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		<title>Vote delayed on Iberdrola deal</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The state Public Service Commission put Iberdrola SA&#8217;s $4.5 billion acquisition of Energy East Corp. on hold for a week Wednesday after two of its five members could not attend a special hearing to vote on the plan. 
The vote might have taken place had one of the commissioners, Robert Curry Jr., not fallen ill with what was described as a stomach bug. 
The other commissioner to miss the meeting, Cheryl Buley, has decided to resign from the PSC for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Ashby investigates Ashburnham&#8217;s wind-turbine plans</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ASHBY &#8212; Planning Board members are looking at possibly adopting zoning regulations to govern wind turbines. 
Planning Board Member Andy Leonard said the effort comes in light of a movement in Ashburnham to build a 1.5- or 2-megawatt wind turbine on Blood Hill, near the Ashby town line. 
&#8220;The line between Ashburnham and Ashby is an invisible line,&#8221; Leonard said. 
Board members reviewed Ashburnham&#8217;s proposed zoning bylaw to regulate commercial wind turbines to see what can apply to Ashby. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Investors should be wary of Highland wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Indeed, investors should pay due diligence in the consideration of the potential risks before investing in the Highland New Wind Development project. In many respects they would be investing in a pig in a poke scenario because of the multiplex unanswered questions concerning the project. 
For example, it is not yet known whether the project sites on Red Oak Knob and Tamarack Ridge have had a verified, authenticated, unbiased, year-round study that has recorded wind velocity and constancy. Without such .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Landowners share power line concerns</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[About 150 landowners and concerned residents met in Harper Thursday to discuss possible construction of a private electric transmission line through Gillespie County. 
“We basically wanted to get together and pool our information,” Martha Stevens, who helped organize the meeting, said. “We live in an awfully pretty part of Texas, and there are important questions we need to ask.” 
Landowners are concerned, Ms. Stevens said, that construction of power lines will diminish property values and harm the Hill Country’s appeal .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>A form of eminent domain is happening here</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
The dictionary defines eminent domain as the inherent power of the state to seize a citizen&#8217;s private property without the owner&#8217;s consent.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s liberal and controversial decision gave the right: &#8220;In simple terms that the government can take privately owned land, as long as the land will be used by the public and the owner is paid a fair price for the land, what the amendment calls just.&#8221;
&#8220;Used by the public&#8221; being the key phrase.
A form of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>With appeal, resident keeps wind fight alive</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jackson Township resident Frank M. Piccolella Sr. said he still believes he can win the war against a wind farm proposed in northern Lycoming County.  
&#8220;There&#8217;s still plenty of time to stop this thing,&#8221; Piccolella said Wednesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s not over yet.&#8221;  
Piccolella filed an appeal Friday in county court asking it to overturn a decision by the county Zoning Hearing Board that cleared the way for Vermont-based Laurel Hill Wind Energy LLC to build up to 35 electricity-generating .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/with-appeal-resident-keeps-wind-fight-alive/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>PSC acts on two wind energy projects</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first wind farm ever approved in North Dakota has never been built, but may get off the ground now that another company has taken the project over, the North Dakota Public Service Commission said.  
The PSC reissued state certificates Wednesday to Iberdola Renewables Inc. to take over the Rugby Wind farm project from PPM Energy.  
PPM got the original certificates in 2005 to build 100 turbines that would put out 150 megawatts of wind power near Rugby. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/psc-acts-on-two-wind-energy-projects/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbine ordinance&#39;s proposed changes to be discussed at public hearing</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Property owners in Manitowoc County installing small wind turbines likely won&#8217;t be required to own large lots of land to locate their energy-generating systems, according to proposed county ordinance revisions supported by members of a county commission.  
The Manitowoc County Planning and Park Commission voted unanimously at its Monday meeting in favor of the proposed revisions, said Mike Demske, commission director.
The revisions are expected to head to the Manitowoc County Board of Supervisors for a vote in October, he .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/wind-turbine-ordinances-proposed-changes-to-be-discussed-at-public-hearing/</link>
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		<title>College to test wind patterns on South Hill</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ithaca College finished construction this summer on an anemometer, a device used to measure wind speeds, on South Hill.  
The original idea was proposed in fall 2006, when Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, associate professor of physics and John Confer, scholar in residence, approached Sustainable Energy Developments, Inc., a company that develops wind energy projects, about building a wind turbine at the college.    
