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		<title>Wind farm remorse</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 01:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WITI-TV  &#8212;  Even a child playing with a kite or a pinwheel realizes the strength of a strong breeze. Harnessing the wind to power homes is no longer something that will happen in Wisconsin, it&#8217;s happening now. FOX 6&#8217;s Ted Perry&#8217;tells you there&#8217;s also controversy blowing in the wind.

May 7, 2008
Fox 6 Milwaukee, myfoxmilwaukee.com
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		<title>PSC looking out for the consumer</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding Iberdrola&#8217;s proposed acquisition of Energy East, the Public Service Commission is doing exactly what it was mandated to do by the state Legislature. That is, to keep control of electricity distribution separate from electricity generation — Iberdrola&#8217;s wind developments.
Industrial wind power has not lived up to its claims in real- world operation. Conventional power plants must be kept on constant standby — using fossil fuel and emitting carbon dioxide — for when the wind ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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		<title>Controversial turbine plan is cut to four</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company behind the controversial East Stoke wind farm has cut its number of proposed turbines by a third.
Infinergy, which wanted to build six 125-metre turbines at Masters Pit, Puddletown Road, now plans just four for the site.
Project bosses say this downsize is a response to residents&#8217; concerns, an explanation that has been rubbished by wind farm opponents.
Dorset Against Rural Turbines (Dart) president Terry Stewart said: &#8220;The main reason we are against these proposals, and ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>New wind blows: Idea to put turbines on ranch raising discussion about renewable energy</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[BISBEE — Dennis Maroney, owner/operator of the 47 Ranch, looks over the map that shows the thousands of acres of private and leased public land that provides food for his natural beef cattle herd.
He points to a small “x” on the slope of the northeastern section of the Mule Mountains and says that’s where Clipper Windpower plans to install an anemometer to measure wind speed and direction. Farther south, another “x” marks a less-appealing test ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Citizens groups plan to sue NedPower Mt. Storm, Dominion Resources, Shell Wind Energy</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 10:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, eleven citizens groups filed a Sixty Day Notice of Intent to Sue NedPower Mt. Storm and its corporate owners Dominion Resources, and Shell Wind Energy for violations of the Endangered Species Act involving the “takes” of the West Virginia northern flying squirrel, the Indiana bat, and the Virginia big-eared bat.
The letter, sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service, NedPower and the West Virginia Public Service Commission, also raises concerns about impacts to ...]]>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind power being considered</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 10:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several businesses are interested in tapping into the County of Grande Prairie’s wind potential to generate electricity, the county’s economic development officer said last week in his report to county council.
It could take one to three years before a windmill appears in the county’s landscape but, if it goes ahead, it would be a first for the county, possibly even for northwestern Alberta.
Walter Paszkowski presented county council with a map showing the key potential sites ...]]>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind energy project proposed</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 09:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;green&#8221; project may be popping up out of the green fields of northeastern Pottawattamie County this summer.
MidAmerican Energy is looking at the area as a site to build 64 wind turbines, a project that county officials said could be worth more than &#36;120 million and generate about 96 megawatts of electricity.
The Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors will schedule a public hearing on tax incentives for the project in the next few weeks. If the ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<title>Windmill fire causes &#36;750,000 in damage</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire caused an estimated &#36;750,000 in damage to a windmill on Thursday, the Palm Springs Fire Deparment said today.
Firefighters were called out about 5:55 p.m. to Windmill Farms a mile south of Interstate 10. The top portion of the windmill was on fire and several small spot fires happened because of falling debris. 
The fire is under investigation.
Desert Sun staff
The Desert Sun
9 May 2008
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Turbines on the march</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annandale and Eskdale is seeing the winds of change on its landscape.
In a multi-million pound investment the area now has 20 wind turbines fully operational and generating electricity.
And, in coming years, that figure could rise to 372 across the district.
Airtricity Development Scotland has announced its 16-turbine windfarm at Risp Hill on Minsca Farm between Waterbeck and Lockerbie is now fully operational after its commissioning phase and testing period.
They join four turbines already working in a ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>

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		<title>Climate change plea from tribe of herders who face extinction</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another threat, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams have sprung up in reindeer herding areas that had been protected, cutting grazing and forcing the Sami off their traditional land.
Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father&#8217;s father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the ...]]>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Countdown to a power crisis</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snowflakes tumbling along the Old Dunstan Road hint at a long winter to come. Here, 700m up on the northern fringes of Central Otago&#8217;s Lammermoor Ranges, is giant state-owned power company Meridian Energy&#8217;s latest bid to produce enough electricity to allow South Islanders to enjoy a more secure power supply.
