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		<title>Environmentalists express concern over wind farms&#39; impact</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Dec 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OKLAHOMA CITY – The only people who don’t like wind farms are the people who don’t have one – that was the punch line of a humorous story T. Boone Pickens told the crowd at Revolution: Oklahoma Wind Conference on Tuesday. But on Wednesday, conference attendees heard from a few people who are concerned that the wind industry is growing too fast to fully account for its effect on the environment, the economy and a multitude of secondary issues. 
“This .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power delivery costs leave utilities twisting</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Dec 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Extra-high-voltage lines for transmitting wind-generated power to where it can be used by customers are expensive. 
So Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference attendees this week explored the question of who should pay for those lines. 
Officials with Southwest Power Pool, a regional transmission organization covering parts of New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas and Louisana and all of Oklahoma and Kansas, say planning continues on grid improvements to keep the lights on, getting wind power to consumers, and deciding how to pay .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>US FERC approves incentives for transmission lines</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Dec 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved rate incentives for two power transmission projects that would transit wind power, FERC said on Wednesday. 
The proposed projects include the &#36;500 million, 170-mile, 765-kilovolt (kV) Tallgrass Transmission project in Oklahoma and the &#36;600 million, 230-mile, 765-kV Prairie Wind Transmission project centered near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. 
Tallgrass is owned equally by a subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp and a joint venture called Electric Transmission America, which is owned by units of major .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/12/04/us-ferc-approves-incentives-for-transmission-lines/</link>
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		<title>State eyes wind energy&#39;s future</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Times are changing and is growing the need for renewable energy to help break the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. Wind turbine blades can be seen more often these days being transported across interstate highways as demand for wind energy increases in the United States. 
“There’s a lot of construction going on up north and that’s what you’ve been seeing come through Edmond on I-35,” said Drake Rice, director of member services for the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority. 
State lawmakers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/22/state-eyes-wind-energys-future/</link>
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		<title>Trinity shutters wind tower plant; cuts 131</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The economic crisis dealt a blow to Tulsa’s manufacturing industry Wednesday as a wind tower company announced it will shutter its local factory and lay off 131 workers. 
Fort Worth, Texas-based Trinity Structural Towers told workers in Tulsa Monday that they would lose their jobs in January due to worsening economic conditions. 
The company made towers for wind turbines. Officials there said worsening credit conditions are making it difficult for developers to get loans. 
The company released a statement Wednesday .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind raises rates</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Duncan residents and businesses that have opted to include wind power in their electric utility will see the first rate increase in two years.
The Duncan Public Utilities Authority voted to pass the measure during its meeting Tuesday night.
Customers who have decided to participate in the greener energy alternative will be paying 2.8 cents more per kilowatt hour used. The increase will take effect starting with Jan. 2009 billing.
Duncan Power Electric Utility Director David Yeager said the adjustment is one that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma: Where the wind comes changing the plains</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s an election year, and nearly every politician and government official has been touting wind energy, or at least the expansion of the nation’s — and Oklahoma’s — energy portfolio. 
Both presidential candidates say they want more development of wind energy. Both Oklahoma U.S. Senate candidates, Republican Jim Inhofe and Democrat Andrew Rice, support the expansion of the wind industry and the infrastructure to support it. The candidates for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which regulates the energy industry, do as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy industry brings altered horizons to Oklahoma’s landscape</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[WOODWARD — From more than 10 miles away, all 80 turbines at the Centennial Wind Farm are clearly visible.
At more than 300 feet tall, these rural skyscrapers dominate the horizon.
Don Quixote would not like Woodward very much.
While the literary character would charge with lance in hand, many Woodward residents welcome the wind farm and what it blows into town: jobs, money and a view.
There are those, however, who dislike the wind industry’s invasion into this oil boom town because of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/28/wind-energy-industry-brings-altered-horizons-to-oklahoma%e2%80%99s-landscape/</link>
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		<title>State wind power delivery hinges on grid, some say</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interstate electricity — that’s what Oklahoma needs to be able to fully develop its wind power, and that’s what the nation needs to fully use the Sooner State’s renewable resource, one power line builder says. 
