This cultural shift toward renewable energy and sustainable building, even the shift toward aggressively entering the words into speech, is still dew-fresh in the minds of many New Yorkers. Global warming is probably mostly accepted, if not internalized, by the sane, but it is out of scale with human thought, especially the kind of day-to-day ...
Residents who oppose the installation of a wind farm in Ahenny, Carrick-on-Suir, have called on the minister for the environment to protect their area against what they call "the blatant vandalism of one of the country's most ancient landscapes." The call comes less than a fortnight before councilliors are due to vote on the issue. The Ahenny ...
The Spanish Designated National Authority regarding Climate Change, which reports to the Ministry of the Environment, has issued a letter of approval for the La Ventosa wind farm project as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the flexibility elements included in the Kyoto Protocol, which Iberdrola is developing in Mexico. The Iberdrola wind farm, ...
TrustPower will formally apply today for resource consents to build a wind farm near Lake Mahinerangi capable of producing enough electricity to supply 100,000 homes a significant downsizing of its original plans. The power generator has pruned several key features of a project initially estimated to cost $600 million. The price tag is now about $400 ...
HYANNIS, MASSACHUSETTS, Dec. 5 -/E-Wire/– A new report based on seven years of environmental monitoring of two Danish wind energy projects underscores the importance of choosing the right sites after a thorough assessment of potential impacts posed by those sites to birds, fish and marine wildlife such as seals and porpoises," said Alliance to Protect ...
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06 Dec 2006
Wind farm allies, foes laud Danish study
Both supporters and opponents of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm are hailing the findings of recent research on the environmental impact of Danish offshore wind turbines. Supporters of Cape Wind Associates' plan to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound say the research released last week at an international conference supports their contention that wind ...
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VirginiaNews
07 Dec 2006
Big cities want Highland power; Charlottesville, Arlington urge SCC to approve wind project permit
Opposition to Highland New Wind Development's proposal for a wind energy utility here has been quite vocal, but at least two Virginia localities publicly support the project, and hope to purchase the electricity it generates. HNWD's permit application remains under review at the State Corporation Commission, but officials from the City of Charlottesville and Arlington County ...
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MaineNews
07 Dec 2006
Business wants 44 turbines in Franklin Co.
A Canadian company hopes to build a wind power project in Franklin County that would be the biggest of its kind in the state. TransCanada, a large Canadian energy company that owns or controls roughly 7,700 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States and Canada, will file an application with the Land Use Regulation Commission ...
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OntarioNews
07 Dec 2006
County wind project has new owner
The wind turbine project slated for Royal Road at Point Petre in the southern reaches of Prince Edward County is about to be taken over by another Alberta firm. Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. is set to formally complete the acquisition of Vector Wind Energy Inc. of Ottawa later this month. Vector purchased the Royal Road project ...
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OntarioNews
07 Dec 2006
A "highly unusual" combination of weather conditions forced Canadian Hydro Developers (CHD) to shut down all 45 wind turbines in the Melancthon I plant at a time when many residents of Dufferin County were experiencing a blackout, and they remained out of service Wednesday. "The severe weather experienced on Friday (Dec. 1) caused heavy ice buildup ...
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U.K.NewsOffshore
07 Dec 2006
Offshore wind farm work to start
Work will start early next year on the UK's biggest offshore wind farm at Robin Rigg in the Solway Firth. E.ON UK has announced its plans to start construction on the £325m project which received planning permission more than three years ago. The 180MW scheme - to be built about six miles off the Scottish coast - ...
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U.K.News
07 Dec 2006
Refusal for Al Fayed turbine site
A plan for a wind farm on land owned by businessman Mohamed Al Fayed has been refused by Highland councillors. Almost half the council's 80 members took the unusual step of visiting the site at Invercassley near Lairg in Sutherland. Councillors decided the 23-turbine plan was outwith the local authority's renewable energy policy and would be visually ...
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NewsSpain
07 Dec 2006
Spain proposes to slash wind subsidies
Spain plans to cut subsidies for wind power generation, while increasing support for other renewables. Under the proposals, wind generators would see their feed-in tariffs reduced from about €97 ($129) per megawatt hour to between €67 and €87/MWh. However, the government proposes boosting the level of support for other technologies, such as solar. "Wind power subsidies were ...
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EditorialsVirginia
07 Dec 2006
Spinning out of control …
What many feared would happen, has happened. As we predicted many times on these pages, once Highland County's board of supervisors opened the Pandora's box on industrial wind energy development, residents here were bound to lose control over how their properties would be used. Two Virginia localities, Arlington County and the City of Charlottesville, have endorsed the ...
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MaineNews
07 Dec 2006
Turbines pass muster on noise issue in Freedom
Now that the major potential stumbling block of just how much noise would be produced by three giant wind turbine installations topping out at nearly 400 feet over Beaver Ridge in Freedom lies behind them, members of the town planning board return to their deliberations this Thursday on the application by Competitive Energy Services (CES) ...
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U.K.News
07 Dec 2006
UK industry wary of renewables reform
Government proposals to reform the UK's tradable renewable certificate system to support more technologies could be a risky gamble, according to Pöyry Energy Consulting. Richard Slark, principle consultant at Pöyry, told EFP Online: "There's a very high compliance case, or a very low compliance case and nothing in the middle." He was speaking following an Energy Institute ...
