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						<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm turns up controversy over displacing wildlife</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/wind-farm-turns-up-controversy-over-displacing-wildlife/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A proposed wind farm on White Mountain in Sweetwater County could displace some wildlife and place turbines within sight of Rock Springs, but also would boost the local economy, according to an environmental study.
The Bureau of Land Management released its environmental assessment this week of the proposed White Mountain Wind Energy Project.
Teton Wind LLC, a subsidiary of Lehi, Utah-based Tasco Engineering, has proposed the project, which would sit on private, state and BLM land two to three .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Two sides clash at public meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/two-sides-clash-at-public-meeting/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A verbal battleground greeted those who entered the Norwich Community Centre&#8217;s Optimist Room Monday, as ProWind Canada&#8217;s Gunn&#8217;s Hill Wind Farm Inc. presented its latest plans to the public.
As you entered the door, opponents of wind-farm developments greeted you and offered literature showing their concerns that no independent epidemiological studies on the health impacts of wind turbines have been conducted. They were supported by residents from the Clear Creek area who already live adjacent to an existing wind farm.
Their literature .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbine worries arise in Wales</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/wind-turbine-worries-arise-in-wales/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Councilman Gerald Klinck recently presented information to the Wales Town Board regarding the possible revision to the town’s wind energy conservation system covering windmills. The issue is taking on added importance in this community that borders the Wyoming County line and the Town of Sheldon, which has seen a proliferation of windmills on nearby hills.
At the Town Board’s Jan. 26 work session, Klinck thinks that Wales could be in for the same fate unless the current law on the books .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Jackson residents approve wind turbine limits</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/jackson-residents-approve-wind-turbine-limits/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Maine — Residents this weekend approved a controversial wind turbine ordinance that would impose strict regulations on industrial wind power developments.
Among other things, the ordinance — written by the planning board and the wind energy subcommittee — stipulates that any 400-foot-tall turbines erected must be at least a mile from any houses.
Although the 111-75 vote Saturday morning at a special town meeting has cheered many who oppose large-scale wind facilities in Maine, it also has dismayed some in this .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine firm denies dodging bylaw; Amherstburg setback rule stringent</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/turbine-firm-denies-dodging-bylaw-amherstburg-setback-rule-stringent/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The president of a company trying to build a $25-million wind turbine project denied Monday trying to circumvent the town&#8217;s zoning bylaw.
&#8220;We are in no way trying to do an end-around,&#8221; GenGrowth&#8217;s Paul Merkur told council.
The company has nine wind turbine projects planned, under construction or completed in Southwestern Ontario, including another three in Lakeshore, Merkur said.
Merkur said the company is meeting all ministry environmental standards, and the Amherstburg project has been more heavily scrutinized than most as a result .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Leave Donegal landscape alone &#8211; wind farm objectors</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/leave-donegal-landscape-alone-wind-farm-objectors/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A proposed 13 turbine wind farm near Ardara would destroy a Gaeltacht and its built heritage, ruin rare wildllife habitat and drive tourists away, opponents to the scheme claim.
Altnagapple Wind Ltd was granted conditional planning permission for the development on 253 hectares at Altnagapple and Mulmosog. A number of appeals, however, have been lodged with An Bord Pleanála, which is now considering the matter.
One objector says that one of the turbines, which will be 65m high and have 82m wide .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Opponents organizing to fight wind plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/opponents-organizing-to-fight-wind-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Legislators and other officials from Jefferson and Oswego counties will begin mounting opposition to New York Power Authority&#8217;s proposal to put 500 megawatts of wind energy development in Lake Ontario.
Jefferson County Legislature Chairman Kenneth D. Blankenbush, R-Black River, said they first will find out more about the proposal and then organize to oppose a widespread project.
The Board of Legislators voted to approve the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement Feb. 2, which helped pave the way for that 252-megawatt project.
&#8220;Having .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Town of Holland has &#8216;no power&#8217; to block proposed wind farm, developer says</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/town-of-holland-has-no-power-to-block-proposed-wind-farm-developer-says/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A wind farm developer has cautioned town of Holland officials that their moratorium on the construction of wind farms is not legally enforceable.
Invenergy LLC, which is seeking state approval for a wind farm in southern Brown County, also questions Holland’s toughened setback requirements for wind turbines.
“Regardless of the town’s desire to enact such a moratorium or setbacks, it has no power to do so,” Invenergy attorney Peter Gardon wrote in a six-page letter dated Feb. 4.