&#8220;It sounds self-serving for me to say we need a new high-voltage transmission network because of the business I am in,” said Joe Welch, president and chief executive of ITC Holdings Corp. &#8220;But you won’t find anyone in the utility business who won’t say transmission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Utility plans wind power projects totaling &#36;500M near Woodward</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OGE Energy Corp. and Electric Transmission America’s partnership, Horizon Transmission, are poised to help ITC Holdings Corp. and area utilities improve the Southwest Power Pool’s electricity grid.  
Horizon will get started next year on building the Woodward to Guymon 765 kilovolt line, and announced it plans another from Woodward north into Kansas — projects costing about &#36;500 million. If regulators approve, the costs will spread among customers throughout the power pool’s area. 
An important hub 
Those projects, the partnership .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/19/utility-plans-wind-power-projects-totaling-500m-near-woodward/</link>
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		<title>Reliability, transmission costs often left off wind power push</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wildcatter oil baron T. Boone Pickens has become the new cheerleader for the wind power industry. When he&#8217;s not making commercials or helping his favorite university, Mr. Pickens has remained busy building the world&#8217;s biggest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle. 
He&#8217;s been known to hedge his bets before. Twenty-eight state legislatures have gotten into the energy source mandate business. Most of them want at least 20 percent of their state&#8217;s power supply to come from wind and other renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/14/reliability-transmission-costs-often-left-off-wind-power-push/</link>
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		<title>What’s this about a wind farm&#63; : Trade Wind Energy fields questions from county residents</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[GRAVETTE &#8212; A wind farm ? In western Benton County and northeastern Oklahoma ? 
With the Benton County Planning Board having voted unanimously last week to approve the construction of a meteorological tower in Sulphur Springs to study the feasibility of what could become a 25, 000-acre wind farm, the possibility is very real. That&#8217;s all Gary O&#8217;Neal, who owns approximately 80 acres just west of Sulphur Springs needed to know to start listening a little closer. 
What exactly is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/24/what%e2%80%99s-this-about-a-wind-farm-trade-wind-energy-fields-questions-from-county-residents/</link>
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		<title>High job risks: Expert says safety training for wind power is crucial</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The industry of building and operating wind turbines is &#8220;going big guns.&#8221; 
That&#8217;s Rocky Waller&#8217;s perception as his agency and others create programs to keep workers in this emerging industry safe. 
Waller, manager of training and development for the nonprofit, nongovernmental Oklahoma Safety Council, said the emergence of the wind farm industry reminds him of the oil and natural gas boom of the 1970s. 
&#8220;There are people going into this industry that have never worked around a wind farm construction .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/24/high-job-risks-expert-says-safety-training-for-wind-power-is-crucial/</link>
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		<title>Company admits mistakes at wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lawton &#8212; The turbines are safe&#8230;.but management wasn&#8217;t doing its job. That&#8217;s the word from a representative from Horizon Wind Energy, the company behind the wind farm in the Slick Hills of Caddo County. 
On Monday a representative spoke at the Comanche County Commissioners Meeting. Over the past few weeks, the turbines sparked some concerns. Some turbines were leaking. That&#8217;s important because leakage from the wind farm could end up in an aquifer that empties into Lake Lawtonka, which is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/23/company-admits-mistakes-at-wind-farm/</link>
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		<title>Proposal worries area residents</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Years ago Karla and Lester Janzen’s children galloped across their vast lawn with the family dog on their modest spread south of Woodward. 
If you look south of the Janzen home, the vast beauty of the land, unmarked by anything and so characteristic of western Oklahoma fills the eye. 
As the years passed, the Janzens watched out the same window as their children got off the school bus, drove their first car and finally watched them leave to begin lives .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind company wants turbines on 15,000 acres</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BENTON COUNTY &#8212; A Kansas-based energy company is preparing plans for a giant wind farm for west Benton County that would build about 100 turbines generating enough electricity to power up to 40, 000 houses. 
TradeWind Energy of Lenexa, Kan., finalized lease agreements for the initial 2, 000 acres just north of Maysville for what it’s calling the Honey Creek Wind Project, said Aaron Weigel, the project’s development manager. 
Honey Creek eventually will include 26, 000 acres that will straddle .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission&#39;s orders involve ITC Holdings, OG&#038;E</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an order Thursday that will allow a Kansas-based company to build transmission lines in the state. 
Another order issued by the commission will permit Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. to recover the costs of a planned wind-power transmission line that will be built between Woodward and Oklahoma City. 
