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		<title>Prevailing against anti-wind sentiment</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/prevailing-against-anti-wind-sentiment/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning anti-wind sentiment into permits requires organization, strategy and plain ol’ grassroots politics.
By Ben Kelahan, North American Windpower, July 2009
Community relations may be the road to reputation, but understanding practical local politics paves the way to permits. Opposition groups are sophisticated, organized and well funded. They have borrowed the highest-priced tactics from corporate public relations and masterfully use the Web to circulate misinformation about the impacts of wind farms.
Understanding how the opposition plans to stop your wind farm may be .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind bylaw stands as is</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wind-bylaw-stands-as-is/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COHASSET &#8212; When all was said and done at Special Town Meeting last week, the wind energy bylaw stood as it was approved at the 2008 Town Meeting and will remain so for the foreseeable future.&#160;
Last Thursday (June 25) – on the first sunny evening all week – a crowd of 317 voters turned out to vote on a citizen’s petition proposed “moratorium” on the wind energy bylaw and an article amending the previously approved article on the high school’s .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>New company considering Kakanui Mountains for wind farm site</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/new-company-considering-kakanui-mountains-for-wind-farm-site/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kakanui Mountains in North Otago are being investigated by a new company for a wind farm to generate electricity.
Waitaki Wind, set up recently by former Meridian Energy Ltd chief executive Keith Turner and former Waitaki mayor Alan McLay, is negotiating with landowners on the Kakanui Mountains to get access to start monitoring, according to evidence at the Environment Court yesterday.
The company, in which Mr McLay and Dr Turner are sole shareholders and directors, has pre-empted a similar move by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Sage grouse decision delayed to 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/sage-grouse-decision-delayed-to-2010/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal officials are again delaying a decision whether to list sage grouse in 11 Western states as threatened or endangered &#8212; leaving in limbo until at least 2010 a spate of industries that could face sweeping restrictions if the bird is protected.
The chicken-sized grouse ranges from Montana to California alongside livestock grazing, oil and gas drilling and an increasing number of wind power turbines.
Its population has been in decline for decades, but how many remain is unknown.
For the Obama administration, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Rural wind turbine plan rejected</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/rural-wind-turbine-plan-rejected/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six wind turbines will not be built at a rural beauty spot in north Dorset after councillors unanimously voted to throw out the plans.
Ecotricity wanted to build the 394ft (120m) turbines in Silton.
Hundreds of people packed the meeting in the Olive Bowl conference centre, in Gillingham, while another 100 who could not get in waited outside.
North Dorset District councillors went against their own planning officer&#8217;s recommendation to approve the scheme.
Save Our Silton campaigners waved banners and placards reading &#8220;No giant .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>
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		<title>Welshpool wind turbines fight: Turbines protest goes to AMs</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/welshpool-wind-turbines-fight-turbines-protest-goes-to-ams/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civic leaders were travelling to Cardiff today to take their fight to prevent thousands of lorries from “destroying” a Mid Wales town to the Welsh Assembly.
Welshpool Town Council has been fighting to stop any windfarm transportation from travelling through the town.
Town mayor Ann Holloway, Councillors Estelle Bleivas and John Meredith and council clerk Robert Robinson were making the trip.
Mr Robinson said a petition seeking a public inquiry would be delivered to the Assembly.
He said: “We hope that by handing in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wyoming requires marking of wind-measuring towers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wyoming-requires-marking-of-wind-measuring-towers/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) &#8212; The state is working to prevent low-flying aviators from crashing into the hundreds of wind-measuring towers popping up across Wyoming.
Wind-energy developers erect meteorological towers &#8212; known as met towers &#8212; to measure a location&#8217;s wind speed, direction and turbulence.
Met towers generally range from 164- to 197-feet tall, which means they&#8217;re not subject to federal marking requirements.
A new state law requires all new met towers over 50 feet tall to be marked so they&#8217;re visible in daylight .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm fury mounts</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wind-farm-fury-mounts/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of concerned residents crowded into a meeting about controversial plans for a windfarm on greenbelt land near Stone.
Severn Trent Water staged a public exhibition at Aston Village Hall on Saturday to showcase its proposals to install three wind turbines at Aston Hall Farm, between Aston-by-Stone and Burston.
