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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Wellington County finally sets its wind turbine policies
After many months, Wellington County council has formally approved its policy for hydro generation by wind power.
Council passed an official plan amendment at its June meeting to make formal all the rules for wind turbines.
There was only one person who addressed council the day it made its decision. Gary Pundsack, of Energy Wind Canada, told council his company has been planning for wind energy in Mapleton since 2004. “I’m very keen to get started,” he said, noting that phase one . . .
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Suncor signing agreements with land owners for wind project
A spokesperson for Suncor Energy says the company has been signing land optioning agreements with Huron East residents to gain access to their land to study wind resources with plans to develop a wind power project over the next few years.
Coral Hulse says the Alberta-based company has been meeting with local landowners since January and has been studying wind conditions in the rural area bordered by Winthrop Road, Manley Line, Highway 8 and Division Line.
But plans for the project can . . .
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NSP tries to clean up logjam; Utility asks regulator to let projects breeze through
A lineup of clean energy projects looking to hook up to Nova Scotia’s power grid could impede Nova Scotia Power from meeting the province’s 2010 renewable energy target.
“It is an obstacle and a hurdle that we need to overcome,” said Margaret Murphy, spokeswoman for the utility.
On Wednesday, NSP asked its regulator, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, to step in and allow seven wind projects that won renewable energy contracts from the company this spring, to jump the queue . . .
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Wind energy companies eyeing the Fraser Valley
Alternative energy makers are eyeing the Fraser Valley as the next possible region for wind farms, after a spring call by the provincial government for submissions of bio-energy projects, such as run-of-river micro hydro facilities and windmills. BC Hydro is asking power producers to submit proposals that collectively will add up to 5,000 gigawatt hours [GWh] of clean or renewable energy per year, enough to power 500,000 homes.
The prospect has wind generation proponents, and the sector’s advocacy group, Canadian Wind . . .
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Prime property for wind turbines; County on radar of green power companies
The high cost of energy and the push for green power has prompted a gold rush of sorts, as companies eye Renfrew County as a host for a series of ambitious wind power projects.
While still far from certain, several companies have made serious inroads into making large scale wind generation here a reality, with others making inquiries.
Test sites and leasing agreements with landowners are being lined up, some of which could be ready to proceed as early as the next . . .
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Bigger states balk at chipping in for N.H. transmission lines
Positions taken by officials in Connecticut and Massachusetts are thwarting plans to construct several renewable energy projects in New Hampshire’s North Country.
Governors of the six New England states met July 9 for their New England Governors Conference meeting in Boston to discuss energy and try to forge, among other things, an agreement on funding new transmission lines to bring electricity from remote wind and biomass power plants in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire to the urban centers on the Eastern . . .
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Not much benefit to wind turbines
The Intelligencer’s July 25th editorial, “Trenton should carefully consider wind energy” is as ill-informed about wind turbines as the title suggests. Wind energy concerns Prince Edward County; Picton, not Trenton, is the seat of government; and the highly proclaimed economic benefits of wind farms are questionable.
The financial gains are modest. Lump-sum payments under amenities agreements do little more than compensate for the cost of new or improved infrastructure. After the wind farm is constructed, there remain only a few . . .
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Shoreline turbines may double
Plans are in the works to double the number of Kruger Energy Company’s 44 wind turbines along the Lake Erie shoreline.
The Chatham Daily News learned Wednesday the Quebec- based company plans to submit its project expansion proposal to the Ontario Power Authority before November.
Jean Roy, Kruger’s vice-president of operations, said the current $270-million project will be fully operational by late September.
Roy, along with other top company officials, including vice-president Jacques Gauthier of Montreal, held a wind farm construction update and . . .
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Road use is only wind farm issue for KHR
Even though there are no wind turbines planned for properties in the township of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards, that hasn’t stopped concerned residents from voicing their opinions to Mayor Janice Visneskie and the councillors.
The mayor, who is also the warden of Renfrew County, said at last week’s KHR council meeting that she’s hearing both positive and negative comments about wind farms. Her concern for KHR is “whether our roads will be used and what protection we have if they’re damaged.”
She . . .
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Green Shift more a wealth shift
As a person with an environmental engineering degree, I was very eager to attend Liberal party leader Stephane Dion’s town hall meeting last week to gain more information about the Green Shift. However, what I saw was less of an environmental plan and more about winning votes through wealth redistribution.
I’m sure many in the crowd loved the platitudes. After all, who doesn’t care about our children’s future? Who doesn’t want a cleaner, more prosperous country? Dion is being a demagogue . . .
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