Clark Joseph said if the anemometer, which was completed Aug. 12, measures enough wind, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm proposal expected</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[OREGON, Ill. — Interest in Illinois as a source of wind-generated electricity has grown in recent years and is likely to grow further, even in parts of the state initially thought to be unsuitable for wind farms, a panelist said Wednesday at a forum held to discuss the issue.   
“We’re receiving inquiries from Mason County, Monroe County and other counties we did not think would be indicated based on the wind map,” said Jerry Quick, attorney for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/wind-farm-proposal-expected/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind energy industry anxious over tax credit</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[How big a deal is two cents? Well, it&#8217;s a big deal if you&#8217;re trying to produce wind energy. A federal production tax credit of 1.9 cents per kilowatt hour is set to expire at the end of the year. Wind energy producers generally expect lawmakers to renew the credit, but Congress has yet to act. With time running out, the wind power industry is scrambling.  
St. Paul, Minn. — The wind is blowing hard as David Norgaard drives .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/wind-energy-industry-anxious-over-tax-credit/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind energy to be considered as power source for Peoria area</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Move over, Chicago. Peoria could become the next Windy City.  
At least, that&#8217;s something local economic development leaders believe is worth looking into.  
Craig Hullinger, economic development director for the city of Peoria, is urging area civic and government leaders to determine the feasibility of making wind power the city&#8217;s chief energy source.  
Many questions must be answered before anything is done, Hullinger said Wednesday, &#8220;But I definitely think this is something worth checking into. Wind energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/wind-energy-to-be-considered-as-power-source-for-peoria-area/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Turning desert green comes with caveats</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When power developers announced plans for coal plants in the Nevada desert, it was clear which side conservation groups would be on: the opposition.  
Because although renewable energy is the darling of the environmental movement — hailed as a cure for our addiction to fossil fuels — solar and other clean power plants can still be hard on the birds and bunnies trying to survive in their shadows.
“Just because it’s green doesn’t mean &#8230; it doesn’t have impacts,” said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/turning-desert-green-comes-with-caveats/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Permits approved for Walnut Ridge</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tuesday was, no doubt, a good day for the Walnut Ridge wind farm developers. In a special meeting Tuesday night, the Bureau County Board approved conditional use permits for 143 turbines, four meteorological towers and three substations for the proposed Walnut Ridge wind farm in northern Bureau County.  
Board members in attendance were unanimous in their approval of the conditional use permits. Board members Joe Bassetti, Tom Giordano, Lisa Mangrich, Rob Pozzi, Pete Swanson and Joe Vasquez were absent. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/28/permits-approved-for-walnut-ridge/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Tilting at turbines&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s what was known:  
1. The South Washington County School District wants to build a wind turbine at the new East Ridge High School in Woodbury.  
2. The school has hired consultants for its plan to construct a 170-foot turbine that officials hope will supply the school with half its energy needs.  
3. The city of Woodbury needs to approve the tower before the school district can move forward with its plans for the turbine.  
Here’s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/tilting-at-turbines/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind opponents file lawsuit</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opponents of a proposed wind farm southwest of Hays filed a lawsuit in Ellis County District Court on Tuesday seeking to reverse the decision to issue a conditional-use permit.  
The lawsuit did not, however, ask for any type of restraining order.  
The case was filed by Wichita attorney Patrick Hughes on behalf of 44 plaintiffs &#8212; a virtual who&#8217;s who of residents living in the area surrounding the proposed wind farm &#8212; against the Ellis County Commission.  .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/wind-opponents-file-lawsuit/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power surge challenges grid operator</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can there be too much of a good thing when it comes to wind power? The Bonneville Power Administration is confronting that question this summer. The regional grid operator has a pile of new connection requests from wind farm developers. There wouldn&#8217;t be much of a story if you could schedule the wind minute–by–minute. But correspondent Tom Banse reports a fickle energy source like this makes life in the control room more interesting.  
WHEN YOU FLIP A LIGHT SWITCH, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/wind-power-surge-challenges-grid-operator/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind plan another green boondoggle</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those who think T. Boone Pickens’ energy plan (substitute wind electricity for natural gas electricity and natural gas for gasoline) is the holy grail for kissing off domestic drilling or consuming coal and oil, should think again.  
