reports continue to be ignored is astonishing and will become increasingly embarrassing if this country continues .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Debate on wind farms in Northamptonshire</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/debate-on-wind-farms-in-northamptonshire/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kettering MP, Philip Hollobone, introduces Westminster Hall debate on planning applications for wind farms in Northamptonshire.

Commons Hansard: Planning applications for wind farms in Northamptonshire
Video and Audio: Planning applications for wind farms in Northamptonshire
About Parliament: Adjournment debates

Parliament News 
30 June 2009 
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm group to go public</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/04/wind-farm-group-to-go-public/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of a Speyside wind farm plan will crank up the pressure at a public meeting in Dufftown.
All 26 Moray Council members have been invited to the meeting on Monday, July 13 (7.30pm) at Glenifiddich Distillery.
The meeting has been organised by Save Our Scenic Moray (SOS Moray), which is opposed to plans by the Infinergy energy company to create a 59-turbine development at Dorenell on the Glenfiddich Estate.
Moray Council is a statutory consultee for the development, which will ultimately be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Le développement de l&#039;éolien en péril, selon Compagnie du Vent</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/le-developpement-de-leolien-en-peril-selon-compagnie-du-vent/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Des obstacles réglementaires et politiques menacent le développement de l&#34;éolien en France malgré les objectifs du Grenelle de l&#34;environnement, selon Jean-Michel Germa, le président de La Compagnie du Vent, filiale de GDF Suez.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm plans are gust not on</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-farm-plans-are-gust-not-on/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans for a four-turbine wind farm on land next to the A75 at Glenluce have been thrown out by councillors.
Wigtown Area Committee this week refused permission for Barlockhart Moor Wind Energy Ltd to construct their planned 152-metre high windmills after it was agreed the development would have a detrimental impact on the landscape.
The plans would have been the seventh wind farm in the south-west of Scotland to be built or to go through planning stages.
Robert Rankin, of Whitecairn Caravan Park, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>TANC opponents decry meeting cancellation</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/tanc-opponents-decry-meeting-cancellation/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[North state opposition to a proposed high-voltage power line stretching from Lassen County to the San Francisco Bay area is still fully charged.
The day after the biggest municipal utility among those planning the 600-mile Transmission Agency of Northern California (TANC) line pulled out of the project, those opposing it said their fight is long from over.
Donna Caldwell &#8212; leader of the North State Landowners Committee, which has more than 400 members from Maxwell to Oak Run &#8212; said she and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Melrose wind turbine, expanded recreation explored at Mt. Hood</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/melrose-wind-turbine-expanded-recreation-explored-at-mt-hood/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melrose &#8212; Scenic Mount Hood could undergo some significant changes over the next few years, as Melrose park officials have submitted an application to study the feasibility of installing a wind turbine at the park, as well as hiring a consulting firm to examine improvements to the golf course, and the creation of passive recreation areas and athletic fields.
The wind turbine study, which costs &#36;50-85K, depending on the amount of electricity the turbine would generate, is paid for through the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm is a &#039;threat to tranquility&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-farm-is-a-threat-to-tranquility/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major  wind farm planning inquiry has been told it would affect the area&#8217;s &#8220;tranquility&#8221; — a quality which attracts most people to the countryside.
Tom Oliver, head of rural policy for the Campaign to protect Rural England (CPRE), told the inquiry, now in its third week, that tranquility can be measured and &#8216;mapped&#8217;.
And, according to a national survey, it was the most common reason for visiting the countryside.
He set out to prove that the proposed development by Airtricity for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Internet loss halts Farmersville wind generator</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/internet-loss-halts-farmersville-wind-generator/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about a bad Internet connection.
Operators and engineers at a wind turbine off Interstate 55 near Farmersville said Thursday they hope the blades are turning for good after a weeklong shutdown caused by an interruption of high-speed Internet connections, among other problems.
“This is a pretty high-tech device. We control everything over the Internet,” said David Stuva, president and chief executive officer of the Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative, based in Auburn.
Stuva said co-op customers, and the merely curious, have been calling .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Silton Windfarm Unanimously Rejected</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/silton-windfarm-unanimously-rejected/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Dorset District Planning Committee today unanimously rejected the 6 Ecotricity  giant industrial turbines proposed for Silton, near Gillingham. This was a great triumph for democracy since over 200 local residents squeezed into the hall to protest, while over 150 were left outside. At the meeting over 30 objectors spoke passionately about the noise and shadow flicker health problems of having turbines only 550 metres from the nearest houses.
