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		<title>A sound policy for industrial wind power in Vermont?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/20/a-sound-policy-for-industrial-wind-power-in-vermont/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Whether you call them wind farms or industrial wind generating plants, these industrial developments have caused divisiveness and controversy in almost every community in Vermont where they have been proposed.
Because electricity generation has special legal status for land use regulations, industrial wind projects are being sited in areas where other industrial developments &#8212; say, a mine that was lit at night and worked 24/7 &#8212; might never be allowed.
And because they&#8217;re lucrative investments, we can expect a gold rush by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Unreliable wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/unreliable-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In early January there was a story in the daily paper in Tulsa under the by-line of Barbara Hoberock, headlined “State Capitol gets wind turbines.” Included in the story were two pictures of workers on top of poles supporting what to me are windmill generators, a far cry from turbines. It may be that those making the installations are referring to them as turbines.
The story began with the statement that the installation had begun on January 5 of two wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>McGuinty&#8217;s ill wind blows across Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/mcguintys-ill-wind-blows-across-canada/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently did something so stupid when it comes to … uh … fighting global warming, it should warn all Canadians to keep an eye on their politicians, lest they do something equally dumb.
McGuinty struck a deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels in Ontario, plus pay inflated prices for 2,500 megawatts of so-called green energy for the next quarter century.
Samsung will invest $7 billion in return for untold .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>What works in the city does not work in the country</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/what-works-in-the-city-does-not-work-in-the-country/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[This week Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch showed yet again why every politician who tests him at the ballot box becomes cannon fodder. Simply put, he listens to people. He’s very good at it, in fact.
How else to explain the veteran politician’s extraordinary rant this week, in which he urged Toronto be hived off from the rest of the province?
Crazy, some will say. Sure. Crazy like a fox. Is he serious? Will Toronto ever be a province? Is there anything .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t drown out awkward information</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/17/dont-drown-out-awkward-information/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Official policy statements from Whitehall tend to be bland and full of sincere-sounding generalities, but just now and then something important, perhaps even revolutionary, can be glimpsed in their pages.
So it is with the latest paper from Defra (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), The Noise Policy Statement for England, which was published on Monday. Through the carefully worded legalese of this document, it is recognised – somewhat belatedly, many would say – that noise in the air .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power has its place in Maine – and that&#8217;s very far offshore</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/16/wind-power-has-its-place-in-maine-%e2%80%93-and-thats-very-far-offshore/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Our governor is proposing emergency legislation mandating the installation of what would amount to thousands of wind turbines within three miles of our Maine coastline (L.D. 1810: An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force).
This has been referred to as “offshore” wind development. It is actually “near-shore” wind development that would displace fishermen and disturb the treasured views of Maine’s fantastic coastline.
We should step back and look at the big picture while the opportunity still .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>LURC’s public hearing on Sisk Mt. turbines is Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/14/lurc%e2%80%99s-public-hearing-on-sisk-mt-turbines-is-wednesday/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In 2008, the Kibby project was approved with 44 turbines, miles of roads and transmission lines and hundreds of acres of forest to be cleared. The Expedited Rule was doing its job for the developer, streamlining the necessary review since the location is part of over 14 million acres of land sited for wind development.
Now in 2010, TransCanada (TC) wants to expand the Kibby project and is proposing 15 turbines on neighboring Sisk Mountain, which overlooks the Chain of Ponds. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbines: &#8216;Eco-friendly&#8217; &#8211; but not to eagles</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/13/wind-turbines-eco-friendly-but-not-to-eagles/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ In all my scores of items over the years on why the obsession with wind turbines will be seen as one of the major follies of our age, there is one issue I haven’t touched on. The main practical objection to turbines, of course, is that they are useless, producing derisory amounts of electricity at colossal cost. (Yet the Government wants us to spend £100 billion on building thousands more of them which, even were it technically possible, would .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Angry anglers oppose NYPA GLOW Project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/13/angry-anglers-oppose-nypa-glow-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[On Earth Day 2009, New York Power Authority (NYPA) President Richie Kessel unveiled plans to industrialize Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with near shore wind turbines clustered in 120MW to 500MW arrays in waters 150 feet deep, or less.
