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	<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>RM to look into turbine noise issue</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Property devaluation, a lack of democratic process, and insufficient guarantees for sound monitoring had a group of 15 RM of Rhineland residents asking council to consider several requests last week.
The group presented a five page document outlining their concerns about the proposed BowArk 120 wind turbine project to council, and highlighted several of them. Joe Braun questioned the lack of public consultation on the project, pointing out that many who are now opposed didn’t have .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind out of sails for Central Plains</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[News of a proposed wind farm project for St. Joseph, in the Winnipeg area, being selected for development, has taken some of the wind out of the sails of developers hoping to get the go-ahead for projects in the St. Ambroise and Macdonald areas in the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie.
However, Reeve Toby Trimble said he is not disappointed the St. Joseph project was selected instead of the local proposals.
He said, in the meantime, .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>BowArk shows their wind farm plans</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love them or hate them, people in the St. Joseph area were very eager to see exactly where the new wind turbines will be placed in the recently approved St. Joseph Wind Farm Project put forward by BowArk.
More than 100 people were in the door shortly after the open house began, April 8, looking at maps to see where the turbines would go.
Simulated before and after pictures covered the displays and the project also showed .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Landowners could get big windfalls from wind turbines in Manitoba</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new wind farm project awaiting final approval in Manitoba would be among the richest in Canada, with landowners paid &#36;10,500 per year for every turbine on their land.
Manitoba Hydro announced this week it had chosen BowArk&#8217;s proposal for turbines in St. Joseph from more than 80 wind-farm proposals in Manitoba.
The two sides will now sit down for final negotiations.
The Crown-owned utility must choose between a 100-megawatt project, a 200-megawatt project or a 300-megawatt project .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>New wind farm eyed for Manitoba</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manitoba Hydro, a provincial government-owned utility, said Monday it will negotiate with a subsidiary of Australian investment bank Babcock &#038; Brown Ltd. to build a new wind farm in the province.
The company proposed several options to Manitoba Hydro to produce up to 300 megawatts of wind power, said Adam Macdonald, head of Babcock &#038; Brown&#8217;s energy development in Canada.
The project could involve capital costs of more than &#36;600 million, Manitoba Hydro said, and could generate .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Plan ahead to avoid dangers of going green, groups urge</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going green shouldn&#8217;t mean getting killed.
That&#8217;s the message two groups are promoting as the province pushes ahead with wind power and the possibility of allowing more fuel-efficient vehicles on the road.
Crop dusters say the spread of gigantic wind turbines creates a hazard for pilots, while members of the blind community say hybrid and electric cars make no noise, posing a potentially deadly hazard for blind pedestrians.
Groups representing the blind and aerial sprayers have written to .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Montcalm sticks to their guns on setbacks after hearing</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The RM of Montcalm has moved ahead with their plan to change the minimum setback for wind turbines from 300 metres from a residence to 500 metres, despite opposition at a public hearing earlier this month.
CAO Mitch Duval said the hearing attracted 18 people, of which only three spoke up on the planned changes.
Asking for more
All three also wanted increased setbacks, but asked for more than council was prepared to give.
Frank Paetkau, a landowner two .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind turbine projects make short list</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several wind farm proposals in the Red River Valley have made it to the next stage of the wind Request for Proposal (RFP) process, after Manitoba Hydro announced a shortlist of 10 possible sites.
Seven wind developers represent the 10 locations across Manitoba, and they have been invited to provide final offers to develop and supply wind-generated energy to Manitoba Hydro.
Glenn Schneider, division manager of public affairs said one of the projects is in the Rosenfeld .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind energy debate blows through AMM</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power companies do not seem concerned the Government of Manitoba might be dragging its heels on wind power.
The issue was a hot point of discussion last week at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities convention in Brandon when David Huggill, Western Canada policy analyst for the Canadian Wind Energy Association, took Manitoba Hydro to task for not moving fast enough in getting wind energy projects off the ground.
“There are some players,” said Huggill,”who are quite prepared .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farming about to take flight</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposal to rezone an area of land in the Rural Municipality of Cartier, which may one day be the site of a new wind farm project, will be the subject of a public hearing next month.
On Dec. 4, residents will meet with White Horse Plains Planning District at St. Francois Xavier Community Hall at 7 p.m. to discuss rezoning the land for the municipality of Cartier.
“The zoning will allow it to happen,” said RM .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Group seeks changes in wind by-law</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Schmidt hasn’t always been opposed to wind farms.
In fact, when Sequoia Energy Inc. held an open house in Altona in 2006, he said he saw the technology of wind energy as a bright, environmentally-sound solution to hydro, and a great supplement to agriculture.
But soon, Schmidt began to question how these enormous wind turbines would affect the people who had to live near them. He and his wife moved to their 12-acre property near Altona .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farm debate rages in Cartier RM</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions and concerns about a proposed wind farm in Rural Municipality of Cartier continue to stall a council vote on a zoning bylaw for the project.
The 7,769-hectare wind farm proposed for the south side of Trans-Canada Highway between Dacotah and Elie is an issue of contention for many residents.
Their concerns with the 63-turbine project range from health issues to the effects the structures may have on property values.
Council halted a vote on a zoning bylaw .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Locals running against the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of St. Joseph residents are not impressed with the proposed wind project in the area.
BowArk Energy Ltd. plans to begin Phase 1 of the St. Joseph Wind Project next summer. When completed, there will be 43 wind turbines dotting 19,000 acres of countryside. They’ll be hard to miss, since they stand about 30 stories tall.
