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		<title>Conflict of interest could affect wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[KIRKSVILLE &#8212; KTVO has discovered a conflict of interest in the Sullivan County wind project.
Commissioner James Howard is on the list of landowners that stand to profit financially from having a wind mill on their property. Plus, KTVO has obtained an eight-pages of document  show that Howard and his wife Linda signed a lease option agreement on the Shuteye Creek Wind Project.      
Howard confirmed that he has an interest in the project.  He .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#39;Economic development is like hunting&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MILAN, MO &#8212; Economic development is like hunting – you need your weapon and your bullets; without them, you’re not going to draw in new business. That’s how one official put it at a meeting on Tuesday night in Milan.
So is establishing an enhanced enterprise zone to attract a wind farm to Sullivan County the right “weapon?” That’s where people started to disagree at Tuesday night’s meeting. Some residents at the meeting want to establish the zone and give the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Clerk: don&#39;t give away the &#40;wind&#41; farm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MILAN, MO. &#8212; Officials in Sullivan County agree a wind farm would be a positive addition, but they don’t agree on how much they should do to accommodate the company that would bring it there. 
The county commission wants to create an enhanced enterprise zone to give Tradewind Energy the tax incentives they say they need.  County Clerk Mike Hepler and Assessor Karen LaFever say the enhanced enterprise zone would leave the county short changed.
“To sell out too cheap .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy update</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Sullivan County Clerk says he welcomes the Shuteye Creek Wind Project, but he doesn’t approve of the way the county commission is going about giving tax breaks to the wind energy company.  Several other county agencies agree. 
Monday we told you that the commission has asked the Missouri Department of Economic Development to give them permission to create an enhanced enterprise zone in the area where Tradewind Energy wants to build a wind farm. 
Sixty landowners in Sullivan .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>College waiting on computer parts for turbine</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Neosho, Mo. &#8212; Crowder College officials say they are awaiting the delivery of computer hardware parts before the college’s wind turbine can finally be functional. 
Exactly when that will be, however, hasn’t been pinpointed. The plain fact of the matter is, it’s risky to say, according to Dan Eberle, interim director of Crowder’s MARET Center.  
As far back as January, it was hoped the turbine would be spinning within a few weeks. Many months later, the wind machine’s three .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers, homeowners should do math before installing wind systems</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rising electricity costs spark a lot of coffee-shop talk among homeowners and farmers about erecting small wind-power generation systems.  
Wind is a domestic source of renewable — and free — energy that does not pollute. Large utility companies are putting up hundreds of commercial turbines throughout the Midwest to supplement their coal- and natural-gas-based electricity.  
Technology makes installation costs 30 percent less than they were 10 years ago, said Jim Crawford, University of Missouri Extension natural resource engineer .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy exaggeration is blowing in the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens has made quite a stir with his commercials about the need for wind power. For an oilman, he’s putting down a big bet on renewable energy.
His plan: Use wind power to replace much of the natural gas now used to generate electricity. Then shift that gas to cars and stop paying so much for foreign oil.
Sounds good, but on the scale that Pickens envisions, this is a pipe dream.
Certainly wind power has grown rapidly in the last .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas, Missouri draft plans to expand wind energy</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind energy has stepped into the limelight as the energy crisis continues. 
Achieving a 20 percent wind contribution to the U.S. electricity supply by 2030 would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030, according to a Department of Energy technical report. 
Neither Kansas nor Missouri has a large amount of wind power operating right now. Missouri has just more than 150 megawatts, and Kansas will have 1,000 megawatts operating by the end of this year, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Repair is in the air at Bluegrass Ridge; Wind turbine maker finds flaws in blades, calls for refurbishing</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gentry County wind farm’s turbines are undergoing refurbishment in a national retrofitting program initiated after manufacturer Suzlon Energy Limited found cracks in the blades of its S-88 wind turbines.
Leif Andersen, vice president of sales at Suzlon, said the process for correcting the flaw is fairly simple.
“It’s a matter of strengthening some of the fiberglass on the blades,” he said.
The national retrofit program calls for the strengthening of 1,251 wind turbine blades, 930 of which had been installed by March, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sullivan Co. wind project hinges on tax breaks</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MILAN, MO. &#8212; Landowners in Sullivan and Adair Counties stand to make a lot of money if Tradewind Energy decides to go ahead with the Shuteye Creek Wind Project and build wind turbines on their land.
However, the company won&#8217;t build if it doesn&#8217;t win a contract with Ameren UE, and the development manager says they can’t win the contract without some big tax breaks.
Wednesday the Sullivan County Commission held a meeting to discuss just how many tax incentives it wants .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy forums broadcast in nine cities</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nine cities will host public forums this summer in a series of statewide video conferences on wind energy potential in Missouri.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Energy Center will hold three discussions, and attendees in each city will be able to participate via video. The cities are Springfield, St. Louis, Columbia, Jefferson City, Kansas City, Kirksville, Maryville, Neosho and St. Joseph.