But protesters put up posters on the opposite side of the room and set up a stand outside &#8212; with the permission of Severn Trent Water &#8212; and collected more than 300 names .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>State government to buy much more wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/state-government-to-buy-much-more-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONCORD &#8212; Gov. John Lynch announced today an agreement for the state government to get a quarter of its energy from wind power. The competitively bid deal with ConEdison Energy Solutions runs through July 1, 2010.
ConEd buys the wind from nationwide sources and gets renewable credits to balance out pollution from other power plants throughout its grid.
The agreement marks a big downpayment on the state goal of getting 25 percent of New Hampshire&#8217;s power from renewables by 2025.  
nashuatelegraph.com .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Commission eyes &#36;24M wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/commission-eyes-24m-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jackson Utilities Commission has expressed interest in installing a &#36;24 million dollar municipal wind farm upon the recommendation of a 16-year-old.
Tanner Hummel, who serves the city in the official capacity of junior councilperson, met with utilities commissioners Monday at City Hall to pitch the idea of a 12-unit wind farm he says could be built without raising taxes, could pay for itself in less than a decade and could eventually become a serious source of revenue for the increasingly .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Green light for controversial wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/green-light-for-controversial-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial wind farm near Yarm has been approved at the second time of asking.
Stockton Council’s planning committee gave the green light yesterday for three 125-metre wind turbines to be built on land between Seamer and Hilton.
Broadview Energy had submitted a revised application for the development after both Stockton and Hambleton councils refused its original plans last year.
Once again the plans met with major opposition from local villagers, with around 400 letters of objection sent to Stockton Council against around .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Are wind turbines truly safe&#63;</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/are-wind-turbines-truly-safe/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst accolades surrounding the completion of the Wolfe Island wind turbines, a friend and I just took our first trip of the season to my small property on Simcoe Island.
About 5 km west of Marysville, at the turnoff to the Simcoe Island ferry, stand about 15 or more turbines, quite evident on the boat trip across. We drove west another 4 or 5 km to the property, which faces south.
It&#8217;s a lovely spot, though noticeably different this year. We did .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Drilling under way at wind plant site</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/drilling-under-way-at-wind-plant-site/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTEREY — Neighbors near the proposed wind energy utility on Allegheny Mountain became alarmed this week when a large truck with a drilling rig was seen poking holes in several places where turbine towers might go, and a few times, loud blasts were heard.
Highland New Wind Development LLC recently submitted site plans for a 38-megawatt electric facility, and asked the county to issue a building permit by July 15 so construction on 19 turbine towers could begin soon.
Supervisor Robin Sullenberger .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Support those opposed to the wind project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/support-those-opposed-to-the-wind-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was ironic that recently I spent four days hiking the Laurel Fork area and saw the new sign at Locust Springs.
At the time, I studied the sign and, being very familiar with the area remarked, what an excellent map it is, not knowing it was constructed by Eagle Scout, Zack Barker.
The Laurel Fork area has been surrounded in controversy in the past four years, specifically due to the proposed windmill project and efforts on behalf of the few neighbors .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
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		<title>State: No turbines in grouse areas</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/state-no-turbines-in-grouse-areas/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[State officials recently reached a decision not to allow wind development &#8212; or even a pilot study &#8212; in Wyoming&#8217;s sage grouse core areas.
It&#8217;s a potentially huge blow to several wind development projects, including Horizon Wind Energy&#8217;s Simpson Ridge project and Power Company of Wyoming&#8217;s Sierra Madre and Chokecherry wind projects &#8212; all in Carbon County.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal issued the core areas sage grouse management plan by executive order in August 2008, mapping out the state&#8217;s best sage grouse habitat .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Power company withdraw plans for windfarm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/power-company-withdraw-plans-for-windfarm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish Power Renewables has announced this week that it is no longer looking at siting a windfarm at Chilla Moor.
The company said the wind power that would be generated was not enough to justify pursuing the project which has met with much opposition locally.
An action group CAT (Chilla Against Turbines) was set up when the energy company expressed an interest in putting a windfarm on Chilla Moor.
Scottish Power Renewables was looking into site accessibility, wind strength and speeds and infrastructure .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind &#039;farm&#039; a bad idea</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wind-farm-a-bad-idea/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter is written in response to the June 22 editorial entitled &#8220;Airing differences.&#8221; This editorial overtly criticizes regional elected officials for not supporting wind energy efforts in western Rutland County.