“This proposal for turbines 120 metres (394 feet) tall on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>An ill wind is blowing turbine issue in our state</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/an-ill-wind-is-blowing-turbine-issue-in-our-state/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who treasure the Berkshire landscape should now be alarmed that the state owns so much of it.
The governor has declared a goal of 2,000 megawatts (MW) of wind power in Massachusetts by the year 2020, and his staff has commissioned a study showing that over half could be located in the Berkshires.
The study calculates that 559 industrial wind turbines could be built on the state’s 120,000 acres here. Those turbines would be 1.5 MW each and about 400 feet .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Installation of wind turbine delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/installation-of-wind-turbine-delayed/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The installation of a massive wind turbine atop Grouse Mountain has been delayed after the lifting device intended to carry the blades &#8212; a kind of giant sling &#8212; did not perform well in tests on Thursday. The turbine consists of three 37-metre-long blades, which must be transported from a barge in Indian Arm by helicopter to the top of the mountain. The transport was scheduled for today, but will be postponed until sometime next week after crews can improve .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Plan okays turbines in Vineyard waters</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/plan-okays-turbines-in-vineyard-waters/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As many as 166 wind turbines, generating enough electricity to power some 200,000 homes, could be built in Vineyard waters under a state draft ocean management plan released on Wednesday.
The plan sets aside two areas, one on the far side of Noman’s Land and the other off the Elizabeth Islands, as the sites which would provide almost all the offshore wind power for the state of Massachusetts.
To give some idea of the scale of potential development, it could be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Company plans &#36;100M wind farm in Hardin Co.</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/company-plans-100m-wind-farm-in-hardin-co/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOLA &#8212; A company plans to construct a &#36;100 million wind turbine farm in northern Hardin County which would generate 50 megawatts of electric power, enough for 12,000 homes.
JW Great Lakes Wind, Cleveland, held a public hearing this week to present its plans for the farm, which would be located on about 3,400 acres in northern Hardin County, west of Dola and north of Ohio 81.
The company would construct 19 to 27 wind turbines, project manager Peter Endres said. Each .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>New Gamesa prototype unveiled</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/new-gamesa-prototype-unveiled/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica has revealed the first prototype of its G10x &#8212; 4.5 MW product platform at the Cabezo Negro R&#038;D wind farm located in the Jaulín local authority in the Spanish province of Saragossa.
With a rotor diameter of 128 metres and blades measuring more than 60 metres long, the tower has a height of 120 metres and is made of concrete and steel.
The company says its modular design, which was entirely designed in-house, will allow the cost of energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>TANC the wrong way to go green</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/tanc-the-wrong-way-to-go-green/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renewable resources are what all Californians should be working toward for our energy needs. But connecting proposed solar and wind power sources in Lassen County with distant needy users through 600 miles of transmission lines on huge towers is shortsighted and not logical.
Why should anyone who cannot use this energy have to suffer decreased property value, land taken by eminent domain, possible health consequences or having to look at huge towers and electrical lines?
Why should the quality of life be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>We&#039;re off to see &#8230; the wonderful scam</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/were-off-to-see-the-wonderful-scam/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amazed Dorothy looked at the big, gleaming, gold, onion-shaped cupolas atop the Holy Ascension Orthodox Church. &#8221;Toto, I&#8217;ve a feeling we&#8217;re not in Kansas any more,&#8221; she said. &#8221;We must be over the rainbow!&#8221;
Then Dorothy looked past the cupolas, to where huge and ungodly structures dominated the horizon. &#8221;Never mind, Toto,&#8221; she said. &#8221;We&#8217;re still in Kansas after all.&#8221;
Actually, they were not in Kansas, and they certainly were not in the Land of Oz. They were in the Schuylkill .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbine plan is powered down</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-turbine-plan-is-powered-down/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans for a wind farm in a picturesque North Dorset setting were sensationally thrown out on July 2.
Despite a recommendation to approve the six 120m-high turbines at Silton, near Gillingham, district councillors unanimously voted to refuse the application.
Hundreds of objectors had earlier protested outside the Olive Bowl conference centre before the tumultuous meeting and around 200 packed out the inside of the hall.