The first forum is titled “Harvesting Missouri Wind Resources” and will be held 5–9 p.m. June 25 via video in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms stir trouble in northwest Missouri</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[KING CITY, Mo. &#124; Here in this northwest Missouri farm town, 27 industrial wind turbines have been generating more than electricity — health concerns, a federal lawsuit and a family feud, for starters.
The wind industry, which produces about 1 percent of the nation&#8217;s energy, has gained considerable purchase in the U.S, growing by 45 percent last year. The Department of Energy says wind could produce 20 percent of the nation&#8217;s electricity by 2030.
In rural areas where wind energy has moved .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy or hot air?</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 13:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wealthy pseudo-environmentalists, busily producing their own trash quota while jetting from coast to coast, get all misty-eyed imagining flyover country paved with wind farms providing them energy. Why are these ill-conceived notions so trendy?
Wind farms are death traps for migrating birds. They’re costly to maintain. They produce noise pollution as constant and debilitating as truck-choked freeways. They look creepy on empty land, like those alien death-machines in War of the Worlds. They’re as big an eyesore as a field of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbines are the new symbol of Rock Port</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 16:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ROCK PORT, Mo. —  Clarence Schaffner knows wind power.
His father, Louis, crisscrossed Iowa and Missouri in the early 1940s, installing one of the earliest versions of a wind turbine. They called them windchargers.
Used mostly by farmers, the small devices generated six volts and cost about $50. Schaffner said they powered everything from the farmhouse to the chicken coop.
Times have changed, and so have wind turbines.
As Schaffner talked about the pioneer days of wind energy, four 250-foot-tall white towers — .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission: Wind farm lawsuit improperly served</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gentry County Commission will rely on a technicality in its fight against a civil lawsuit surrounding a new wind farm.
Charles Allen Porter filed the federal court lawsuit in late March against the commission and Associate Commissioner Gary Carlson. Mr. Porter alleged that Mr. Carlson assaulted him over his opposition to the Bluegrass Ridge Wind Farm located near King City. He also said the facility has harmed his family, destroyed his property and caused him to lose sleep. Several wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Are wind farm turbines making people sick&#63; Some say yes</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two brothers-in-law, a country road in northwest Missouri, a fistfight …
Surely it’s happened before, but probably never over wind energy.
Last year, 400-foot-tall wind turbines were erected near King City, some less than 2,000 feet from Charlie Porter’s house on his small acreage.
Soon the sounds from the blades swooshing through the air and other noise were driving Porter and his family crazy, he said.
“The sound gets in your head like a saw and you can’t get rid of it,” Porter said. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy activists seek to put renewable-energy standard on ballot</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jane Gramlich takes steps to conserve energy whenever possible.
She and her partner, Steven Sloan, have switched to a high-efficiency heating system in their home in south St. Louis, near The Hill. They&#8217;ve switched to compact fluorescent light bulbs. They even hold potluck dinners at their home to engage friends in discussions of energy conservation.
Gramlich has now found a new way to try to make an impact on the energy she uses. She has begun collecting signatures as part of an .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Dispute over wind farm boils over into lawsuit</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines for energy in Gentry County seem to have also produced a fair amount of controversy, even of a physical variety.
A civil lawsuit — filed this week in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri — alleges that one of the county commissioners assaulted Charles Allen Porter over his opposition to the Bluegrass Ridge Wind Farm. The farm, which features 27 wind turbines that dot a pastoral landscape near King City, Mo., became fully operational in 2007. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>KCP&#038;L resists calls for more scrutiny of its decision to table wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kansas City Power &#038; Light is rejecting calls for more scrutiny of its decision to defer development of a wind farm this year.
The utility recently said it would not build the 100-megawatt wind farm this year because of difficulties in obtaining financing stemming from the ripple effects of the subprime mortgage meltdown. The utility did say it would evaluate whether the wind farm should be built in 2009.
The decision surprised many who had expected the wind farm to be built .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>KCP&#038;L defers plans for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kansas City Power &#038; Light has tabled plans to build in 2008 its second 100-megawatt wind farm, citing difficulties in getting financing.
The wind farm was promised by KCP&#038;L as part of a comprehensive energy plan that included the coal-fired Iatan 2 plant, under construction near Weston. The plan, announced last March by the utility and the Sierra Club, was hailed as the first of its kind and included building 400 megawatts of wind energy by 2012.
The utility, which this week .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind being considered as source of energy</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[CANTON, Mo. — There&#8217;s a surprising amount of activity — and a potential source of renewable energy — lurking in the skies above Northeast Missouri.
The Missouri Wind Resources Steering Committee is exploring the region&#8217;s wind energy potential and will present some initial findings Thursday night. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. in Merillat Chapel at the Robert W. Brown Performing Arts Center on the Culver-Stockton College campus.
