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						<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>An Taisce objects to Moycullen wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/an-taisce-objects-to-moycullen-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[An Taisce has made an appeal to an Bord Pleanala over the county council&#8217;s decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm in Moycullen.
Cruachan Wind Energy Ltd. was given the go ahead earlier this month to build four wind turbines at boglands in Lealetter.
An Taisce is objecting to the council&#8217;s decision amid concerns that the wind farm will seriously affect the natural habitat of the area.
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						<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm opponents&#8217; signs disappear</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-farm-opponents-signs-disappear/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Residents of Guildwood Village along the Scarborough Bluffs have no idea who is stealing their signs.
The residents have been using 12&#215;24 inch lawn signs reading “Save our Shoreline” to voice their opposition to the planned windmill farm two kilometres off the Bluffs.  
According to John Laforet who lives in the Guildwood neighbourhood, at least 40 signs have been taken down in  the middle of the night. Mr. Laforet said that the Toronto Wind Action group has not had .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Fences go up around Fenner windmills as investigation of Dec. 27 accident continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Although they’re not churning out electricity, the windmills of Fenner remain the central focus of neighbors, local officials and energy advocates.
As part of ongoing safety precautions, crews will begin fencing off each of the turbines with temporary orange mesh this weekend.
The barriers are intended to protect the public, workers and landowners as teams of engineers take samples of the concrete foundation, reinforced steel and soil from each of the remaining 19 windmills.
Turbine 18 fell to the ground unexpectedly Dec. 27, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Dozens fill wind farm protest</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/dozens-fill-wind-farm-protest/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Worried residents packed out a meeting to discuss the huge wind turbine &#8216;monsters&#8217; which they fear are set to destroy the landscape according to campaigners.
Nearly 100 people crammed into East Huntspill Church Hall to discuss an action plan to prevent several 400ft propellered structures from being built.
Temporary measuring masts are the first step in the planning process before a wind farm is introduced.
Approval has been given to energy giant EDF for a mast to the south west of Withy Farm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Cumbrian MP’s message to wind farm developers: Pack up and leave</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/cumbrian-mp%e2%80%99s-message-to-wind-farm-developers-pack-up-and-leave/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The rejection of a windfarm near Penrith has sent a clear message to developers: “Stay away from Cumbria and build offshore,” an MP said.
Penrith and the Border MP David Maclean said the decision of the inspector, which was endorsed by the Secretary of State, to throw out plans for a nine-turbine site that energy company Wind Prospect hoped to build near Skelton was the best news for Cumbria this year so far.
He said: “We have won on every point we .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>US Wind Force cancels western Maryland wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/us-wind-force-cancels-western-maryland-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ CUMBERLAND, MD.  — A developer is canceling a 25-turbine wind farm in western Maryland because it ran out of time to find a buyer for the electricity.
US Wind Force, of Greensburg, Pa., told the Cumberland Times-News on Thursday it will let pass a Saturday deadline for starting construction atop Savage Mountain near Lonaconing.
Three projects remain alive in western Maryland, although none has been built.
One is a 25-turbine US Wind Force project on Dan&#8217;s Mountain in Allegany County. The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>MoD scuppers turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/mod-scuppers-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Defence wants to stop more wind turbines being put up in parts of north Cumbria because of fears they will hamper checks on which countries are carrying out nuclear tests.
The MoD has said that it will object to windfarms within 31 miles of its Eskdalemuir seismological recording station in case the vibrations interfere with readings.
The station monitors compliance with the nuclear test ban treaty and is the only one of its kind in the UK.
The move to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Victorious Cumbrian villagers now fear second turbine bid</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/victorious-cumbrian-villagers-now-fear-second-turbine-bid/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Villagers in Cumwhinton are waiting to see whether fresh plans for a windfarm are put forward after proposals for three turbines at Newlands Farm were thrown out this week.
Planning inspector Paul Griffiths ruled that the 377ft-high turbines would have a “significant detrimental impact” on nearby Cringles Farm and Beech Cottage.
However, he left the door open for a smaller windfarm by allowing a meteorological mast to be put in place for three years to test the site’s suitability for wind energy.
Bolsterstone .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind rules for state lands sail through</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-rules-for-state-lands-sail-through/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE &#8212; Proposed rules for commercial wind-energy production on state trust lands have met with a minimum of concern in a series of hearings across the state.
