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	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wind turbines are hard to recycle</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to our Soundoff question: &#8220;Would you accept having a wind turbine in sight of where you live?&#8221; (May 7)
Definitely not! Wind power is classified as a renewable resource because it uses a renewable energy source,wind. However, the huge turbines that enable this wind power to be turned into useful energy are only good for about 15-20 years. After that, they are disposed of much like the scraps from your supper last night.
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		<title>Quebec seeks aboriginal wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hydro-Québec will hand out 500 megawatts of wind power contracts to aboriginal developers and those in remote communities, the government said.
Those developers will be allowed to sell their electricity at a higher price than the private developers who won wind-power contracts announced last week, said Natural Resources Minister Claude Béchard.
Farms operated by aboriginal developers and in remote communities will be able to submit their proposals with a higher price cap — 9.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, ...]]>
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		<title>Wind-farm plan stirs up opposition</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The smallest of the 15 wind-farm bids accepted by Hydro-Québec on Monday could end up generating more political current than all of the other projects combined.
A French-backed energy consortium is proposing to build 37 wind towers on a mountain near Lac-au-Sable, a popular fishing, hunting and hiking spot for locals and tourists next to one of Quebec&#8217;s most popular provincial parks in the picturesque Charlevoix region east of Quebec City.
&#8220;No one here is in favour ...]]>
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		<title>Quebec OK&#39;s wind-power proposals; 15 new projects worth &#36;5.5B, 2000 MW</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hydro-Québec has accepted 15 bids to provide a total of 2,004 megawatts of wind-generated electricity, which will come on stream between 2011 and 2015.
The government-owned utility said Monday the average price is 10.5 cents per kilowatt-hour and the projects involve estimated capital outlays spending totalling &#36;5.5 billion, including &#36;1.1 billion for transmission infrastructure and transportation costs.
The contracts arise from a call for tenders issued in October 2005 seeking Quebec-generated wind power.
The outcome &#8220;ensures a supply ...]]>
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		<title>Les éoliennes ne sont pas les bienvenues [Wind turbines not welcome]</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Click here for English translation by National Wind Watch]
DELSON – Plusieurs citoyens de Saint-Philippe et de Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur se mobilisent depuis un peu plus d’une semaine pour manifester contre l’implantation d’un parc de 72 éoliennes sur leur territoire. 
Ce sont d’abord les résidants de Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur qui ont parti le bal en démontrant clairement, lors d’une séance d’information convoquée par le promoteur Innergex, le 24 février, qu’ils étaient opposés à la construction d’un parc de 26 éoliennes. ...]]>
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		<title>Winds of change blow in; Creststreet to sell stake in Pubnico power project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atlantic Canada’s largest wind farm is up for sale.
Creststreet Power and Income Fund LP of Toronto, a significant owner of the &#36;50-million wind farm in Pubnico Point, Yarmouth County, wants to sell its share of the development in response to the federal government’s decision to eliminate the tax benefits of trusts. &#8220;The change in the federal income trust rules doesn’t allow trusts to grow,&#8221; said Derren Newell, Creststreet’s CFO. An independent board of directors of ...]]>
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		<title>German wind power firms target Quebec</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Established German wind energy companies see the nascent Quebec market as an opportunity to increase market share as well as work their way deep into the Americas, an industry networking session was told yesterday.
Among the scores of companies &#8212; Canadian and international &#8212; that participated in Hydro-Québec&#8217;s current call for tender of 2,000 megawatts of wind power was REpower Systems, a German-based giant that has yet to make its mark in Canada.
&#8220;We see Canada as ...]]>
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		<title>Newfoundland looks south</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frustrated by the lack of an east-west power transmission grid in Canada &#8212; and thwarted in its efforts to export electricity to United States markets through Quebec &#8212; Newfoundland &#8220;has pretty much decided&#8221; to pursue the option of building a new transmission system to ship power south, says the province&#8217;s top hydro official.
