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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Giving away our resources</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been watching with apprehension as the industrial wind machine projects expand through our beautiful West Virginia mountains. I personally think that the wind machines are freakish. I suggest that people drive up to the Mount Storm Lake area to look at them and decide if they want them as part of our view for the rest of their lifetimes. Our mountain scenery is one of the few unspoiled precious resources left in a state that is not rich .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/29/giving-away-our-resources/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Tax breaks for &#39;green&#39; jobs are bad deal for Minnesota</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty is proposing &#36;85 million in tax breaks to create jobs in solar energy, methane gas, and wind energy. According to the governor, we&#8217;re going to have a whole new manufacturing sector building solar power plants and wind turbines, and his tax breaks will bring those new jobs to Minnesota. Isn&#8217;t that a good idea? 
No. It&#8217;s a bad idea. 
Solar and wind together account for less than 5 percent of the fuel for Minnesota&#8217;s electrical production. There&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Weighing wind energy</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Green Mountain National Forest released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Deerfield Wind Project in September and we will accept public comment until Friday. The DEIS helps us make a final decision on approval or disapproval of the project by analyzing the effects of an expansion of wind energy development onto National Forest lands, next to the existing wind turbines in Searsburg. 
Energy development such as oil and gas exploration and extraction, pipelines, and electricity transmission lines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/27/weighing-wind-energy/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Who could object to wind power&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Toronto&#8217;s waterfront stands a mighty wind turbine, its blades rotating lazily in the breeze (at least sometimes). It&#8217;s a monument to good intentions and civic virtue. The Mayor loves it. The Premier loves it. All governments love wind power, because it makes them look so green. David Suzuki, the patron saint of environmentalism, compares wind turbines to medieval cathedrals &#8212; the highest expressions of human achievement. Wind is clean, sustainable, renewable, free. Who could possibly object? 
The citizens. Last .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/25/who-could-object-to-wind-power/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind power exposed</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not what President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s energy and climate strategists would want to hear. It would be anathema to Al Gore and other assorted luminaries touting renewable energy sources which in one giant swoop will save the world from the “tyranny” of fossil fuels and mitigate global warming. And as if these were not big enough issues, oilman T. Boone Pickens’ grandiose plan for wind farms from Texas to Canada is supposed to bring about a replacement for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/25/wind-power-exposed/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Let&#8217;s appreciate, not exploit, our green areas</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s a section of Toby’s Creek in Dallas that seems to have disappeared. 
Vanished. 
No, the small creek didn’t dry up. It still flows, but in this section the creek flows not through a canopy of trees but through a pipe underneath paved roads and the hustle and bustle of civilization. 
The creek flows more like plumbing than a freshwater stream. 
As urban sprawl consumes more of our landscape, more streams are at risk for a similar fate that the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/23/lets-appreciate-not-exploit-our-green-areas/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power: the &#34;green&#34; myth</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind power has become increasingly publicized in Oregon as the “green” solution to the state&#8217;s increasing energy demand. Currently, the Energy Facility Siting Council (under the Oregon Department of Energy) reports generating 889 megawatts (MW) of electricity with the power of wind. The council has recently approved the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm, which will add 909 MW, more than doubling the current capacity. Shepherds Flat is considered the largest single wind farm in the world and will cost over &#36;600 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/19/wind-power-the-green-myth/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Stand up and be counted</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the late summer I took the opportunity to walk along the West Kames and was afforded a glorious panoramic view of Shetland in all its undisturbed natural beauty. The various hill lochs glistened in the afternoon sun and the quietly rushing tumbling peaty burns acted as backdrop to the sounds of the natural world. As the sun dropped low in the south west its long lazy red rays enhanced the purple hues of the heather, whilst the nocturnal fauna .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/18/stand-up-and-be-counted/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power blights la belle France</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you think of the care that France lavishes on its landscape, it&#8217;s surprising that so little has been done to control the proliferation of ugly wind farms. 
Rather belatedly, a small revolt is now brewing against what the opponents see as a state-subsidised racket in the name of sustainable development. 