The Office of State Lands and Investments held a hearing in Cheyenne on Thursday on draft rules that will eventually be presented to the Board of Land Commissioners.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve learned through experience things that are not supported by our current rules,&#8221; said Butch Parks to the seven people attending.
Parks and the other state officials said .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wind turbine syndrome]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind Turbine Syndrome with Dr Nina Pierpont</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-turbine-syndrome-with-dr-nina-pierpont/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When it comes to wind farm protests the hottest topic for the last couple of years has been Wind Turbine Syndrome. That&#8217;s the name given to the range of symptoms described by some people who live close to wind farms. At this stage illness caused by wind farms is a medical and scientific theory, but people affected are adamant that it is the power generators making them sick.
Yesterday there were newspaper reports that the state’s Chief Health Officer, Dr John .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm lawsuit may be next</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-farm-lawsuit-may-be-next/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A group of environmental organizations and opponents of wind energy projects say they likely will file suit if the federal government approves the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm.
A 60-day notice of violations of the Endangered Species Act was sent this week to Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin and to the U.S. Interior Department and other federal agencies that have reviewed Cape Wind&#8217;s plan to build 130 wind turbines in the sound.
[Click here to download the notice letter and here .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind power moratorium on Woodstock warrant</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-power-moratorium-on-woodstock-warrant/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[WOODSTOCK — Selectmen voted this week to place a request for a six-month moratorium on wind power projects on the annual town meeting warrant set for March 29.
The citizen-initiated request was submitted by Leola Ballweber, who said people should have more time to consider whether a wind farm planned for construction this summer on Spruce Mountain would benefit the town.
&#8220;Mrs. Ballweber has done her homework and the petition process has been well done,&#8221; Town Manager Vern Maxfield said. &#8220;As a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Several towns eye hold on tower construction</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/several-towns-eye-hold-on-tower-construction/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[BLUE HILL, Maine — With interest in wind power and communications increasing in Maine, several Hancock County towns are considering slowing things down to make sure they can effectively regulate construction of the associated towers.
At their annual town meeting earlier this month, voters in Penobscot adopted a six-month moratorium on the construction of commercial wind turbines and communications towers in the town. The moratorium gives the town time to develop an ordinance to regulate the towers and could be renewed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Thorndike residents to vote on rigid wind ordinance</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/thorndike-residents-to-vote-on-rigid-wind-ordinance/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[THORNDIKE, Maine — Residents will decide at Saturday&#8217;s annual town meeting whether this small Waldo County town will become the latest Maine community to clamp down on potential wind energy projects.
A lengthy wind energy facility ordinance, which follows a yearlong moratorium on wind development voted into effect at the 2009 town meeting, would require mile-long setbacks between wind turbine towers and nearby homes. It also calls for a four-season sound study to be done by an independent “acoustical consultant,” among .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Permit expires Saturday for Savage wind development</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/permit-expires-saturday-for-savage-wind-development/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CUMBERLAND — A Savage Mountain wind power project that never got off the ground will officially die on Saturday, when the facility’s construction deadline passes.
Despite a two-year extension granted in 2007, construction work never began on the proposed US?Wind Force facility. After three years of construction delays, Vice President David Friend said that ultimately, the company couldn’t secure an adequate power purchase agreement in a timely fashion.
“At that time the market was at one place and today it’s at a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm blown out</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/wind-farm-blown-out/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A wind farm which would have affected around 100 homes and put plans for a £300million development at risk have been turned down.
Energy firm Sea and Land Power wanted to build two 105-metre high structures off the A19 near Dalton Park, which would have supplied 2,795 properties with electricity.
However the proposals faced opposition from residents, businesses, parish and town councils, which feared they would affect the quality of life due to their size and noise.
They also raised concerns the developers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbines project recommended for approval despite high visibility</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/turbines-project-recommended-for-approval-despite-high-visibility/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Proposals for a 33-turbine windfarm in the Monadhliath Mountains south of Inverness have been recommended for approval, despite the opposition of more than 1,500 people and three community councils.
Renewable Energy Systems wants to put up the turbines, each with a maximum tip height of 396ft, on land at Dunmaglass Estate, four miles east of Loch Mhor.
The 99MW scheme has been in the pipeline since 2004 when temporary planning permission was granted for a meteorological mast.
