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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Big wind’s inconvenient truth</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/big-winds-inconvenient-truth/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The installation of wind turbines too close to houses and personal property is a major headache for the wind power industry, but headache scarcely begins to describe their impact to nearby property owners and neighbors. My property and home are scarcely three quarters of a mile from a three 1.5 megawatt turbine wind farm that went online in November 2009 with blades stretching nearly 400 feet into the air. Large scale wind turbines represent a tiny and lucrative—thanks to federal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission should listen to Bourne on wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/commission-should-listen-to-bourne-on-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The New Generation Wind Project proposes to erect four 492-foot tall wind turbines in a rural section of Bournedale. These turbines would be higher and closer to neighboring properties than the one in Falmouth that has caused such huge negative neighborhood impacts. The Patrick administration&#8217;s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs recently took the unusual step of intervening in this local Cape matter, with a letter to the Cape Cod Commission claiming it had never heard of anywhere in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Energy Act divides Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/green-energy-act-divides-ontario-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nobody knows what&#8217;s best for a community better than the people, small businesses and local councillors who live there. That is why it is so maddening to see signs of large industrial wind and solar projects pushing ahead despite endless local opposition. Under any other circumstance, ratepayers would have a say in what is built in their community. Your local council can determine where a hot dog stand can go, but because of Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s Green Energy Act, they are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind committee concludes shadow flicker not an issue</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/wind-committee-concludes-shadow-flicker-not-an-issue/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[When siting a wind turbine in a populated area, one of the issues that needs to be addressed is shadow flicker. In the early days of the wind energy industry in the U.S. this was not an issue as projects were being installed in remote areas. As wind energy use has increased and wind turbines are being installed closer to where people live and work –more like they are in Europe – the issue has become more important. Shadow flicker .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Rebuttal to Avram Patt</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/09/rebuttal-to-avram-patt/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I am writing in response to Avram Patt’s Opinion piece titled, “Wind farms: Large, visible … and necessary” published by VTDigger on Jan. 31, 2012. While Mr. Patt made some interesting points, there are issues in his piece that must be addressed. For example, he asserts that there is a one-to-one ratio between wind power generated and the reduction of power generated from other sources. There is no reliable data to support this assertion. Here in the New England grid .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power and corporate greed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/wind-power-and-corporate-greed/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In a tiny upstate New York hamlet called Meredith, amid the abandoned barns and fallow pastures of one of the poorest counties of the Northeast, a civil war was recently fought over one of the catchphrases of the ecology movement &#8212; wind power. Now, when I use that phrase, I&#8217;ll bet most people react as I used to, with a kind of warm, cozy feeling, as befits a clean, renewable source of energy that can get this nation off our .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Professionals should be zealously pursuing answers on wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/professionals-should-be-zealously-pursuing-answers-on-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I am respectfully writing in response to the Guest View letter by Gordon L. Deane; &#8220;Misinformation has undue influence in turbine debate&#8221; of Feb. 2. I have a question; how did he get himself in such an awkward position? His engineers should have foreseen and advised that there would be an adverse public response to wind turbine noise. There are published documents that would have clearly shown neighbors&#8217; seeking relief with appeals for legal action. My profession as INCE member .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Huff and puff of wind farm critics falls on deaf ears</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/huff-and-puff-of-wind-farm-critics-falls-on-deaf-ears/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not quite a case of biting the hand that feeds; after all Alex Salmond and his ministers played the Donald Trump application for that golf course in Aberdeenshire strictly by the book, didn’t they? Still, the fuss that the American businessman is making over an offshore wind farm that, presumably on a clear day, could be seen from his fairways and hotel must be a bit of a surprise, to say the least, for our SNP masters. He’s made .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>On the path to a dark, silent forest of spruce</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/08/on-the-path-to-a-dark-silent-forest-of-spruce/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Caithness has few really good paths. There are plenty of rather boring forest tracks and roads, but if you want a good long walk you have to be prepared to read a map, cross pathless country and tackle obstacles such as ditches and wet ground. There are plenty of places where good, signposted paths could be made but in general there has been neither the will nor the money to do it. A piece on the radio about walking old .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