Some arrays would consist of 500 turbines towering 450&#8242;from the lake levels. NYPAs proposal was unveiled without input from the shoreline communities or businesses that will be the victims. Currently, Jefferson, Oswego, Cayuga and Wayne Counties are working towards unilateral opposition to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Resident protests 700 wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/12/resident-protests-700-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[It is with great dismay that I find I have to write this statement in response to the notification in the local daily paper that there&#8217;s a plan afoot to install up to 700 wind turbines just offshore in Lake Erie. I know that this is part of the provincial government&#8217;s Green Energy Act but just who is it going to be green for? In the first paragraph of the act, the government states that it will &#8220;boost investment in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green energy bubbles</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/green-energy-bubbles/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot.combubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown. If you can&#8217;t hear it, you are not alone. While investment analysts are telling their clients to get out of solar power firms and warning about the continuing risks in wind and bioenergy schemes, Ottawa and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Who pays the piper &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/11/who-pays-the-piper/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The long-time residents of Josey Hill, and nearby Lamberts, have spoken out strongly against the Barbados Light &#038; Power&#8217;s (BL&#038;P) plans to erect 11 wind turbines at Lamberts within 300 metres of many of the houses.
At a town hall meeting to discuss the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) at the Gospel Hall at Josey Hill on Saturday, February 27, from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., Peter Williams of the BL&#038;P explained plans for the wind farm, which he said had been .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The fantasy of wind power for Maryland</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/08/the-fantasy-of-wind-power-for-maryland/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[An Abell Foundation report recently trumpeted the supposed &#8220;potential&#8221; of offshore wind to provide two-thirds of Maryland&#8217;s electricity needs. Talk about hot air.
With about 100,000 industrial wind turbines in operation around the world &#8211; 35,000 in the U.S. alone &#8211; there is not a shred of empirical evidence that wind has been responsible for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions in the production of electricity &#8211; or that it has contributed to any reductions in fossil fuel use.
Although 20 percent of Denmark&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A fighting chance for the sage grouse</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/08/a-fighting-chance-for-the-sage-grouse/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s imperative that the agencies and people responsible for the sagebrush country of Oregon and the rest of the Great Basin do not consider the Interior Department&#8217;s announcement not to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act a signal for business as usual.
Instead, the determination by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that endangered species protections are warranted for the sage grouse, but must be delayed because of a backlog of other species, ought to spark a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>What’s bad about wind power? More than just noise</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/06/what%e2%80%99s-bad-about-wind-power-more-than-just-noise/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Recently Gov. John Baldacci scoffed at the Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power when we asked him to issue a moratorium on industrial wind power projects until adequate noise regulations are implemented. The Bangor Daily News backed Baldacci in an editorial titled “Wind Ban Wrong.” The Feb. 25 piece did acknowledge how right we are on several wind power issues, yet it still concluded that giving the state time would be wrong. We disagree with this, with the conclusion that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing away taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/06/blowing-away-taxpayers/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The  Ontario government’s rush into renewable energy, and industrial wind turbine-generated electricity in particular, is likely to reveal the law of unintended consequences. The government needs to rigorously re-evaluate this precipitous policy before committing billions more in subsidies to it.
First, as to the cost of wind-generated electricity, the feed-in tariff for on-shore wind turbines in Ontario provided for under the Green Energy Act is 13.5¢ per kWh (and higher for smaller projects). This is more than twice the prevailing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind conference draws welcome attention</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/06/wind-conference-draws-welcome-attention/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Feb. 16 Citizen Power Alliance (CPA) Wind Conference at Bristol Harbor on Canandaigua Lake drew close to 200 elected officials, state representatives, news media and CPA members from across New York State to discuss the industrial wind issue.