Ultimately the public outcry to Ecotricity’s scheme told, as the council’s development control committee voted to scrap the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nova Scotia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine strategy delayed; Wind farm calls Digby council’s draft bylaw ambiguous</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/turbine-strategy-delayed-wind-farm-calls-digby-council%e2%80%99s-draft-bylaw-ambiguous/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIGBY — Municipal councillors decided Monday to delay the passing of a municipal planning strategy to regulate wind turbines in the Municipality of the District of Digby.
Some senior executives of the proponent of a Digby Neck wind farm spoke out Monday at a public planning hearing in council chambers, urging councillors to kill a draft of the bylaw because they didn’t think it was council’s best work.
Corey Basel, vice-president of SkyPower Corp., said his company did not support passing the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Lotus turbine protesters&#039; court victory</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/lotus-turbine-protesters-court-victory/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaigners against a controversial wind turbine scheme at a Norfolk sports car manufacturer have won their latest legal bid to get a planning decision overturned.
Objectors welcomed the news after it emerged that a group of local residents had won the right to challenge the construction of three 120metre masts at Lotus Cars.
The proposals for turbines at Hethel, which would meet the sports car company&#8217;s energy requirements, were approved by one vote at a South Norfolk Council planning committee last year .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Ulley wind farm D-day</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/ulley-wind-farm-d-day/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contentious plans for six 430-feet tall wind turbines near Ulley are expected to be submitted to Rotherham Council next week.
Developers Banks Renewables claim the answer to the borough’s energy targets is blowing in the wind, and has a package of initiatives designed to benefit the surrounding communities.
But Mike Corden, from the windfarm action group, says ‘99.9 per cent’ of Ulley residents strongly oppose the £12m scheme and thousands living nearby have no idea how much it will affect them.
“For them .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>SMUD rethinks project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/smud-rethinks-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacramento&#8217;s power company dropped its support for a &#36;1.5 billion electric transmission project, casting doubt over plans to crisscross much of Northern California, including San Joaquin County, with new high-voltage lines and substations.
Increasing doubts over the project&#8217;s financial feasibility and possible new regulation led the Sacramento Municipal Utility District to that decision, said Elisabeth Brinton, SMUD&#8217;s director of communications.
Project sponsor Transmission Agency of Northern California, a partnership of 14 municipal utilities and special districts including the city of Lodi and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Project pullout leaves SMUD scrambling to fill power needs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/project-pullout-leaves-smud-scrambling-to-fill-power-needs/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Sacramento Municipal Utility District&#8217;s withdrawal this week from a major Northern California power-transmission project complicates its transition to renewable energy.
SMUD planners foresaw using the new high-voltage lines to carry power to Sacramento from new wind, solar and geothermal energy projects envisioned for Lassen County and northwestern Nevada. SMUD cited financial uncertainties for the pullout.
Together, the projects could have provided nearly all of the new renewable energy SMUD needs to line up over the next decade to meet state .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm approved despite court challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-farm-approved-despite-court-challenge/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales Government has given planning approval for a wind farm at Gullen Range, near Goulburn in the state&#8217;s south, despite an ongoing case in the Land and Environment Court.
The Government has given the &#36;250 million plan the green light after putting in place measures to protect the powerful owl and the wedgetail eagle.
It says the 73-wind-turbine farm will have the capacity to power 63,000 homes.
The number of turbines has been cut from the original proposal for 84 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Province says no to backyard wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/province-says-no-to-backyard-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA &#8212; The city’s first application to put up a small wind turbine in a residential area has been denied by the Ontario Municipal Board, and the Ottawa man behind the proposal says he is giving up the fight for his backyard power generator.
“It’s an opportunity lost to try something new,” said Graham Findlay. “I guess people ran away from that opportunity out of fear — fear of the unknown.”
Findlay, a 55-year-old commercial wind-farm developer who lives near Island Park .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Windfarm more efficient than hydro, inquiry told</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/windfarm-more-efficient-than-hydro-inquiry-told/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed wind farm in the Kakanui Ranges near Oamaru would be more efficient and lower-cost than a hydro power scheme, an expert witness has told the Environment Court.
Meridian Energy is seeking to take water from Lake Waitaki and pass it through a tunnel and power station before discharging the water into the Waitaki River at Stonewall.