Over the past couple of years there has been a rush to install the great white turbines that go in French by the pretty name of éoliennes &#8212; from .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/12/wind-power-blights-la-belle-france/</link>
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		<title>Is Noble flipping ownership&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[On October 24, 2008, Noble Environmental (there being many versions or layers of Noble, it turns out) applied to the NYS Public Service Commission for permission to do the following:
Pursuant to Part 8 of the New York State Public Service Commission’s (“Commission”) Rules and Regulations, 16 NYCRR Part 8, Noble Altona Windpark, LLC (“Noble Altona”), Noble Chateaugay Windpark, LLC (“Noble Chateaugay”), and Noble Wethersfield Windpark, LLC (“Noble Wethersfield”) (together, the “Noble Wind Companies”), and EFS Noble II LLC (“EFS II” .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/08/is-noble-flipping-ownership/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Do the math on wind power costs and benefits</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1972, at the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Edward Lorenz, the founder of modern chaos theory, gave a talk titled &#8220;Does the flap of a butterfly&#8217;s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?&#8221; His work with chaos theory had shown convincingly that weather is a chaotic system, i.e., one in which very small modifications in conditions at one point in time can lead to enormous (and unpredictable) changes at a later .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/06/do-the-math-on-wind-power-costs-and-benefits/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Too much wind power may be bad news for endangered salmon</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE &#8212; Wind turbines are the hottest rage in &#8216;going green&#8217; but the technology has a dangerous side for endangered salmon in the Columbia River. 
No one is saying wind power is bad by any stretch &#8212; it will play a huge role in producing sustainable, green energy. 
For example, the new Rattlesnake Road Wind Farm at the eastern end of the Columbia River will produce enough power to light 30,000 homes and will prevent the annual emission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/06/too-much-wind-power-may-be-bad-news-for-endangered-salmon/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Environmentalists need to re-think wind energy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most bizarre aspects of the debate over “wind farms” in West Virginia and surrounding states is the unquestioning acceptance by many environmentalists of wind energy as a credible and environmentally friendly energy source. I have read many articles and letters written by dedicated environmentalists touting the benefits and discounting or completely ignoring the adverse consequences of wind energy. The prevailing belief of these individuals is that we must embrace wind energy as at least a partial solution .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/05/environmentalists-need-to-re-think-wind-energy/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Energy from wind anything but free</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to have an energy plan these days. 
Barack Obama wants to &#8220;put 1 million plug-in hybrid cars &#8212; cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon &#8212; on the road by 2015.&#8221; John McCain said he would &#8220;commit &#36;2 billion annually to advancing clean coal technologies.&#8221; 
Most energy plans are built on the premise that government has to do something to solve our energy challenges. Translation: promote green or renewable energy through mandates and substantial subsidies .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/04/energy-from-wind-anything-but-free/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Hatchet turbines would be mass killers</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Nov 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors will have a hearing concerning the Hatchet Ridge Wind project. The board&#8217;s decision will have a significant impact on birds living in and migrating through the West. 
The Board of Supervisors has not been given the knowledge to make a proper decision on the project. Also, the Shasta County Planning Commission could not possibly make a wise decision with the poor biological assessment that was presented to the county. I cannot emphasize .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/11/04/hatchet-turbines-would-be-mass-killers/</link>
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		<title>The true Pickens plan</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Rose smells a rat,” was the title of a short essay on NRO (National Review Online) by Henry Payne, Monday afternoon. The subject was Charlie Rose’s revealing Sunday night’s interview with T. Boone Pickins that personifies avarice. If you didn’t see it, please read this: 
“Honestly, I’m here for America,” said Mr. Pickens to Rose. 
“‘What’s the balance between doing something for America and doing something for Boone?’ retorts Rose. ‘Oh, let’s not talk about that,’ replies Pickens. Oh, but .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/30/the-true-pickens-plan/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Let free market decide when Oregon is ready for more wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind power advocates long have claimed that wind power is a cost effective source of energy. This is only true with the market distortions caused by state and federal governments. Currently, the state of Oregon highly subsidizes wind power at the expense of most ratepayers. 
In addition to the federal production tax credit which offers an income tax credit of 2 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) (about a third of the cost of producing wind power), PGE and Pacific Power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/29/let-free-market-decide-when-oregon-is-ready-for-more-wind-power/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Putting Islanders and the landscape first</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am deeply disturbed by our government&#8217;s approval of a high-voltage transmission line along a significant and beautiful section of the Confederation Trail in Prince County. 