The turbines would be erected between .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Are East Neuk wind projects full of hot air?</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/are-east-neuk-wind-projects-full-of-hot-air/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A Fife councillor has spoken out against the wind turbine schemes currently being considered by a dozen communities across the East Neuk.
Mike Scott Hayward says he believes some community councils are being &#8216;&#8217;seduced&#8221; by the incentives on offer and the promise of future cash windfalls.
The East Neuk and Landward councillor also questions the ability of some community councils to give turbine schemes the green light without conducting a full consultation of the people living in the area.
Speaking to the Citizen .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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						<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Turbines would be taller than Hatteras Lighthouse</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/turbines-would-be-taller-than-hatteras-lighthouse/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The towers would stand 260 feet over the water. The blades would be 150 feet long. The footprint on the Pamlico Sound: 3 square miles.
People wanted to know if fishing would be restricted around them. How would the power be connected to land? Would there be electromagnetic interference? How far would birds have to fly to get around them? Would they be an eyesore for tourism and property values?
These were some of the questions raised Thursday as the U.S. Army .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Final OK for wind farm project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/final-ok-for-wind-farm-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A $60-million wind farm project in southeastern Saskatchewan is expected to soon get underway after receiving the final OK from an area rural municipality, despite concerns from some landowners.
&#8220;We&#8217;re very pleased,&#8221; Algonquin Power&#8217;s April Meyer said in an interview Thursday. Construction on the Red Lily Wind Farm Project is expected to begin this summer, with the turbines in place by the fall.
Red Lily Wind Power Limited Partnership, owned by Algonguin Power Inc. and Gaia Power, plans to construct a 25-megawatt .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Permit upheld for Roxbury wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/permit-upheld-for-roxbury-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The Maine Board of Enviromental Protection rejected an appeal to withdraw a permit for a wind power project in western Maine.
Former governor Angus King is one the principal investors of Record Hill Wind. The company received a state permit last summer and is the process of building a 50 megawatt wind farm in Roxbury, just northwest of Rumford.
The project will include 22 turbines and would be more than a mile from area homes. But residents who live in the area .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Town sued in contract dispute over wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/town-sued-in-contract-dispute-over-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A complaint filed March 17 in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts contends that the Town of Barnstable “wrongfully and in bad faith” rejected the low bidder for the wind turbine project at the wastewater facility.
Larkin Enterprises, Inc. of Lincoln, Maine, claims that the town awarded the contract to a Woburn company to settle litigation and ensure its funding schedule for up to $1.7 million in federal stimulus funds for the project would be met. It is suing for up .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Kilgallioch Forest 132-turbine wind farm plan submitted</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/kilgallioch-forest-132-turbine-wind-farm-plan-submitted/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[An application for a 132-wind turbine project in southern Scotland has been submitted to the Scottish government.
Scottish Power Renewables wants to build the scheme at Kilgallioch Forest near New Luce in Dumfries and Galloway.
If constructed it would be one of the largest wind farms in Scotland with a capacity of up to 396 megawatts.
Representations on the plans can be put forward until 28 April and a number of public information days will take place prior to that date.
The proposed site .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power line divides more than land</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/19/power-line-divides-more-than-land/</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[When the planned Beauly-Denny power line upgrade is completed it will divide Scotland in more ways than one.
Physically, Scotland will be bisected by the 137-mile long series of pylons that stretch from Denny near Falkirk in the south all the way to Beauly near Inverness while arguments still rage about whether the project should have been given the go ahead.
According to the Scottish Government, the new line is Scotland’s most important electricity infrastructure project in a generation and one that, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm plans stir up storm over military radar</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-farm-plans-stir-up-storm-over-military-radar/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[The U.S. military is growing increasingly concerned that proposed wind farms can disrupt or block radar designed to detect threats and protect America&#8217;s skies, a problem that is stalling the alternative energy projects around the country.
A top U.S. general told Congress on Thursday that federal agencies need to work better together on a formal vetting process for the wind projects to prevent them from being built where they will interfere with radar defenses.
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, head of U.S. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Expressing concerns for proposed wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/expressing-concerns-for-proposed-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I am expressing my concern for those citizens who live on, or near, the escarpment between Westfield and Ripley. Many of them don’t realize that unless they start acting immediately, the Westfield and Ripley Town Boards will quietly sacrifice their quality of life.