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		<title>Tilting at windmills</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/tilting-at-windmills-3/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Documentary makers are always hoping that their film will come out at just the right moment, when a favorable news cycle and popular sentiment are converging so that the public is primed for their message. In 1989, Michael Moore made his career with “Roger &#038; Me,” a documentary that pinned the decline of his hometown — Flint, Mich. — on General Motors. By focusing his fire on GM’s chairman, Roger Smith, Moore tapped into the public’s anger at tone-deaf corporate .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Toppling tax dollars for turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/toppling-tax-dollars-for-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[On February 1, an urgent alert was sent to supporters of wind energy. It stated: “The PTC is the primary policy tool to promote wind energy development and manufacturing in the United States. While it is set to expire at the end of 2012 &#8230; the credit has already effectively expired. Congress has a choice to make: extend the PTC this month and keep the wind industry on track&#8230;” The wind energy industry has reason for concern. America&#8217;s appetite for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t blow it, Ottawa:  Mimicking Ontario&#8217;s guidelines for wind turbine setbacks is a bad idea</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/dont-blow-it-ottawa-mimicking-ontarios-guidelines-for-wind-turbine-setbacks-is-a-bad-idea/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Ottawa is drafting guidelines for wind turbine setbacks from homes, apparently using Ontario’s minimum 550-metre separation as a model. Based on Ontario’s disastrous experiment with wind energy, this is a bad idea. That’s because the province’s plunge into renewable energy, aside from being a financial disaster as documented by Ontario’s Auditor General, has been a social disaster as well. Canadians, especially those living in rural areas, should be on guard from the moment provincial governments and wind developers show up .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Windfall&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/windfall-4/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Speaking of horror movies, the monsters are 400 feet tall in &#8220;Windfall,&#8221; easily the more haunting film of this week and a sublimely cinematic documentary by the film editor-cum-director Laura Israel. Her subject is the battle waged over wind power in the tiny upstate New York town of Meredith. What&#8217;s so scary? Industrial wind turbines, the fetish objects of the green-minded, those sleek, white, propellered and purportedly eco-friendly energy collectors that one might have seen dotting the desert outside Palm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind lobbyist: documentary Windfall lies about wind energy</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/06/wind-lobbyist-documentary-windfall-lies-about-wind-energy/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Windfall takes aim at clean, renewable wind power with misinformation. Wind turbines are safer than you think. Surveys routinely find that over 80% of Americans support wind power. And many local communities welcome it because of the homegrown jobs the industry creates. As one movie critic said: &#8220;The documentary isn’t big on hard data; instead, [Director Laura] Israel allows the majority of her interviewees to deliver anecdotes, speculation, anti-corporate conspiracy theories, and just a few statistics…the movie’s case relies more .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Exaggerating benefits of wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/05/exaggerating-benefits-of-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I am writing in response to Avram Patt’s opinion piece that appeared in the Herald and Times Argus last week. While Mr. Patt made some interesting points, there are issues in his piece that must be addressed. For example, he asserts that there is a one-to-one ratio between wind power generated and the reduction of power generated from other sources. There is no reliable data to support this assertion. Here in the New England grid with the inefficient ramping of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Fairhaven resident tours turbines in other communities</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/03/fairhaven-resident-tours-turbines-in-other-communities/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday I took myself on a turbine tour. The first stop was Gardner where turbines are located at the local prison and on the grounds of Mt. Wachusett Community College. The first thing I noticed at the North Central Correction Facility was that the turbines were not spinning. The second thing I noticed was how close the turbines are to the prison yard and the parking lot. The turbines dominated the parking lot, but it wasn&#8217;t until I .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>When a &#8216;windfall&#8217; isn&#8217;t quite what it seems</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/03/when-a-windfall-isnt-quite-what-it-seems/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Not even the most ecologically minded are always keen on the prospect of giant wind turbines near their homes. But Meredith, N.Y., welcomed &#8220;Big Wind&#8221; when it first came whistling through town. That&#8217;s what makes Windfall so interesting: The documentary is the story of an education. In some ways, Meredith seems a natural place for a wind farm. Situated in one of New York&#8217;s poorest counties, it&#8217;s in an agricultural area whose principal enterprise, dairy farming, has dramatically declined. But .