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	<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Windmill regs face study</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[An individual property owner could get off the grid and harness the wind power under existing Douglas County zoning regulations.
In like fashion, a commercial firm could build a wind farm. The company would have carte blanche in determining where and how to build it. The public would have very little leverage.
Douglas County does not have an ordinance regulating possible sites, designs, permit requirements and public hearing requirements. But tonight, the Douglas County Board considers a .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Doyle to buy more state electricity from renewable sources</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key state agencies and University of Wisconsin schools will buy electricity generated from wind turbines, solar panels and landfill gas systems under a major purchase of green power announced Wednesday.
The purchase will raise the state’s utility bills by about &#36;1.1 million this year, but as power prices rise, the fixed-price contract will end up saving the state money in about seven years, Gov. Jim Doyle said.
“We can define an energy future that leaves our air .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Magnolia sets wind rules that PSC could blow past</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnolia has an ordinance for wind farm development, but that might do little to stop such growth in the town.
That’s why town Supervisor David Olsen said officials opted for a noncontroversial ordinance that should bode well for them if legal issues ever arise.
“We picked a half-mile setback distance because we felt it was very minimal standard,” he said. “It’s easily defendable, and we felt that if we ever had to fight a suit from a .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Magnolia adopts ordinance regulating wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[By a 3-0 vote, the Magnolia Town Board added an ordinance regulating the construction of wind turbines to the books.
The vote came on the heels of a heated public hearing at the same meeting, where nearly a dozen Magnolia residents voiced their support or concern for the ordinance.
The ordinance prohibits building wind turbines within a half-mile of a building or 1,000 feet of a property line. A provision allows homeowners to add a turbine as .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Alliant utility proposes to build Minnesota wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Power and Light Co. said Monday that it is seeking permission to build an up to 400-megawatt wind farm in Freeborn County in southern Minnesota.
In April, Wisconsin Power, a Madison utility of Alliant Energy Corp. (NYSE: LNT), executed a letter of intent to purchase the Bent Tree Wind Farm site for an undisclosed sum from Wind Capital Group LLC, a St. Louis-based developer of wind energy assets. The site has the potential to produce .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Towns continue work on wind ordinances</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNION TOWNSHIP — The town of Union plan commission extended a moratorium on large wind turbines to November at a meeting Thursday night while the town continues work on an ordinance to regulate the turbines.
Committee member Doug Zweizig said officials don’t think they’ll need that much time, however. He’s hopeful the plan commission will vote at its July 31 meeting on a recommendation to the town board.
The draft ordinance states wind turbines are to be .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Complaint filed against wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents opposed to a wind farm project in Two Creeks have filed a complaint in Manitowoc County Circuit Court requesting a permit extension for the project be nullified.
Jerome Hlinak, of rural Two Rivers, his neighbors and members of Wisconsin Independent Citizens Opposing Windturbine Sites (WINDCOWS) claim they are aggrieved by the Manitowoc County Board of Adjustment&#8217;s decision to uphold the project&#8217;s two-year extension.
Navitas Energy Inc. has proposed building 49 wind turbines in Two Rivers, Mishicot .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Windmill wars</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the year 2015, 10% of Wisconsin&#8217;s power must come from renewable energy. Windmills are one answer, and not everyone is happy about it.
Eighty-six towering turbines line the sky in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties, just west of Highway 41. It&#8217;s part of the Forward Wind Energy Center.
Why there?
Project manager Mick Baird of Chicago-based Invenergy explains: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to have wind, the transmission, you have to have land and public support, and we had .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Magnolia committee OKs wind ordinance</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Magnolia Township Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-0 Thursday to recommend a revised ordinance regulating the construction of wind turbines in the township. The ordinance now moves to the town board for approval.
Kevin Kawula, an active resident in the wind turbine discussion, supported the proposed ordinance for its compromise.
The revised ordinance states wind turbines could be constructed within the half-mile limit if the property owner agrees.
“Many of us wish (the half-mile setback) was farther,” .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Utility proposes green efforts if new plant is approved</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>13 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Power and Light Company is offering a plan to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions if state regulators agree to its proposal to build a new coal-fired plant in southwestern Wisconsin.
The utility is a subsidiary of Madison-based Alliant Energy Corp. It said Thursday it would cut emissions by adding wind power and by retiring an old coal boiler at its plant in Sheboygan.