As state representative for Clarendon, southern Ira, Proctor and West Rutland, I&#8217;ve thought long and hard about the pros and cons of wind energy development by Noble (north of Route 4) and Vermont Community Wind Farm (south of Route 4). The smaller, more remote Noble project, running along the Hanley .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Coast eyed for possible wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/coast-eyed-for-possible-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWBURYPORT — Under the newly released ocean management plan for the state&#8217;s coastal waters, Greater Newburyport&#8217;s coastline could one day be home to 10 wind turbines.
Massachusetts officials yesterday released a draft of the plan that spells out rules for setting up wind farms in state waters.
The plan gives the state&#8217;s six regional planning authorities the option to build up to 10 wind turbines each, at least one-third of a mile from shore. They must be built within waters controlled by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>&#039;We&#039;re prepared for wind farm inquiry,&#039; says group</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/were-prepared-for-wind-farm-inquiry-says-group/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaigners in Swinford say they are fully prepared for the start of a public inquiry which will decide whether or not a wind farm is built less than a mile from their village.
The Stop the Swinford Wind Farm Action Group (SSWFAG) is fighting proposals submitted by energy firm Nuon UK to build 11 wind turbines, each 125 metres tall, on land between Swinford and Walcote.
The planning application, which was first lodged more than a year ago in April 2008, will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Zoning Board supports wind farm application</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/zoning-board-supports-wind-farm-application/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINONK &#8212; A descendant of the original settlers of Worth Township urged the Woodford County Zoning Board on Wednesday to support an application by Navitas Energy Inc., to build a 52-turbine Roanoke Wind farm.
The board unanimously gave its support to the permit without dissent after Wednesday&#8217;s public hearing. While supporting the special use permit for the construction of 52 wind turbines generating 100 megawatts of energy, the board added a couple of conditions, including the payment of &#36;10,000 to the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>DeKalb may see regulations for wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/dekalb-may-see-regulations-for-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DeKALB – The city is moving forward with creating an ordinance specific to wind energy.
The DeKalb Citizen&#8217;s Environmental Commission met Wednesday evening to discuss the possibility of such an ordinance, which would regulate size, design, noise levels and other components of wind turbines that residents and businesses would want to install within city limits.
Members will continue revising the draft ordinance before sending it to either the city&#8217;s plan commission, a recommending body, or the city council, which could give direction .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind monitor mast tipped for approval</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wind-monitor-mast-tipped-for-approval/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversial plans to install a meteorological wind monitoring mast at a former airship station have been recommended for approval, despite local concerns.
South Norfolk Council has received 272 objections to the application, by green energy company TCI Renewables Ltd, to have a 60-metre high mast at Semere Green Road, Dickleburgh, for two years.
The land at Upper Vaunces Farm was once part of Pulham Air Station and the mast would enable the firm to assess the suitability of the site for a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>D-Day looms for wind farm ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/d-day-looms-for-wind-farm-ruling/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A High Court Judge will decide this week if giant turbines should be built at Carsington Pastures – in what could be a landmark case for the future of wind farms across Britain. 
On Monday the Peak District National Park Authority joined forces with Derbyshire Dales District Council to ask Lord Justice Carnwath, sitting at the High Court in London, to block plans for four 102m turbines.
The application was originally rejected by the district council but was given the go-ahead .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>D-Day in Silton wind turbines battle</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/d-day-in-silton-wind-turbines-battle/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angry protesters were due to voice their opposition today to six giant wind turbines planned for a rural beauty spot near Madonna&#8217;s former country estate.
Green energy firm Ecotricity plans to build the 120m turbines near Silton, Gillingham in Dorset.
North Dorset District Council&#8217;s planning officers have recommended the scheme for approval and a development control committee will make a final decision today.
Around 200 residents were to protest outside the meeting in the Olive Bowl conference centre, Gillingham, with a handful due .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<title>Setback for controversial TANC project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/setback-for-controversial-tanc-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial power transmission line project faces a major setback.  The TANC project is a proposal to build hundreds of miles of transmission lines from Lassen County, across the North State to the Bay Area.  But Thursday night, Action News learned that a major participant in the project has pulled out.  The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) has withdrawn from the &#36;1.5 billion dollar project.  SMUD was expected to fund a large share of the project.
Land .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Board tables wind farm vote</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/board-tables-wind-farm-vote/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCK SPRINGS &#8212; Like the wind the power will come from, the exact details of Tasco Engineering Inc.&#8217;s proposed wind farm on scenic White Mountain in southwest Wyoming are hard to discern.
The company is seeking a conditional use permit from the Sweetwater County Commission to build up to 237 wind turbines on top of White Mountain.
