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• in Politics
  Green Jobs – Just a Lot of Talk?
  Has the green job promise gone bust? What is a green job? What makes a resource "green" or not? If you are unemployed, is defining "green" a question you can even afford to consider?
  by inlovewiththelord / on Sep 14, 2011
• in Green
  The Role of Legislation in Clean Energy
  High hopes at the face of even higher pressure
  by yihyeewong / on Jul 22, 2011
• in Politics
  The Germans Made a Mistake on Nuclear Energy
  Nuclear energy is the most efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly energy which can benefit the world.
  by chicksmore / on Jun 6, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “wind energy”

 

• US Wind Power Grows 31% in 4Q, 17% in 2011, but Expiring Production Tax Credit Threatens Future Gains

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 655
  Graphic courtesy AWEA US wind power installations continued strong to close out 2011. More than 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of clean, renewable wind power capacity were installed in Q4, bringing 2011′s total to 6.81 GW, a 31% year-over-year increase. Looking forward to 2012, more than 8.3 GW of capacity are under ...
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• Obamas Latest Energy Blueprint: Will Congress Go Along?

  
  InsideClimate News — Authority: 554
  The president used his State of the Union address to set three energy goals. The challenge, though, will be navigating a bitterly divided Congress. By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News WASHINGTON—President Obama talked for one hour, ...
  2 days ago

• GE wants its Wind Customers to Buy Solar Panels too

  
  Solar Power Updates & News — Authority: 85
  General Electric is trying to convince its wind turbine customers to purchase solar panels as well. This is according to Vic Abate, who is the head of the company’s renewables unit.
  5 days ago

• Lobbyist helps a project he financed in Congress

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  WASHINGTON — Soon after he retired last year as one of the leading liberals in Congress, former Representative William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts started his own lobbying firm with an office on the 16th floor of a Boston skyscraper. One of his first clients was a small coastal town that has agreed to pay him ...
  6 days ago

• Umatilla County further clarifies LUBA decision

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  Umatilla County further clarified the work it needs to do in response to an Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals ruling on a challenge to the county laws for siting wind turbines. During discussions at the commissioners‟ meeting Wednesday, officials downplayed what the appeals board required of the county in the Jan. 12 ...
  6 days ago

• Wind turbines are blowing communities apart, farm group says

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  Ontario should suspend awarding further contracts for large wind turbines, the province’s biggest farm organization says. “It’s tearing rural communities apart, so farmers can’t do what they do best, which is grow food,” OFA president Mark Wales said in an interview. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture ...
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• Split decision likely from wind turbine study group

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  LENOX — The study group on wind turbines is nearing a likely split decision on whether to recommend that the town proceed with a municipal turbine installation atop Lenox Mountain. Deep divisions have re-emerged following this week’s release of a state-commissioned scientific study minimizing the health risks of ...
  6 days ago

• Power surge fades: Colorado’s future in renewable energy dims after years of growth

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  About 1,200 wind turbines are spinning on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, hundreds of acres of solar arrays are tilted skyward in the San Luis Valley and the roofs of more than 10,000 homes and businesses sport solar panels. Since voters in 2004 passed Amendment 37 — which set a state renewable-energy standard — ...
  6 days ago

• Orby windfarm inquiry date row

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  Wind farm opponents fear a ‘turbine hub’ could emerge in Orby if an important planning appeal takes place without their representation. A public meeting on plans to build eight turbines at Orby Marsh has been scheduled to take place in April when many of the proposal’s opponents are unavailable. Campaign leader, ...
  6 days ago

• New DOE maps show wind energy potential in U.S.

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  The Department of Energy’s Wind Powering America program has released new maps of wind energy potential in the U.S. The maps, the first new ones in 19 years, are meant to serve as a resource for policymakers, state and local governments and anyone looking to invest in wind power sites or anyone trying to determine ...
  6 days ago

• Alex Salmond plans to cheat the English of billions in a green power swap

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  In all the flood of questions unleashed by Alex Salmond’s desire to see Scotland withdraw from the United Kingdom – what about the Armed Forces, the flag, the Queen, the £11 billion given to the Scots annually by English taxpayers? – one issue has gone unnoticed. Last year, Mr Salmond hubristically pledged that ...
  6 days ago

• Turbines going up “a risk,” says Wind Action lawyer

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  WATFORD – As the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal hears arguments against a wind turbine development near Watford, the project is moving ahead. Green Breeze Energy’s four turbine 10 megawatt project worth about $22 million is under construction now with the concrete forms already poured and the turbines ...
  6 days ago

• Environmental impact of bringing offshore electricity into national grid system at Crystal Rig wind farm

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  The environmental impact of running a cable from Thorntonloch near Torness power station to the electricity sub station at Crystal Rig wind farm in the Lammermuirs to take electricity from the proposed offshore wind farm in the Firth of Forth is being investigated prior to a planning application being submitted to ...
  6 days ago

• Energy Secretary wrong

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  I am glad to see the recent letters to the editor critical of wind power. It’s an asset but needs improvement. 1. Wind power generation should not be subsidized, it’s too unreliable. 2. Wind energy should not be given priority over hydro energy when transmission lines are at capacity. Letting water spill over the ...
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• The other side of the wind power story

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  An article in the Sun Journal of Dec. 30 raised eyebrows at Friends of Maine’s Mountains. Included were the words: “Wind turbines came into Maine with a boom but two projects were able to go online without making a sound this month.” The article quoted Tom Carroll, an operative of the wind development company ...
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• Neolithic discovery calls turbine bid into question

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  A wind farm opposed by Swansea Valley campaigners is being built on an “ancient version of the M4″, a deputy mayor has said. Work started on the 15-turbine Mynydd y Betws wind-farm late last year. Campaigners opposed the build because of what they claimed would be an unacceptable traffic increase in transporting ...
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• Community Council knew possible health risks of Little Raith

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  We recently requested the Lochgelly Community Council minutes dating back from 2007 from Fife Council, through a Freedom of Information request. Unfortunately the earlier minutes are very brief with lengthy discussions summed up in a very short space, so it is hard to determine the activities of the Community Council ...
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• Labor wants guaranteed role in wind-power plan

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  Organized labor wants a guaranteed role in the offshore wind project Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to propose — and the unions want it in writing. The demand by construction unions is the latest hurdle for O’Malley’s effort to spur the creation of a new energy industry off Maryland’s Atlantic coast that ...
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• Cape Vincent to pass wind moratorium Feb. 7

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  The Town Council is speeding up the process of putting a halt to all wind energy development in Cape Vincent. On Feb. 7, instead of at the next regular council meeting Feb. 16, the board plans to pass a seven-month moratorium on the construction of all “wind power-generating facilities” following a public hearing ...
  1 week ago

• PUC staff: No go for energy firms’ wind deal

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 489
  First Wind, Maine’s largest wind-energy developer, last April trumpeted a multimillion-dollar deal that would pay for the company’s ambitious plans to erect more wind turbines throughout Maine and the Northeast. But in just the past week, the Maine Public Utilities Commission dealt a potentially fatal blow to the ...
  1 week ago

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