&#8220;When you look at what the impediments are in front of us, we really have no alternative,&#8221; Dean MacDonald, chairman of Newfoundland and ...]]>
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		<title>Money blowing in the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind provides unpredictable energy and the wind energy industry is only viable because of so called ‘green subsidies’. Wind farms are a fraud, would say a child looking at the emperor walking naked in the streets. Whether you live in Canada, in the US, in England, France or Australia, the story is the same : publicly, no one dares to speak against the wind energy. We’ll explain how, why, and propose real, efficient and economical ...]]>
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		<title>Quebec has clean power for sale, Charest tells New York audience</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Premier Jean Charest wants to export Quebec&#8217;s hydroelectricity to neighbouring New York and New York is interested.
Charest told a business audience in New York City Friday the province has clean and renewable energy for sale. Gov. Eliot Spitzer also met with Charest and said he was impressed by the &#8220;enormous potential&#8221; of Quebec&#8217;s energy plan, an asset he said the state would tap increasingly given ever-growing energy needs.
Charest said in an interview that Spitzer had ...]]>
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		<title>New wind power would cost more</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Oct 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next round of wind-generated electricity for Quebec will cost significantly more than that now flowing into Hydro-Québec&#8217;s network, according to industry insiders gathered here for an international conference.
The utility will see its wind-power costs jump from an average 8.35 cents per kilowatt hour to at least 10 or 11 cents per kWh, said several executives close to companies who have submitted bids to provide Quebec with 2,000 megawatts of wind power beginning in 2010.
Requesting ...]]>
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		<title>Developers stake wind claims</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[From scenic La Malbaie in southern Quebec to James Bay in the north, wind farm developers have staked their spots in one of the largest single solicitations for wind power ever made.
More than 25 developers have proffered 66 bids for wind farms, proposals that total 7,724 megawatts of wind power &#8212; almost four times the 2,000 megawatts that Hydro-Québec is seeking to add to its network.
The utility&#8217;s call &#8220;has been taken very very seriously by ...]]>
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		<title>Wind vs. water in giant dam dispute</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial hydroelectricity expansion project in Quebec has drawn sharp criticism from aboriginal and environmental organisations on both sides of the Canadian-U.S. border.
Hydro Quebec&#8217;s main purpose for diverting the Rupert River in Northern Quebec is for hydro production in order to sell power to the northeastern United States.
U.S. environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defence Council, International Rivers Network, Friends of the Earth USA, the Sierra Club and Project Laundry List have joined in ...]]>
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		<title>Who will reap the wind&#63;  Hydro-Québec&#39;s plan to buy 2,000 megawatts of wind power has sparked gold-rush fervour among potential suppliers</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Think big, &#8217;sti!&#8221; The motto of Elvis Gratton, one of Quebec&#8217;s most beloved film characters, might also sum up Hydro-Québec&#8217;s stance on wind power.
When the utility first experimented with wind turbines decades ago, it built them so large &#8212; more than twice the size of the current industry average &#8212; that the wind blew one away.
In 10 days, Hydro is to mark another mammoth-sized milestone. Sept. 18 is the deadline for the utility&#8217;s second and ...]]>
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		<title>Local content rules stir debate</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quebec&#8217;s stringent &#8220;local content&#8221; requirements for wind-farm developers do little for most Quebec wind-energy businesses, but will increase rates for all Hydro-Québec customers, several experts in the field say.
Under the terms of the call for tender for 2,000 megawatts of wind-generated electricity, developers must guarantee the expenditure of at least 30 per cent of wind-turbine costs in the economically troubled Gaspé region and at least 60 per cent of total wind farm costs in Quebec.
&#8220;This ...]]>
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		<title>Green light for Carleton wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[    CARLETON-SUR-MER, Sept. 6 /CNW Telbec/ &#8212; Cartier Wind Energy (CAR) inc.
(&#8221;Cartier&#8221;) announced today it has received the ministerial decree for the
implementation of the Carleton wind farm. This important milestone was
recognized in the presence of Mrs. Nathalie Normandeau, Deputy Premier,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Regions and Member of Parliament for
Bonaventure, and other dignitaries. This decree is a result of a thorough
environmental assessment process and will allow Cartier to begin construction
of the wind ...]]>
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		<title>Éolien: «Il n&#39;y a pas d&#39;anarchie», répond Québec [Wind energy: &#34;It is not anarchy&#34;, answers Québec]</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The minister of municipal affairs doesn&#8217;t believe that exploitation of wind energy is being done in a disorderly fashion in Québec. &#8220;The history of our wind energy exploitation is being written, we are still learning, in that sense, about the regional planning, Nathalie Normandeau nonetheless recognizes.]