But if approved, the final total may be just 70 turbines, or 50, or 36, or some other number. The project could be built in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine plan is backed at last</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/wind-turbine-plan-is-backed-at-last/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans to build three 125-metre high wind turbines at a beauty spot have been approved at the second time of asking.
Broadview Energy has been given permission by Stockton Borough Council’s planning committee to build the windfarm on land between Seamer and Hilton, near Stockton.
It was a revised application by the company after councillors refused an initial scheme in October last year saying they wanted more detailed information.
At the planning meeting yesterday, the members’ vote was tied at five-all after a .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands sign petition to stop &#163;800m Shetland wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/thousands-sign-petition-to-stop-800m-shetland-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scale of public opposition to Europe&#8217;s largest onshore wind farm proposed for the Shetland mainland has been underlined after about 70 campaigners handed in a petition of more than 3600 signatures demanding the plans be scrapped.
A vociferous campaign against the 150-turbine, £800m development, led by the Sustainable Shetland Group, which has more than 600 members, culminated in the petition being handed into Lerwick Town Hall yesterday.
The signatures, representing almost 20% of Shetland&#8217;s population over the age of 12, were .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>3,600-name petition says no to wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/02/3600-name-petition-says-no-to-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters campaigning against proposals to site Europe&#8217;s biggest community wind farm in the heart of the Shetland mainland presented councillors with a petition bearing more than 3,600 signatures yesterday.
Viking Energy, a consortium formed by Shetland Islands Council and Scottish and Southern Energy to build the 150-turbine wind farm, formally lodged an application in May to develop the scheme, which, it is said, will produce enough power to supply 20 per cent of Scotland&#8217;s domestic energy needs.
The turbines will be spread .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind dies down</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/wind-dies-down/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind power was all the thing in Arkansas last year, manufacturers announcing new wind power-related plants with startling frequency. But the boom has quieted, and may stay that way until the national economy improves, and Congress grants new financial incentives for the use of wind to generate electricity.
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission has made the recruitment of wind power plants a priority, and it lists four impressive successes in its “wind component manufacturing” file:
• LM Glasfiber opened a windmill blade .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
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		<title>La industria eólica pierde la mitad de su negocio y destruye 2.000 empleos</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/la-industria-eolica-pierde-la-mitad-de-su-negocio-y-destruye-2-000-empleos/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los ERE afectan a un millar de empleos, hay subcontratas que dejan de trabajar y plantas amenazadas de cierre. El parón de nuevos parques en Galicia y la deslocalización hunden a las fábricas de componentes gallegas.]]></description>
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		<title>Le projet éolien abandonné dans l’Est alençonnais</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/le-projet-eolien-abandonne-dans-l%e2%80%99est-alenconnais/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Wind energy project abandoned in eastern Alençon]
A bulletins secrets, les élus de la communauté de communes de l’Est alençonnais ont voté mardi soir contre le projet de zone de développement éolien à Hauterive, Ménil-Erreux, Forges et Semallé. Plus de 80 personnes assistaient à cette séance très attendue, et des applaudissements ont salué l’annonce du résultat : dix voix contre, sept pour. Le projet, dont on parle depuis plus de deux ans, divise la population et les élus.
[By secret ballots, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind boom means price spikes, threatens plants &#8212; study</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/wind-boom-means-price-spikes-threatens-plants-study/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dramatic growth in wind turbines around the British Isles may lead to huge spikes in power prices by 2030 and threaten the viability of backup plants needed for calm periods, according to Poyry Energy Consulting.
Britain and Ireland have ambitious targets to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, with wind turbines expected to reduce most of the climate warming gasses from the power sector.
But the level of wind energy envisaged will lead to extreme price swings by 2030, with times of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>New York inches closer to offshore wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/new-york-inches-closer-to-offshore-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; Government agencies and power companies said on Wednesday they are gauging interest from developers and manufacturers about building a wind farm about 13 miles (21 km) off the New York city coast that could end up being the largest such project in the United States.
The Long Island Power Authority, the New York Power Authority, other agencies and Consolidated Edison Inc (ED.N) hope to build the 350 megawatt wind farm off the Rockaway Peninsula in the Atlantic.
Potentially, the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm issues examined</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/wind-farm-issues-examined/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lebanon —  Understanding the basics of contract and property law are critical for Boone County landowners who are asked to lease their property for a wind farm, Indiana Farm Bureau representatives say.
