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Copenhagen Meeting – President Barack Obama
GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products —
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Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting? If so, please provide your comments here. USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world. People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or if ...8 hours ago -
Top 50 Environmental Blogs - Going where no man has gone before
Energy Tough Love Blog —
Authority: 125
Let me start with a little house keeping. By my count and it is the only one the matters I have posted 24 Environmental Blogs that I think are the best on the planet and a little chunk of each blog. This includes 4 lists of Blogs many of whom I did not think were all that great or at least belong say in the last 25 of ...10 hours ago -
Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Emily Pilloton of Project H Design (Video)
TreeHugger —
Authority: 675
Each year a small horde of scary-smart people assemble in quaint Camden, Maine for the Pop!Tech conference. We cornered some of these worldly and verbose savants and administered a special kind of torture: answer big questions with Yes, No, or Maybe. We hit em with tough ones on nuclear... Read the full story on ...13 hours ago -
UK Carbon Trust Competition Heads into Round 3
Electric.co.uk News —
Authority: 140
The UK’s Carbon Trust has shortlisted seven new design models for offshore wind turbines. In the UK Round 3 of the competition some of the wind farm foundations can be placed up to 100 miles offshore in up to 60m of water. The competition is aimed at revolutionizing the offshore wind industry. Currently the ...18 hours ago -
Wind farm critics challenge state law
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
LINCOLN, Maine — A state law fast-tracking wind-to-energy projects is unconstitutional, and the state’s own peer reviewer admitted that state methods for reviewing project noise is flawed, an attorney opposing the $130 million Rollins Mountain wind farm argues in a brief submitted to the Maine Supreme Judicial ...18 hours ago -
Vineyard resists winds of change
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Blazing a trail for renewable energy, Gov. Deval Patrick is alienating Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal rich and famous by pushing a plan to lease state waters for 166 450-foot-high wind turbines between the pristine vacation spots of Gay Head cliffs and Cuttyhunk Island.“People come here because it’s a very ...18 hours ago -
Gamesa: Shaffer Mountain a priority
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Nearly three years after a permit application to build a wind farm on Shaffer Mountain was filed with the state, the first shovel of dirt is yet to be turned.The project could be the poster child for private advocacy – with nearly a thousand residents flooding a Departmentof Environmental Protection meeting in ...18 hours ago -
Considering wind turbine options as zoning vote looms
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
The proposed zoning change at the island’s transfer station to allow a 265-foot wind turbine has many residents nervous about the size and impact of the project.The Town Council will take a final vote on the highly contentious issue December 7, after having held two heated sessions on the matter.However, the new ...18 hours ago -
Wind farm numbers to triple
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Scotland’s wind farms will triple in number within years but still leave the country facing a gruelling uphill struggle to meet its climate change targets, according to figures released as the UN climate change summit opens today.The Herald understands plans are under way to increase the country’s total from 1131 ...18 hours ago -
Alternative Energy Committee considering SouthCoast sites for wind turbine
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
WESTPORT — After plans fell through for a 120-foot wind turbine behind Town Hall, the Alternative Energy Committee has focused its attention on other locations in town where a larger turbine could be built.The committee is considering locations in Portsmouth, R.I., and Hull for construction of a turbine. It is also ...18 hours ago -
Burnham MP steps up fight against controversial pylons scheme
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Burnham-On-Sea’s MP told a public meeting of over 170 residents on Sunday night (December 6th) that he is “optimistic” of halting controversial plans for a new network of electricity pylons running through our area from Hinkley Point to Avonmouth.As first reported by Burnham-On-Sea.com in September, the National ...18 hours ago -
Doc stance on landscape stuns architects
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Southern landscape architects are “staggered ” by claims the Department of Conservation is not an expert on landscapes.Otago conservator Marian van der Goes made the comments at an Otago Conservation Board meeting last month, in response to criticism about Doc’s lack of involvement in the Project Hayes wind farm ...18 hours ago -
Trimming the costs of wind power
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
As governments, businesses and environmentalists from around the world gather for the United Nations climate change summit meeting that begins today in Copenhagen, one of the featured attractions will be the array of windmills just off Denmark’s coast.Some of the enormous machines, which provide about 4.5 percent of ...18 hours ago -
Wind farms: green boon or a blot on landscape?
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Few construction projects could claim to have split public opinion so fiercely, but the growth of Scotland’s wind farms will be inescapable during the coming decade.According to The Herald’s calculations, the 1131 turbines already installed take up roughly 54 square km, or 0.06% of Scotland’s area.If permission ...18 hours ago -
More bluster than wind power from protectionism
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Driving through Don Quixote country in Spain’s Castille-La Mancha region, you are dazzled by the spectacle of wind farms churning out the energy that will save Iberia and the planet and, once you cross into Andalusia, by solar farms and the green jobs of the future.Except that if things continue as they are in ...18 hours ago -
Farmers, ranchers eye action in wind
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
CASPER — Some Iowa farmers have decided the best way to capitalize on wind is to own turbines churning out the electricity.Ed Woolsey, who heads Green Prairie Energy in Prole, Iowa, is part of a group that owns 10 turbines in north-central Iowa producing enough wind for about 7,500 homes a year.“The idea was to ...18 hours ago -
Farmer wants more turbines on site close to RAF radar
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
A farmer who was given permission to build a huge wind turbine despite warnings that it could compromise the UK’s air defences now wants to build two more.Peter Robertson and his wife, Elaine Booth, were granted consent to build the electricity generating machine on land at Bruxiehill, St Fergus, earlier this ...18 hours ago -
Wind farm ad ruled “misleading”
National Wind Watch: News —
Authority: 163
Npower ordered not to use image again after complaints from residents are upheld by the Advertising Standards AgencyAn advert used to promote plans for a new wind farm in North Beds has been labelled as “misleading” by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).Residents complained about a picture that appeared in ...18 hours ago -
What Can One Get From The Wind
i-Think Me Blog —
Authority: 130
When you see windmills what comes to your mind? Do you think of the Dutch countryside scattered with these structures? Do you think of the windmill-fighting Don Quixote, the fictional Spanish nobleman? Whatever comes to your mind, one thing is true; wind solar power is now a reality in many places. After decades of ...21 hours ago -
Altrenative Energy Will Become Cheaper
The Information Tract —
Authority: 130
Coal and natural gas powered electric power production has increased at an alarming rate in recent times and is a major cause of atmospheric pollution. Wind power by comparision is absolutely clean and the only objectiion to it,voiced by some people,is visual pollution from the arrays of wind turbines necessary for ...1 day ago