La ministre des Affaires municipales ne croit pas que l&#8217;exploitation de l&#8217;énergie éolienne se fasse de façon désordonnée au Québec. «On est en train d&#8217;écrire notre histoire d&#8217;exploitation éolienne, on ...]]>
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		<title>Éolien: un appel d&#39;offres top secret [Wind energy: top secret call for offers]</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Hydro-Quebec is seeking private suppliers to produce 2000 megawatts of wind energy. How many wind energy projects are in the works? That information is &#8220;top secret&#8221;. Or nearly.]
Hydro-Québec cherche des fournisseurs privés pour produire 2000 mégawatts d&#8217;énergie éolienne. Combien de projets de parcs éoliens sont en cours de préparation? Cette information est «top secret». Ou presque.
Hydro sait combien de fournisseurs sérieux sont sur les rangs: chacun a versé 1000&#36; pour obtenir le droit de soumettre ...]]>
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		<title>Éolien: une culture du silence et de l&#39;ignorance [Wind energy: a culture of silence and ignorance]</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[&#8221;The wind is free! It&#8217;s like Duplessis providing iron for the Côte-Nord at a penny a ton!&#8221;]
«On donne le vent! C&#8217;est comme Duplessis qui donnait le fer de la Côte-Nord une cenne la tonne!»
Pour Roméo Bouchard, fondateur de l&#8217;Union paysanne et ancien directeur du collectif Pour qui souffle le vent, Québec a choisi «un modèle de colonisés» en confiant au secteur privé l&#8217;exploitation de l&#8217;énergie éolienne.
Hydro-Québec a construit les barrages. Mais elle ne construira pas ...]]>
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		<title>Tempête dans les villages [Tempest in the towns]</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Some call them &#8220;white angels&#8221;. Others describe them as &#8220;giant daisies&#8221;. But that doesn&#8217;t keep wind turbines from striking fear. Or sowing a little discord throughout Québec. In 18 days, dozens of firms will have submitted their projects to Hydro-Québec. A lot of money is in play. Here is the first article in a series of three on the Wind Gold Rush.]
Certains les appellent «anges blancs». D’autres les qualifient de «marguerites géantes». Mais ce n’est ...]]>
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		<title>Éolien: le vent de la zizanie [Winds of discord]</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Sep 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[My story of wind energy projects sowing discord in the Québec countryside begins today. Here is the first piece.
[After the failure of the power station in Suroît &#8212; rejected by the Québecois &#8212; the state decided to put even more into wind energy, Hydro-Québec launched a call for offers, which ends September 18, inviting the private sector to build wind facilities. With this call for offers, Hydro will add 2000 MW to its electricity production ...]]>
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		<title>Green light to windmill project; B-M sets six conditions for 31 turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people in the audience may have been wearing shirts that said &#8220;No&#8221; on them, but the Brome-Missisquoi MRC has given a qualified yes to a proposed wind power project. &#8220;It is conditional on the signing of an agreement with Groupe SM to reduce the impact,&#8221; said Robert Desmarais, director general of the Brome-Missisquoi Regional Municipal Council.
The agreement outlines six main conditions that the company must meet if it is to build 31 industrial windmills ...]]>
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		<title>Mayors give wind-farm plan go-ahead</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial bid to turn a dozen farmers&#8217; fields in the Eastern Townships near the Vermont border into a huge industrial wind-turbine park will be submitted to Hydro-Québec for approval &#8212; but opponents aren&#8217;t giving up their fight to see the project die.
In a 16-4 vote Tuesday night, mayors of the Brome-Missisquoi regional council in Cowansville approved the proposal by Sherbrooke firm S.M. International Group Inc. to erect 31 wind-turbine towers in a swath of ...]]>
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		<title>Projet éolien: une première étape est franchie [Wind project: first hurdle cleared]</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il y a une semaine, les policiers avaient fait évacuer la salle du conseil au terme d&#8217;une assemblée plutôt houleuse sur le projet d&#8217;installation d&#8217;une quinzaine d&#8217;éoliennes à Saint-Pierre-de-Véronne-à-Pike-River, dans les Cantons-de-l&#8217;Est. Mercredi, la petite municipalité de près de 600 habitants avait prévu le coup et des policiers de la Sûreté du Québec étaient déjà présents sur les lieux de l&#8217;assemblée.