The meeting was specifically designed to elicit greater awareness and involvement by New York State elected representatives and news media regarding the realities of industrial wind in New York State.  CPA’s panel of presenters for the meeting included New York State .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Friends of The Highlands: What’s at stake in western Maine?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/06/friends-of-the-highlands-what%e2%80%99s-at-stake-in-western-maine/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In just under nine months, the residents of several Somerset county communities might see our beloved landscape and soundscape changed drastically for the remainder of our lives. Likewise, all the people of Maine could lose the scenic value of some of the state’s finest natural treasures, and few even know of the threat.
Under recently amended state laws, all could occur with little consideration to the wisdom or long term implications of such a move.
A quick civics lesson is necessary to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to rewind turbine commitment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/05/time-to-rewind-turbine-commitment/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[News that wind turbines were coming to Southern Manitoba was greeted with delight by many. Farmers and municipal politicians embraced what they envisioned as a new revenue stream producing clean power. A small group of people didn&#8217;t see it that way, and they spoke out bringing up everything from turbine noise to safety and health to the ugliness of the forever changing skyline, as reasons to walk away.
Nobody listened and somehow those opposed became a group likened to the granola .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Highlands face a new clearance in wake of wind farm decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/04/highlands-face-a-new-clearance-in-wake-of-wind-farm-decisions/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Families  were driven from the Highlands to make way for sheep during the infamous Clearances. 
Now the threat of a Highland landscape devoid of people has arisen again.
But this time it is not the lure of profits from mutton and wool that threatens our unique landscape. It is the steady march of giant wind turbines that will drive away tourists and leave a dwindling population struggling to survive.
The shameful decision by the Scottish Government to approve the Beauly to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Save the highland mountains from industrial wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/03/save-the-highland-mountains-from-industrial-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I have been advocating for wind power for decades. I never thought I would see the day when I would be opposing wind power development. However, the current frantic rush to install industrial wind on every viable mountaintop is both shortsighted and ecologically damaging.
All one has to do is look at the impact of the Kibby TransCanada industrial wind operation in the remote boundary mountains of western Maine. This is nothing more than industrial wind mountaintop removal. It is being .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind power the worst kind of mirage</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/03/wind-power-the-worst-kind-of-mirage/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind energy is an engineer&#8217;s nightmare. To begin with, the energy density of flowing air is miserably low. Therefore, you need a massive contraption to catch one megawatt at best, and a thousand of these to equal a single gas-or coal-fired power plant.
If you design them for a wind speed of 34 miles per hour, they are useless at wind speeds below 22 mph and extremely dangerous at 44 mph, unless feathered in time. Remember, power is proportional to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Another view of commercial wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/02/another-view-of-commercial-wind-turbines-2/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A lot of interesting conversation has transpired on this thread. It is a very complex issue and can be very polarizing between individuals and within oneself. I would like to present a couple of thoughts on why some have grave concerns about wind turbines along Lake Erie (I will keep these to bird issues and stay away from the elephants in the room) and then list a couple of sites to get another take on some of the citations mentioned .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Prime time and ramp rates</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/02/prime-time-and-ramp-rates/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Part of managing renewable energy has little to do with megawatts. I think it&#8217;s called managing the expectations game. For that we can turn to the Pacific Northwest, which is a little further ahead in renewable resource penetration than many places.
The EnergyBiz Leadership Forum&#8217;s opening day closed with the vexing question that needs an affirmative answer if widespread adoption of renewable energy is to take place:
Are renewables ready for prime time? The short answer: not yet.
And that&#8217;s where &#8220;ramp rates&#8221; .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>The brewing tempest over wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/02/the-brewing-tempest-over-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[People living near turbines increasingly report sleep deprivation, headaches and vertigo. The wind lobby says there&#8217;s no proof.
Imagine this scenario: The oil and gas industry launches an aggressive global drilling program with a new type of well. Thousands of these new wells, once operational, emit a noxious odor so offensive that many of the people living within a mile of them are kept awake at night. Some are even forced to move out of their homes. It&#8217;s easy to predict .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tilting at windmills</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/02/tilting-at-windmills-11/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ You know the saying: Ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately for the American taxpayer, when it comes to the wind turbine industry, ignorance is not as blissful as it is infuriating. According to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop (in coordination with ABC&#8217;s World News with Diane Sawyer and the Watchdog Institute), Obama can now add wind turbines to his growing list of failures within the stimulus package.