The Holland Town Board voted .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbine opponents blow in to Evansford</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/turbine-opponents-blow-in-to-evansford/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[WIND CHANGE: One-time wind farm advocate Donald Thomas now believes turbines are affecting the health of those who live or work in the area.
The noise of turbines could carry all the way to Clunes if the Waubra South wind farm extension goes ahead, Evansford resident Donald Thomas says.
Mr Thomas joined about 60 wind farm opponents at a meeting at Evansford Community Centre last week to draw attention to the health issues they say the turbines create.
Organised by the Pyrenees Landscape .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Lawmakers want registry of wind-measuring devices</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/lawmakers-want-registry-of-wind-measuring-devices/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[PIERRE &#8211; A state legislator wants to require registration of locations where anemometers are placed to measure wind speeds in South Dakota.
Rep. Jason Frerichs, D-Wilmot, said the registry would help crop pilots avoid the towers when they&#8217;re spraying fields from the air.
He said landowners in an area also would benefit by knowing who&#8217;s conducting research there for possible development of wind farms.
The legislation, House Bill 1155, is scheduled for its hearing on Wednesday by the House Commerce Committee.
The measure carries .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>South Dakota officials debate lengthening time for developers to complete wind energy projects in the state</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/south-dakota-officials-debate-lengthening-time-for-developers-to-complete-wind-energy-projects-in-the-state/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A bill that would lengthen the amount of time to develop a wind energy project to as long as 50 years meets with some concern by one industry official.
House Assistant Majority Leader Kristi Noem, R-Castlewood, wants to change the current limit, which is five years, for developers to have an easement — the right to use another person’s land for a stated purpose — on wind projects. The bill is HB1263.
Steve Wegman, executive director of the South Dakota Wind Energy .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Jackson residents approve wind ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/jackson-residents-approve-wind-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[JACKSON &#8212; Jackson residents approved a new wind turbine ordinance Feb. 6. The document has been championed by opponents of industrial wind-power development, but according to the town&#8217;s attorney has flaws that could be exploited by developers.
The ordinance defines four classes of turbine, reserving the toughest restrictions for the largest — industrial turbines more than 300 feet tall — and developments that include three or more smaller turbines. For these, the minimum setback must be equal to 13times the height .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Poll over Welshpool wind turbine road fears</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/poll-over-welshpool-wind-turbine-road-fears/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A public vote about whether parts for wind turbines should be transported through a Powys town is to be held.
There are concerns that the large structures, carried on lorries through Welshpool and nearby villages, will be too much for the area&#8217;s road network.
The town council is conducting a poll on the issue and people are allowed to vote between 1400 and 1900 GMT.
A Powys council report last year said turbines could bring &#8220;significant disruption&#8221; to countryside highways.
A study for the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power project advances here</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/wind-power-project-advances-here/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Financial arrangements have been approved for southeastern Pennsylvania&#8217;s first commercial wind project — two 360-foot-high turbines atop Turkey Hill in Manor Township.
PPL and the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority have entered into a lease agreement that is expected to have the turbines generating electricity this fall on the Frey Farm Landfill overlooking the Susquehanna River.
&#8220;This is a major step forward, and all systems are go for southeastern Pennsylvania&#8217;s first commercial wind project,&#8221; said James Warner, the authority&#8217;s executive director.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Council still awaits new details on wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/council-still-awaits-new-details-on-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Donegal County Council is awaiting further details on contentious plans for a wind farm near Glenties, with up to 35 turbines that would be higher than the Spire in Dublin’s O’Connell Street.
The turbines, each with a hub height of 80 metres and a blade diameter of 90 metres, would be located in the townlands of Graffy, Meenagrubby, Meenaleenaghan, Meenachuit, Dalraghan More, Meenamenragh, Meenavale, Greenans, Stralinchy and Mully.
The developer, Ballybofey businessman PJ Molloy, owns some land in the area – known .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Borders councillors object to Lammermuir wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/borders-councillors-object-to-lammermuir-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Borders councillors are to lodge an objection with the Scottish government over plans for a major wind farm in the Lammermuir Hills.
Community Windpower Limited want to build 30 turbines, each 475ft high, near the existing Aikengall wind farm.
The site straddles the boundary between the Scottish Borders and East Lothian, whose council has said it has no objections.
But the Borders authority wants to call a halt to the development.
The turbines are the largest so far proposed onshore in Scotland.