Les agents n&#8217;ont toutefois pas eu à intervenir. Même si les esprits de ceux qui ...]]>
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		<title>Surprise: les éoliennes sont bruyantes [Wind turbines are noisy]</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[[English translation by National Wind Watch follows the French original]
Belles et silencieuses, les éoliennes? Cela dépend à qui l’on pose la question.
Les éoliennes connaissent une popularité grandissante. Des chercheurs se penchent sur des aspects moins connus de leur impact.
Leur énergie est propre et elles contribuent au développement économique de régions fragiles. Mais les éoliennes n’ont pas que des qualités: elles font du bruit. À la demande de Santé Canada, Tony Leroux, professeur à l’École d’orthophonie ...]]>
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		<title>Three town councils back wind-power project</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal politician in three Eastern Townships communities have thrown their support behind a proposal to erect giant wind turbines in local farmers&#8217; fields to generate electricity for markets south of the border.
In separate meetings Monday, the town councils of Pike River, Stanbridge Station and Bedford Canton &#8212; the three communities directly affected by the project &#8212; voted in favour of the Stanbridge Station Wind Plan.
Groupe S.M. International Inc., an engineering and project management firm, proposes ...]]>
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		<title>Wind energy: beware, turbulence ahead</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind farm projects are growing like mushrooms after a rainy day, but the air is turbulent in the wind industry. Industrial wind farms are not as nice and green as promoters want us to believe. Like an opponent puts it : “There is more here than immediately meets the eye with industrial wind generators, and often the devil is in the details.&#8221;
Pugwash in Nova Scotia, Wolfe Island in Ontario, Saint-Arsene in Quebec, and Edinbane in ...]]>
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		<title>Wind energy development &#8212; the public kept out</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regional wind energy committee is denouncing the fact that wind energy developers are not taking the trouble to consult the public about the project being prepared in Bas-Saint-Laurent.
The committee estimates that about forty projects must be submitted by September 18 for call for proposals from Hydro-Québec to buy 2000 megawatts of wind energy. Up to now, only three developers, cooperatives, have met with the public to explain their project. The committee, which was formed ...]]>
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		<title>Power project is ill wind, Townshippers say</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Aug 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEDFORD &#8212; He was hooted and heckled and confronted with counter-arguments by an angry crowd of 300 Eastern Townshippers.
But the promoter of a controversial project to turn a dozen farmers&#8217; fields near the Vermont border into a gigantic industrial wind park got his point across Thursday night.
The plan is good for the environment, good for the local economy, and won&#8217;t harm people&#8217;s health or property values or their views of the landscape, David Cliche tried ...]]>
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		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2007/08/03/power-project-is-ill-wind-townshippers-say/</link>
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		<title>Quebec moves to forefront of Canada’s rapidly growing wind industry</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nationalization of Quebec’s hydroelectric power in the 1960s was the crowning achievement of Rene Levesque, then a Liberal energy minister, who later became the first Parti Quebecois premier. More than 40 years later, some suggest the province should follow in his footstep and nationalize a booming new industry — wind power.
Government-owned Hydro-Quebec has become a symbol of Quebec’s pride and know-how and developed into the largest single electricity producer in North America. The utility ...]]>
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		<title>Winds of change in townships</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, Cirque du Soleil composer Simon Carpentier moved into a mid-19th-century farmhouse on the banks of the tranquil Pike River in the Eastern Townships.
On three sides stretched an expanse of open fields where corn grew and hay was cut and dairy cows lowed. His only neighbours were farmers and they were good, quiet people. Carpentier had found the peace he needed to write his music.
It didn&#8217;t last.
In October 2006, he and other residents ...]]>
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		<title>Against the current: nationalize wind and impose moratorium</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADQ [l&#8217;Action démocratique du Québec party] deputy Claude Roy characterizes wind development in Québec as anarchic, savage, and disrespectful.