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfall review by Roger Ebert</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/02/windfall-3/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Driving from Los Angeles to Palm Springs, you pass through a desert terrain in which a new species has taken hold. Wind turbines grow row upon row, their blades turning busily as they generate electricity and pump it into the veins of the national grid. This wind farm is a good thing, yes? I&#8217;ve always assumed so, and driven on without much thought. A documentary named &#8220;Windfall&#8221; has taken the wind out of my sails. Assuming it can be trusted .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy, noise pollution: Living near wind turbines can be hazardous to your health</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/02/wind-energy-noise-pollution-living-near-wind-turbines-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama touted renewable energy and declared that he would “not walk away from workers” such as Bryan Ritterby, who is employed by a wind-turbine manufacturer in Michigan. But in their rush to embrace the wind-energy business, Obama and numerous other politicians are walking away from rural residents such as David Enz and his wife, Rose. A year ago, the couple abandoned their home near Denmark, Wis., because of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power: Renewable resource, or another corporate scam?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/02/wind-power-renewable-resource-or-another-corporate-scam/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A fascinating new film about one small-town political fight takes on the pseudo-green wind industry In telling the story of a small-town political fight over wind power, Laura Israel’s fascinating documentary “Windfall” at first seems like another entry in the long laundry list of post-”Inconvenient Truth” doomsayer environmental films. Indeed, “Windfall” has some of the rural, homespun feeling of Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated “Gasland,” which helped ignite a national debate over the natural-gas extraction method known as fracking. Israel’s film also .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Energy Act divides Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/02/green-energy-act-divides-ontario/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Nobody knows what&#8217;s best for a community better than the people, small businesses and local councillors who live there. That is why it is so maddening to see signs of large industrial wind and solar projects pushing ahead despite endless local opposition. Under any other circumstance, ratepayers would have a say in what is built in their community. Your local council can determine where a hot dog stand can go, but because of Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s Green Energy Act, they are .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Ogle County wind farm a health risk</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/02/ogle-county-wind-farm-a-health-risk/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 17 at the Ogle County Board meeting, some people with special interests said the proposed Wind Energy Conversion Systems Text Amendment is not acceptable. As president of the Ogle County Farm Bureau, Brian Duncan has used its resources to support Industrial Wind Turbines both in Ogle and neighboring counties. During his sworn testimony at Ogle County’s Zoning Board of Appeals hearings, Duncan admitted to being a layman and agreed that public health and safety are important. He also .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Spear&#8217;s submits proposal to Planning Ministry to strengthen heritage protection</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/02/spears-submits-proposal-to-planning-ministry-to-strengthen-heritage-protection/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Advancing our &#8216;Save Our Historic Landscape Campaign&#8217;, Spear&#8217;s has submitted a letter to the Planning Ministry, on the invitation of planning minister Greg Clark, to call for greater heritage protection under the new National Planning Policy Framework. Spear&#8217;s editor-in-chief, William Cash, explains why heritage protection is the only way to keep Britain Great. WHEN I WAS in Davos, there was much talk about the party that Mick Jagger refused to attend for fear of being seen as a ‘political football’. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A cautionary tale about wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/01/a-cautionary-tale-about-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker Laura Israel isn&#8217;t tilting at windmills &#8212; but she does want to cast a critical eye in their direction. And she&#8217;s done that with Windfall &#8212; her first documentary film, art-directed within an inch of its life &#8212; and one that delivers a profound message: Look before you leap into wind power. &#8220;People who are living with these turbines nearby are developing hypertension, migraines and heart palpitations,&#8221; she says. &#8220;There are some really spooky health effects, even with a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfall</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/02/01/windfall-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Extolling the virtues of wind power is where most ecological documentaries finish after subjecting us to the details of the land-raping extraction process du jour and asserting those whispering windmills as the remedy. Not so fast, Laura Israel&#8217;s playfully thorough examination of the subject warns. Big as hell and largely unregulated, those scenic wind turbines aren&#8217;t nearly as benign (or whispering) as their image suggests, something Israel&#8217;s upstate New York neighbors discovered when several of them leased land to wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The county&#8217;s big wind map? It&#8217;s a lot of hot air</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/31/the-countys-big-wind-map-its-a-lot-of-hot-air/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I have some advice for Kern County Supervisors who on Tuesday will be mulling what to do with a proposed wind resources map: scrap it! The map doesn&#8217;t &#8212; at least it shouldn&#8217;t &#8212; put anyone&#8217;s mind at ease about where wind projects won&#8217;t be allowed, as Supervisor Zack Scrivner and county planning department officials have tried to sell it. Quite the opposite. The map is nothing but a shameful ploy to distract residents. But I&#8217;ll come back to that. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Island band wants wind projects delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/31/island-band-wants-wind-projects-delayed/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I was driving through M&#8217;Chigeeng the other day and wondered how long it will be before the two industrial wind turbines are up and running. Nothing much has happened since they were erected on the bluff. They don&#8217;t even have any lights on them. (I hope they aren&#8217;t on anyone&#8217;s flight path.) The big wind project on MacLean&#8217;s Mountain, near Little Current, is awaiting approval from the Ministry of the Environment. Two things have happened that may have impact on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Why we don&#8217;t trust you</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/31/why-we-dont-trust-you/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Residents of Twin Oaks asked Kern County Planning Department officials repeatedly if the City of Vernon had a wind energy project in the wings and were unequivocally told &#8220;no.&#8221; Yes, it does. And Kern planning officials have known about it all along. Lying is bad enough from anyone, but when it comes from the very people you&#8217;re paying to make sure projects are done correctly, it&#8217;s unacceptable. Someone ought to be fired for this. Seriously. &#8220;Chris Mynck (one of Planning&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind shelter</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/31/wind-shelter/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Maine Public Broadcasting’s “Maine Watch” show has earned its reputation as the softest news show on local television. Host Jennifer Rooks rarely probes beyond what’s already been reported elsewhere and almost never challenges her guests with questions they might find disquieting. A typical example of Rooks’ softball approach is the Jan. 26 program on energy policy. She interviews Jackson Parker of Reed &#038; Reed construction company about the initiative that would require an increase in the amount of renewable energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Magic power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/30/magic-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A few months after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, my wife and I were wandering around the eastern part of that city and came upon a little antique shop, where the last vestiges of the old Communist ways were slowly being flushed out, much to the owner’s dismay. Under the Soviet-backed regime, he told us through our translator friend, he’d had a dozen employees to staff a business that would have fit in the average American living room, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A brewing storm about wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/30/a-brewing-storm-about-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker Laura Israel follows the installation of wind turbines as sources of energy in two rural towns in New York State, and discovers there are downsides to the source of energy generally thought to be a clean, green and sustainable alternative to the dirtier resources of oil and coal. In Meredith, New York, residents welcome the proposal made by wind power developers to build 40 industrial wind turbines in their town, believing that the project will inject a flow of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind&#8217;s gusty days are over</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/30/winds-gusty-days-are-over/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Cape Wind has seen better days. In fact, offshore wind in general has seen better times. On Jan. 3, ISO New England, the operator of the New England electric grid, filed comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Speaking about Cape Wind, it says: &#8220;(I)t is unlikely that the project will achieve commercial operation by the start of the 2015-2016 Capacity Commitment Period.&#8221; This means Cape Wind will not contribute to our electric supply by June of 2015 — more .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in the air for Cameron as angry Tory MPs aim to blow his wind farm vision off course</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/28/trouble-in-the-air-for-cameron-as-angry-tory-mps-aim-to-blow-his-wind-farm-vision-off-course/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[When David Cameron sought to overhaul the image of the Conservative Party, he urged people to “vote blue, go green”. It included a trip to the remote Norwegian island of Svalbard to see for himself the impact of climate change – including that infamous photo opportunity being pulled on a sledge behind a pack of huskies. But in the corridors of Westminster, Mr Cameron is finding that going green is not as straightforward as he may have hoped. And there’s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Frankfort’s wind ordinance deserves court challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/frankforts-wind-ordinance-deserves-court-challenge/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The lawsuit challenging the town of Frankfort’s Wind Energy Ordinance was brought by three Maine residents who own land in Frankfort in the area of Mount Waldo. Working with a small New England wind energy developer, Eolian Renewable Energy, LLC, the plaintiffs determined that the land in question was suitable for a modestly sized (4-6 turbine) commercial wind energy facility. Contracts between the plaintiffs and Eolian to begin development of the facility were entered into. These contract plans have essentially .