Jason Schneider, an IFB attorney, and Kelly L. Kepner, of the Purdue Extension Benton County office, gave a crash course in wind farm development concerns and considerations to about 100 persons recently at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds.
“You can make a whole lot of money, but it may .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Area folks not happy about CapX2020 project</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/area-folks-not-happy-about-capx2020-project/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 700-mile powerline project that could cross the river in Winona and require eminent domain in order to be constructed won’t really feed power into Winona, spokespeople for the project confirmed Monday.
Winona’s been chosen, along with Alma and La Crosse, Wis., as one of three potential river crossing points for the project, dubbed CapX2020 &#8212; a consortium of electric companies including Xcel Energy. Because there is already a river crossing for existing powerlines near the East End Boat Harbor, and .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission tables vote on wind farm</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/commission-tables-vote-on-wind-farm/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCK SPRINGS &#8212; Sweetwater County commissioners tabled an important vote on a the county&#8217;s first substantial wind energy project after several hours of public discussions Tuesday night.
The three-member commission was hesitant to approve the proposal by a Utah wind developer to build up to 237 wind turbines on scenic White Mountain, despite a recommendation to approve the project &#8212; with numerous conditions and stipulations &#8212; from the county&#8217;s Planning and Zoning Commission.
County commissioners said they wanted to be &#8220;very, very .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind farm project is progressing on schedule</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/wind-farm-project-is-progressing-on-schedule/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wind farm project is underway and progressing according to schedule, according to Jay Porthro, director of windpower development for BP Wind.
&#8220;We&#8217;re putting in infrastructure now,&#8221; Porthro said. &#8220;We&#8217;re installing the construction trailers, and the trailer for construction manager, Ferin Cooper.&#8221;
Cooper will be living on-site during the construction operation. A trailer will also be provided for the contractor, Mortenson Construction.
In addition, a temporary batch plant for concrete is ready, and turning radiuses have been added on township and county roads, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson extends wind moratorium, officially</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/jackson-extends-wind-moratorium-officially/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, Jackson selectmen voted to extend a six-month moratorium on issuing permits for industrial wind developments, but the vote was nullified when town officials found that a public hearing on the issue was required. 
On June 30, the board convened a pro forma public hearing and made the extension official. Selectors Cynthia Ludden and John Work voted in favor of extending the moratorium, while David Greeley recused himself based on a conflict of interest.
Work had been on the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>SSE scales down Clyde wind farm in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/sse-scales-down-clyde-wind-farm-in-scotland/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish &#038; Southern Energy PLC (SSE.L) said on Wednesday it was scaling down capacity by around 100 megawatts at its Clyde wind farm in southern Scotland, one of Europe&#8217;s largest onshore wind farms.
SSE said the wind farm will have a total capacity of 350 MW, instead of 456 MW initially planned.
&#8220;Nevertheless, the design of the turbines, and their on-site configuration, mean the annual output of the wind farm, expected to be over 1,000 GWh, will be unaffected,&#8221; it said.
&#8220;The construction .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>3,600 say ‘No’ to windfarm plans</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/3600-say-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-to-windfarm-plans/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around seventy anti windfarm campaigners turned out at Lerwick Town Hall this morning (Wednesday) to hand in a petition with more than 3,600 signatures, opposing plans to build a 540MW windfarm in Shetland.
The signatures, collected by campaigners from Sustainable Shetland, were presented by 13 year old Rachel Smith, a second year pupil of Brae High School.
Viking Energy, a partnership between the utility company Scottish and Southern Energy and the Shetland Charitable Trust, lodged a planning application for Europe’s largest onshore .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>NYSERDA is sidestepping concerns regarding wind power</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/nyserda-is-sidestepping-concerns-regarding-wind-power/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York state taxpayers and ratepayers are funding what is likely a &#36;2 billion fraud.
I was one of a number of citizens representing 33-plus New York state grass-roots groups that attended the June 16 NYSERDA [New York State Energy Research and Development Authority] environmental stakeholder&#8217;s meeting on wind power in Albany.
The reasons for this unique meeting were to answer citizen&#8217;s questions on industrial wind power that we have been asking NYSERDA for years now and to see if they could .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nova Scotia]]></category>
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		<title>Digby council delays decision on wind turbine</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/digby-council-delays-decision-on-wind-turbine/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIGBY — Municipal councillors decided Monday to delay the passing of a municipal planning strategy to regulate wind turbines in the Municipality of the District of Digby.