Wisconsin Power also said it will increase the amount of organic waste that would .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Byron official&#39;s remarks an insult</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent story on the Byron Industrial Slum (wind turbine project) that appeared on Channel 6 in Milwaukee, Francis Ferguson, town chairman for Byron, was quoted as stating, &#8220;The complainers are implants and are not old standby people.&#8221;
At a recent town board meeting, he admitted to making that comment. As one of the leading &#8220;complainers&#8221; the past four years, I am offended by Mr. Ferguson&#8217;s slanderous comments and his insults. I personally was born .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind ordinances faces changes</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAGNOLIA TOWNSHIP — Wind turbines could be built closer than a half mile to homes in Magnolia Township if affected homeowners agree, under a revised draft of an ordinance being considered by the town board.
The board will present the revised draft at a public hearing Thursday. The change would allow wind turbines to be constructed closer than a half mile to homes with the homeowner’s consent, town board member Kurt Bartlett said.
The original draft would .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Energy initiatives proposed; Task force leaders call for renewable power push, relaxed rules for plants</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin&#8217;s ban on nuclear power plants would be relaxed, in conjunction with plans to dramatically boost the state&#8217;s reliance on wind turbines and other forms of renewable power between now and 2025, under a proposal unveiled Tuesday to members of the state&#8217;s global warming task force.
A proposal by the two task force leaders &#8212; Tia Nelson, executive secretary of the state Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, and Roy Thilly, president and chief executive of .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Windmill policy heads to town boards</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simpler windmill policy passed the Eau Claire County Planning and Development Committee Tuesday night but still requires approval from town governments and the County Board.
Brunswick Town Chairman Frederick Turk thanked the committee for making the windmill law less restrictive than a draft presented in March.
&#8220;It was pretty unreasonable before,&#8221; he said.
At that March 11 public hearing, members of the public and wind energy industry protested part of that draft of the windmill law, saying .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Turbines make letter writer ill</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had my first round of wind turbine sickness.
We live in a valley with woods on the Johnsburg side, so we cannot see the forest of turbines two miles away from our house-thank God. But it&#8217;s impossible to drive in any direction without seeing them. At night they are a long string of big, very bright red lights flashing in synchrony across the complete southern horizon. In the daytime it&#8217;s a continuous horizon of spinning .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farm could cost &#36;475 million</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Power &#038; Light Co. said Friday that the large wind power project it plans to develop in Minnesota will cost &#36;450 million to &#36;475 million.
The Madison-based utility, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corp., filed an application with state regulators to approve the Bent Tree Wind Farm in Freeborn County, Minn.
If the project is approved, construction will begin next year and generation of electricity will begin by the end of 2010, the utility said. The .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Speakers address turbine issues</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Calumet County Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday, May 20 drew a crowd of about 80 people who were there not so much to listen to the regular proceedings of the meeting but to the presentations given by individuals on both sides of the wind turbine issue.
Before the initial debate among supervisors came up regarding if all five presentations regarding the wind turbine issue would be allowed to go forth as on the agenda, .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind turbines are noisy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally decided to write my opinion on the wind turbine towers. Actually it&#8217;s more my personal experience.
My husband and I live amid several of the 88 wind turbines located in Malone and Johnsburg.
I would like to echo a hearty &#8220;Amen!&#8221; to Sandy Vercauteren&#8217;s guest commentary in The Reporter on Friday, May 16.
I would challenge anyone who thinks wind turbines make little or no noise to live next to one 24/7 for two weeks straight. .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Concerns aired in wind energy forum</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAYVILLE — Jim Congdon said two friends living in the town of Byron are experiencing significant sound problems and constant blade flicker since the &#36;250 million Forward Wind Energy Center began operating.
&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely irritating,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What is the company going to do with somebody like that?&#8221;
Laura Miner, asset manager associate for Chicago-based Invenergy Wind LLC, said it&#8217;s currently fielding all complaints .
&#8220;What we did when we built the project was to have a 1,000-foot .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Farmer displeased with turbine issues</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Hass has been crop farming a long time in the Johnsburg area, and he knows what his soil needs to be like to grow a good crop.
What it cannot be is the rocky mess he said was left behind in areas following the installation of several wind turbines on his property just south of Malone.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not talking about just my farm &#8212; I&#8217;m talking everywhere,&#8221; Hass said during a recent visit to his farm.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Brownsville doesn&#39;t like their turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give some credit to Calumet County for putting limits on 400-foot wind turbines. Perhaps they have seen how the landscape has been trashed at Johnsburg. Permanently!