Flurrying snow marks out small eddies but there&#8217;s little real wind up here today on the 200sq km site where Meridian plans to spend &#36;1.5 billion ...]]>
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		<title>El Paso wind farm whips up trouble; Woodford board member removed from committee seats for proposal</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woodford County Board member Larry Whitaker was removed Thursday from his seats on three county committees after he tried to place the contentious El Paso wind farm project before the board, officials confirmed Friday.
Board Chairman John Krug said he pulled Whitaker, a 10-year veteran of the board, from the Road and Bridge Committee, the Conservation, Planning, and Zoning Committee as well as his seat on the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission because Whitaker overstepped his bounds ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prince Edward Island]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Third power line in works for P.E.I.</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The P.E.I. government hopes to use a fund established by Ottawa to revive a project killed shortly after the federal Conservatives took office in 2006.
In the dying days of Paul Martin’s government, Stephane Dion, who was then the Liberal environment minister, visited P.E.I. to announce federal funding for a third electrical transmission line from the Island to New Brunswick.
The two current cables, which supply Islanders with power, are near capacity. Unlike those two cables, the ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>If it is good for Canada, it must be good for county, right&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Boyle recently wrote that he was concerned about the sale of PSE to a group of foreign investors.  This shouldn’t be a problem since the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) has as their mission statement: “The UTC protects consumers by ensuring that utility and transportation services are fairly priced, available, reliable and safe.”
The citizens of Washington recently passed I-937 which requires the use of narrowly defined renewable energy sources by utilities serving ...]]>
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		<title>Wind turbines closer to reality</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ BP Alternative Energy will begin to seek permits from the state later this month into early June for a wind turbine facility it hopes to have in operation in the southern part of Wyoming County by the end of 2009.
Speaking during a “Mehoopany Wind Energy Project” open house at the Triton Hose Co. in Tunkhannock, Pa., on Thursday, BP Alternative Energy business developer Kevin Davis said that testing with meteorological towers has determined that ...]]>
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		<title>Turbine plan is rejected</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perthshire&#8217;s public purse could be set to feel the strain after councillors threw out a controversial wind farm plan.
Members of Perth and Kinross Council’s development control committee voted to turn down an application from Perth-based developers I and H Brown for the 14-turbine Calliachar renewables scheme, on grazing land near Aberfeldy.
Managing director Scott Brown said the scheme would help safeguard the future of the 200-employee firm, but councillors were more concerned about the potential damage ...]]>
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		<title>Rising costs threaten UK wind farm programme</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK won&#8217;t meets it targets on renewable energy if offshore wind farm costs continue to spiral, the government has been warned.
Centrica said the chance of making any money from wind farms being set up around the British coast were now only slim.
Rising prices for raw materials, particularly steel and copper, had pushed up the prices being demanded by the handful of companies who make the giant turbines for the offshore fields.
Centrica said it would ...]]>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Wind turbine rules given nod by Town Meeting voters</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESSEX &#8212; Bill Holton, chairman of the task force, presented the lengthy article and initiated discussion, which included changes to the wording of the proposed bylaws governing use of the turbines. It was decided, for example, that the term “wind farms” does not apply to the uses recommended for private buildings, as it has become a common term elsewhere to describe commercial and industrial uses with large numbers of turbines and lends confusion to the ...]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>MidAmerican plan sparks roadwork</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some massive roadwork has begun in order to accommodate 76 wind turbines that MidAmerican Energy will be moving into Cass, Adair and Audubon counties.
Most of the roads being updated can now hold up to 20 tons; however, trucks carrying the turbine parts will weigh closer to 180 tons &#8212; around 360,000 pounds. The crane that assembles the turbines will need a 33-foot-wide pathway to move from site to site, and the roads now are only ...]]>
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		<title>Opponents demand investigation into wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind farm opponents have called on Steuben County District Attorney John Tunney to investigate their wide-ranging allegations against a county agency, municipalities and individual officials.
In a May 5 letter to Tunney, Cohocton Wind Watch’s chief spokesman James Hall demanded an investigation into what he feels are alleged criminal actions. Those include false claims, filing false instruments, bribery of public officials, larceny and fraud.
Those accused of illegal actions are: the Steuben County Industrial Development Agency, SCIDA ...]]>
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		<category>Wind power</category>
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		<title>Delmarva Power says it will reword controversial advertisement</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delmarva Power officials say they will recast recently published newspaper ads against the proposed Bluewater Wind project. The company stands behind the information they contain but will no longer use the headline “Public Notice,” which has drawn a complaint to the Public Service Commission (PSC).
