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Senator's bill could stop proposed wind farm project near Piedmont.374092013-02-14T14:10:07Z2013-02-14T14:10:07Z"I am a supporter of wind energy, but they don't have very much regulation in [Oklahoma] and they are moving in towards the Metro area very fast," said Johnson, R-Yukon. "I think we need to slow down and look at some things first."
The city of Piedmont has already denied the placement of wind turbines inside its city limits.Citizens seek wind farm moratorium .366852012-12-05T19:13:13Z2012-12-05T19:13:13ZCanadian County Commissioners have been asked to place a moratorium on construction of new wind energy towers in northeast Canadian County.
Several concerned residents, worried about a project that will bring large wind turbines to the
Piedmont area. "It is a big county concern," County Commission Chairman Jack Stewart said.
$1.2 million in liens filed against Chisholm View Wind Project .365522012-11-17T21:03:51Z2012-11-17T21:03:51ZOfficials with Trade Wind Energy and Chisholm View Wind Project LLC managing member Enel Green Power North America, did not respond to requests for comment on the liens. An official with GE Financial Services, the other parent company for Chisholm View Wind Project LLC, declined to comment on the grounds GE is the "non-managing member and does not control day-to-day operations."Citizens speak out against wind turbines, planning commission votes down ordinance.366502012-11-05T21:19:13Z2012-11-05T21:19:13ZPiedmont citizens, led by Mayor Valerie Thomerson, told the planning commission Monday that wind turbines were not welcome in Piedmont.
Commissioners heard that message and voted to table indefinitely a proposed commercial wind turbine ordinance.
Job outlook unclear for DMI workers; Dallas-based firm buys plant for $20M.359832012-09-07T22:36:16Z2012-09-07T22:36:16ZThe prospect of the sale was first announced last month, when Otter Tail said it had a nonbinding letter of interest to sell DMI. The company said the economics of the wind power industry and expiring tax credits were hurting demand for turbines. Project not affected .355512012-07-19T14:05:33Z2012-07-19T14:05:33ZJ.P. Morgan has announced its stake in a $220 million funding package for the Chisholm View Wind Project will not be affected by a $4.4 billion second-quarter loss.
The investment firm announced last Friday it took a $4.4 billion second-quarter loss in investments made by the company's Chief Investment Office in London.
Canadian County crop duster files lawsuit against developers of planned wind farm in Oklahoma .350582012-05-25T11:58:49Z2012-05-25T11:58:49ZA planned electricity transmission line for the Canadian Hills Wind project will affect the flight operations of a local crop duster, the company said in court filings. But Apex Wind Energy Inc. said it has obtained the proper easements and permission from federal aviation authorities. Wind farm appeal withdrawn in Oklahoma by Osage Nation.344192012-02-24T12:52:21Z2012-02-24T12:52:21Z"We still have the same concerns, the Osage mineral estate and the ecosystem out there as well," Chris White, the Osage Nation's executive director of governmental affairs, said Thursday. "The Osage Nation will continue to pursue several other avenues to prevent construction from going forward."
Wind farm approval contested by Osage Nation.341342012-01-20T15:48:57Z2012-01-20T15:48:57ZThe Osage Nation filed notice Thursday that it is appealing a Tulsa federal judge's denial of the tribe's attempt to prevent the construction of a 94-turbine wind farm west of Pawhuska.Wind farm gets federal judge's OK despite Osage tribe's concerns .338342011-12-17T15:29:56Z2011-12-17T15:29:56ZA federal judge has ruled that St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group LLC's proposed wind farm in northern Oklahoma can go forward over objections that it would interfere with the Osage Nation's ability to produce oil and gas from the same lands.
The ruling issued Thursday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell in Tulsa, Okla., comes just a day after the opening of a trial in the case.
Judge denies Osage's attempt to stop wind farm near Pawhuska.338162011-12-16T14:02:20Z2011-12-16T14:02:20ZA federal judge has denied the Osage Nation's attempt to prevent the construction of a 94-turbine wind farm west of Pawhuska, finding that the tribe's claim that the development would interfere with its mineral rights was based on speculation.Wind farm project in Oklahoma clashes with land's other energy use .337742011-12-04T17:59:30Z2011-12-04T17:59:30ZIn one northern Oklahoma county, oil and wind don't mix.
That's where plans by St. Louisan Tom Carnahan's Wind Capital Group LLC for a large wind farm have run into a roadblock - claims by the Osage Nation that it would interfere with the tribe's rights to tap oil and gas deposits.
Osage County wind farm lawsuit to go to trial Dec. 14, judge rules.336842011-11-24T12:21:06Z2011-11-24T12:21:06ZThe complaint notes that the tribe is the owner of all the minerals located "in and under" Osage County and claims that construction of more than 90 wind turbines - as well as an associated network of electrical lines and roads - would interfere with future oil and natural gas production.Preliminary injunction hearing set in Osage wind farm lawsuit.334202011-10-27T13:32:28Z2011-10-27T13:32:28ZFitzgerald, representing defendants Wind Capital Group, Osage Wind and WC Investment Management, told the court that having a lawsuit such as this hanging over a project "makes lenders think twice."
He said unless there is a prompt favorable ruling to the defense on the merits of the case "it probably kills this project."
Hearing set in Osage Nation's wind farm lawsuit.333892011-10-22T16:24:42Z2011-10-22T16:24:42ZWith construction on a massive wind farm scheduled to begin in Osage County in less than a month, a federal judge has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday in the lawsuit the Osage Nation filed in an effort to stop the construction.
Osage Nation files lawsuit in opposition to wind farm.333612011-10-19T14:11:48Z2011-10-19T14:11:48ZThe Osage Nation is concerned that 94 wind turbines and their network of electrical lines and roads would interfere with oil production and harm the delicate ecosystem of the tallgrass prairie.
The complaint says each of the turbines would require extensive digging to create deep pits containing concrete foundations similar to those required in the construction of tall buildings.
Energy plant construction stalled, not dead .333302011-10-16T04:32:34Z2011-10-16T04:32:34ZWord, Eagle Claw president, said sluggish economic conditions and Washington gridlock contributed to private investors' hesitation to fund the alternative-energy project. The political fallout from the federal investigation of Solyndra, a California company that makes solar panels, didn't help either.