Councillor Trevor Jones, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Western Maine Audubon’s wind power resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/09/western-maine-audubon%e2%80%99s-wind-power-resolution/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Land Use Regulation Commission is considering a request from TransCanada to allow extension of its Kibby wind farm into a portion of LURC jurisdiction that has been considered unexpedited. Currently this area is subject to the usual protected mountain zoning restrictions.
This request has focused attention on the rules governing such expansion. We recall that the Wind Power Task force enabling legislation was rapidly moved through the Legislature last year. It is our belief that these rules are currently too .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>New wrinkle in eminent domain?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/new-wrinkle-in-eminent-domain/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Platte County rancher Bob Whitton likens the power of eminent domain to brandishing a gun in an argument. The person with the gun doesn&#8217;t have to use it in order to persuade the person without a gun.
&#8220;The threat is there without having to use it,&#8221; said Whitton, chairman of the Renewable Energy Alliance of Landowners, or REAL.
Wyoming leaders are once again rethinking the power of eminent domain in the midst of a modest boom in wind energy.
Last week, Gov. Dave .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Governor ignores facts about wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/governor-ignores-facts-about-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In 2002, just after the completion of a little house we consider our “dream home,” we were contacted by Zilkha Wind Power (now Horizon). Our dreams for the future were shattered by that five minute phone call as we learned what was planned for our quiet neighborhood.
I’ve spent the last eight years of my life fighting against inappropriate siting of monstrous commercial wind turbines in and around rural communities here in New York and across the United States. So far .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm meets stiff resistance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/wind-farm-meets-stiff-resistance/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE IDA LEWIS &#8212; Interior Secretary Ken Salazar journeyed out into Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard vessel last week to signal the Obama administration&#8217;s readiness to put some muscle behind wind energy. To do that, Salazar has to resolve a battle over building a wind farm on 25 square miles of open water that has driven a rift between environmentalists, infuriated local Native Americans and threatened one of the administration&#8217;s cherished priorities.
The nearly decade-long fight over whether to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Concerns raised about wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/concerns-raised-about-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Two shire councils in the New South Wales South East have made submissions to the state planning department about a proposed wind farm development on the Monaro.
The Boco Rock Wind Farm, 30km north of Bombala, will include up to 125 wind turbines which can power almost 120,000 homes.
The submissions were made last week by Cooma-Monaro and Bombala Shire Councils, expressing concerns including damage to roads and the future cost to the surrounding communities.
Bombala Shire&#8217;s Mayor, Bob Stewart, says he hopes .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Eastham land eyed for school turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/eastham-land-eyed-for-school-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School is exploring the possible use of town-owned land as a site for a wind turbine.
Voters may be asked in May if &#8220;they&#8217;d like to discuss leasing us some land,&#8221; Nauset principal Thomas M. Conrad told the Nauset Regional School Committee at a meeting Thursday in Orleans.
He previously met with Eastham Town Administrator Sheila Vanderhoef and members of the town&#8217;s turbine committee. The zoning on Cable Road across from the school would allow a 250-foot-tall .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Grand Haven Township wind turbine project continues</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/grand-haven-township-wind-turbine-project-continues/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Despite being denied a $9.5 million federal grant, the city of Grand Rapids remains firm in its pursuit to build two industrial-size wind turbines at its water filtration plant in Grand Haven Township.
 Grand Rapids Deputy City Manager Eric DeLong stated in a letter dated Jan. 28 that the city &#8220;recently learned&#8221; they were not awarded the grant, which would help fund two 300-foot turbines and solar panels at the plant, 11177 Lakeshore Ave.
&#8220;As we have previously stated, the city .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>First victory to Tewkesbury turbine campaigners</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/first-victory-to-tewkesbury-turbine-campaigners/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Protesters  fighting a proposal to build wind turbines are celebrating a small victory.
Wind Prospect Developments wants to install three 126 metre turbines near Upper Strensham, between Harbour Wood and Brockeridge Common.
It needs to build an access track near to the site before the scheme gets the go-ahead.
But the track was rejected by Wychavon District Council in April last year, a decision which has now been upheld by the Planning Inspectorate.
David Wallbank, chairman of the Strensham Wind Action Group, said: .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind energy standards bill gaining support</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/wind-energy-standards-bill-gaining-support/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CUMBERLAND — Delegate Wendell Beitzel has submitted a bill that would require the development of general performance standards for commercial wind turbines across the state.
Last year’s solo effort failed to get out of the House Economic Matters Committee. This year, the bill already has 22 co-sponsors, including the influential Montgomery County Democrat Brian Feldman, a member of the Economic Matters Committee, as well as Democrat Barbara Frush, of Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties.