With the introduction of 80 400-foot wind turbines into their front yards, this area would change from quiet, scenic agricultural, to noisy, obtrusive industrial. Residents may experience flickering shadows inside their homes, swishing, thumping noise from these massive .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Middleburg Heights Planning Commission OKs wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/middleburg-heights-planning-commission-oks-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS — After nearly three hours of discussion March 10, the Planning Commission approved the plans for a wind turbine at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.
The vote was 5-2, with members Anthony Crea and Carol Herman voting against the project.
The county received a $1 million grant to erect the 600-kilowatt, 275-foot turbine. Plans are to put it near the main parking lot off Bagley Road.
Before the vote, the commission heard objections to the project from American Tower Corporation, which has .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Glacier Hills Wind Park easement search angers neighbors</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/glacier-hills-wind-park-easement-search-angers-neighbors/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Neighbors irritated by We Energies’ continued search for Glacier Hills Wind Park easements have won the right to review changes to a project the state approved two months ago.
“If they don’t need easements to build the project, then why are they still bothering nonparticipants?” said Friesland resident Gary Steinich. “We didn’t ask for this fight.”
Steinich and other Columbia County landowners who chose not to negotiate with We Energies to give up land for the estimated $434 million wind farm formed .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s only wind farm to double in size</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/arizonas-only-wind-farm-to-double-in-size/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Salt River Project announced a deal Thursday that could double the size of the state&#8217;s only wind farm near Snowflake.
The Dry Lake Wind Power Project was built last year and sells all its power to SRP, which delivers it to customers in the Valley, and the nonprofit, municipal utility said it has agreed to buy power from a new addition to the plant.
Iberdrola Renewables, a Spanish company with U.S. headquarters in Portland, built the first 30 turbines last year and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farms at odds with environment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-farms-at-odds-with-environment/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I would like to reply to several points raised by your correspondent, Helena Richardson, in her irate letter re wind-farm critics (Northern Argus, March 3, 2010).
Building wind farms and “protecting” the environment do not sit comfortably together, as she claims. When remnant native vegetation is in the way of turbine sites and their extensive associated infrastructure, wind power companies simply blast or bulldoze their way through it. (If you remain unconvinced, go and look for yourself at what is happening .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Hall overflowed with citizens angry over Invenergy’s wind farm plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/hall-overflowed-with-citizens-angry-over-invenergy%e2%80%99s-wind-farm-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[BELWOOD &#8212; Citizens from the area appeared to be furious while attending a wind turbine meeting here on March 9, but in the end they let their manners stifle their anger &#8211; just a little.
Over 500 people packed the Belwood Hall over the course of three hours, and many of them were furious with In­ven­ergy Wind Canada’s proposal for a wind farm with be­tween 25 to 35 turbines. They carried signs with slogans like “Farm­ers Feed Cities Not Power Them.”
The .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Local residents have council’s sympathy over wind turbine proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/local-residents-have-council%e2%80%99s-sympathy-over-wind-turbine-proposal/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ELORA &#8212; Centre Welling­ton council’s committee of the whole heard on Monday after­noon that several farmers who signed lease agreements for wind farms near Belwood are willing to back out of them.
A delegation led by Dave Hurlburt, Laura Humphrey, Gerry Ellen and Darryl Burnet came to council to ask for its help in opposing the wind farm planned by Invenergy that sur­rounds much of Belwood and reaches into Dufferin County. They represented a group that is opposing the proposal for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farm health fears</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-farm-health-fears/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[A resident furious about the spread of wind farms has warned of dire consequences if major developments proceed.
Annie Gardner lives on a property east of Macarthur and formed a local Landscape Guardians group in 2005 after Southern Hydro announced plans to build Australia&#8217;s largest wind farm on her boundary.
The project has since been taken over by AGL and is expected to be given final company approval later this year.