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U.K.News
07 Dec 2006
Windfarm decision due this week
D-Day is looming for a controversial windfarm proposal in the Glenkens. A decision will be made on Tuesday (12th) whether the proposed Blackcraig windfarm should get the go-ahead after local councillors opposed the plans. Planning and environment services councillors in Dumfries will rule on whether the full council should back Stewartry councillors and lodage a formal objection with ...
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U.K.News
08 Dec 2006
A controversial wind-farm plan was given the go-ahead last night by a development control committee. Officers at Wear Valley District Council had advised councillors that the plans to erect four 100-metre wind turbines on Broom Hill Farm should be approved. Protest campaign group Sunniside Oakenshaw Stanley (SOS) had expressed concerns about impact noise disturbing resident's sleep and ...
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U.K.News
08 Dec 2006
Councillor hits at valley wind turbines bid
The movement towards embracing renewable energy could be set back dramatically if plans for nine 120m high wind turbines in the Den Brook Valley are approved, a West Devon councillor has warned. Cllr Paul Ridgers, who represents the Drewsteignton and Spreyton areas, issued the warning at the session for residents' views in the public inquiry into ...
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MassachusettsNews
08 Dec 2006
Eastham first to pursue land-based wind power
Eastham is poised to become the first Lower Cape town to sail boldly toward land-based wind power. The town's Energy Committee in January will issue Requests for Proposals from private developers to install up to four, 400-foot-tall wind turbines on two parcels of town-owned property in North Eastham. At a community meeting in town hall Saturday, committee ...
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OntarioNews
08 Dec 2006
Forecast returns on turbine investments challenged
Frank Entwistle, a selfproclaimed expert in wind generation, is using summertime turbine results to illustrate, in his words, that "investors may be disappointed." In a news release from his Windwatch Conservation, Mr. Entwistle cites figures from Independent Electrical System Operator (IESO) as demonstrating a difference between the claims of turbine proponents and results recorded by IESO ...
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U.K.News
08 Dec 2006
More time given on windfarm application
Energiekonton, the firm hoping to build a windfarm in Auchtermuchty, has agreed to give Fife Council extra time to consider its application. The decision whether or not to approve the five-turbine project is now likely to be made early next year. The original deadline for a decision passed in November and there had been the possibility of ...
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MaineNews
08 Dec 2006
A proposal to erect three electricity generating wind turbines on Beaver Ridge came as close to being scrapped last night as it had during several hours of planning board deliberation. The board, which deliberated for about three hours last week and resumed its review Thursday night, talked seriously about limiting the company that hopes to install ...
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CaliforniaNews
08 Dec 2006
Residents gather to organize against more desert windmills
To Oregon's PPM Energy and Southern California Edison, the 45 wind turbines proposed for south of Desert Hot Springs are an environmentally responsible way to generate electricity. To nearby homeowners and to developers with land in the area, the windmills would be visual blights that would block mountain views and hurt property values. About 75 people gathered ...
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PennsylvaniaNews
08 Dec 2006
Shade OKs windmill ordinance
Wind energy projects in Shade Township have a more stringent regulation to comply with when proposing the development of wind energy facilities with in the township. At Thursday night's meeting, supervisors approved the township's ordinance on the regulation of wind turbines. Since summer, supervisors have discussed establishing an ordinance for the township and have heard concerns from ...
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PennsylvaniaNews
08 Dec 2006
State tax law benefits wind farms
Owners of wind farms stand to gain from a little-noticed bill passed last month that exempts wind-turbine equipment from local property taxes. The big winner was FPL Energy, which owns five wind farms in Pennsylvania, including one in Wayne County that was the subject of tax litigation. "This legislation simply clarifies existing legislation and brings certainty," ...
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LettersU.K.
08 Dec 2006
Wind farm construction traffic damaging country roads
I sympathise with Mary Snape's letter concerning High Pow wind farm construction traffic damaging country roads and causing distress (The Cumberland News, December 1). She is far from being alone in suffering this turmoil. It is happening all over Britain wherever wind energy development is despoiling the countryside. Unfortunately environmental damage from heavy vehicles comes low in ...
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PennsylvaniaNews
08 Dec 2006
The region's newest wind farm is changing ownership, The Tribune-Democrat has learned. Gamesa USA, developers of the Allegheny Ridge Wind Farm on the Cambria/Blair county border, is selling its entire interest in the facility to Australian-based Babcock & Brown LP. The selling price of the 40 turbines in what was termed Phase I of the windmill initiative ...
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U.K.News
08 Dec 2006
Wind Plan 'Hijack'
A property developer has lined up countryside around Colne as a potential site for a wind energy farm. Discussions over a small community-based turbine scheme in Trawden were well under way when it emerged that Derbyshire-based company Bolsterstone plc had carried out feasibility studies and tests around Boulsworth Hill. Company director Mr Mike Corker confirmed the area ...
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U.K.News
08 Dec 2006
Wind up over turbines plan
Councillors have got the wind up over plans for a renewable energy centre with three 100m high turbines next to a Castle Morpeth village. UK Coal has applied to redevelop disused mining land outside Lynemouth into a new windfarm designed to generate power for the national grid. The application, from Harwood Power Ltd, the coal giant's green ...
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