University of Delaware professor Jeremy Firestone filed a draft complaint with the commission, seeking a retraction of the ads and an apology from the company. This week an environmentalist group retaliated ...]]>
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		<title>Residents challenge meteorological tower decision</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A group of Jefferson Township residents have filed an appeal against the township zoning appeals board’s decision to allow a meteorological tower on the property of Ralph and Rick Amerine.
The board of zoning appeals decided the issue April 30, but cited no clear reason why they believed Mr. Amerine and his representative, Roger Brown, should be allowed to construct the wind measurement towers.
The appeal, however, states no specific reason the residents believe the board ...]]>
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		<title>Engineer questions wind energy claims</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 49 years as a power engineer, going from engineer apprentice to manager of power supply for approximately two-thirds of rural Illinois, my blood curdles when I read some of the rabid pro-windmill articles rampant in the press these days.
Statements like &#8220;the wind is free&#8221; (then why do they need the massive tax breaks and subsidies) and &#8220;this wind farm will supply 35,000 homes,&#8221; neglecting to finish the sentence with &#8220;for maybe 25 percent of ...]]>
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		<title>Park delays decision on windfarm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the national park’s planning panel have deferred a decision on whether to lodge an objection to nine new turbines planned near Fintry.
Park planners are recommending the committee does lodge an objection to the plans by RDC Scotland Ltd. The company wants to erect the turbines, a permanent 70m monitoring mast and other equipment at Ling Hill, north-west of the existing 15-turbine Earlsburn windfarm.
The park officials say the visual impact of the new proposal ...]]>
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		<title>County opens door to wind farm growth</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applications for the erection of 300 more wind turbines in La Salle County are possible within the next 90 days. That was the prediction of Mike Harsted, director of La Salle County&#8217;s Environmental Services and Land Use office, just prior to the County Board&#8217;s vote to lift restrictions on wind farm growth.
Instead of a limit on megawatt production, the restriction now is a limit of 100 new wind turbines per year per applicant.
Harsted said the ...]]>
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		<title>Effort to block wind farm forum fails</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARTSBURG – Climbing over an 11th-hour bump in the road, Rail Splitter Wind Farm presented its case Thursday to the Logan County Zoning Board of Appeals, which will make a recommendation on the company’s request to place 29 wind turbines along the Union Ridge in northern Logan County.
The appeals board is meeting in response to a recommendation from the Logan County Regional Planning Commission, which earlier this week gave its approval to the wind farm ...]]>
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		<title>Picketers assemble at wind farm open house</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERSTBURG &#8212; A second open house was held by Gengrowth pertaining to a wind farm they are proposing just north of Malden Centre but those who live in the area were ready to air their views as well.
A group of area residents picketed outside the Amherstburg Community Church where the open house was held and held up signs and gave out pamphlets to any passing motorist that was interested. Gengrowth is proposing the five wind ...]]>
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		<title>&#39;Tallest&#39; wind farm plan unveiled</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans have been unveiled in Powys to turn one of the largest wind farms in the UK into one of the tallest.
The companies behind the scheme want to replace 103, 45-metre (149ft) tall turbines in Llandinam, near Newtown, with 42, 122-metre (400ft) machines.
They said the redevelopment would treble the output of &#8220;clean, green energy&#8221; at the mid Wales site.
But objectors claim the new turbines could have a detrimental visual impact on the landscape.
Wind energy consultant ...]]>
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		<title>Freedom: Installation of wind farm nears</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barring any legal challenges, installation of the Beaver Ridge wind turbines could begin this summer.
First Selectman Ron Price, owner of the land where the &#36;12 million wind farm will be located, said the devices have been ordered and delivery is expected to take place in July. The three 400-foot-tall windmills planned for the site are similar to those in place at Mars Hill, he said. They are projected to produce 4.5 megawatts of power annually.
&#8220;They ...]]>
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		<title>Justice in Freedom&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting aside the merits and flaws of a proposal to build three, 400-foot-tall wind turbines on Beaver Ridge in Freedom, we have to ask: What the heck are local officials thinking?
On May 1, the town&#8217;s Board of Appeals heard a request by opponents of the project to revoke a building permit issued to the developers in July 2007. The opponents said work had not &#8220;substantially commenced&#8221; within the six-month period required by local ordinance.
The appeals ...]]>
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		<title>Deal reported on offshore wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state would open ocean sanctuaries to &#8220;appropriate scaled&#8221; renewable energy development under a Statehouse deal that could allow a controversial wind farm in Buzzards Bay.