Renewable energy industry is growing; wind turbines are a key avenue of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project comes at great cost</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/01/wind-project-comes-at-great-cost/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP – In the northwestern corner of Maine, the Highland Mountains rise up from Sandy Stream Valley. They are the gateway to the spectacular Bigelow Preserve, which lies next to Flagstaff Lake. The section of the Appalachian Trail traversing the Bigelow Range in the preserve is one of the most spectacular parts of the whole AT.
This iconic wild country attracts thousands of visitors a year who seek the solitude and magic of Maine&#8217;s mountains.
All this is about to change .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Caveat investor: Wind may let you down</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/28/caveat-investor-wind-may-let-you-down/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Governments around the world are actively seeking private development of renewable energy projects by offering generous feed-in tariffs that often see developers paid many times the market rate for the power they produce.
This has encouraged a surge of applications, but the volume of applications and other challenges associated with these projects present potential risks to prospective investors.
Projects require transmission capacity to carry their energy to market, but the agencies accepting applications for a given jurisdiction often aren&#8217;t responsible for managing .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>For the sake of green or greed</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/27/for-the-sake-of-green-or-greed/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In 2009, the U.S. Department of Treasury awarded $546 million to Iberdrola from the stimulus program. Per the CEO of Iberdrola, the offshore parent company of Horizon and the developer of Antelope Ridge, they expect to receive another $470 million in 2010.
Horizon’s Elkhorn Wind Farm in 2007 and 2008 received $11 million each year in tax credits from the state of Oregon. In addition, Union County gave Horizon a property tax deduction of $331,680 each year for 2008 and 2009 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms don’t provide the perfect energy solution</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/26/wind-farms-don%e2%80%99t-provide-the-perfect-energy-solution/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind power is being actively promoted as the energy source of the future.
Once in operation, wind turbines don’t give off any harmful emissions, don’t require fossil fuel and have none of the drawbacks of nuclear power – wastes, accidents, military uses.
This is the story presented by protagonists. Unfortunately, it is not the whole story.
Because winds blow irregularly and intermittently, wind-powered turbines cannot be relied on for a steady source of power.
High-pressure winter weather systems bringing low temperatures are often accompanied .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Relief from the pain they caused</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/24/relief-from-the-pain-they-caused/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Certainly it&#8217;s splendid news that a Spanish windmill maker plans to build a factory in Milwaukee and employ 270 people. It&#8217;s especially nice that the company mentioned the supply of experienced workers and engineers here.
Of course, those people will supply a market that depends utterly on governments&#8217; favors granted at the expense of everyone else.
The simple fact is that as good as having 270 jobs land in Milwaukee is, the company, Ingeteam, said it ended up here because of tax .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Increased costs are blowin&#8217; in the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/23/increased-costs-are-blowin-in-the-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind energy on the Pacific Northwest’s electricity grid has increased substantially over the years, and this is leading to a number of problems. The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the Pacific Northwest’s federal power marketing authority, is charged with integrating the large influx of wind power into the electricity grid. In 1998, the BPA’s wind generation was roughly 25 megawatts (MW). Today, it totals 2,200 MW; and, with the Oregon Renewable Portfolio Standards passed in 2007, over 6,000 MW of wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Steens Mountain wind turbines are wake-up call to Oregonians</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/21/steens-mountain-wind-turbines-are-wake-up-call-to-oregonians/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[News that multiple wind farms are planned on the north flank of Steens Mountain should be a wake-up call to Oregonians. Flocks of wind turbines on such an iconic landmark are more than a cloud on the horizon. They&#8217;re an approaching storm.
We couldn&#8217;t believe more strongly in the need to expand renewable power, including wind energy. We are proud of Oregon&#8217;s leadership in green technology. We also understand that new energy facilities will leave an unavoidable footprint wherever they&#8217;re situated.