Natural gas replenishment still requires drilling, frequently in oil rich terrain, such as off shore and Alaska.  
Wind fluctuates. Power grids require a tight match between power demand and supply to avoid disastrous blackouts. As wind power contributions increase so do .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/wind-plan-another-green-boondoggle/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Jamestown BOE opts out of tax exemption</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency will be in charge of negotiating PILOT agreements with wind farm developers in the Jamestown Public Schools District.  
At Tuesday&#8217;s Board of Education meeting at Jefferson Middle School, school officials decided to opt out of Section 487 of the Real Property Tax Law after hearing from Bill Daly and Rich Dixon of the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency. The law makes the installation of energy improvement systems &#8212; solar power, windmills &#8212; exempt .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/jamestown-boe-opts-out-of-tax-exemption/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Enfield wind farm waits for green light to proceed</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[All is quiet on the Enfield front. What started off as a hot topic on the tip of Tompkins County&#8217;s tongue has become a diamond in the rough, an issue that hasn&#8217;t gone totally quiet, but hasn&#8217;t made any real accomplishments&#8230;yet.  
While the town of Enfield and Newfield do their homework on what it means to have electricity powered by wind, developer John Rancich continues to encourage local organizations to fund his proposed project in the town of Endfield. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/enfield-wind-farm-waits-for-green-light-to-proceed/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Landowners learn about wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[EcoEnergy is confident a proposed 100 megawatt wind turbine project in Hancock County will attract enough interest to be built.  
Representatives from the company held a dinner meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 20, at the University of Illinois- Extension Center in Carthage. Landowners were invited along with members of the Hancock County Board, Hancock County State&#8217;s Attorney Jim Drozdz, and area media.  
EcoEnergy&#8217;s project in the county, called EcoRock, began last year. Nicholas Rigas, PhD, vice president of project .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/landowners-learn-about-wind-turbines/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind powers transmission line</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two credit-worthy wind developers that want to plant wind turbines near Chugwater have tentatively committed to ship a total 585 megawatts of power on the proposed Wyoming-Colorado Intertie transmission line.  
GreenHunter Wind Co. LLC and Duke Energy Ohio Inc. were successful bidders in an auction to sell transmission capacity on the proposed line. Developers expect to sell an additional 265 megawatts of transmission capacity by the time the line is permitted, built and put into service sometime in 2013. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/wind-powers-transmission-line/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Engineers will study best spot for South High wind turbine</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[PLYMOUTH &#8212; Permits have not yet been approved for a test tower, but school officials are already investing in a wind energy project at Plymouth South High School.  
The School Committee voted unanimously last week to hire a Sandwich engineering firm to survey the school campus to pinpoint the best spots to site a wind turbine.  
Atlantic Design Engineers will use relief maps to select the optimal site. The school committee will pay &#36;4,875 for the service.  .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/engineers-will-study-best-spot-for-south-high-wind-turbine/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>PSC no-shows delay Iberdrola vote</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ALBANY — The absence of two of the five members of the panel that regulates utilities in New York led to a delay today in a decision about whether to allow a Spanish company that wants to invest &#36;2 billion in wind power in New York to buy the parent company of two large upstate utilities.   
State Public Service Commission members Cheryl Buley and Robert Curry, who make &#36;109,800 a year, were absent.  
Curry was ill, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/psc-no-shows-delay-iberdrola-vote/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Question regarding wind energy is who&#39;s misleading who&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[ I am writing in response to Horizon Wind&#8217;s Project Manager, Gary Davidson&#8217;s, 8/11/08 letter, &#8220;In energy crisis we need to harvest wind.&#8221; Since I am the author of the letter he was referencing, I had to laugh as Davidson repeatedly stated, &#8220;the writer continues to mislead the public.&#8221; Mr. Davidson, and the industry he represents, have the obvious over-riding motivation to mislead the public here &#8212; GREED! Let&#8217;s consider some of the inaccuracies in Davidson&#8217;s letter which should leave .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/question-regarding-wind-energy-is-whos-misleading-who/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>FPL wants nuclear power to be counted as alternative energy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Florida Power &#038; Light officials told state regulators today that nuclear power should join solar and wind as a renewable energy source in Florida.  