It has been granted resource consent to take the water, but that decision has been appealed by the Lower Waitaki River Management Society.
Ken Mitchell, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm plan blocked</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-farm-plan-blocked/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jubilant scenes greeted a decision by councillors on Thursday to reject planning permission for a wind farm at Silton near Gillingham.
More than 200 people packed a meeting in Gillingham to listen as the arguments were played out over six hours before North Dorset District Council development control committee. Around 150 people had to be turned away.
Councillors had been recommended in a report from planning officer James Lytton-Trevers to approve Ecotricity&#8217;s proposal but unanimously refused permission. They decided the plans would .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Safety fears over HGV access to windfarm site</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/safety-fears-over-hgv-access-to-windfarm-site/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roads too narrow for construction traffic, claims Ross-shire resident
Highland Council is endangering the safety of road-users by allegedly failing to enforce planning conditions regarding HGV access for the construction of a 20-turbine windfarm in Ross-shire, according to an objector.
Retired haulier Roy Baker, who lives near the Fairburn scheme at Strathconnon, argues that a narrow and twisty three-mile stretch of C11 road between Marybank and the Scatwell site used by construction traffic is inadequate and that promised laybys have not materialised.
Mr .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Banner protesters&#039; consultation demo</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/banner-protesters-consultation-demo/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banner-waving protesters fighting plans for six massive wind turbines near their homes in the Stafford countryside held a demo outside a consultation event.
More than 150 angry residents from villages including Church Eaton, High Onn and Marston gathered to object to the King’s Street wind farm planned for nearby Brineton.
They marched through the lanes to Blymhill Village Hall where the consultation exhibition was held last week.
Bristol renewable energy company Wind Prospect wants to install the 426-feet turbines on land at the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Prattsburgh wind turbines; Hearing on permit law to be held by mid-July</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/prattsburgh-wind-turbines-hearing-on-permit-law-to-be-held-by-mid-july/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRATTSBURGH — A public hearing on a proposed permit law regulating wind energy in the town will be held by mid- July, the Prattsburgh Town Board said Monday night.
Board members took more than an hour during a special board session Monday night to scrutinize the proposed law, designed to set permit fees for wind turbines erected in the town.
The town is the site of proposed wind farms by two energy companies, Ecogen and First Wind.
A representative of Ecogen who attended .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm, home location ignites debate</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-farm-home-location-ignites-debate/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A public hearing and first reading of amendments to the Clinton County Zoning Ordinance sparked discussion concerning reverse setback limits concerning wind farms Wednesday at the Clinton County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Paul Ketelsen, planning and zoning administrator, presented an amendment to the zoning ordinance concerning wind harvesting towers. This amendment would change the setback for wind turbines and meteorological towers from the nearest residence, school, hospital, church or public library to 1,200 feet. This is an increase from the originally-stated .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm flurry in Daventry district</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-farm-flurry-in-daventry-district/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently there has been a flurry of proposals for wind farms in the Daventry area clustering around the Crick area.
A series of plans have been made for sites along the M1 corridor north of Watford Gap, with four in the Daventry area, and more into Leicestershire.
Sites in the Daventry area include Lilbourne, Yelvertoft, Watford Lodge and Winwick. There are also proposals for sites near Kelmarsh, and at Ashby Magna and Swinford in Leicestershire.
Wind turbines are a controversial option for generating .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Changes to turbine proposals at Coalclough &#8212; new viewing dates</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/changes-to-turbine-proposals-at-coalclough-new-viewing-dates/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish Power Renewables is hosting a second series of public events ahead of finalising plans to replace its wind turbines at Coalclough, Cliviger, which overlook Cornholme. 
The company has submitted its proposals for approval to Burnley Council and says the current turbines are at the end of their working life.
It is proposing to reduce the number of turbines, but the replacement turbines, although fewer in number, will be up to 100 metres high as opposed to the current turbines which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Impact on turbine plan unknown</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/impact-on-turbine-plan-unknown/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact on a Leven wind turbine project is unknown after drinks giant Diageo announced that it plans to expand its site in the town.
On Wednesday, in what came as a massive surprise boost for the local economy, the firm announced plans to create a packaging hall at the site in a move which will create 400 jobs.