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The reasons why we should be in spin over wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/the-reasons-why-we-should-be-in-spin-over-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[While the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is opposed to the construction of wind turbines because of their visual impact on the countryside, we also believe they do not reduce CO2 production as they are not reliable and are therefore inefficient. On average, wind turbines generate around 25 per cent of their installed capacity, meaning the output of a large turbine with a maximum capacity of 2MW will be 0.5 MW at best. When there is no wind, turbines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A dangerous shift in Obama&#8217;s &#8216;climate change&#8217; rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/a-dangerous-shift-in-obamas-climate-change-rhetoric/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[What happened to “climate change” and “global warming”? The Earth is still getting hotter, but those terms have nearly disappeared from political vocabulary. Instead, they have been replaced by less charged and more consumer-friendly expressions for the warming planet. President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday was a prime example of this shift. The president said “climate change” just once — compared with zero mentions in the 2011 address and two in 2010. When he did utter the phrase, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The CSIR is stumbling boldly where angels fear to tread</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/the-csir-is-stumbling-boldly-where-angels-fear-to-tread/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was established in 1945. The Scientific Research Council Act of 1988, as amended by Act 71 of 1990, states that “the objects of the CSIR are, through directed and particularly multidisciplinary research and technological innovation, to foster, in the national interest and in fields which in its opinion should receive preference, industrial and scientific development, either by itself or in cooperation with principals from the private or public sectors, and thereby to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Backup plan</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/27/backup-plan/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In the context of the great energy debate concepts like ‘grid efficiency’, ‘demand-side management (DSM)’ and ‘infrastructure modernization’ can appear a little abstract and hard-to-sell politically when compared with shiny solar cells and spinning turbines. But the experts have long recognised the importance of the former set of initiatives and their necessity to make the latter a viable reality. Part of the problem is lack of communication and broad assumptions of knowledge in discussions, so let’s first address some basics. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Project Hayes: It simply didn&#8217;t stack up</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/25/project-hayes-it-simply-didnt-stack-up/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Save Central, the umbrella group representing many of those opposed to Meridian Energy&#8217;s plan to build a giant wind farm in Central Otago, isn&#8217;t claiming the corporation&#8217;s decision to abandon the scheme as a victory. Instead, Save Central welcomes Meridian CEO Mark Binns&#8217; &#8220;prudent commercial decision&#8221; as being in the best interests of not only Meridian, but also Central Otago and the nation. Meridian claimed the Lammermoor Range offered a wind resource superior to that of many international sites and, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to redefine green jobs in community context</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/25/time-to-redefine-green-jobs-in-community-context/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Decades ago, I worked for a politician in California who was running for the state legislature. Given his platform and history, the unions should have supported his campaign. Yet most of them did not. While they didn’t necessarily support his opponent, they sat on their hands and didn’t help. The reason? The candidate and many of the campaign staff were forces behind the passage of some strict rent control ordinances in the state. The trade unions felt that the ordinances, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>OFA stance blows chill wind on Liberals&#8217; rural prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/24/ofa-stance-blows-chill-wind-on-liberals-rural-prospects/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The McGuinty government&#8217;s green energy program suffered a blow Friday when the Ontario Federation of Agriculture weighed in against further wind turbine development. OFA&#8217;s about-face caught everyone off guard. Not long ago, turbines were regarded as a new, welcome income stream for rural landowners who have the space to accommodate them. However, after a period of sober reflection, OFA has concluded that the juice isn&#8217;t worth the squeeze. Opposition to wind turbines prompted the McGuinty government to take planning authority .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind ordinance debate: the 1,000-foot set-back standard (are environmentalists underregulating themselves?)