As we know, this land originally belonged to Islanders, farmers for the most part, and was ceded for use by the railway. When the railway was decommissioned, some creative Islanders, like the late Donald Deacon, advocated the creation of a tip-to-tip hiking and bicycling trail, a sort of vertical &#8216;park&#8217; running through the whole .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/28/putting-islanders-and-the-landscape-first/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Gordon Brown puffs the great wind scam</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even in these dark times, it is still possible to be shocked when our Prime Minister personally endorses a flagrant perversion of the truth. Last year, for example, many of us felt outraged when Gordon Brown pretended that the Lisbon Treaty was somehow totally different from the EU Constitution, in order to wriggle out of his party&#8217;s manifesto promise of a referendum. Last week Mr Brown in effect did it again when he endorsed the deception at the heart of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/26/gordon-brown-puffs-the-great-wind-scam/</link>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>COMMENTARY / Wind turbine project answers</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[COHASSET &#8212; With CCI Energy’s recent application to construct two wind turbines on the Graham Waste property the Cohasset Alternative Energy Committee (AEC) felt it important to answer questions raised in recent newspaper articles and asked at the Sept. 8 Planning Board meeting. As the AEC has spearheaded the idea of bringing wind power to Cohasset we feel it is important that residents fully understand the technical aspects of wind energy and specifics regarding this project as we understand them.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/24/commentary-wind-turbine-project-answers/</link>
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		<title>The next crisis will leave us all in the dark</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t life a hoot? After 10 years as Chancellor of the Exchequer and one as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has discovered &#8220;the weaknesses of unbridled free markets&#8221;. No wonder he didn&#8217;t see the debt crisis coming. But then he wouldn&#8217;t have, would he? He had banished boom and bust. 
As he is clearly a late developer, he will not have spotted the next two crises on the horizon. It is going to be a close run thing which hits us .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/22/the-next-crisis-will-leave-us-all-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<title>The State We&#39;re In: Promote wind and solar power in the right places</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something reassuring about the farms we&#8217;ve worked so hard to preserve here in the nation&#8217;s most densely populated state. Not only are the Garden State&#8217;s farms beautiful to look at, but they produce fresh food and help fight global warming. 
As food prices rise and concerns about climate change deepen, preserved farmland becomes increasingly precious. Agricultural soils &#8220;sequester&#8221; carbon as they produce crops that feed the state. In turn, locally grown foods cost less&#8211;and leave a smaller carbon footprint&#8211;than .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/19/the-state-were-in-promote-wind-and-solar-power-in-the-right-places/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Highland independence – then we would decide</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scottish independence is an issue on which I do not wish to comment. But what I think we really need is independence for the Highlands and Islands. 
We could be a small country with the population of Iceland and, without that nation&#8217;s shady banks, have a thriving economy.
Sorry Alex Salmond. That Pentland Firth is ours, not yours.
Once you start extracting more than a few hundred megawatts from the tidal stream, the whole of that wild stretch of sea between Caithness .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/15/highland-independence-%e2%80%93-then-we-would-decide/</link>
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		<title>Wind energy: unreliable, heavily subsidized</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A writer for the Omaha World Herald paper (http://tinyurl.com/3stkj2) recently wrote an article on wind energy activities in the Midwest. It was notable in its promotions of the wind energy spokesmen, as well as a lack of cost and performance details. I wrote the following comments in response to her in the hopes that her readers would gain a better understanding of the problems inherent in all such windmill projects.
I’d like to share some thoughts on wind energy with you. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/15/wind-energy-unreliable-heavily-subsidized/</link>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Production isn&#39;t the problem</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind energy development is a contentious issue in Mountain Maryland. Given the apparent fast-track for constructing wind turbines on Dan’s Mountain, serious concerns are being expressed by adjacent homeowners and others interested in protecting our scenic vistas. 
Currently, the Allegany County Planning and Zoning Commission is updating regulations governing development of wind energy facilities. This is a timely agenda topic, because not much is available on the books to guide the process. The commission should be commended for addressing this .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/14/production-isnt-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>Financial, economic issues will affect us for years to come</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The recent financial collapse of Lehman Brothers and AIG should be a wake-up call to all of us. Average people like you and me will feel the impact for years to come. The newspapers are reporting the cost of this fiasco could reach &#36;1 trillion. 