A six-member conference committee of House and Senate lawmakers reached consensus on the bill this week. The compromise apparently scuttles House-passed legislation that critics say would have opened Buzzards Bay and other ocean sanctuaries to unlimited renewable energy development.
The compromise bill will be signed by legislative leaders and made public ...]]>
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		<title>Duanesburg drafts wind turbine rules</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duanesburg officials have drafted Schenectady County’s first ordinance aimed at regulating wind turbine developments.
The Town Board will conduct a public hearing on the proposed regulations on June 12. If adopted, the law would make Duanesburg the first municipality in the county to set standards for wind power projects.
Board members first considered drafting the law while they were reviewing the town’s comprehensive plan last year. Supervisor Rene Merrihew said the proposed ordinance sets easy-to-understand guidelines for ...]]>
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		<title>Windfarms: why they are flawed</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Many readers will be wondering why there is so much concern about Nuon&#8217;s proposed windfarm at Swinford.
How many readers actually know the reality of wind turbines?
There is much hype, and windfarms are presented as a good thing. If only that were true!
Readers may have noticed that there is little comment about whether they work or not. That is because the Government has declared that the planning authority &#8220;should not make assumptions about the technical ...]]>
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		<title>Fayette officials to join windmill dispute</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fayette County commissioners will intervene in a civil lawsuit over proposed windmills in Georges and Springhill townships, but not necessarily because they favor or oppose the project.
Commissioners on Thursday voted 2-1 to file a notice of intervention in the lawsuit, which pits PPM Renewable Energy Corp. of Portland, Ore., against the county&#8217;s zoning hearing board.
PPM, which has offices in Perryopolis, filed the civil suit last month, after the zoning board denied its request for a ...]]>
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		<title>Gamesa wants more room for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company planning to construct wind turbines in Logan Township needs supervisors to enlarge the wind zone and to back away from stricter rules, a representative said Thursday.
“It will not financially work with less than 25 turbines,” Tim Vought of Gamesa Energy USA told supervisors.
He showed them a map with 17 turbines in the township’s wind zone south of Route 36 and an additional eight turbines north of Route 36 outside of the wind zone.
The ...]]>
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		<title>Wind farm headed for Lincoln County</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windmills five miles south of Reardan will be generating electricity for Avista Utility customers by the end of 2011, the Spokane company announced Thursday.
The &#36;120ƒ&#124;million project will be a first for Avista, which has been buying wind energy from third-party suppliers for several years.
The Lincoln County windmills will have the capacity to produce 50 megawatts of power, enough for 37,500 homes. But wind variability reduces the average output of the towers to only about one-third ...]]>
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		<title>N. Union may turn to wind</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Union Township may join other regional municipalities that have created or are creating wind turbine ordinances.
At a supervisors’ meeting this week, North Union Township Supervisor Gary Croll said a group from St. Francis University, Loretto, is interested in testing wind capacity with a meteorological tower in North Union. That group is investigating the potential for a commercial wind farm.
He said there is also a resident who may want to erect a personal turbine to ...]]>
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		<title>Not much is generated</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking about wind power, most eyes just glaze over and when I tell them that the more than 4,000 windmills in the San Gorgonio Pass about only generate about 100+/- Megawatts per year (Edison uses 13,000 MW) and the wind is only good enough to generate 14 percent to 20 percent of the time, they stare in disbelief. How can that be when the developers tell us they can provide power for thousands of ...]]>
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		<title>Campaigners set for new wind turbines battle</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campaigners celebrating after plans for two huge wind turbines in the Lancashire countryside were thrown out have warned developers: &#8220;We will fight on.&#8221;
Councillors in Wyre rejected plans for the turbines at Eagland Hill, between Garstang and Pilling.
Cornwall Light and Power wanted to erect two 80m high wind turbines, which stretched up to 125m at the peak of the blades, at Orchard End, Eagland Hill.
The plans sparked more than 300 objections, with protesters claiming the structures ...]]>
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		<title>Is building more windfarms the answer&#63;</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it is finished later this year, the giant offshore windfarm off the Skegness coast will be the largest in the world.
It might assume that mantle only briefly, but the development, spearheaded by energy giant Centrica and using technology developed by Siemens, will still be a leading light of Britain&#8217;s wind energy industry.
Earlier this year the Government agreed to a tough target of getting 15 per cent of all its energy from renewable sources by ...]]>
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		<title>Companies &#39;frustrated&#39; by delays</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delays in approving wind farm applications have affected plans of a number of companies, including Air-tricity.