&#8220;Taken together these two orders represent an important step in creating infrastructure needed to make wind power, and possibly other renewable energy resources, available for the future .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/12/commissions-orders-involve-itc-holdings-oge/</link>
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		<title>Geography, location play role in helping wind energy projects become profitable</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Location can make or break any good business, and a wind farm is no exception. 
Put one in the right location, and it&#8217;s a cinch it will be built. 
But a poor choice can just as quickly kill a project. 
&#8220;Make no mistake, this is all about the production and the money,” said Greg Adams, a technical consultant who develops wind farms for Edmond-based Chermac Energy Corp. 
&#8220;I can build a wind farm anywhere in the state of Oklahoma. To .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>OG&#038;E may ask OK to position lines</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. may ask state authorities to consider taking a role in placing future power lines, an official from OG&#038;E&#8217;s parent company said Wednesday. 
Paul Renfrow, the OGE Corp. vice president of public affairs, confirmed that discussions are taking place among leadership about the issue.
OG&#038;E is working with landowners to place a 120-mile-long transmission line from near Woodward to far northwest Oklahoma City.
The 345 kilovolt line, which will be fixed atop poles 115 feet tall, will carry .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Okla. town fights OG&#038;E wind power transmission route</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OKLAHOMA CITY – There is no proof that the power line hovering just 40 feet away from Julie Riggs’ bedroom window had anything to do with the congenital birth defect of the child conceived in that room. But her husband is convinced the two things are related. So the couple scrimped and saved to build a house away from the city. 
Their new home is still under construction in Piedmont, a small community of about 4,000 residents just west of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Piedmont may fight power line</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PIEDMONT — The next step in the city&#8217;s quest to deal with a giant wind power transmission line is to study responses from residents, a city official said. 
Piedmont officials want to know how badly residents want to fight plans by Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. to construct a 345,000-volt power line through the fastest growing part of the city, Mayor Mike Fina said.
At a Monday night town hall meeting at Piedmont First Baptist Church, more than 400 people filled .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/20/piedmont-may-fight-power-line/</link>
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		<title>Piedmont residents see risks in OG&#038;E power line proposal</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[PIEDMONT — About 400 people gathered Monday night at Piedmont First Baptist Church to voice their concerns over a proposed power transmission line scheduled to cut through the community&#8217;s fastest growing area. 
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. officials plan to build a 120-mile-long power line from wind farms south of Woodward to northwest Oklahoma City. OG&#038;E officials attended the town hall meeting and fielded questions from residents. 
OG&#038;E sees line&#8217;s benefits
OG&#038;E spokesman Paul Renfrow said the power lines will help .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/19/piedmont-residents-see-risks-in-oge-power-line-proposal/</link>
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		<title>Piedmont fights power line plan</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Residents of Piedmont are upset about plans that could have new power lines cutting through their community. 
Oklahoma Gas &#038; Electric wants to install lines through the fast-growing city to pull in energy from its wind farms in Woodward. Residents worry it will hurt the area’s growth and appearance. 
Piedmont Mayor Mike Fina said he favors wind power but would rather OG&#038;E install the lines around the city, even though it will cost the utility more money to do that. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/18/piedmont-fights-power-line-plan/</link>
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		<title>Piedmont residents to hear about power line</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[PIEDMONT — A city official estimates more than 500 residents will show up for a town hall meeting concerning a route for an Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. wind power line. The meeting is 6:30 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church, 15 Jackson Ave. NW, Piedmont.  
At the request of Piedmont residents, OG&#038;E officials are expected to give a presentation on the project next week.
Councilman John Brown said more than 200 residents attended a recent city council meeting to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/16/piedmont-residents-to-hear-about-power-line/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Moving wind power not cheap</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Utilities spending millions to build transmission lines.
The wind is free, but the cost of harnessing its power doesn&#8217;t come cheaply. Each wind turbine can cost more than &#36;1 million [&#36;4 million -- Ed.].
Transporting the power from western Oklahoma to the population centers is even more expensive. Texas, for example, is investing almost &#36;5 billion to create its own transmission system.
In the first phase of its transmission line project, OG&#038;E will spend &#36;211 million to build a 345,000 volt line between .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/11/moving-wind-power-not-cheap/</link>
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		<title>Wind powers western land rush</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Landowners are getting lucrative offers to lease land to build turbines for an energy source.