Hundreds of millions of dollars in New York state pension funds have been lost. Schoolteachers, state Department of Transportation employees, Department of Corrections employees and many other state employees will feel the loss of this .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/12/financial-economic-issues-will-affect-us-for-years-to-come/</link>
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		<title>Health risks of wind turbines must be carefully examined</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cardiovascular disease accounts for nearly a third of the world&#8217;s mortality. It is the reason why physicians try to modify risk by advising patients about lifestyle changes while treating them with medicines for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. But these established risk factors account for only 50 percent of those who suffer or die of cardiovascular disease. 
The question arises: What other factors contribute to cardiovascular disease? That&#8217;s why clinical research teams study the subject worldwide. Numerous studies .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/12/health-risks-of-wind-turbines-must-be-carefully-examined/</link>
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		<title>A vanishing stream - Lough Allen bog slides</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I thought the 29th of September would be just another day. It wasn&#8217;t raining for a change and I was preparing my suitcase for my holiday in Cuba. As I started to pack my case with shorts and t-shirts along with some fishing gear the phone rang. It was just after 9 am. 
It was Joachim Schaeffer who lives near the village of Drumkeeran which overlooks Lough Allen. &#8220;Can you get up here as soon as possible as there is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/10/a-vanishing-stream-lough-allen-bog-slides/</link>
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		<title>Grouse Mountain: wind power a potential threat to wildlife</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most prominent clearcut in B.C.? 
You&#8217;d have to give consideration to The Cut at Grouse Mountain, an eyesore that has remained unchanged even as clearcuts on provincial Crown forest land have evolved over the years to better fit the landscape.  
Now, the same ever-diversifying tourism destination is poised to alter Metro Vancouver&#8217;s northern skyline once again with a prominent white wind turbine stretching more than 100 metres into the air atop the Olympic Express chairlift.  
Grouse Mountain .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/10/grouse-mountain-wind-power-a-potential-threat-to-wildlife/</link>
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		<title>Power to the people: Stop these wind farm vandals</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[If the belated decision of Greater Wellington Regional Council is anything to go by, the truth about wind factories is beginning to dawn. It has called a halt to the Belmont wind farm scheme that would have blighted the landscape with up to 81 gigantic turbines. 
People are beginning to realise that wind farms may not be the sustainable solution to an energy shortage. Not only do they under-perform in generation terms, they have huge negative impacts on the countryside .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/04/power-to-the-people-stop-these-wind-farm-vandals/</link>
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		<title>Windfarms: One of the great deceptions of our time</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I long had no particular views on wind farms one way or the other. But six years ago, when I first seriously looked at what they actually contribute to our energy needs and our environment, I had a profound shock. It was clear that the craze for wind energy had become one of the greatest self-deceptions of our time.
Far from being “free”, wind is one of the most expensive ways of generating electricity yet devised. Without an almost 100 per .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/02/windfarms-one-of-the-great-deceptions-of-our-time-2/</link>
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		<title>Turbine claims are overblown</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Npower renewables &#8230; is hoping to put 65 wind turbines on a hillside near Llanbrynmair, a village many readers will recognise if they are in the habit of driving from North to South Wales down the A470.&#160;&#8230;
These 65 turbines are to be, we&#8217;re told, the &#8220;tallest in the UK&#8221;. Another &#8220;first&#8221; for Wales, then, and when we say &#8220;tall&#8221; we&#8217;re talking really really tall. Like 449ft. Blackpool Tower, for example, is fractionally under 519ft.&#160;&#8230;
If one is to oppose the proposals .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/01/turbine-claims-are-overblown/</link>
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		<title>T Boone Pickens’ cloak of green; A bizarre mixture of hucksterism and advocacy, deception</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Oct 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” 
Slim Pickens was a country and western singer, but a slim picking is not the adjectival phrase for T Boone Pickens and his wealth. One of his books is titled. “The First Billion is the Hardest: Reflections on the Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future.” He is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/10/01/t-boone-pickens%e2%80%99-cloak-of-green-a-bizarre-mixture-of-hucksterism-and-advocacy-deception/</link>
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		<title>Blowback: Is wind the new ethanol&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[These are boom times for wind power. T. Boone Pickens, the wildcatter turned oil baron, is building the world’s biggest wind farm, in the dry scrub of the Texas Panhandle—a &#36;10 billion bet on wind’s future. Twenty-eight states have set ambitious mandates for renewable energy, with wind power shouldering most of the load; many compel electric utilities to get at least 20 percent of their supply from wind and other renewable sources between 2015 and 2025. 