Now if the politicians in Chilton could start working with the solar energy companies, they could set a good example for the rest of this area. They will have to initiate some kind of energy program before our governor and his wind crowd take revenge.
Here, near the Brownsville project (Fond .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Holland asked to adopt wind ordinance</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 09:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASKEATON — Attorney James Sickel recommended that the Town of Holland adopt the same ordinance developed by the neighboring Town of Morrison to regulate wind energy developments.
&#8220;It is very well done and thorough,&#8221; Sickel said. He said it deals with all of the issues on concern to Holland: setback, noise, vibration, shadow, flicker, safety and removal.
Sickel called ordinance provisions to guarantee removal of abandoned windmills the key concern. He said calling for an irrevocable letter .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Loud wind turbines do not belong near homes</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerning Mr. Gary Trew&#8217;s commentary on wind power on May 8:
Mr. Trew, I am not an engineer so I cannot comment on topics 1 through 4, but I am a health-care professional and a homeowner who lives in the wind factory, and would like to correct topic No. 5.
Wind turbines are noisy a lot of the time — very noisy.
There are two sounds, a motor drone and an intermittent whooshing sound. The noise is constant, .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Completion date, other facts about Blue Sky Green Field</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of Monday morning, 74 of the 88 wind turbines in the Blue Sky Green Field wind farm in the Johnsburg/Mount Calvary/Marytown area had been commissioned, according to We Energies officials.
Andy Hesselbach, project manager of Blue Sky Green Field, and Richard O&#8217;Conor, project engineer, said they are still expecting completion of the project by the end of this month or possibly even a few days earlier.
The remaining 14 turbines yet to be commissioned are erected .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>County to regulate turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high price of oil and global warming are pushing an agenda to find alternative sources of energy.
Douglas County is gearing up to be prepared should those efforts — at least where wind is concerned — reach area forests and farmlands.
“If you think you had fun with cell towers, you’re going to have a lot of fun with wind energy,” Zoning Administrator Steve Rannenberg told the county’s zoning committee today, referring to the likely controversy.
With .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farm remorse</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 01:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WITI-TV  &#8212;  Even a child playing with a kite or a pinwheel realizes the strength of a strong breeze. Harnessing the wind to power homes is no longer something that will happen in Wisconsin, it&#8217;s happening now. FOX 6&#8217;s Ted Perry&#8217;tells you there&#8217;s also controversy blowing in the wind.

May 7, 2008
Fox 6 Milwaukee, myfoxmilwaukee.com
Or click here to view the report at National Wind Watch (16.6-MB mp4).
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		<title>Engineer questions wind energy claims</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 49 years as a power engineer, going from engineer apprentice to manager of power supply for approximately two-thirds of rural Illinois, my blood curdles when I read some of the rabid pro-windmill articles rampant in the press these days.
Statements like &#8220;the wind is free&#8221; (then why do they need the massive tax breaks and subsidies) and &#8220;this wind farm will supply 35,000 homes,&#8221; neglecting to finish the sentence with &#8220;for maybe 25 percent of .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Survey supports wind plan</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents might back the proposed wind project in Union Township, but it still faces a fight for the land.
Seventy-three percent of voters in the Evansville Water and Light service area are in favor of the three-turbine project and 12 percent opposed, according to a survey conducted by the developer.
The survey, commissioned by EcoEnergy, was done from April 14 to 16 with 349 voters in the service area. The survey carries a 4.6 percent margin of .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wisconsin county implements strict noise regulations on wind turbines; Company declares “war to end all wars”</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calumet County, in eastern Wisconsin, recently faced a dilemma that is increasingly common in rural America: an outside company had appeared in their region, planning to build wind farms and seeking permits. Many local governmental bodies have taken a cursory look at complex reports submitted by companies, taken assurances of “no noise” at face value, and later regretted not learning more. The Calumet County Board of Supervisors took two years to consider the issue, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>CCC4RE member clarifies group&#8217;s position</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol and Wes Kupsky, Ken Buechel and Len Davis have asked several questions of those county residents and fellow taxpayers they have labeled the &#8220;Anti-Renewable Energy Crowd.&#8221;
As a member of that concerned grassroots citizens group, known as CCC4RE, Calumet County Citizens for Responsible Energy, I appreciate the chance to provide them with much-needed information.
No. 1. CCC4RE held a public informational meeting in August 2007 at Chilton High School. Seven hundred people attended. The wind company .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Windmill proposal goes around again</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new proposal for a wind energy law in Eau Claire County is being presented to rural leaders after a previous draft had been criticized for making windmills too expensive to build.