But .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A deliberate approach makes more sense</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/21/a-deliberate-approach-makes-more-sense/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Land Use Regulation Commission is considering a request from TransCanada to allow extension of its Kibby wind farm into a portion of LURC jurisdiction that has been considered unexpedited. Currently this area is subject to the usual protected mountain zoning restrictions.
This request has focused attention on the rules governing such expansion. We recall that the Wind Power Task Force enabling legislation was rapidly moved through the Legislature last year. It is our belief that these rules are currently too .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Friedman&#8217;s twisted energy politics</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/17/tom-friedmans-twisted-energy-politics/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When it comes to energy issues, Thomas Friedman simply doesn’t care about the facts.
That reality was made apparent, once again, in Friedman’s column in the February 10 issue of the New York Times. In an otherwise mostly sensible article, written from Yemen, where Friedman was talking about the need for proper educational opportunity in the Arabic and Islamic worlds, Friedman concluded that the US will have to maintain a strong military presence in the region in order to counter al-Qaeda. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Green power sounds good until you calculate the cost</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/17/green-power-sounds-good-until-you-calculate-the-cost/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The McGuinty government is spending Ontario&#8217;s electricity revenue to encourage investments in wind and solar green power generation – with no benefit to the system or to the customer.
Big corporate investors in wind farms and, maybe, solar farms will reap rich rewards for 20 years while the customer pays higher and higher prices for electrical energy.
This push for more green power, while at the same time delaying a decision on extending the Darlington nuclear plant, could result in a power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t let big business take the Highland Mountains</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/17/don%e2%80%99t-let-big-business-take-the-highland-mountains/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I am a direct descendent of a family that once had a guiding business, a blacksmithing business, and dreams for a future in what was once Dead River Plantation. Now it all lays underwater due to progress and the “need” to produce more hydro power for the rest of New England.
This state sacrificed the valley that was once residence to the Sampson /Burbank homestead.
For the same reason I stand in protest (of) power for others! But to sacrifice again? How .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind and property values: relation unknown</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/16/wind-and-property-values-relation-unknown/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Local opponents of wind farm developments often claim that the energy projects depress their property values. It’s a difficult issue to settle. The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claimed last December in a $500,000 study, three years in the works – “The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis” – that the fear of property value declines is bogus.
The DOE study concluded that there was no evidence .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick presses Obama to break a promise</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/15/patrick-presses-obama-to-break-a-promise/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The decision by the federal gvernment in 2007 to recognize the Mashpee Wampanoag as a historic Indian tribe documents tribal efforts to preserve their rights. The decision relies on extensive evidence, including census records from 1694, that shows the continuous existence of a few hundred native people in Mashpee, living as they always had — free to hunt, fish and use the natural resources that sustain them — until around 1970, when development of their lands began in earnest.
The decision .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s wind problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Peter Garrett’s insulation woes are a fine example of the political law of unintended consequences. He didn’t have the current fiasco in mind last June when he pushed out a media statement on the theme “Aussie homes a winner with ceiling insulation program.”
Smart governments and smart ministers employ advisers with enough nous to ask the unpalatable question: “What is the worst thing that could happen here?” when considering every new alleged vote-winning ploy. As the record shows, not too many .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farms: Irritating, unreliable, unregulated</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/14/wind-farms-irritating-unreliable-unregulated/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Pro-wind lawmakers claim that green energy jobs are the solution to our economic crisis. We need to widen the view of those with tunnel vision who are only focused on dollar signs and not able to see the negative impact of those who are left to live in the midst of an industrial pinwheel forest.
Last fall legislators gave the state Public Service Commission control over all wind turbine projects, but the PSC has yet to propose standards. This will take .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m cancelling my kids&#8217; subscription to The Beano</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Bryony Gordon reported on how Dennis the Menace had been given a PC makeover.