Delegates Kevin Kelly and LeRoy Myers also .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm considered for central Missouri</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/wind-farm-considered-for-central-missouri/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[COLE CAMP, Mo. &#124; More than 50 farmers and property owners from northern Benton County have agreed to explore whether to bring a 300-megawatt wind farm to the area.
The group met this past week at Cole Camp High School to consider building wind turbines in parts of northern Benton County. More than 50 farmers who own nearly 12,000 acres in the county agreed to solicit proposals from companies to conduct preliminary site evaluations.
Mark Chamberlin, a dairy and chicken farmer, began .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbines &#8216;are too close&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/08/wind-turbines-are-too-close/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Villagers  have staged a series of stunts to highlight the impact of building a windfarm near their homes.
Campaigners from Ardley, Fewcott and Fritwell, near Bicester, used a blimp airship and a helicopter hovering over the site to show how the four proposed 125-metre high turbines could blight residents’ lives.
The stunts came after Chesterfield-based energy firm Bolsterstone forced a public inquiry over its plans to build the turbines at Willowbank Farm, just south of the M40, between Fewcott and Fritwell.
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Noise]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>More complications for wind power in Maine: Local residents react to excessive and unexpected noise</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/more-complications-for-wind-power-in-maine-local-residents-react-to-excessive-and-unexpected-noise/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In Vinalhaven, a small island community off the coast of central Maine, the recent installation of three massive wind towers was hailed by residents and developers as the answer to the island&#8217;s energy woes, but as soon as the turbines started turning this past November, some local residents began to regret what they now feel was a &#8220;devil&#8217;s bargain.&#8221; In the first days of operation, many of the surrounding property owners – there are 15 within a half mile of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Protecting wetlands in wind turbine siting bill</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/protecting-wetlands-in-wind-turbine-siting-bill/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Legislation adopted last week by the state Senate that streamlines the permitting process for large-scale wind turbine projects includes language proposed by Sen. Robert L. Hedlund that preserves local control over wetlands and other environmentally sensitive areas.
“The state, especially under the current administration, has a track record of choosing invasive development over the protection of environmentally sensitive areas,” Hedlund said. “Too much power was taken away from our communities by the state and handed over to for-profit developers in chapter .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Jackson voters approve wind ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/jackson-voters-approve-wind-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Voters in Jackson Saturday approved a wind development ordinance.
The vote was 111 Yes, 75 No.
The proposed ordinance includes regulations for noise levels and setbacks from property lines.
One of the most controversial is a requirement that industrial size turbines have setbacks 13 times greater than the height of the turbine.
That means a 400-foot turbine, like the ones in Mars Hill or Freedom, would require a setback of about a mile.
Planning board members say the ordinance allows development while protecting residents.
A developer .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Agreement reached on Cape wind ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/agreement-reached-on-cape-wind-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CAPE VINCENT — Town officials reached an agreement on sound and setback requirements in a potential wind power zoning ordinance during a workshop on Saturday.
A compromise between existing language and more restrictive setbacks left the requirements for turbines that they be placed no closer than 2,500 feet south of Route 12E between the village and Clayton, and east from County Route 6; and no closer than 3,000 feet from the village boundaries.
The turbines would not be allowed to raise the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Parents of technician killed in Sherman County wind-turbine collapse file suit</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/parents-of-technician-killed-in-sherman-county-wind-turbine-collapse-file-suit/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The parents of a 34-year-old technician who died when the 230-foot wind-turbine tower he was in collapsed to the ground in a Sherman County wheat field is suing for $7 million.
In their lawsuit, Gail Eikanas  and Jerry Mitchell fault the Danish turbine maker Siemens Wind Power A/S, the Klondike Wind Farms III and owners PPM Energy, among others. Their son, Chadd  Mitchell, died in August 2007. He was the father of two.
The suit was filed Thursday in Multnomah .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Oregon&#8217;s Steens Mountain could soon have wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/oregons-steens-mountain-could-soon-have-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ruggedly beautiful Steens Mountain stands in an area of southeast Oregon so isolated that it&#8217;s barely changed since cattle king Pete French arrived in the late 1800s.
Coyotes yelp at sundown. Drivers are so few that they wave to each other as they pass. Campers, hunters and bird-watchers trek from across the state to breathe in the majestic emptiness and to gaze from the Steens summit across a seemingly endless tapestry of high desert and open range.