OKLAHOMA CITY — How hard the wind blows across wide-open western Oklahoma is starting to matter to more than just a few ranchers.
Already a lot of landowners stand to benefit from what is being called a &#8220;massive land rush&#8221; that has been generated by wind farm developers who are crisscrossing at least 24 counties, offering lucrative leases that make wind seem like it is as valuable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/11/wind-powers-western-land-rush/</link>
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		<title>Wind-power growth could put prairie chickens on endangered list</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A plucky little bird in northwest Oklahoma — known for its comical mating dances in which it patters around like a jittery wind-up toy — has found itself pitted against an unlikely environmental foe.
Huge power-generating wind turbines are expected to pop up all over the lesser prairie chicken&#8217;s habitat in coming years, and biologists say the development could push the birds onto the endangered species list or even into extinction.
&#8220;We&#8217;re very concerned they could go into a nose dive that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/03/wind-power-growth-could-put-prairie-chickens-on-endangered-list/</link>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Some say the new power plan will hurt environment, wildlife</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[To some, the emergence of wind power on Oklahoma&#8217;s high plains is casting a mighty big shadow.
It&#8217;s a source of business for communities across the state, where crews of workers coming from as far away as overseas need places to stay and other services while they work on wind developments.
It is also a source of income for landowners who are lucky enough to own real estate with wind power potential.
But not everyone is caught up in the wind power craze. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/27/some-say-the-new-power-plan-will-hurt-environment-wildlife/</link>
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		<title>Piedmont officials to discuss power line plans</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[PIEDMONT — Residents concerned about a plan for a massive power line are expected to crowd into a city council meeting Monday evening, Councilman John Brown said.
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. plans to build a 120-mile wind power transmission line from near Woodward to northwest Oklahoma City. The line would cut across the most valuable land in Piedmont and would go over several homes platted to be built or that are already built, Brown said.
Brown said OG&#038;E officials have told .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/27/piedmont-officials-to-discuss-power-line-plans/</link>
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		<title>Property owners blown away by easements talk</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northwest Oklahoma landowners’ concerns about their rights regarding electric company easements to build new transmission lines for wind power illustrates an issue that likely will draw more debate in the future.
Wind energy is a hot topic right now, and more private companies and government officials are showing an increased interest in building wind farms to produce electrical power.
Wind energy is considered “green,” or environmentally friendly, which is popular with the general public in this time of rising energy prices.
While most .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/property-owners-blown-away-by-easements-talk/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>OG&#038;E power line proposal has landowners organizing</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Landowners along a proposed 120-mile wind power line that cuts through Kingfisher and Canadian counties are planning more meetings to discuss possible legal action against Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co., a spokesman for concerned landowners said.
About 100 people attended a two-and-a-half-hour meeting at Rose Rock Bank in Kingfisher on Tuesday night. Many who attended said they were not notified in advance of past public meetings sponsored by OG&#038;E concerning the planned line.
Brent Snider, who is building a house northwest of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/oge-power-line-proposal-has-landowners-organizing/</link>
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		<title>Kingfisher residents share concerns at meeting</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Discussions could be heard across the room. Whispers of questions such as, “Where are you from?” “How will this affect you?” “How much have they offering you?”
Kingfisher residents and people from the surrounding area concerned about possible effects from a proposed OG&#038;E Electric Service transmission line project met Tuesday night in the community room at Roserock Bank to discuss the project.
OG&#038;E plans to build a series of 115-foot-tall power poles to carry 345,000 volts of electricity from OG&#038;E wind turbines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/23/kingfisher-residents-share-concerns-at-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Area wind energy transmission lines cause worry for some landowners</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some area land-owners along a 120-mile route from south of Woodward to northwest Oklahoma City are concerned about OG&#038;E Electric Service’s transmission line project for wind energy.
Local residents have scheduled a public meeting for 7 to-night in the community room at Roserock Bank in Kingfisher, and another meeting is set for July 28 in Piedmont.
Brent Snider, who is organizing the meeting along with Okarche resident Arnold Smith, said he wants to make people aware of the planned location of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/22/area-wind-energy-transmission-lines-case-worry-for-some-landowners/</link>
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		<title>Power line sparking ill feelings in Kingfisher County</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Brent Snider said he is more worried about his children&#8217;s health than the view from the living room.