Those requirements, along with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/24/blowback-is-wind-the-new-ethanol/</link>
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		<title>All boxed in</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s in the nature of social engineers to want to force us all into their own ideological box.  
Britain is a society on the move &#8212; and I don’t mean the increasing numbers of people moving into and out of the country. I mean that the ground rules for getting on together are changing, with the result that some of us feel a little confused.
Take university education. It is no longer safe to assume that if you get straight .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/23/all-boxed-in/</link>
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		<title>Wind power companies take on the people of Jefferson County</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ New York state for years has had a failed energy policy. People have feared nuclear power and still do. They fear coal, even though coal has clean-burning technology. 
We all want and need the power, but the state does not have the policy to keep up with the demand. New Yorkers are now under siege in many communities across the land by &#8220;renewable wind energy.&#8221; 
We do need to generate electric power and we just cannot wish away fossil .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/21/wind-power-companies-take-on-the-people-of-jefferson-county/</link>
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		<title>Is Shear Wind full of hot air?</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[In promoting its wind turbine project to the residents of Baileys Brook and the surrounding community, Shear Wind made public statements to the effect that its project would not interfere with the neighbourhood, that there would be little visual impact, and that noise would not be a problem. On Aug. 20, 2008, Shear Wind submitted its environmental assessment (EA) registration documents, which appear to contradict this description.
In a Shear Wind public meeting in March 2007, Mike Magnus presented a site .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/18/is-shear-wind-full-of-hot-air/</link>
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		<title>We need an expensive miracle</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two imperatives point to the urgent development of renewable energy: security of supply and controlling climate change.
Much the largest source of renewable energy is hydroelectric power, which provides 17% of world electricity (and 6% of world energy), about the same as nuclear power; both are CO2-free. All the other renewables - wind, wave, tidal, solar, biomass (which are either CO2-free or CO-neutral) - hardly feature in the statistics at the present time.
In a desperate attempt to reduce dependence on the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/18/we-need-an-expensive-miracle/</link>
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		<title>Dollars and sense amid winds of change</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[After what seemed an endless regulatory process, the Spanish energy giant Iberdrola SA agreed to the state Public Service Commission&#8217;s terms for the $4.5 billion acquisition of upstate New York&#8217;s Energy East Corp. 
Through subsidiaries New York State Electric &#038; Gas and Rochester Gas &#038; Electric, 1.7 million upstate accounts get their natural gas and electricity delivered by Energy East. That&#8217;s across nearly 40 percent of the state, and includes sizable chunks of the Capital Region. 
The acquisition is a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/17/dollars-and-sense-amid-winds-of-change/</link>
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		<title>Pickens&#39; plan doesn&#39;t consider problems</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just when all seemed lost on the energy front, Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens rides into town with the Pickens Plan.  
That plan would replace the 800 billion kwh produced annually in the U.S. by natural gas power plants with power from wind turbines. The gas thus saved would then be available to fuel our cars and trucks with compressed natural gas, replacing billions of gallons of gasoline annually. 
Wind farms typically operate at a 25-30 percent capacity .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/15/pickens-plan-doesnt-consider-problems/</link>
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		<title>Texas should not be subsidizing wind energy producers at the expense of its schoolchildren</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Texas prides itself on being a low-tax, low-spend state; and the state’s business and political leaders often attribute Texas’ dynamic economy to our competitive fiscal climate. 
But despite its economic dynamism, Texas’ per capita income was 4 percent lower than the U.S. average of &#36;38,611 in 2007. Though this disparity can be partly attributed to the state’s high rate of immigration and changing demographic structure, it also reflects a historic &#8220;underinvestment&#8221; in public education — at least compared with the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/14/texas-should-not-be-subsidizing-wind-energy-producers-at-the-expense-of-its-schoolchildren/</link>
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		<title>Windfarms: One of the great deceptions of our time</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[I long had no particular views on wind farms one way or the other. But six years ago, when I first seriously looked at what they actually contribute to our energy needs and our environment, I had a profound shock. It was clear that the craze for wind energy had become one of the greatest self-deceptions of our time. 