The deputy from Montmagny-L&#8217;Islet and critic of the official opposition in the matter of the environment thus counts on presenting a motion aiming to nationalize wind energy and, meanwhile, impose a moratorium to stop all wind projects.
The proposal, which goes against the trational position of the ADQ, is far from achieving unanimity.
Several groups of East-Québec citizens also ...]]>
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		<title>Lower St. Lawrence experiences the downside of wind development</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our riding, we have two burning issues: wind farms and a methane terminal. Politicians from all the other parties have been avoiding these issues for the last two years. For now I will deal only with the wind farm project.
Wind farm projects are being announced every month in Quebec and are growing like mushrooms, but the air is turbulent in the wind industry. The promoters tell us that wind farms will reduce greenhouse gas ...]]>
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		<title>The winds of public opinion: Turbines in Brome-Missisquoi</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 21:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 May 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed plan for a wind farm at the western end of Brome-Missisquoi has been modified, but the community remains divided on whether it should exist at all.
Several of the 300 people who packed into Bedford&#8217;s community centre Monday night called for a moratorium on windmills, or a referendum. While a number complained of a lack of transparency, others commended Groupe SM International and the municipalities on their efforts to inform the population.
&#8220;The support of ...]]>
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		<title>Hydro-Quebec calls for wind-power bids</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 10:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 May 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hydro-Quebec is calling for bids from the private sector to supply 2,000 megawatts of wind power to its distribution grid &#8212; equal to James Bay&#8217;s LG -4 unit &#8212; in September and believes it will get a massive response, president Thierry Vandal said yesterday.
It will be the second call for bids from qualified developers and at 2,000MW it is the largest- ever by any utility, he said after a Canadian Club of Montreal speech. The ...]]>
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		<title>BAPE report is now public</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Apr 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the request of Mr. Claude BÃ©chard, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, the Bureau d&#8217;audiences publiques sur l&#8217;environnement (BAPE) is today making public its examination and public hearing report on the Projet deparc Ã©olien Ã  Carleton-sur-Mer par Cartier Ã©nergie Ã©olienne inc . This examination and public hearing mandate began on October 16, 2006 . The commission in charge of examining the project was chaired by Mr. Joseph Zayed.
The commission finds that the project, ...]]>
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		<title>Reap the wind: issue sets neighbour against neighbour</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Mar 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanbridge Station &#8212; When farmer Pol Petit shifted in his chair, indicating he had something to say, the clamour of conversations around the kitchen table of the farmhouse evaporated.
President of a local chapter of the Union des Producteurs Agricole and a devotee of writer Victor Hugo, Petit is a homespun philosopher. Recently, he has pondered the notion of massive wind turbines planted across the region&#8217;s rich agricultural land.
&#8220;Over a couple of centuries, your ancestors worked ...]]>
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		<title>Boisclair promises winds of change in energy sector</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Mar 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a clutch of disgruntled local residents on hand to back him up, Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair yesterday denounced what he called the &#8220;anarchic&#8221; development of hydro wind power on the Lower North Shore and Gaspe peninsula.
Boisclair said if elected March 26, the PQ will clean up the process managed by the Liberals and do more than just provide guidelines to private developers and municipalities in the economically starved region.
The PQ would draw up ...]]>
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		<title>New Wind Association Forms in Quebec</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A consortium of cooperatives developing wind projects in Quebec has formed a new association that expects to participate in the province&#8217;s call for tender. The new group hopes to reduce the tension between traditional developers of what critics call &#8220;mega&#8221; wind farms and community development activists in the lower Saint Lawrence River region.
Led by staff at the University of Quebec at Rimouski, including wind pioneer Jean-Louis Chaumel, the Cooperatives Regroupees en Energie Renouvelable du Quebec ...]]>
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		<title>Wind turbines generate richer royalties in Ont. than Que.</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind power turbines generate much bigger profits for Ontario&#8217;s farmers than for Quebec&#8217;s &#8212; typically two or three times bigger, an investigative report by CBC&#8217;s French-language service has found.
More wind farms are springing up in both Ontario and Quebec, as climbing energy prices and environmental concerns drive governments to invest in renewable, non-polluting sources of power.