Just a quarter-mile from where he is building his dream home, perched atop a hill in southwest Kingfisher County, a high-voltage transmission line is expected to be built by 2010.
The line will bring electricity generated from wind power to Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. customers. Snider&#8217;s home is on Cimarron Electric Co-Operative power, so he won&#8217;t see the benefits from the line staring .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/21/power-line-sparking-ill-feelings-in-kingfisher-county/</link>
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		<title>Towers alone take months to construct</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greg Adams, a technical consultant who develops wind farms as an associate for Chermac Energy Corp., said towers are built using cranes. Smaller yard cranes are used on the job site until the base part of a tower&#8217;s pole is erected, then larger cranes are brought in to handle the rest of each tower installation.
Adams said it takes about 10 to 14 working days, spread across a three-month period, to build a tower because workers have to allow tower foundations .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/20/towers-alone-take-months-to-construct/</link>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>OGE forms joint venture in &#36;500M wind transmission project</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OGE Energy Corp. and Electric Transmission America will enter into a joint venture to build 765-kilovolt lines in western Oklahoma to support wind generation, officials from both companies announced Tuesday.
OGE will own 50 percent of the venture to be known as Horizon Transmission LLC. The estimated cost of the project is &#36;500 million, said Brian Alford, spokesman for OGE Energy and its subsidiary Oklahoma Gas &#038; Electric.
Oklahoma Energy Secretary David Fleischaker called it “one of the most important – if .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/16/oge-forms-joint-venture-in-500m-wind-transmission-project/</link>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind: The next big energy strike&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northwest Oklahoma has been a location for oil and gas activity for years, but it also may be the home for the next big energy strike — wind energy.
At least four companies currently are negotiating for leases to erect wind turbines to provide wind energy. GE, TradeWind Energy, Wind Energy Prototypes and Renewable Energy Systems are working in the northwest Oklahoma area, with a number of leases obtained in the Breckinridge, Garber and Hunter areas.
Sources at Trade Winds Energy said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/06/30/wind-the-next-big-energy-strike/</link>
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		<title>No wind farms in wildlife areas</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind farms will not be allowed on the state&#8217;s public wildlife management areas.
The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously Monday to prohibit wind energy development on all of the state&#8217;s public wildlife management areas.
Earlier this year, OG&#038;E wanted to build a wind farm on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area near Woodward, property owned by the state Wildlife Department and used primarily for hunting.
After public opposition from sportsmen, OG&#038;E withdrew its request to the state Wildlife Department.
State wildlife commissioners voted 8-0 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>No to wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thumbs up to the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission for voting Monday to make it a policy to prohibit wind energy development on all of the state’s public wildlife management areas.
Earlier this year,  a controversy erupted when OG&#038;E wanted to build a wind farm on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area near Woodward. After a public outcry from sportsmen, OG&#038;E backed off and withdrew its proposal.
A committee of state wildlife commissioners, however, continued with a study on the issue with the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/06/03/no-to-wind-farms/</link>
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		<title>Lesser prairie-chicken decline concerns biologists</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A small number of serious bird watchers worldwide have been privileged to see the mesmerizing dance of the lesser prairie-chicken during their spring breeding season. For others who desire to see this ancient and vocal all-out effort by the prairie grouse, time may be ticking away.
During a daybreak ritual, males seek out ridge tops of expansive prairie land for the booming, gobbling and frenetic display used to socialize and compete for females. Activity on these communal breeding grounds known as .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/30/lesser-prairie-chicken-decline-concerns-biologists/</link>
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		<title>Count the cost</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 10:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jim Roth&#8217;s business viewpoint column (&#8221;Oklahoma wind power has vast potential,&#8221; May 8), provided food for thought. Indeed, there is a great deal of potential benefit in generating electrical power from wind resources in our state if all natural resource costs are taken into account.
Construction of the enormous infrastructure needed to transform wind energy into electricity and move the power to market can have profound negative impacts on native habitat and wildlife resources. Some direct mortality can occur when birds .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/05/25/count-the-cost/</link>
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		<title>OG&#038;E files to increase wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. confirmed the plans it announced last fall and on Monday formally filed its intention of increasing its wind power to 4.5 times its current level.