&#8220;I think the goal, the intent is to have the most material impact on greenhouse gases,&#8221; said Eric E. Silagy, FPL&#8217;s chief development officer in explaining why Florida&#8217;s Public Service Commission should reconsider the definition. Since nuclear power plants do not burn fuel, there are virtually no air emissions, such as greenhouse gases that may .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/fpl-wants-nuclear-power-to-be-counted-as-alternative-energy/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm set in motion; Leases OK&#39;d for turbine sites</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the elements needed to put together a 5-megawatt wind energy farm northwest of New Ulm are all coming together for the New Ulm Public Utilities Commission.  
Giant steps were taken at the NUPUC meeting Tuesday as the commission approved the land and wind easement leases with three landowners in southwestern Nicollet County to provide space for the wind turbines needed to generate that amount of &#8220;green&#8221; energy.  
In all, New Ulm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/wind-farm-set-in-motion-leases-okd-for-turbine-sites/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>The wind blows where, when it wants</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Re: Letter to the editor, Aug. 21, &#8220;Blowing away wind criticism,&#8221; by Erin Watson.)  
People aren&#8217;t saying that turbine blades need to be turned electrically when wind dies. They are saying that power coming from other sources has to take the place of the wind-generated power on the electric power grid when wind dies, and it does die!  
A few months ago, the Dallas area experienced rolling brownouts when a front moved through and the wind died unexpectedly, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/the-wind-blows-where-when-it-wants/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Specter stops in Bedford, Johnstown; Alternative energy hot topic of the day</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[BEDFORD &#8212; Wind turbines were the issue of the day Tuesday for many area residents attending a town hall meeting with longtime U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at Heartland Hall.  
Specter held the meeting, which at least 85 people attended, as part of his annual trip across the state during the Senate recess. He gave a brief update on issues in Washington before opening the meeting to audience questions. Specter also appeared in Johnstown Tuesday.  
Many people asked .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/specter-stops-in-bedford-johnstown-alternative-energy-hot-topic-of-the-day/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind energy bumps into power grid&#39;s limits</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind farm spent &#36;320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. But at times, regional electric lines have been so congested that Maple Ridge has been forced to shut down even with a brisk wind blowing.  
That is a symptom of a broad national problem. Expansive dreams about renewable energy, like Al Gore’s hope of replacing all fossil fuels .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/wind-energy-bumps-into-power-grids-limits/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Farmers, homeowners should do math before installing wind systems</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rising electricity costs spark a lot of coffee-shop talk among homeowners and farmers about erecting small wind-power generation systems.  
Wind is a domestic source of renewable — and free — energy that does not pollute. Large utility companies are putting up hundreds of commercial turbines throughout the Midwest to supplement their coal- and natural-gas-based electricity.  
Technology makes installation costs 30 percent less than they were 10 years ago, said Jim Crawford, University of Missouri Extension natural resource engineer .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/farmers-homeowners-should-do-math-before-installing-wind-systems/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Air storage is explored for energy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg dreamed out loud last week about a New York skyline filled with wind turbines, one of the most serious issues raised by the naysayers was that the wind does not always blow when you need it.  
But a New Jersey company plans to announce on Tuesday that it is working on a solution to this perennial problem with wind power: using wind turbines to produce compressed air that can be stored underground or in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/27/air-storage-is-explored-for-energy/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbines proposed for National Forest</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Would host 20 or more 420-foot towers for BP  
If a subsidiary of BP gets its way, residents of Grant Township will see a “greener” National Forest in a couple years.  
White Pines Wind Farm, a subsidiary of BP Alternative Energy, has applied for a special land use permit with the U.S. Forest Service to place 20-28 wind turbines, each 420 feet tall, in the forest north of Forest Trail. The road leads from U.S. 31 to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/wind-turbines-proposed-for-national-forest/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Fracas at wind farm construction site leads to arrest</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[CONCORDIA — One man was arrested Saturday following a dispute at a wind farm construction site southeast of Concordia. 
The fracas involved pickup trucks being rammed together, and one of the parties discharged firearms into a pickup truck, said Jim Roberts, senior project manager for Horizon Wind Energy. The Houston-based company is building a &#36;300 million to &#36;350 million, 201-megawatt wind farm. 
No Horizon employees were involved, and there were no injuries, he said. 