Power companies must lease land for their wind turbines, and that can benefit rural landowners. But how much they benefit ...]]>
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		<title>Winds of protest buffet SkyPower plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerry Adler, described in his corporate biography as a &#8220;true visionary,&#8221; is having a spot of trouble with the vision thing in rural Quebec.
The president and chief executive officer of SkyPower Corp. has run into regulatory delays and local resistance to a proposed &#36;360-million wind energy project in the RiviÃ¨re-du-Loup area, gateway to Quebec&#8217;s picturesque GaspÃ© Peninsula on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.
It&#8217;s a classic case of not-in-my-backyard syndrome as critics opposed ...]]>
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		<title>Charest&#39;s wind power plan a bit of hot air</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Nov 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[To question the wisdom of wind power in Canada these days is to risk winding up impaled on a rotor blade. Environmentalists, politicians and investment bankers all seem to agree that wind energy is the next big thing. Unfortunately, few seem to have consulted Mother Nature on this.
The truth is that the wind is about as reliable as that Hyundai Pony that got you &#8212; or not &#8212; to biology class way back when. If ...]]>
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		<title>Boisclair stiffs the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andre Boisclair affirmed his leadership of the Parti Quebecois yesterday, rejecting a motion calling for the nationalization of wind power.
Boisclair characterized the motion &#8212; adopted by a majority of delegates to a meeting of his party&#8217;s national council &#8212; as &#8220;expropriation&#8221; in his closing speech.
And then he delivered his answer to the takeover call:
&#8220;It&#8217;s no.&#8221;
At a news conference, he told reporters: &#8220;Frankness pays in politics. This is the kind of leadership Quebecers want.&#8221;
Government-owned Hydro-Quebec has ...]]>
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		<title>BAPE rejects Skypower&#39;s Quebec wind farm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Quebec Environmental Public Hearing Board has rejected a &#36;350-million wind power proposal from a Toronto company that wanted to build an expansive farm in the province&#8217;s northeastern region.
The board, known by its French acronym, BAPE, gave the thumbs down to Skypower&#8217;s plans, which would include the construction of 114 windmills in four communities bordering the St Lawrence seaway, near RiviÃ¨re-du-Loup.
The board, which held several hearings on the project, concluded Thursday that the turbines would ...]]>
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		<title>SkyPower Wind Energy Fund LP Provides Update on Terrawinds Project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[SkyPower Wind Energy Fund LP (the &#8220;Partnership&#8221;) announced today that Terrawinds Resources Corp. (&#8221;Terrawinds&#8221;) continues to experience delays in obtaining various regulatory approvals for its 201 MW wind park in RiviÃ¨re-du-Loup, QuÃ©bec (the &#8220;Facility&#8221;). Terrawinds had initially expected to complete the installation of up to 26 test wind turbines (the &#8220;CRCE Phase&#8221;) prior to December 31, 2006. As a result of unanticipated delays in obtaining various regulatory approvals, Terrawinds will not be able to complete ...]]>
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		<title>Windmill firm finances trip to GaspÃ©</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Sep 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enterprise&#8217;s is projecting to establish windmills in the region to produce wind-generated energy. To aid its cause, the company has decided to pay a short one-day visit in the GaspÃ© for those who decide, including a delegation from de Roussillon MRC.
Mayor Gilles Yelle of St.Isidore ; Pierre Largy, MRC secretary-treasurer and director general; Lyne Dansereau, MRC layout co-ordinator, and her adjunct visited the GaspÃ© windmill site last Wednesday.
&#8220;It is costing us nothing,&#8221; said Dansereau. ...]]>
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		<title>Vermont, Quebec strengthen the bond</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Sep 2006</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[burlingtonfreepress.com
Vermont&#8217;s energy future has become a hand-wringing issue, tangled up in the uncertainty of power sources and worries about climate change.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest offered another opinion Friday, a more optimistic view. Just north of the border in his province, billions of dollars are being invested in renewable energy &#8212; hydro-electric and wind &#8212; and Quebec wants to increase its power exports.
Vermont, which relies on Hydro-Quebec for a third of its electricity, has been a ...]]>
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