OG&#038;E indicated in the filing with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission it will increase its wind energy capacity from 170 megawatts to 770 megawatts.
Customers’ monthly bill would increase &#36;1.50 per month in 2010 to cover the addition of wind power, officials said. A transmission line project will cost &#36;211 million, but the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Harnessing wind power won’t be a breeze</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[State Secretary of Energy David Fleischaker has a vision for Oklahoma’s potential as a provider of electricity generated by wind.
&#8220;Oklahoma has the potential to produce wind energy to supply the rest of the nation just like we traditionally have sent oil to the rest of the country,” he said.
Wind has the potential to produce 25,000 megawatts of power in western Oklahoma, he said. Current production for the state utilities totals 12,000 to 15,000 megawatts. The U.S. can currently generate more .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>OG&#038;E to focus wind farm development on private lands</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A pilot plan to develop a wind farm on public property by OG&#038;E has been scrapped, and company officials say future plans will include only private property.
OG&#038;E spokesman Brian Alford said preliminary discussions with Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation about developing a wind farm generating plant on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area northwest of Woodward have been dropped. The announcement came after about three months of sometimes contentious discussions by local environmentalists and sportsmen, some of whom opposed the wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Woodward, area residents are voicing opposition to energy farms on public land</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[WOODWARD — Opponents to expanding wind energy on public land are voicing their opinions, and sometimes in a loud manner.
About 50 of those opponents met Wednesday with OG&#038;E Electric Services and Department of Wildlife Conservation officials to discuss concerns about expanding Centennial Wind Farm north of Fort Supply onto Cooper Wildlife Management Area. It is a scenario OG&#038;E says will not happen.
In light of growing local and statewide opposition and concern by wildlife organizations about the impact to the region’s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>OG&#038;E drops plans to develop wind energy on Cooper WMA</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OG&#038;E officials announced Friday, they would not develop any more wind energy opportunities on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area north and west of Woodward.
The announcement comes after about three months of a somewhat contentious debate by locals, environmentalists and sportsmen, some of whom oppose the expansion of the Centennial wind energy project near Fort Supply.
Brian Alford, director of Oklahoma Gas and Electric corporate communications.
“We started with an idea we thought would be a win-win for not just OG&#038;E but the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>OG&#038;E steps aside on wind farm development</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OG&#038;E is no longer pursuing the idea of developing a wind farm on the Cooper Wildlife Management Area near Woodward.
&#8220;We heard from folks in that area and sportsmen and even OG&#038;E employees who had concerns about it,” said Brian Alford, spokesman for OG&#038;E.
Alford said OG&#038;E has many opportunities for wind development on private land in northwest Oklahoma.
Still, state wildlife commissioners plan to go ahead with a March 12 public meeting in Woodward concerning wind power on wildlife management areas .
David .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting regarding sale/lease of Wildlife Management Area a serious issue</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A public meeting will take place at 6 p.m. March 12 at Woodward&#8217;s High Plains Technology Center to gather input from hunters and other wildlife enthusiasts about the possible lease or sale of Cooper Wildlife Management Area for wind power development.
The Wildlife Conservation Commission, the governing board that sets policy for the Department of Wildlife Conservation, has created a subcommittee to look at wind-power issues, and make a recommendation to the full Commission regarding specific offers the Wildlife Department may .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power bill moves to full House</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OKLAHOMA CITY – Members of the House Energy and Technology Committee did not stop to ask questions before approving House Bill 2813 on Thursday. The measure would allow electricity utilities to shift the risk of their investment in transmission improvements onto ratepayers in an effort to speed development of Oklahoma’s wind power potential.
State Rep. Weldon Watson, R-Tulsa, described the bill to members of the committee as a “jump-start on a historic opportunity” for the state to build the transmission infrastructure .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>House panel advances wind power legislation</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Electricity utilities would be able to charge ratepayers in advance for transmission improvements needed to develop wind power generation in Oklahoma, if House Bill 2813 is successful. The only way utilities will be able to build new transmission infrastructure in western Oklahoma is by shifting the risk of the investment onto ratepayers, say the bill’s backers.
Already, about 4,000 megawatts of wind-generated capacity has been built or will soon be completed in western Oklahoma, said state Rep. Weldon Watson, R-Tulsa, author .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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