The announcement has been met with delight by politicians and community figureheads but the effect on a project by Ore Valley Housing Association .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Birds protected in wind farm plan</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/birds-protected-in-wind-farm-plan/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales Government has given planning approval for a wind farm at Gullen Range, near Goulburn, after putting in place measures to protect the powerful owl and the wedgetail eagle.
Planning Minister Kristina Keneally says the 73-wind-turbine farm will have the capacity to power 63,000 homes.
The number of turbines has been cut from the original proposal for 84 to minimise impact on the nearby Crookwell Aerodrome.
The area is also a nesting ground for the powerful owl.
Ms Keneally says the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green light for wind farm near Goulburn</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/green-light-for-wind-farm-near-goulburn/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW government has given planning approval for a &#36;250 million wind farm in the NSW Southern Tablelands.
Planning Minister Kristina Keneally says the wind farm at Gullen Range, near Goulburn, will have the capacity to power about 63,000 homes.
It will include 73 turbines, a substation, transmission grid connections, on-site control room and maintenance facilities.
Ms Keneally said the project would generate about 150 construction jobs and 15 full-time operational positions.
&#8220;The wind farm will reduce greenhouse gases by up to around 511,000 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>RWE receives permission to build Tromp Binnen wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/rwe-receives-permission-to-build-tromp-binnen-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESSEN, GERMANY: RWE Innogy received permission from the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Hydraulic Engineering (Rijkswaterstaat) to build the Tromp Binnen offshore wind farm.
The wind farm is dimensioned for a capacity of 300 MW and is planned to be built around 47 miles (75 km) off the coast at Callantsoog in northern Holland. According to Dutch law, the permit entitles RWE Innogy to take part in a state tendering procedure for funds for offshore projects being held in November.
As planned .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Woburn company to build power windmill in Scituate</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/woburn-company-to-build-power-windmill-in-scituate/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[SCITUATE — Solaya Energy of Woburn plans to build a power-generating windmill next to the town&#8217;s water treatment plant on the Driftway.
The company, which develops, designs, constructs and operates wind and solar power installations, will erect a 260-foot,  1.5 megawat wind turbine on land leased from the town. The town will buy the electricity at a reduced rate. 
On June 23, the selectmen voted unanimously to hire an attorney to negotiate a lease with Solaya.
Public works director Al Bangert .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine plan rejected</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/03/wind-turbine-plan-rejected/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters are celebrating after planning chiefs rejected proposals for six giant wind turbines in a rural Dorset beauty spot near Madonna&#8217;s former country estate. 
Green energy firm Ecotricity submitted the plans to build six 395ft (120m) turbines near the village of Silton, near Gillingham.
North Dorset District Council&#8217;s planning officers recommended the scheme for approval, but a development control committee unanimously rejected the plans to sounds of cheering and applause.
The campaigners, who go under the name Save Our Silton, argued the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Prevailing against anti-wind sentiment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/prevailing-against-anti-wind-sentiment/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning anti-wind sentiment into permits requires organization, strategy and plain ol’ grassroots politics.
By Ben Kelahan, North American Windpower, July 2009
Community relations may be the road to reputation, but understanding practical local politics paves the way to permits. Opposition groups are sophisticated, organized and well funded. They have borrowed the highest-priced tactics from corporate public relations and masterfully use the Web to circulate misinformation about the impacts of wind farms.
Understanding how the opposition plans to stop your wind farm may be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind bylaw stands as is</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wind-bylaw-stands-as-is/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[COHASSET &#8212; When all was said and done at Special Town Meeting last week, the wind energy bylaw stood as it was approved at the 2008 Town Meeting and will remain so for the foreseeable future.&#160;
Last Thursday (June 25) – on the first sunny evening all week – a crowd of 317 voters turned out to vote on a citizen’s petition proposed “moratorium” on the wind energy bylaw and an article amending the previously approved article on the high school’s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New company considering Kakanui Mountains for wind farm site</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/new-company-considering-kakanui-mountains-for-wind-farm-site/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kakanui Mountains in North Otago are being investigated by a new company for a wind farm to generate electricity.
Waitaki Wind, set up recently by former Meridian Energy Ltd chief executive Keith Turner and former Waitaki mayor Alan McLay, is negotiating with landowners on the Kakanui Mountains to get access to start monitoring, according to evidence at the Environment Court yesterday.
The company, in which Mr McLay and Dr Turner are sole shareholders and directors, has pre-empted a similar move by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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