The county&#8217;s Planning and Development Committee reviewed the draft Tuesday night and agreed to have it brought to town leaders before coming back for a public hearing on the evening of May 27.
&#8220;The revision you gave us was a vast improvement,&#8221; said Will Fantle, .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Ordinance, neighbor opposition may hinder area wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>26 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmers considering whether to install a wind turbine to generate electricity likely will face prohibitive county laws and opposition from area residents, a wind energy expert said.
With a few exceptions, &#8220;if there has been controversy in your neighborhood about a wind farm, people are not going to let you put up a 100-foot tower,&#8221; said Jenny Heinzen, an instructor specializing in wind turbines at Lakeshore Technical College.
&#8220;Hopefully people recognize that small wind turbines for individual .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Supported facts about wind energy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently submitted a letter to the Tri-County News regarding the negative aspects of wind turbine farms.
The intent of the letter was to spark some further debate on the issue, and the fact that an individual took the time to question and counter some of my points makes me appreciate the blessings of a country that allows us all to freely speak our opinions.
My letter was originally printed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Developers considering windy Lake Michigan as power source</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines could soon tower above the Kenosha skyline, but not on land.
They&#8217;d be stretching skyward out of Lake Michigan.
According to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials, three developers have expressed interest in building hundreds of the turbines offshore, including more than 600 that would stretch from Kewaunee to Kenosha. The developers have concepts but they haven&#8217;t submitted formal plans, said Steve Ugoretz, lead wind energy analyst with the Department of Natural Resources.
A plan by .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Dover looks at limits on wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOVER — Ray Gromacki says he is a realist when it comes to the green movement that is sweeping America and emerging technologies that support today’s lifestyles.
But at the same time the Dover town chairman wants to make sure town residents and their properties have some relief from the towering apparatus needed to support machinery like wind turbines, television and broadcast antennae and cell phone towers.
The Town Board and Plan Commission on April 16 directed .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farms proposed on water; 3 separate groups want to put turbines in Lake Michigan</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>24 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three developers are floating plans to erect hundreds of wind turbines in Lake Michigan as interest in the construction of wind farms surges around the country.
The Lake Michigan plans are all in the very preliminary stages, and how they would be financed is unclear.
The projects are being discussed as several state agencies have launched a study to determine the feasibility of erecting wind turbines on the two Great Lakes that border the state &#8212; Superior .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>&#8216;One-woman protest&#8217; against wind turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fond du Lac County and its elected officials have allowed their citizens&#8217; health and safety to be endangered.
Allowing an industrial wind factory with turbine placement closer to family residences than the 1.2-mile minimum safety distance required by the World Health Organization compromises the health of citizens. Because of this negligence and the irresponsible placement of turbines, many of my friends and neighbors are experiencing the beginnings of wind turbine syndrome or vibro-acoustic disease.
Since I can&#8217;t .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>WPL buys huge wind farm; Unbuilt project would span 32,000 acres in southern Minnesota</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Power &#038; Light Co. plans to build a 200-megawatt wind farm in southern Minnesota by the end of 2010, the Madison-based utility said Tuesday.
he company said it signed a letter of intent to buy a wind farm that spans more than 32,000 acres in Freeborn County, Minn., from Wind Capital Group LLC, a wind energy development firm based in Missouri.
At 200 megawatts, the Bent Tree Wind Farm could generate enough electricity to power up .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Dispelling the myths of tall-tale turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who likes taxes raise your hands.
C&#8217;mon, anyone? Nobody?
OK, well how about an efficient source of renewable energy? Yeah, that&#8217;s more like it! I couldn&#8217;t agree more!
Now how about a project that is 70 percent inefficient, could cost around $240 million of your tax money, and does irreplaceable damage to environmental and housing economies — say, like a wind turbine farm?
I completely support progress and the development of alternative sources of energy, as long as .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Judge dismisses wind company suit against ordinance</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANITOWOC — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a wind farm developer that argued Manitowoc County&#8217;s wind turbine ordinance violates state law and makes the company&#8217;s proposed project &#8220;cost-prohibitive.&#8221;
Manitowoc County Circuit Judge Darryl Deets on Wednesday dismissed the case, which was filed by Emerging Energies LLP of Hubertus, in May 2007.