But soon, the scenery will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Tall structures command attention across region</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/tall-structures-command-attention-across-region/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[BLUEFIELD — Brian Cochran, Bluefield city solicitor, in the process of drafting a tall structure ordinance so the city has something in place if a developer specifically wants to acquire property and erect a wind turbine project like the proposed Dominion and BP project in Tazewell County, but Cochran said there’s no hurry to get one in place.
“The city of Bluefield already has some restrictive zoning in place,” Cochran said. “I don’t see where our code would allow a development .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbine getting seismic shakedown; Structure’s performance in temblors to be tested</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/wind-turbine-getting-seismic-shakedown-structure%e2%80%99s-performance-in-temblors-to-be-tested/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When it comes to earthquake engineering, the priority has always been to design and build homes, stores and offices that aren’t likely to collapse during a strong temblor.
But when the ground starts shaking, other kinds of structures also may fall or fail, including bridges, highways, electrical towers and smokestacks. The history of efforts to make these “non-building” structures more resistant to earthquakes is generally shorter and not as comprehensive.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego will start taking an .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind company drops Duncan Ranch from project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/wind-company-drops-duncan-ranch-from-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CASPER — Utah-based Wasatch Wind announced today that it has submitted a revised application to drop about 4,200 acres of state trust land from its proposed wind energy project in the Northern Laramie Range in Converse County.
Now excluded from the project is the Duncan Ranch, which the state purchased several years ago. Also excluded are state lands leased by the Pinetree Cattle Co.
The new application includes about 2,984 acres in the Glenrock/Boxelder area, according to Wasatch.
“The decision to remove Duncan .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind rules up for debate; Board drafts plan for state lands, seeks public comment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/wind-rules-up-for-debate-board-drafts-plan-for-state-lands-seeks-public-comment/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The State Lands and Investments Board has drafted proposed rule changes regarding wind energy development on state lands. And it&#8217;s hoping to receive a lot of public input over the next couple of months to make sure all stakeholders have their say.
Written public comment will be accepted until 5 p.m. March 1, and there will be four public hearings across the state in March.
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be very important to us that we get the public and all the stakeholders&#8217; .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>New wind farm proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/07/new-wind-farm-proposal/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Fourteen wind turbines could be built between Great Carlton and Gayton le Marsh, it has been announced by developers.
European wind farm developers, Energiekontor are investigating to see if land near Great Carlton and Gayton le Marsh could home 14 wind turbines.
The height of the turbines is not yet known and will be confirmed following an environmental assessment of the site.
However, residents who have met with Energiekontor representatives believe the turbines will stand higher than those at Conisholme wind farm which .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Nuclear bombshell blows up in Energie Kontor’s face</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/nuclear-bombshell-blows-up-in-energie-kontor%e2%80%99s-face/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[After a meeting of the Stop the Hyndburn Wind farm group on Monday (10th Jan) at the Dog Inn, Belthorn, it was revealed that there is a mine shaft on Elton Road that is filled with radioactive material. Members of the group said they would look into it and report back.
A further meeting on Tuesday (11th Jan) took place in which different members reported back their findings.
Firstly, during the period of 1949 to 1952, a mineshaft (of coal background) of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wyoming seeks wind energy projects</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/wyoming-seeks-wind-energy-projects/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CASPER — The state will offer about 162,000 acres of state lands for wind energy development.
Last week, the State Lands and Investments Board, which consists of the state’s top five elected officials, agreed to move forward with a request for a proposal seeking wind energy projects on 16 separate state parcels across six Wyoming counties.
“We chose places we felt had the least amount of conflict as a way to direct (wind energy) to areas where they are more appropriate, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>LCRA plans meetings on new routes for wind power transmission lines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/lcra-plans-meetings-on-new-routes-for-wind-power-transmission-lines/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[LCRA Transmission Services Corporation (LCRA TSC) invites the public to attend open houses planned this month in Junction, Menard, Mason, Fredericksburg, Eldorado, Kerrville and Sonora concerning a new transmission line project expected to be built by 2013. The project will impact property owners in Schleicher, Sutton, Menard, Kimble, Mason, Kerr, Kendall and Gillespie counties.
LCRA TSC will host the “come-and-go” style open houses as an opportunity to inform citizens about the McCamey D-to-Kendall-to-Gillespie Transmission Project and to gather public input concerning .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>County could be spared from hosting power lines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/county-could-be-spared-from-hosting-power-lines/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Oswego County officials said they are breathing a sigh of relief after learning a proposed high-power transmission line might be running though existing lines in the City of Watertown instead of the Village of Pulaski.