About 120 landowners in the R.M. of Montcalm have already signed land lease contracts, allowing the developers to use .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Against the wind: questioning wind farms treated as heresy by converted</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The province, the wind industry, residents of St. Leon, even David Suzuki have made Manitobans aware of the benefits of wind energy. We hear about all of the benefits. Without a doubt it is amazing.
That said: What&#8217;s up with the opposition in St. Joseph or in Elie? Why is the Greenwing wind project at Swan Like in abeyance? Why are folks up in arms in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Texas, Australia, Germany?
Some say opponents are .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Local residents fear noise, annoyance from proposed wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potential neighbours of a proposed wind farm near St. Joseph, Man., are raising concerns about problems the turbines could bring to their community.
Manitoba Hydro has been encouraging new wind farms across the province.  The Crown utility is currently reviewing 83 proposals submitted by 17 developers in response to a request for proposals in March.
One of the proposals calls for 63 wind turbines to be installed near St. Joseph, Man., 85 kilometres south of Winnipeg. .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Tilting at windmills</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has travelled to southwestern Manitoba to see the &#8220;wind farm&#8221; at St. Leon knows what a remarkable, other-worldly &#8212; some say magical &#8212; vista it presents.
Over there, a row of giants pinwheeling above a bucolic setting of haystacks and barns. Over here, more reflected in the small lake where a heron rises on wings as aerodynamically perfect as the wings of the behemoths, which make a sound like that of a Jedi&#8217;s light .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farm no breeze</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A whirlwind of questions will be addressed before a zoning bylaw is complete for a 10-hectare wind farm expected on the south side of the Trans-Canada highway between Dacotah and Elie.
The reeve for the municipality, Ronald Rasmussen, said it will take some time for council to research concerns about noise, aesthetics, ground clearance for crop spraying and the impact large scale wind farms have on property values and development.
Council will look to the provincial planning .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind turbines causing trouble in rural areas; &#39;sound of silence&#39; gone forever</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposition is growing to giant wind turbines as the novelty of being paid for wind wears off.
In St. Joseph, south of Winnipeg, a concerned citizens group is protesting a proposal by Bowark Energy Ltd. of Calgary to install 63 wind turbines across a 13-kilometre stretch of arable land.
In Elie, just west of Winnipeg, some residents are demanding a study on long-term costs of a wind turbine proposal by Sequoia Energy.
Applications for the next wave of .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Opponents of Manitoba wind farm voice concerns at meeting</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents and supporters of a planned wind farm west of Winnipeg voiced their views at a meeting in Elie Monday night.
The 99-megawatt project would be in the Regional Municipality of Cartier, about 16 kilometres west of the city. It is one of four in the planning stages in Manitoba by Winnipeg power company Sequoia.
Local farmer Ed Rempel said because of wet conditions this summer, he&#8217;s had to aerial spray his crops, something he couldn&#8217;t do .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind power tested at colony</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 11:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 May 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie has got wind of advances on a wind power project near Macdonald, about 32 kilometres northwest of Portage.
At a council meeting on Tuesday, councillors approved a variation order to adjust the positioning of a test tower at the site near Macdonald. The tower was too close to the property line, according to the RM&#8217;s zoning bylaw.
Reeve Toby Trimble said it&#8217;s good news to hear the idea of wind power .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Giant windmill eyed for Forks</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Feb 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Winnipeg skyline may soon have a distinct feature that would stand as tall as the Richardson building.
The province and The Forks are considering building a wind turbine if community consultations and wind-monitoring tests prove successful.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really exciting,&#8221; said NDP Energy Minister Jim Rondeau. &#8220;There&#8217;s about 50 wind turbines around the province, and it would be very exciting to have one in Winnipeg.&#8221;
Rondeau said a wind turbine in the heart of Winnipeg would be .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Rondeau proposes simplifying of wind turbine titles</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Rondeau, Manitoba&#8217;s science, technology, energy and mines minister, has proposed an amendment to legislation that would simplify registering for wind turbine easements and title searches.
The proposed legislation would amend the Federal Real Property Act by adding a further easement category that would permit a title to be issued for that interest in land for wind turbines. Currently, titles can be issued under the act for pipeline easements related to the operation of a pipeline. .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind update</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, David Martin from West Man Wind Power and Gale Force Energy proposed a wind farm in the Coldwell area. Since then, there has been little word on progress of the project. Coldwell invited Martin to update them on where the project stands.
&#8220;Over the last 18 months, we have been busy signing up a number of landowners in the area,&#8221; said Martin. &#8220;The province has made a commitment to the industry to expand .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Firm gets licences for 3 proposed wind farms in Manitoba</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A private energy company says it has moved a step closer to building three new wind farms in southern Manitoba after obtaining provincial Environment Act licences for the projects.
Sequoia Energy Inc. says its proposed wind farms near Killarney, Miami and Elie would produce enough energy to power 100,000 homes.
The company must still get the stamp of approval from Manitoba Hydro in order to develop the wind farms and sell the energy.
But Sequoia president Bob Spensley .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Manitoba to quadruple its wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Sep 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.cbc.ca
The Manitoba government plans to build enough wind towers over the next two years to quadruple its wind-generated power, Energy Minister Dave Chomiak announced Thursday.
The province, along with Manitoba Hydro, hopes to add 300 megawatts of wind power to the province&#8217;s energy grid &#8212; enough power for 100,000 homes.
That could mean up to 160 more windmills, although newer and evolving wind turbine technology could make that number smaller.
Chomiak said the province and Manitoba Hydro will .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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