“It was something personal between two .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/fracas-at-wind-farm-construction-site-leads-to-arrest/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine health and safety report released; Structural failure, noise, wildlife concerns among items listed in report</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A subcommittee for the town’s renewable energy board recently released a 40-page health and safety report regarding wind turbines and the impact one could have on the local community.
The group, led by Ron Pitt, began its work July 7 and on Aug. 18 the final draft of the health and safety report was made available to the public. Mr. Pitt, an academic administrator with a doctorate in mechanical engineering, said countless hours of work went into the creation of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/turbine-health-and-safety-report-released-structural-failure-noise-wildlife-concerns-among-items-listed-in-report/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>PSC sets schedule to examine onshore wind contracts</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Onshore wind contracts to purchase energy for Delmarva Power’s standard-offer service customers could be given the nod of approval by early October. 
Wind-power watchers are awaiting the Sept. 17 publication of the Public Service Commission staff report on the contracts. 
The power company has said the total monthly impact of all three contracts to customers could be about &#36;0.24 per month. 
Delmarva Power has asked the Public Service Commission (PSC) for an expedited review of three onshore wind contracts, to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/psc-sets-schedule-to-examine-onshore-wind-contracts/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Concerned citizens fueled creation of wind turbine health and safety report</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Subcommittee member says much is still not known about potential impact on wildlife  
Forty pages of health and safety information surrounding the proposed wind turbine project in town may never have been created had it not been for some anxious residents.
Ron Pitt, chairman for the health and safety subcommittee that researched and wrote the report, said interested and concerned residents, including members of the group Citizens Wind Watch, should be credited for pushing forward the process of learning more .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/concerned-citizens-fueled-creation-of-wind-turbine-health-and-safety-report/</link>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Residents angry with wind turbine site in Barrington</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michael Khouri lives on Middle Highway. Like many of the residents at the Committee for Renewable Energy for Barrington (CREB) community meeting Wednesday night, Aug. 20, Mr. Khouri went to the event in search of answers.
Most of the two-and-a-half hour meeting, however, was spent in heated debate.
The majority of the residents at the meeting at the American Legion Hall said they were concerned about the proximity of the wind turbine to their home if it is constructed at Legion Way, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/residents-angry-with-wind-turbine-site-in-barrington/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>New York PSC to rule on Iberdrola&#39;s &#36;4.5B bid for Energy East</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The future of the world&#8217;s fourth-largest utility in New York state could soon be at an end, or a beginning. 
Iberdrola SA of Bilbao, Spain, has bid more than &#36;4.5 billion for Energy East Corp., the parent company of Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. and New York State Electric and Gas Corp. Fourteen months after the friendly deal was unveiled, Iberdrola is due to get a thumbs up or thumbs down Wednesday from the state Public Service Commission. 
At stake .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/new-york-psc-to-rule-on-iberdrolas-45b-bid-for-energy-east/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm opponents plan appeal</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group of rural Taylor County landowners plan to appeal to the Texas Supreme Court a recent ruling that people cannot sue solely because they dislike how wind turbines sound or look.
The 11th Court of Appeals, which serves 28 counties in West Central Texas, ruled Thursday that a lower court was correct in deciding that state law &#8220;does not provide a nuisance action for aesthetic impact.&#8221;
Dale Rankin, one of the landowners who claimed FPL Energy created a nuisance by erecting .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/wind-farm-opponents-plan-appeal/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine agencies may join forces</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two separate companies interested in acquiring land within the East Conneaut Industrial Park for a possible wind turbine farm may partner on the project, interim City Manager Edward Somppi said at Monday&#8217;s City Council meeting. 
SGR Site Associates of Willoughby and Property Investment Enterprises, based in Geneva, are talking about joining forces, Somppi said. 
Both companies have submitted differing proposals seeking options on a large chunk of the city-owned industrial park land. PIE representatives spoke last year to ex-city manager .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/turbine-agencies-may-join-forces/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Commission mulls wind tower recommendations</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[
Backyard wind towers would be limited to 35 feet in height under an ordinance proposal being considered by the Minot Planning Commission.
An ad hoc committee of the commission reported Monday on its recommendations for wind towers. The commission formed the committee in response to a turbine request from landowners in a rural subdivision that falls within the city&#8217;s zoning jurisdiction.