Emerging Energies is proposing a seven-turbine wind farm in the town of Mishicot. The plan has been met with criticism. In April 2007, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind farms kick up protest</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given Wisconsin&#8217;s reputation as a &#8220;green&#8221; state, it would seem that a proposal to construct wind farms in Lake Michigan and Lake Superior off the state&#8217;s shores would easily be approved.
But opposition to land-based wind farms and the slow development of wind power in the state have some wind power advocates gearing up for a fight with those expressing concern about humming noise, flickering shadows and ruined views.
&#8220;Anytime you talk about putting anything in the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Utility gets OK to build Iowa wind farm; WPS customers would pay &#36;54 million of cost</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Public Service Corp. won approval from state regulators to build a wind farm in Iowa to help comply with a state mandate to increase its supply of renewable power.
The Crane Creek wind farm in Howard County, Iowa, is estimated to cost &#36;251 million, and it will help the utility comply with a requirement that 2% of its power come from renewable sources. The mandate comes from a state law requiring utilities to sell more .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind turbines are a 24-hour pain</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another piece pumping up those obscene wind turbines, this time with some twisted correlation with &#36;4 a gallon gas (Guest Editorial, The Reporter, April 2).
Plugging your electric car into a windmill every 40 miles might work. Give some credit to Calumet County for deciding not to go with 400-foot turbines. Perhaps they have seen how the landscape has been permanently trashed at Johnsburg. Now if the politicians in Chilton could start working with the solar .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wisconsin feels turbulence over pulling power from air</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[State finds more opposition than expected to wind turbines
Given Wisconsin&#8217;s reputation as a &#8220;green&#8221; state, it would seem that a proposal to construct wind farms in Lake Michigan and Lake Superior off the state&#8217;s shores would easily be approved.
But opposition to land-based wind farms and the slow development of wind power in the state have some wind power advocates gearing up for a fight with those expressing concern about humming noise, flickering shadows and ruined .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/04/12/wisconsin-feels-turbulence-over-pulling-power-from-air/</link>
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		<title>Resident talks about living near turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a letter I wrote to the PSC (Public Service Commission of Wisconsin). I would also like to share this with you and your readers.
To Jim Lepinski, Public Service Commissioner:
I am writing in disgust to you about the wind turbine project that went up around the town of Brownsville. My family and I live in the township of Leroy. We came to live out here about five and a half years ago, looking for .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Magnolia tables wind ordinance discussion</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Town of Magnolia Planning and Zoning Board voted 5-0 tonight to table its discussion on a draft ordinance that would regulate wind turbines.
More than 30 people turned out for the meeting, which included a public hearing on the draft ordinance.
The draft ordinance proposes wind turbines be placed at least a one-half mile from homes and other inhabited structures and at least 1,000 feet from property lines. The draft was copied almost entirely from the .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Wind energy project in works; Possible sites are in Kaukauna, Freedom</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaukauna Utilities, Wisconsin Public Power Inc. and EcoEnergy are planning a small wind energy project in an area north of Kaukauna — roughly centered around the intersection of Outagamie County J and Outagamie County UU.
The sites under consideration are in the town of Kaukauna and Freedom, and a recent open house sponsored by the three partners in the project drew about 100 people to see displays in the old gym at Freedom High School.
The project .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Clay Banks takes ordinance testimony</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Focused on protecting their health and safety, several town of Clay Banks residents advocate a strong municipal wind control ordinance that severely limits commercial wind turbine development.
But the town could go to court if residents, rather than developers, challenge the proposal, said John Hippensteel, a technical adviser for a local developer, Community Wind Energy LLC, when he spoke Saturday at a public hearing attended by about 40 people.
After the Calumet County town of Stockbridge passed .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>A bad, bad, bad idea</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 49 years as a power engineer to my credit, going from engineer apprentice to manager of the power supply for two-thirds of rural Illinois, my blood curdles when I read rabid pro-windmill articles such as the one that appeared on the March 31 Perspectives page (&#8221;Should wind be our future?&#8221;). It appears writer Dan Kohler doesn&#8217;t understand simple arithmetic, let alone the power situation in Wisconsin. Or, heaven forbid, that of the United States .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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		<title>Magnolia proposes wind ordinance</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed wind ordinance that would keep wind turbines a half-mile from any home could be up for its first vote Thursday in Magnolia Township.
The planning and zoning board will have a public hearing and discuss and possibly act on the draft ordinance at its 7 p.m. meeting Thursday night at the town hall.
The board decided to use the draft ordinance put together by the Town of Union Wind Study Committee, which spent five months .&#160;.&#160;.]]>
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