</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/23/wind-ordinance-debate-the-1000-foot-set-back-standard-are-environmentalists-underregulating-themselves/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In Indiana and elsewhere, many counties are falling all over themselves to adopt the so-called “1,000-foot voluntary industry setback”&#160;between large wind turbines and residences.1 In some states, it has become part of “model” wind ordinances created by wind developers and energy agencies. This buffer zone (who said these structures were environmental?) is starkly smaller than those mandated in several countries widely touted by industry proponents as wind “success” stories. In Denmark, for example, the setback is four times total turbine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Only mitigation option is separation</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/22/only-mitigation-option-is-separation/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[What makes a person who has been in the alternative energy business for over thirty years, shut down his home building business (Energy Star certified), spend most of his time, as well as his savings, while racking up mileage traveling to different communities, feel compelled to “bad mouth” certain alternative energy projects? The answer is an improperly sited wind turbine. I live in Falmouth where there are 3 wind turbines. All are 1.65MW, 400’ tall with 135’ blades that weigh .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy proposal a &#8216;job killer&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/22/energy-proposal-a-job-killer/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hello. This is Governor Paul LePage. By now, it’s likely you have heard about a coalition that is trying to increase your electricity bill. This plan would mandate Maine’s electricity providers to buy quadruple the amount of expensive renewable energy. The bottom line is it would force Maine consumers to subsidize special interest groups. Those who would cash in on this plan make a lot of claims, but what they won’t tell you is that Maine is currently a renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Salmond plans to cheat the English of billions in a green power swap</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/22/alex-salmond-plans-to-cheat-the-english-of-billions-in-a-green-power-swap/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[In all the flood of questions unleashed by Alex Salmond’s desire to see Scotland withdraw from the United Kingdom – what about the Armed Forces, the flag, the Queen, the £11 billion given to the Scots annually by English taxpayers? – one issue has gone unnoticed. Last year, Mr Salmond hubristically pledged that 100 per cent of Scotland’s “gross electricity consumption” will come from renewable sources by 2020, supplied mainly by the thousands of wind turbines he wishes to see .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Community Council knew possible health risks of Little Raith</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/22/community-council-knew-possible-health-risks-of-little-raith/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[We recently requested the Lochgelly Community Council minutes dating back from 2007 from Fife Council, through a Freedom of Information request. Unfortunately the earlier minutes are very brief with lengthy discussions summed up in a very short space, so it is hard to determine the activities of the Community Council and discussions/debates taking place at that time. However in 2009, the Community Council hired a minute secretary, and at this point, the minutes contain more useful information on the work .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power versus rural power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/21/wind-power-versus-rural-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) is calling on the provincial government to suspend the invasion of rural Ontario with industrial wind turbines. Earlier this week, OFA took a hard look at our own concerns with wind turbines. We have always been concerned with the price paid for wind power and the fact that it is not dispatchable – it is not stored for use during peak demand periods, making it highly inefficient. This was noted by Ontario’s Auditor General .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>State&#8217;s wind report is poor excuse for a &#8216;health impact study&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/21/states-wind-report-is-poor-excuse-for-a-health-impact-study/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[I have wasted a perfectly good day reading the Wind Turbine Health Impact Study: Report of Independent Expert Panel January 2012, prepared for the state departments of Environmental Protection and Public Health. I have to start by questioning the very title. Only two of the members have any experience with wind turbines. The two (Manwell and Mills) that have wind experience are both pre-disposed to find against adverse health effects. Mills has already testified in 2009 that according to previous .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Why wind power doesn&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/20/why-wind-power-doesnt-work/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[A very interesting report out of Holland which has in it a little point which shows why wind power simply doesn’t work in any attempt to deal with climate change. My apologies, it’s a slightly technical point but still a sound one. I was alerted to the paper by Bishop Hill and you can read the whole paper here. The point at which the whole argument in favour of wind power falls over is this: From a CO2-reduction perspective, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Against the wind: The pursuit of clean energy has relegated ordinary people to the status of &#8216;collateral damage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/01/20/against-the-wind-the-pursuit-of-clean-energy-has-relegated-ordinary-people-to-the-status-of-collateral-damage/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<description><![CDATA[Even before they threatened my property, I was opposed to wind farms. They fail on all counts. They are grossly inefficient, extremely expensive, socially inequitable, a danger to human health, environmentally harmful, divisive for communities, a blot on the landscape, and don’t even achieve the purpose for which they were designed, namely the reliable generation of electricity and the reduction of CO2 emissions. Even if you buy the anthropogenic global warming case, experience shows that wind energy is not the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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