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Wind Power News: August 2010

These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


August 31, 2010 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

GOP again blocks wind turbine bill in Mass. Senate

A Republican lawmaker has again blocked the Massachusetts Senate from taking a final vote on a bill that backers say will make it easier to site wind turbine facilities. The bill had passed the Massachusetts Senate and House, but failed to win a final parliamentary vote in the Senate before the clock ran out in the Legislature’s formal session on July 31. Democratic leaders are hoping to push the bill through during the Legislature’s informal session. Gov. Deval Patrick has . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • MainePrint storyE-mail story

Selectmen to continue wind-ordinance discussion

RUMFORD – Selectmen may decide whether to place a 42-page proposed wind energy facility ordinance before voters during the Nov. 2 general election at their Thursday board meeting following a special three-hour workshop Monday night. But first, they plan to hold yet another workshop prior to the Thursday meeting. For nearly three hours, the board listened to John Maloney of Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, Andy Fisk of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Neil Kiely of First Wind LLC of . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • MassachusettsPrint storyE-mail story

State regulators examine Cape Wind’s cost-effectiveness

Massachusetts public utilities regulators will begin hearings next week as part of a precedent-setting review of whether the price of power from the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm is cost-effective. The hearings on a contract between Cape Wind and National Grid are scheduled to run from Sept. 7 through at least Sept. 22 at One South Station in Boston and will include more than a dozen witnesses. Though witnesses have filed testimony in advance of the hearings, officials will be . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • MarylandPrint storyE-mail story

Wind power big issue in Garrett commission race

OAKLAND – The wind turbines rising over the Garrett County landscape in recent weeks also loom large over the race for the District 1 seat on the county commission. Incumbent Republican Ernie Gregg, a 24-year veteran of the commission and its current chairman, is running for re-election. He will face first-time candidate Gregan Crawford in the Republican primary. Eric Robison, the Democratic candidate, is unopposed in the primary and will not face a challenger until the Nov. 2 general election. Robison . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • VermontPrint storyE-mail story

Sheffield wind project granted final permit

A Vermont Environmental Court judge has ruled that a 16-turbine wind-energy project is entitled to the final permits it needs to begin construction on Granby Mountain and Libby Hill in Sheffield. Judge Merideth Wright ordered several revisions in the construction stormwater permits issued to Vermont Wind, a subsidiary of Boston-based First Wind, but upheld those permits. Vermont Wind would be only the second such project to be constructed in Vermont. A commercial wind farm in Searsburg, in southern Vermont, was . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • New BrunswickPrint storyE-mail story

Government’s community wind power numbers questioned

A new government document on community wind farms could mislead municipalities such as Fredericton into spending tens of millions of dollars on a project that could end up losing money, says the Alliance for Community Energy. The Department of Energy recently published a paper called New Brunswick Community Wind Projects – Getting to the Tipping Point, which includes a mock business plan based on NB Power paying 10 cents a kilowatt/hour plus an inflation factor for wind-generated electricity. The province . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • ScotlandPrint storyE-mail story

Major wind farm plan for Moray Firth

A 200-turbine offshore wind farm has been proposed for a site off the Caithness coast. Consortium Moray Offshore Renewables is to hold a series of studies on the project’s potential economic and environmental impact. Public meetings will also be held in communities along the coasts of the Moray Firth. The proposed site is near the Beatrice oil field where there are two experimental offshore wind turbines. Meanwhile, the output from shore-based wind farms in the north of Scotland have exceeded . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • Letters, ScotlandPrint storyE-mail story

It will take many years for wind farm to ameliorate damage done during its construction

Catriona Stewart (“In praise of … Whitelee wind farm”, The Herald, August 28) wonders if wind turbines hum and whether one can feel the energy being made by putting one’s palm against a turbine. She notes that a similar project on the Lewis peatland would be unacceptable which, of course, it proved to be. Though less iconic, Eaglesham Moor was also a major peatland and thus a CO2 sink. Assessing the scheme’s environmental impact, ScottishPower estimated that “only” 300,000 cubic . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • TexasPrint storyE-mail story

Wind transmission lines across Hill Country face holdup at Public Utility Commission

The decision had been a clear one: A transmission line would cut through the Hill Country as part of a statewide network to carry West Texas wind power to the population centers of Central Texas, the Public Utility Commission said in an order in May 2009. The Lower Colorado River Authority, charged with building and operating the line, held more than a dozen Hill Country hearings. A judge reviewed a segment of the route and made recommendations. But Hill Country . . . Complete story »


August 31, 2010 • Illinois, LettersPrint storyE-mail story

Wind farm work leaves roads in bad shape

I was amused by some of the comments made by representatives of Horizon Wind Energy at the recent informational meeting that was held to discuss the expansion north of Route 9 of the eastern McLean County wind farm. We live in the middle of the existing wind farm, and heard many of the same comments at our informational meetings a few years back. According to the Aug. 19 Pantagraph article about the most recent meeting, Horizon’s representative, Robert Yehl, claimed . . . Complete story »


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