Mrs Gardner said there needed to be an enforced distance between turbines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Alexander to U.S. Forest Service: Protect Tennessee’s Natural Landmarks from Sprawling Energy Projects, Invasive Species</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/alexander-to-u-s-forest-service-protect-tennessee%e2%80%99s-natural-landmarks-from-sprawling-energy-projects-invasive-species/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Says U.S. Must Keep Electricity Lines and Windmills Off Tennessee Ridgetops, 
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), in a hearing of the Senate Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies – of which he is the senior Republican – discussed with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell the importance of “protecting and encouraging the wise use of the Cherokee National Forest.” Excerpts of his remarks and questions to Chief Tidwell follow, and a full transcript of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind-turbine moratorium on warrant for Woodstock&#8217;s Town Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-turbine-moratorium-on-warrant-for-woodstocks-town-meeting/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ A 76-signature-petition to impose a 180-day moratorium on wind power development was presented to selectmen Tuesday.
The question will be voted upon at the March 29 Town Meeting.
A public hearing on the issue will take place March 25 at 5 p.m. at the Woodstock Elementary School.
The petition was presented by Leola Ballweber, according to Town Manager Vern Maxfield.
The town’s Planning Board is currently considering an application from Patriot Renewables LLC to erect three to five commercial wind towers on Spruce .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind farms too much trouble, says councillor</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-farms-too-much-trouble-says-councillor/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Palmerston North City Council will block any further wind farm construction in the area if the Turitea project does not go ahead, a city councillor says.
Michael Feyen was giving evidence before a government-appointed board of inquiry yesterday, opposing the wind farm Mighty River Power wants to build about 10 kilometres southeast of the city centre.
The council has a contractual agreement with the state-owned enterprise as landowner of the proposed site. But Mr Feyen said if the project was denied .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Officials hold off on any wind decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/officials-hold-off-on-any-wind-decisions/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Residents who want local lawmakers to take a more active role in Goodhue County wind energy development will have to continue waiting for answers.
Goodhue County Planning Advisory Commission members will take a month to absorb comments and information from Monday&#8217;s five-hour meeting before discussing an application from rural Goodhue landowners Steve Groth and Paul Reese.
Groth and Reese want the board to amend the county&#8217;s zoning ordinance to better address wind farms and implement at year-long moratorium on wind development .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Unreliable wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/unreliable-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[In early January there was a story in the daily paper in Tulsa under the by-line of Barbara Hoberock, headlined “State Capitol gets wind turbines.” Included in the story were two pictures of workers on top of poles supporting what to me are windmill generators, a far cry from turbines. It may be that those making the installations are referring to them as turbines.
The story began with the statement that the installation had begun on January 5 of two wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind company to build met tower</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-company-to-build-met-tower/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Officials from an Edina, Minn.-based wind energy company will construct a meteorological test pole on a Goodhue Township man&#8217;s property. Goodhue County commissioners on Tuesday OK&#8217;d a conditional-use permit for Geronimo Wind to build the 197-foot pole to gather wind data for up to five years on land owned by Hilbert Strusz.
Geronimo Wind has expressed interest in building a wind farm in rural Goodhue but has not filed an application with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, the state board charged .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>New Jersey latest state to raid carbon auction funds</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/new-jersey-latest-state-to-raid-carbon-auction-funds/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[New Jersey has become the latest state in a regional cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases to take money meant to support clean energy programs to help ease its budget deficit.
&#8220;Pain had to be distributed across the board,&#8221; Elaine Makatura, director of New Jersey&#8217;s Department of Environmental Protection, said in an interview on Wednesday. She said Gov. Chris Christie has decided to move $65 million from New Jersey&#8217;s Global Warming Solutions Fund to its General Fund.
The move, which includes revenues expected .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Town wants regional effort to combat offshore wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/town-wants-regional-effort-to-combat-offshore-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[After hearing a report from Town Planner, Danielle Truax regarding the limited and potentially costly remedies available to municipalities with regard to wind power, Kingsville Council has decided to make a concerted, cohesive, and collected effort to deal with matters concerning the potential impact of offshore wind turbines.
   Kingsville has already partnered with the Town of Leamington in hiring the Jones Consulting Group. A report from Jones completed in September 2009, which coordinated technical peer reviews found “significant .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Hearing draws mixed reaction on TransCanada&#8217;s wind power petition</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/hearing-draws-mixed-reaction-on-transcanadas-wind-power-petition/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[CARRABASSETT VALLEY – TransCanada&#8217;s petition to add 156 acres to the state&#8217;s accelerated, wind power development permitting process drew mixed reaction during a public hearing Wednesday.