Mark Ennis, Airtricity director of strategy and pub
lic policy, said: “The delays in the planning process in Northern Ireland have been a source of significant frustration for some time and it is an issue we have been raising with the department on an ongoing basis.
“At Airtricity we believe Northern Ireland is a natural environment for harnessing renewable energy sources.
“We have ...]]>
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		<title>Turbines delayed by backlog, claims MLA</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Development of wind turbine energy as an alternative source of renewable energy in Northern Ireland is being delayed by the Planning Service, where some proposals have been in the pipeline for two years, according to SDLP MLA Tommy Gallagher.
Mr Gallagher is concerned that if planning application processing times are not addressed some companies may decide to take wind farm and turbine developments elsewhere.
The SDLP environment spokesman discovered that Planning Service decisions on 18 applications are ...]]>
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		<title>County council U-turn over windfarm plan</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northumberland County Council has withdrawn its objections to proposals by Hexham-based company Amec for a windfarm in Tynedale.
In a letter submitted to the public inquiry looking at three separate applications, the council said that its major concerns had been dealt with by the company’s decision to modify its original plans.
Amec had initially intended to put up 20 turbines in the Ray Estate, but in light of evidence presented at the inquiry, altered the number to ...]]>
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		<title>Following Rick Webb</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning at the Spring Review and Sustainable Fair: University of Virginia research scientist Rick Webb began his presentation on wind energy pros and cons and was promptly interrupted. Through a thicket of questions and counter-questions he made his way to the next point. New questions arose. Later points were anticipated. Divergent claims were made. Finally, a frustrated majority demanded that questions wait until Rick had finished. So he did, and for long afterwards remained ...]]>
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		<title>The wind of change &#8212; not here thanks</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[HgCapital, the private equity group, is in trouble with the residents of the Weald of Kent over the possible funding of a wind turbine in their back yard. The Kent Weald Action Group has a website devoted to the protest, and accuses Hg of being socially irresponsible in siting the turbine within 600m of many people&#8217;s homes. “We have provided them with evidence of how people&#8217;s lives have been totally blighted elsewhere by having turbines ...]]>
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		<title>Conservancy shifts policy on wind energy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Board of Directors has made a significant shift in its policy on wind energy projects. Instead of focusing only on a proposed project’s impact upon the natural environment, the policy now will broaden the focus to include consideration of the role of the wind energy in overall energy policy.
This shift appears in the policy adopted at the April 20 Board meeting: The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy opposes all large, utility ...]]>
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		<title>Wind farm plans advance</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Logan County Regional Planning Commission voted Wednesday to recommend approval of a conditional-use zoning permit for Horizon Wind Energy to construct the Rail Splitter Wind Farm, which will take up sections of agriculturally zoned land in southern Tazewell County and northern Logan County.
The meeting, which lasted approximately two-and-a-half hours, was mostly dominated by lawyers’ speeches from both Union Ridge Wind, which opposes the project, and Horizon.
Horizon will present expert witnesses from its side at ...]]>
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		<title>Centrica warns on wind farm costs</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Centrica,one of the UK&#8217;s biggest energy generators, has warned that the prospect of making money from wind farms is looking &#8220;marginal&#8221;.
The company says that the rising cost of off-shore wind farms could end up ruining the government&#8217;s renewable energy targets.
The comments come a week after Shell withdrew from a project that was set to become the world&#8217;s largest wind farm.
The government wants 33 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity built by 2020.
Mr Sambhi, Centrica&#8217;s director of ...]]>
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		<title>Garrett Co. commissioners discuss eminent domain/wind turbine issue</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The question about whether Garrett County will use its power of eminent domain to seize private property if a citizen refuses to grant an easement to a wind turbine company is purely a hypothetical one, according to the Garrett County commissioners. The officials indicated on Tuesday that they have no desire to use that power anytime in the near future.
&#8220;You can never say never, but you can say that it&#8217;s not on the horizon,&#8221; ...]]>
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		<title>Local ire jams Suzlon windmills</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 May 2008</nww:date>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wind turbine major Suzlon’s operations at Sangli and Satara in Maharashtra have hit a major roadblock. Agitated villagers of Chikhli village in Satara district on Wednesday forced Suzlon-run windmills to shutdown, protesting the manner in which the land acquisition was done. On top of it, angry villagers threatened to uproot the windmills, if Suzlon doesn’t resolve the land acquisition issue.
Confirming the incident, a senior state official told FE, “Villagers have been protesting against the land ...]]>
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