    But kids aren’t stupid. They get it. Witness eight-year-old Jacob Rush, from Ipswich, who noticed that Dennis the Menace now looks more like that sweet little swimmer Tom Daley. He’s slimmed down, his hair has softened, he’s smiling. He doesn’t bully Walter the Softy, who now has a girlfriend, as opposed to that pink poodle Foo Foo. Dennis no longer .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>How we power will define us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[We seem to be engaging the issue of energy from within its specifics, lacking a broader view. It might be helpful to look at some &#8220;big picture&#8221; figures involving energy. Regarding Vermont&#8217;s energy future, this is a time for thoughtful and careful consideration. P.T Barnum said there&#8217;s a sucker born every minute. Let&#8217;s, instead, be smart and not act in a way that could unnecessarily impact Vermont negatively leaving permanent scars.
Some energy relationships you should know:
Our homes generally use far .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>At first, I wanted the wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/13/at-first-i-wanted-the-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When I first heard that industrial wind turbines were to be installed on the Nor‘Wester Mountains I thought “Wonderful!” We bought our property, less than one kilometre from the proposed site, and began to plan our environmentally friendly home, complete with solar and geothermal heat.
Once I discovered how big the turbines are (see diagram) I decided to do some research. What I learned was nothing less than alarming. At Horizon Wind‘s recent deputation to city council, CEO Anthony Zwig, said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Heading towards a tax-funded disaster of monumental proportions</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/11/heading-towards-a-tax-funded-disaster-of-monumental-proportions/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The American and Canadian Wind Energy Association was created by the wind energy industry.
The association recently sponsored a report, to be conducted by independent experts, into the adverse health effects from industrial wind turbines.
That report, An Expert Panel Review, 2009, acknowledged that people are experiencing adverse physiological and psychological symptoms from exposure to industrial turbines. The expert panel acknowledged that wind turbine noise, including low frequency noise, may cause annoyance, stress and sleep disturbance.
The World Health Organization lists annoyance and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Western Maine Audubon’s wind power resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/western-maine-audubon%e2%80%99s-wind-power-resolution/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Land Use Regulation Commission is considering a request from TransCanada to allow extension of its Kibby wind farm into a portion of LURC jurisdiction that has been considered unexpedited. Currently this area is subject to the usual protected mountain zoning restrictions.
This request has focused attention on the rules governing such expansion. We recall that the Wind Power Task force enabling legislation was rapidly moved through the Legislature last year. It is our belief that these rules are currently too .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Secrecy shrouds controversial bailout for &#8216;green&#8217; wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/secrecy-shrouds-controversial-bailout-for-green-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom is defending the controversial bailout of a troubled wind farm near Chetwynd in his Peace River South constituency.
&#8220;I was happy that we were able to move this forward,&#8221; said Lekstrom. &#8220;When it was under, it left a lot of people [in a tough spot] and a lot of money owing to a lot of businesses in the region.&#8221;
BC Hydro signed an energy purchase agreement with the private developer of the proposed wind farm at Dokie Ridge .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Deck stacked against Wampanoags</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/deck-stacked-against-wampanoags/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1950s, the standard Western movie would include a scene in which some dignitary from Washington would meet with an Indian chief and his council in the hope of resolving grievances that had sent the Indians on the warpath. The other day, we got a replay of that scene when a real-life government dignitary sailed into Nantucket Sound with a group of Wampanoag Indians for the ostensible purpose of resolving their grievances.
Then, as now, the squabble was over .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>On PILOTs and wind farms, our motto should be &#8216;be prepared&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/on-pilots-and-wind-farms-our-motto-should-be-be-prepared/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The proposed Galloo Island wind farm and its associated Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) agreement has been one of the most controversial topics in the press for several weeks. On Tuesday, the Jefferson County Board of Legislators voted in favor of the agreement. I am not going to write about this particular PILOT, but I think it might be illuminating to look at PILOTs in general and the role they play in regional economic development.
A PILOT is basically an .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>A slap in the face for Constable country</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/05/a-slap-in-the-face-for-constable-country/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[We live in perplexing times for rationalists. The people of Suffolk have recently been presented with a “choice” by National Grid. You may recognise the proposal from the school playground: “What do you want, a punch or a slap?”
The “punch” is a new length of super pylons across an exquisitely beautiful landscape (Gainsborough countryside). The “slap” is to take them farther south to join an existing run of pylons that already straddles the village of Hintlesham down to the River .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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