&#8220;This is not an opportunity for investment. It&#8217;s strictly for information,&#8221; said John Wood, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Governors sign pact to focus on renewable energy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE — The region&#8217;s governors signed an agreement Thursday to work together to reduce energy consumption, focus more on renewable energy and limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The noon signing was part of a regional summit on energy and climate change hosted by the Midwestern Governors Association.
The office of Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, chairman of the 12-member group, said the Midwest can lead the nation in renewable energy.
&#8220;Our strong manufacturing base and rich agricultural industries, along with the wealth of resources in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>King City wind farm is windfall for rural community</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[KING CITY, Mo. &#8212; In operation for less than a year, the Bluegrass Ridge Farm with its giant turbines has become the face of this struggling northwest Missouri community.
Missouri&#8217;s first commercial wind farm has literally been a windfall for this town of about 1,000 residents 80 miles north of Kansas City.
Local officials are planning a new &#36;250,000 visitors&#8217; center, the county is looking at some much-needed road and infrastructure work, and the school district is thinking about unfreezing teacher salaries .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Super-load is a super-headache for driver, MoDOT</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The quest for renewable energy in northwest Missouri was causing headaches on Tuesday for one truck driver, his chase crew and the Missouri Department of Transportation in southwest Missouri.
Truck driver Don Erickson, with the South Carolina firm of Owen-Kennedy Inc., spent more than 18 hours stuck on the ramp from County Route 100 to Interstate 44, blocking the ramp and baking in the summer sun.
Erickson&#8217;s load, or more accurately, his super-load, was the problem. Erickson was hauling a wind turbine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Delays stop city from purchasing wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind power was supposed to become part of Columbia’s energy mix on Sunday, but delays at the wind farm providing the electricity and ongoing bureaucratic holdups stand in the way.
Wind turbines at the King City farm in northwest Missouri are up and running, but the electricity is not yet available for Columbia to purchase because of testing delays, said Nancy Southworth, a spokeswoman for Associated Electric Cooperative.
Columbia, meanwhile, continues to negotiate with the regulatory body that oversees power transmission in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>City plans to measure high winds</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It might be worth showing up at the Columbia City Council meeting tomorrow night just to hear folks try to pronounce &#8220;anemometer.&#8221;
That’s the device the city wants to put on top of the KOMU-TV tower south of town to measure wind speeds. City officials want to find out whether there’s enough wind to generate electricity for local use.
The city council is slated to vote on a resolution recommended by city staff calling for the city to pay &#36;11,626 to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Official says bureaucracy keeping wind power from Columbia</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jun 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his 25 years in the field of energy transmission, Dan Dasho said he’s never seen a situation so unbelievable.
As part of a voter mandate requiring the city to step up its use of renewable energy, Dasho has been working to get electricity transmitted to Columbia from a wind farm in northwestern Missouri. Dasho, the city Water and Light director, has spent three hours a day for the past two weeks tackling what he calls a bureaucratic mess that threatens .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Panel: Ducks don&#39;t dodge turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 11:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Migratory birds have a relatively safe trek across the Midwest, but unless the government intervenes thousands of those birds could be reduced to puffs of feathers drifting down from the blades of wind power turbines, wildlife advocates say.
The birds often fly headlong into wind power devices, leaving behind victims with &#8220;severed beaks&#8221; and &#8220;mid-body separation,&#8221; said Michael Daulton, of the National Audubon Society.
The placement for wind power facilities is largely regulated by state and local governments. But  a panel .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Coop part of wind farm project</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative announced Nov. 22 that the Wind Capitol Group, along with John Deere, Missouri&#8217;s electric cooperatives and local landowners will take part in a Missouri wind farm project. The project farm will be in northwest Missouri, along with two other wind farms.
&#8220;In less than two years, Wind Capital Group, John Deere, Missouri&#8217;s rural electric cooperatives, and landowners will bring more than 150 megawatts of clean renewable wind energy to Missouri,&#8221; said Wind Capital Group President Tom Carnahan.
Associated Electric .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Capital sets course for third wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ For the third time, Wind Capital Group, John Deere and Missouri cooperatives have announced plans to build another utility-scale wind farm. The &#36;75 million wind farm is slated to operate in northwest Missouri by the end of 2007.
Wind Capital Group, John Deere and Missouri cooperatives said in July that a second 50-megawatt wind farm would be constructed in Atchison County, Mo., next year.
&#8220;For the longest time, this wind farm existed in my head, on the piles on my desk, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Leashing the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Sep 2006</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wind-swept farm fields near King City don&#8217;t seem to be a likely place to find a miracle of 21st-century engineering. Cows graze behind barbed-wire fences. Ponds reflect the late-summer sky, and local history is on display at a living history festival just down the road.
A mile north of town, gargantuan white cylinders and sleek, aerodynamic blades rest on the ground beside massive cranes like a collection of NASA spacecraft. The scale of Missouri&#8217;s first wind farm has to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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