The commission voted 10-1 to recommend the Minot City Council deny the request from William and Sandra Carlson for a turbine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/commission-mulls-wind-tower-recommendations/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Cooperstown, N.D., wind farm may have to wait until November</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Luverne Wind Farm may have to wait until November or later for final approval. 
The North Dakota Public Service Commission indicated Monday that the 157.5-megawatt wind farm may not be approved until M-Power, LLC, the community-owned developer, completes archaeological and wetlands surveys — and that may not be until after the fall harvest. 
M-Power asked that the wind farm siting be approved, contingent on cultural and wetlands survey results and other data meeting state regulations. 
“Sometimes it’s easier for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/cooperstown-nd-wind-farm-may-have-to-wait-until-november/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Zeeland Township may alter wind energy ordinance</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Zeeland Township planners are looking at altering the township’s wind energy ordinance, Zoning Administrator Don Mannes reported to the township board Aug. 19.
Though the township is one of only two in the county — along with Chester Township — with a “decent wind ordinance,” he said, the ordinance lacks rules for removing turbines after they no longer function.
“These are usually put up with grants, but there’s no money to take them down, so there they stand. We’ve got to have .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/zeeland-township-may-alter-wind-energy-ordinance/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>California eyes Oregon wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[California, whose laws require it to get 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010, has its eyes on Oregon&#8217;s growing wind power industry.
&#8220;They&#8217;re certainly trying to grab it everywhere they can,&#8221; said Lee Beyer, chairman of the Oregon Public Utility Commission.
The Los Angeles Department of Water &#038; Power and Pacific Gas &#038; Electric in San Francisco are among those securing long-term contracts for wind power in Oregon and Washington.
California already imports hydropower in the summer; Oregon and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/california-eyes-oregon-wind-power/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Farmer says possibility of power line on his land &#39;like a punch to the gut&#39;</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON COUNTY — Brian Loudenslager bought half of his family’s farm four years ago with the intention of raising a family there. 
He waited until two weeks ago to move into the farmhouse on the property, allowing a renter time to finish the lease and find another place to live. 
One week after moving in, Loudenslager found out that a swath of the farm where cows graze and alfalfa grows soon could be cleared to make way for a high-voltage .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/farmer-says-possibility-of-power-line-on-his-land-like-a-punch-to-the-gut/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Scientists urged protection for W.Va. squirrel</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Against the advice of outside experts, the Bush administration today will formally remove the West Virginia northern flying squirrel from the endangered species list. 
Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne announced the move Monday, in a news release that credited conservation efforts and habitat restoration with rescuing the squirrel from the brink of extinction. 
But two of three academic experts brought in by the Interior Department recommended against the delisting. 
Those outside scientists backed wildlife advocates who said the agency had little .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/scientists-urged-protection-for-wva-squirrel/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Court ruling comes too late for wind farm developer</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A court victory for wind farm advocates in the town of Lyme has apparently come too late to save a proposed wind farm project.
British Petroleum Alternative Energy, which had hoped to build turbines in the town, halted plans after council members passed a zoning law that BP found to be too restrictive.
The advocacy group Voters for Wind sued the town and won.
While the case was being decided in state supreme court, BP went ahead with its plans to build 95 .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/court-ruling-comes-too-late-for-wind-farm-developer/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>BIRA studies cable, solar and wind options</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Block Island shouldering the second highest electricity rate in the nation, draining the pocket books of residents and businesses alike, the Block Island Residents Association invited three experts who are plugged in to the energy business to speak at its annual meeting on August 16. 
BIRA board member Henry Hill introduced the trio, and commented on the complexity of the issues involved — the cost of a submarine cable, which he said would only “transfer responsibility to someone else” .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/bira-studies-cable-solar-and-wind-options/</link>
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		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind energy group unsure of state’s future plans</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wind Energy Systems Technology, headquatered in New Iberia, recently ad-dressed the Louisiana Public Service Commission regarding its desire to expand wind-gathering operations to the Louisiana Coast. 
Harold Schoeffler, of Lafayette and W.E.S.T. partner , said the group left the meeting with more questions then answers. 
The group has begun operations in Texas, where they have been successful in acquiring 18 square miles of leases, nine miles off the coast of Galveston Island. They remain optimistic about future ventures in Louisiana. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/08/26/wind-energy-group-unsure-of-state%e2%80%99s-future-plans/</link>
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