TransCanada Maine Wind Development Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian-based energy, TransCanada Corp., initially submitted a petition to add 631 acres to the state&#8217;s approved fast-track permitting area. However, TransCanada submitted a revised petition on March 10 with the smaller acreage and excluding the southern peak of Sisk Mountain in Chain of Ponds Township.
The company proposes .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Warring over wind</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/warring-over-wind/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[With well over 1,000 people in attendance &#8211; and most of them in an unpleasant frame of mind &#8211; a public information session about the proposed Belwood Wind Farm project was held at the Lions Hall in Belwood on Tuesday, Mar 9.
At issue is the proposed wind farm project that would build 25-35 wind turbines on approximately 4,000 acres of land northwest of Belwood. Invenergy Canada, a branch of Chicago-based Invenergy LLC, is backing the proposal that would have the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>McGuinty&#8217;s ill wind blows across Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/mcguintys-ill-wind-blows-across-canada/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently did something so stupid when it comes to … uh … fighting global warming, it should warn all Canadians to keep an eye on their politicians, lest they do something equally dumb.
McGuinty struck a deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels in Ontario, plus pay inflated prices for 2,500 megawatts of so-called green energy for the next quarter century.
Samsung will invest $7 billion in return for untold .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind energy gains still lost in grid lock</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-energy-gains-still-lost-in-grid-lock/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[ Europe will not make the most of its multi-billion euro clean energy investments until old monopolies are broken up or made to build the dozens of power links needed to manage the rise of wind power.
Billions have been spent installing wind farms across Europe over the last decade in an effort to reduce energy sector emissions of climate-warming carbon, with Denmark and Spain already producing over half of their power at times from it.
Much slower progress has been made .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind turbine dispute spurs resignations</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-turbine-dispute-spurs-resignations/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[On the surface, it all seems sort of like a schoolyard disagreement.
In a letter to the Town Council – and copied to the Jamestown Press – Wind Energy Committee Chair Don Wineberg resigned his position on both the Wind Energy Committee and the Jamestown Zoning Board of Review, writing, “I cannot serve a council majority that shows such poor financial, environmental and political judgment.”
Then, in a letter of his own, committee member William “Bucky” Brennan also resigned, writing, “I do .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Residents braced to fight wind farm plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/residents-braced-to-fight-wind-farm-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Plans for six huge wind turbines in the countryside near Stafford which have caused outrage among residents are now set to be submitted in May.
Householders in Church Eaton, High Onn and Marston are opposing the King’s Street wind farm at Brineton.
Bristol renewable energy company Wind Prospect wants to build the 426ft turbines on land within the Bradford Estate which includes Weston Park.
Campaigners fear it will wreck the countryside, dwarf trees and send house prices plummeting.
Wind Prospect had planned to submit .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Windfarm opponents win seat at the table</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/windfarm-opponents-win-seat-at-the-table/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[Campaigners fighting against a plan to build six towering wind turbines on farmland near Fakenham have been dealt a boost after they were offered a seat at the debating table.
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) wants to build the proposed 400ft high Jack&#8217;s Lane Windfarm on land between Syderstone, Stanhoe and South Creake.
Opponents formed Creakes Action for Protecting the Environment (CAPE), which for the first time has been offered a seat on a group set up to thrash out the plans.
CAPE Chairman .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Four irrefutable reasons</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/four-irrefutable-%e2%80%a9reasons/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[I am writing on behalf of Eileen Burkey’s and the late Willard Burkey’s farm located north of Walnut. My great-grandparents purchased and moved to this property in the 1890s.
Since that time, my family has been devoted and faithful caretakers of this acreage. Further, we intend to continue this stewardship for future generations of our family, not just for the benefit of our family but because it is the right thing to do. We are the beneficiaries of a limited, endangered .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Wind ordinance on Thorndike&#8217;s agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/18/wind-ordinance-on-thorndikes-agenda/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Mar 2010</nww:date>
				<description><![CDATA[THORNDIKE &#8212; Voters this Saturday will decide on wind power regulation, select town officers, and decide on funding requests similar to last year.
The Planning Board drafted a wind power ordinance out of concerns for proposals from two companies to erect wind turbines on a ridge near the Files Hill Road that would extend and include turbines in neighboring towns of Jackson and Dixmont.
Those towns have since passed ordinances regulating wind power, according to Planning Board Chairman Jesse Hargrove.
Hargrove said the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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