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Wind Power News: October 2014

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.


October 31, 2014 • MarylandPrint storyE-mail story

Defense department objects to wind turbine proposal; Official calls it ‘final nail’ for Great Bay project

U.S. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md., 5th) said Thursday the Department of Defense has formally objected to the wind turbine project across the Chesapeake Bay in Somerset County. Del. John Bohanan (D-St. Mary’s) and St. Mary’s County Commissioner Todd Morgan (R) said later that day they don’t know how Pioneer Green would be able to proceed to build wind turbines at that location with the formal objection. “This is an exciting day,” Hoyer told an audience at the Southern Maryland . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • ConnecticutPrint storyE-mail story

Connecticut to get its first utility-scale wind project

Connecticut could have its first utility-scale wind project by the middle of next year after the state Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of a citizens’ group to end a four-year regulatory and legal battle. The court’s decision in mid-September lowered one of the last barriers preventing BNE Energy Inc. from developing two sites in the northwest part of the state. BNE plans to install a total of six 1.6-mw turbines, three at each of two sites in the town of . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • ScotlandPrint storyE-mail story

University turns back to fossil fuel

A university which condemned fossil fuel companies for contributing to climate change has now admitted that oil and gas will be needed “for many decades to come”. The University of Glasgow angered many of its senior scientists this month when it agreed to a demand from a student environmental group that it sell £18m worth of shares in the fossil fuel extraction industry. The university portrayed itself as a green pioneer, declaring it was “the first UK university to divest . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • MainePrint storyE-mail story

Environmental Protection board tosses one Bingham wind project appeal

A Carthage woman’s appeal was dismissed but another, filed by an environmental group, will go forward. An appeal filed by an area resident opposing the Bingham wind project has been dismissed by the Board of Environmental Protection. Blue Sky West, the project developer, had filed a motion to dismiss. The appeal, filed by Alice McKay Barnett, of Carthage, was one of two filed in reaction to the Department of Environmental Protection’s approval of the Bingham Wind Project in September. It . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • KentuckyPrint storyE-mail story

Mason County Judge-Executive candidates on the issues

Mason County Judge-Executive candidates were sent a series of questions dealing with issues the county has or likely will face. Candidates responding to the questions include incumbent Democrat James L. “Buddy” Gallenstein and challenger Independent Joe Pfeffer. WIND FARMS Both NextEra and Duke Energy have abandoned plans for wind farm development in Mason County. There are currently no plans – at least of which we are aware – for wind energy development. As a post mortem on what became very . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • MinnesotaPrint storyE-mail story

Judge: Orono ban of small wind turbines is unlawful

Beginning Nov. 24, Orono officials must stop enforcing the ordinance that prohibits wind turbines in the city, a judge has ruled. The ruling by District Judge Philip D. Bush was issued Thursday, Oct. 23. He wrote that he was giving the city about 30 days before the injunction was to go into effect “so that the city may adequately protect its interests.’ Orono residents Jay and Kendall Nygard as well as Go Green Energy, LLC and Micro Wind Advisory Council . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • MichiganPrint storyE-mail story

County will pay to learn more about turbine noise

BAD AXE – Costs are mounting as the county will now foot a more than $20,000 bill to pay for day and nighttime studies of wind turbines. Grand Rapids acoustics firm Acoustics by Design was hired in August to conduct noise studies at turbine sites, at a cost of $10,500. Now, the county will pay the firm another $9,650 for nighttime studies at up to four locations. “Nighttime has been where a lot of the complaints have arisen,” Huron County Commissioner . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • MarylandPrint storyE-mail story

Pentagon objects to Shore wind farm

A politically divisive Eastern Shore wind energy project hit a new roadblock Thursday, as the Pentagon lodged a formal objection to it, saying the towering turbines would interfere with operations at Naval Air Station Patuxent River across the Chesapeake Bay. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, a Democratic House leader whose Southern Maryland district includes the naval air base, released a letter from the Department of Defense declaring the Great Bay Energy Center proposed in Somerset County “would constitute an unacceptable risk . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • OntarioPrint storyE-mail story

Opposition leader Jim Wilson slams Dufferin Wind

The Green Energy Act’s ability to trump other legislation is a problem across Ontario, but Melancthon is home to a worse case scenario according to Jim Wilson, interim leader of the Official Opposition. Wilson, a Progressive Conservative MPP for Simcoe-Grey, joined Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones and Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill for a tour of wind farm installations in north Dufferin on Friday (Oct. 17). “I think this is the worst case I’ve seen and I’ve been on a number of . . . Complete story »


October 31, 2014 • Nova ScotiaPrint storyE-mail story

Chester council unimpressed with wind turbine figures

Chester municipal council is looking for some answers after its wind turbine fell short of its revenue target to date this year. The municipality had expected the Kaizer Meadow turbine to have generated $712,381 in revenue so far this year, but it has brought in only $202,972. However, finance director Steve Graham said that’s enough to cover its expenditures, so the windmill is not losing money. Several councillors said they’ve received calls from constituents wondering why the windmill isn’t turning . . . Complete story »


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