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• Bluewater Wind Purchased By NRG Energy (NRG)

  
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  NRG Energy just announced that it has acquired Bluewater Wind, which has several offshore wind projects in its pipeline along with a 25-year, 200MW power purchase agreement with Delmarva Power and Light in Delaware. According to NRG, Bluewater’s employees will keep their jobs and continue to work from their current ...
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• Wind turbine proposal denied; Advisory panel’s vote unanimous

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  A proposal to build a dozen wind turbines, part of a larger project to build as many as 100 in East County, has been denied by the Boulevard planning group.The planning group voted 5-0 last week ?to reject the wind project, with residents saying they felt it would hurt their property values while providing no benefits ...
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• Push for wind farms in Western North Carolina renewed, scaled back

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  ASHEVILLE — Legislators declined this summer to clear the way for North Carolina to tap the power of mountain winds. Next year, they could decide whether to allow a single, experimental ridgetop wind farm.Rep. Phil Frye said at a Wednesday wind-energy forum that he plans to propose allowing the state to issue one ...
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• Wind law plan leads to feud; Developer, Concerned Citizens face off over proposed changes in Clayton

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  CLAYTON — Iberdrola Renewables Inc. and Environmentally Concerned Citizens Organization are trading jabs over the proposal to amend the town’s zoning law for wind power facilities.Iberdrola’s attorney, Douglas H. Ward, of Young, Sommer, Ward, Ritzenberg, Baker & Moore LLC, Albany, asked the town not to ...
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• Wind turbine puts neighbors in a spin

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  WOODSTOCK – The latest effort by a local computer business to go green has some residents in a nearby subdivision seeing red.Other World Computing’s new wind turbine, 131 feet tall not counting its three 63-foot-long blades, towers over the open space and farmland that surround it just southeast of Woodstock. But ...
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• Wind project hearing off again

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  RICHMOND — The Highland wind project hearing that was slated for Tuesday this week has been cancelled, but officials indicate it will be rescheduled.Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources filed a motion late Friday with the State Corporation Commission, asking to continue the case focused on whether Highland ...
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• High Court judge grants Hethel turbines

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  Campaigners against three wind turbines at a Norfolk sports car manufacturer have today failed in their bid to overturn a planning decision.A High Court judge in London this morning ruled that there was “no basis” for quashing South Norfolk Council’s approval for a wind farm development at Lotus Cars on the old ...
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• ‘Green’ Tehachapi residents petition against wind farm

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  Hundreds of Tehachapi residents are trying to ban a wind farm from blowing into their part of town, but Kern County may not have legal grounds to stop the San Diego company that wants to build it.The nearly 700 Tehachapi residents have signed a petition against giant wind generators, but it’s not because they’re ...
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• Let’s hope Smitherman resignation leads to new look at wind power

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  George Smitherman, say it ain’t so. Just kidding.Smitherman has long been considered one of Ontario’s strongest politicians. He’s smart, charismatic and has the courage of his convictions. He knows you can’t make a soufflé without breaking an egg or two.Which is why it’s a really good thing for the people ...
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• Petition-driven moratorium on wind farms prompts special meeting

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  RUMFORD — Despite a lack of proposed commercial wind power development projects in town, backers calling for a 180-day moratorium on such projects still believe the action is warranted.That’s why the Rumford Wind Power Education Committee continued to seek signatures this fall on its moratorium petition even after ...
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• McBride calls critics ‘NIMBYs’

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  MONTEREY — After residents and landowners questioned the latest information submitted by Highland New Wind Development’s to state agencies, Tal McBride, a partner of HNWD with his parents, took issue with their credentials and assertions.Pocahontas County Commission president Martin Saffer hosts a forum where ...
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• Wind turbine a ‘test case battle’

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  Controversial plans for a 200 foot wind turbine test mast at Aston By Stone have been endorsed by council officers.Severn Trent Water’s proposal for a temporary wind monitoring mast at Aston Hall Farm will go before Stafford Borough Council’s development control committee on Wednesday.Planning officers have ...
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• Battlefield question placed on hold

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  A hearing to assess a proposed wind farm’s encroachment on a Civil War site has been delayed indefinitely.As work on the state’s first commercial wind farm enters a winter lull in Highland County, so do the regulatory proceedings related to the most recent complaint against the project.A hearing before the State ...
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• Loan guarantee ‘crucial’ to wind farm; NRG wants Congress to extend the program

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  NRG Energy officials are counting on Congress to reauthorize a loan guarantee program that the firm says is “crucial” to the success of a planned wind farm off Rehoboth Beach.Right now, the planned wind farm doesn’t qualify for the program because it only covers projects set to start construction by Sept. 30, ...
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• Wind opinions sought; HRM holds first of nine meetings asking for input on location of turbines

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  It’s the latest in the NIMBY syndrome.The Halifax Regional Municipality wants to get the public’s feedback on how far wind turbines must be located from homes, roadways and property lines.The first of nine public meetings was held Monday night at Brookside Junior High School in Prospect.About 15 vocal residents ...
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• Wind regs top Aquinnah special town meeting warrant

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  Aquinnah voters will be asked to take action on a slate of new zoning regulations governing wind turbines and a proposal to lower the quorum when they gather for a special town meeting set to begin at 7 pm next Tuesday in the old town hall.The warrant could move some voters to quote Yogi Berra, famed Yankees manager, ...
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• Turbine ‘too close to airport’

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  The company behind plans to build a wind turbine in Cutteslowe Park has moved to allay fears that the structure could pose a safety threat at London Oxford Airport.Residents opposing the idea of a turbine being built in North Oxford fear the wind turbine is too close to housing and could have an adverse effect on ...
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• Wind Energy Committee considers feasibility of town-owned wind turbine

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  Ft. Getty and Taylor Point have emerged as the “finalists” in Jamestown’s search for potential wind turbine sites. During a Nov. 10 workshop on a newly released feasibility study, the Jamestown Wind Energy Committee announced that the other front-runner, Beavertail Point, had been eliminated from ...
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• Construction of wind turbine OK’d in Bell Acres

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  Bell Acres council has approved construction of an alternative energy center that will include a 60-foot wind turbine, but not without a few conditions.Several of the stipulations involve possible noise issues, while others are intended to address residents’ concerns for dozens of great blue herons that nest about ...
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• Wind project concerns must be addressed

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 162
  At one time there was a great surge of support for investing in alternative renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and geothermal. Some green activists pushed hard for more wind power. Today with wind farms sprouting up around Oregon like mushrooms, and some in prime visual areas like the Columbia River Gorge and ...
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