Far from being “free”, wind is one of the most expensive ways of generating electricity yet devised. Without an almost 100 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/14/windfarms-one-of-the-great-deceptions-of-our-time/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power plan for Lake Champlain</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The shallow bays of Lake Champlain near Addison, Chittenden and Grand Isle counties, where electricity demand is growing rapidly, would be ideal for the giant windmills. In fairness, this windy watery playground also should be contributing to Vermont&#8217;s renewable electricity. 
Of course, new substations are necessary. Burlington&#8217;s Moran plant could be revitalized as a mixed-use facility delivering a higher public benefit than wall climbing. Shelburne Bay and Shelburne Farms have a few optimal shoreline spots, too. These will conveniently serve .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/13/wind-power-plan-for-lake-champlain/</link>
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		<title>Other alternatives to energy sources than windmills</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing up on the Great Central Plains of this country, I thought the ubiquitous windmill on old farms was quaint. Nevertheless, it did pump the water from underground springs to the farmer and his animals. In public school, I learned of the windmills of Holland that drained areas of the Rhine River delta. Actually, windmills were used as far back as the seventh century in Afghanistan for grist milling. 
In fact, in the early 1980s great investment rush, I bought .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/12/other-alternatives-to-energy-sources-than-windmills/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind fuels gas</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Georgia, a vital link between Europe and the energy resources of Central Asia, energy security is back at the top of Europe&#8217;s agenda. For years now, many Europeans thought that a major part of their future energy security might come from wind turbines and solar panels. Industry, too, has suggested that this may be the case: At this summer&#8217;s World Petroleum Congress in Madrid, most major oil and gas companies presented new plans for big renewable .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/10/wind-fuels-gas/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Communities need to kick tires of wind proposals &#8212; hard</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Next week Grand Mananers will be invited to a public meeting to hear about a wind farm planned for the &#8220;back of the island-&#8221; the high western cliffs facing the Grand Manan Channel and the State of Maine. The proponent, First Wind of Newton, Massachusetts, acquired the rights to the site on property owned by the off-island Crabbe forestry company, from a fledgling New Brunswick company that has since disappeared from the scene.
The First Wind plan is for 13 wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/10/communities-need-to-kick-tires-of-wind-proposals-hard/</link>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wind-watch.org/news/?p=17774</guid>
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		<title>Takes issue with wind statistics</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr. Colin Read claims in an Aug. 12 &#8220;Opinion&#8221; column that the 217 wind turbines scheduled for Franklin and Clinton counties would produce enough &#8220;permanent and sustainable electric power for 200,000 homes.&#8221; Impressive, except it doesn&#8217;t hold up to scrutiny.
According to the U.S. Government Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. household used 10.8 MW/hr of electricity in 2007. That means 200,000 North Country homes would require 2,160,000 MW/hr annually. To accomplish this, the GE 1.5 MW SLE turbines used by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/08/takes-issue-with-wind-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Clean energy comes at a cost</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the Vermont Public Interest Research Group announced &#8220;over 12,000 postcards signed by Vermonters interested in seeing the state&#8217;s aging nuclear plant retired in 2012 in favor of clean energy alternatives,&#8221; we may wonder whether the choice between a nuclear reality and a clean energy vision is really in the public interest. At least this many Vermonters oppose or support anything. 
How many miles of once-scenic ridgelines will be dominated by towering industrial wind turbines replacing nuclear power? 
How will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/07/clean-energy-comes-at-a-cost/</link>
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		<title>Out of Control</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[This film was produced by the Independence/Democracy Group in the European Parliament.
It incorporates EU-critics, eurosceptics and eurorealists. The main goals of the Group are to reject the Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe and to oppose all forms of centralisation.
www.indemgroup.eu

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				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/05/out-of-control/</link>
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		<title>Scope of study for Draft Environmental Impact Statement</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Sep 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Re: Scope of Study for Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 
I am writing to comment on the scope of study for the DEIS that will be prepared for the Babcock and Brown (B&#038;B) industrial wind turbine project in the towns of Ripley and Westfield. Specifically, I shall be commenting on the “Work Plan for Bird and Bat Studies at the proposed Ripley-Westfield Wind Farm, Chautauqua County New York” (hereafter refereed to as the “Work Plan”). 
My credentials for commenting include .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/09/04/scope-of-study-for-draft-environmental-impact-statement/</link>
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