Some senior executives of the proponent of a Digby Neck wind farm spoke out Monday at a public planning hearing in council chambers, urging councillors to kill a draft of the bylaw because they didn’t think it was council’s best work.
Corey Basel, vice-president of SkyPower Corp., said his company did not support passing the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Judge dismisses anti-wind farm petition</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/judge-dismisses-anti-wind-farm-petition/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neighbors opposed to Chevron Global Power Co.&#8217;s wind farm northeast of Evansville on Tuesday lost their attempt to have a judge review and invalidate the Natrona County Commission&#8217;s approval of the permits for the project.
Road preparation west of Cole Creek Road continues on the 880-acre site of the former Texaco refinery where 11 GE 1.5-megawatt turbines on 250-foot towers will be erected near the Sandy Lakes subdivision.
The neighbors are considering their next moves and fuming at the decision by Natrona .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[New Brunswick]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind power can generate headaches for nearby residents</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/wind-power-can-generate-headaches-for-nearby-residents-react-nd-wants-to-increase-turbine-setbacks/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[REACT-ND wants to increase turbine setbacks
Wind turbines located too close to homes and humans can pose a health hazard, a Mars Hill area resident warned New Denmark homeowners during as REACT (Reacts Efforts Against Construction of Turbines in New Denmark) sponsored meeting held in the community recently.
Sam Porter, co-chairperson, of REACT ND said his group was formed because of residential concerns about the possibility of large wind turbines erected beside their New Denmark homes and farms. A group of farmers .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Turbine action group battles on</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/turbine-action-group-battles-on/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[An action group against a proposed wind turbine in Checkley has held another public meeting as it continues to fight the controversial plans.
The Staffordshire Turbine Action Group (STAG) are campaigning against proposals by Severn Trent Water to build a wind monitoring mast at Checkley Sewage Works.
The group say that Severn Trent has told them they are considering a massive wind turbine being erected at the sewage works, one of the largest operating on-shore in the UK.
The turbine is expected to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Anti-windfarm group presents petition with 3,600 signatures to council</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/anti-windfarm-group-presents-petition-with-3600-signatures-to-council/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-windfarm group Sustainable Shetland has presented a petition to the council with more than 3,600 signatures condemning the Viking Energy plan to build 150 turbines in the central Mainland.
Rachel Smith, 13, from Hillswick, handed over the document to SIC convener Sandy Cluness before Wednesday’s Full Council meeting.
Rachel, a keen walker and naturalist, said she opposed the windfarm because it would “devastate the landscape, and ruin the areas where I love to go walking and bird watching”, adding that it was .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<title>Power line plan fizzles with residents; Board of Supervisors hears concerns on energy pipeline</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/power-line-plan-fizzles-with-residents-board-of-supervisors-hears-concerns-on-energy-pipeline/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six hundred miles of high-voltage power lines would mar farms and country homes simply because that&#8217;s cheaper than a less disruptive option, a Stanislaus County leader charged Tuesday.
A claim of pursuing renewable energy options &#8220;is just a front to sell power up and down California,&#8221; Supervisor Bill O&#8217;Brien told energy officials, prompting vigorous applause from landowners upset at the proposal at a county Board of Supervisors meeting.
A partnership including the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts wants to run power lines .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
		<category>Wind energy</category>
		<title>Lack of transmission capacity stymies deals with wind developers</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/lack-of-transmission-capacity-stymies-deals-with-wind-developers/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly formed alliance of landowners in southeast Wyoming says its has more than 6,000 megawatts of wind energy resources, but not enough power line transmission to finalize deals with developers.
Bob Whitton is chairman of the Renewable Energy Alliance of Landowners, or REAL, which consists of 12 different landowner associations in the region and some individual landowners. Typically, it takes several neighboring landowners to make up enough acreage for a commercial-scale wind farm.
The alliance represents more than 300 landowners with .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>University weighs up 400ft wind turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/07/01/university-weighs-up-400ft-wind-turbines/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>01 Jul 2009</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines more than 400ft high could be erected as part of the £500m expansion of York University.
A feasibility study is being carried out by the university to establish if it is viable to put two turbines on the 290-acre site which is being developed on the outskirts of York.
While the proposals are expected to provoke opposition from residents, a university spokesman stressed that no decision had been taken.
He also maintained that, if the £6m scheme does go ahead, every .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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