Upstate Power has proposed to construct a wind farm on Galloo Island, off the shore in Hounsfield, along with a new power line with the capability of transporting 1,000 megawatts south to service downstate consumers.
The 230-kilovolt line had been proposed to run from Galloo Island through .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Leyden farm to be turbine test site</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/leyden-farm-to-be-turbine-test-site/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ LEYDEN &#8212; Just how breezy is the Bree-Z-Knoll Farm?
The Facey family will find out this year, after the University of Massachusetts&#8217; Wind Energy Center sets up test equipment to measure and record wind conditions &#8212; data that will help farmers Warren and Randy Facey find out if an electricity-generating windmill would cut utility costs on their 350-acre dairy farm.
Data from the one-year test will also help UMass researchers complete a comparative study of the latest wind-measurement equipment.
Field to Table, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Hodgkinson welcomes wind farm inquiry findings</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/hodgkinson-welcomes-wind-farm-inquiry-findings/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Nationals Member for Burrinjuck, Katrina Hodgkinson, has welcomed the findings of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Rural Wind Farms, which were released recently, and said the report addresses many of the concerns held by local communities.
&#8220;The proliferation of Industrial Wind Power Stations in the region of the Burrinjuck electorate is of concern to many local residents,&#8221; Ms Hodgkinson said.
&#8220;Fourteen months ago, I wrote to the NSW Parliament General Purpose Standing Committee Number Five urging them to hold an inquiry to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Opinions shift on Rochester-area wind farms</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/opinions-shift-on-rochester-area-wind-farms/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Wind-energy developers, who have flocked to the breezy hills south of Rochester, now are finding parts of the region a less-than-hospitable one.
A cross-border project has been blocked by local officials in Steuben and Yates counties, prompting aggressive lawsuits by the developer involved.
Another wind-energy company just walked away from a planned project in Steuben County.
And most recently, a Wyoming County citizens group has challenged a town board action that paved the way for a new wind project there.
Some say the shine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm opponents’ message: Go away</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/wind-farm-opponents%e2%80%99-message-go-away/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The message to wind farm developers was clear. Leave.
&#8220;What do we have to do to make you pack up your bags and go away?&#8221; said Durham-area resident Joan Rawski.
She was among about 400 people who packed the Durham community centre for a public information meeting on wind energy Thursday evening.
Florida-based Nextera Energy wants to put up about a dozen wind turbines east of Priceville and many residents of West Grey are opposed to the plan and say they will fight .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Henderson suing over Galloo OK</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/henderson-suing-over-galloo-ok/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The town of Henderson is asking a judge to annul the town of Hounsfield Planning Board&#8217;s site plan approval for the proposed Galloo Island Wind Farm.
The Henderson Town Council filed a state Supreme Court Article 78 proceeding Friday at the Jefferson County clerk&#8217;s office against Hounsfield, the project&#8217;s developer, Upstate NY Power Corp., Seneca, and the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Henderson claims, among other things, that DEC, as lead agency on the project under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Massachusetts Senate passes wind siting reform legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/massachusetts-senate-passes-wind-siting-reform-legislation/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The amended Wind Siting Reform Act has been passed by the state Senate and is now headed to the House.
According to state Sen. Benjamin B. Downing, D-Pittsfield, the bill that passed by a voice vote Thursday gives more power to local communities to shoot down a proposed project than Gov. Deval Patrick’s original proposal did. It also seeks to place representatives from some local groups who have tended to oppose wind projects in undeveloped areas on the advisory board that .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Moving parts for giant Burney windmills will be massive job</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/moving-parts-for-giant-burney-windmills-will-be-massive-job/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[As enormous as they are, the effort to move parts for 44 windmills set to take over the skyline above Burney this spring will be just as massive.
As many as 350 big rigs will haul the windmill components to Hatchet Ridge, about 50 miles east of Redding. Once completed, each windmill will stand more than 400 feet tall, said Joan Inlow, a construction project manager for Pattern Energy.
The La Jolla-based company aims to have the $200 million project producing power .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Low-frequency noise study needed ASAP</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/02/06/low-frequency-noise-study-needed-asap/</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Feb 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[John Deere Wind Energy Vice President David A. Drescher professed surprise when a recent study found that three of the 14 turbine sites tested slightly exceeded the noise limit.
The limit, which is set in the county’s wind ordinance at 50 decibels, was exceeded by only 1 decibel. Big deal, right? A one decibel increase is barely perceptible to human ears — it shouldn’t be the determining factor in whether a resident can live with the disturbance the turbines create.
While steps .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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