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Maine]
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Proposals to build Europe's largest onshore windfarm in the Shetland Islands at a cost of £800 million could be scaled back, according to developer Viking Energy, writes Will Nichols.
The limited company originally presented plans for the 150 turbine, 540MW project to the Shetland Islands council this summer.
However, last week, a spokesman for Viking Energy told NewEnergyFocus.com that the company is to submit an addendum to its plans early in the new year in a response to concerns flagged up during consultation, including over bird life and landscape.
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UK]
Wind farm plan irks activists; Towers would be built in remote McCain Valley
November 15, 2009 by Onell R. Soto in San Diego Union-Tribune
November 15, 2009 by Onell R. Soto in San Diego Union-Tribune
A remote corner of East County is shaping up as a battleground between companies pushing wind farms as clean and cheap power generators and activists who view them as a blight on the landscape.
It has put environmentalists in the position of opposing renewable energy because, they say, it's in the wrong place.
Drawing the most attention is a plan by the Spanish conglomerate Iberdrola to build about 100 skyscraper-sized towers in and near the McCain Valley, a federal conservation area abutting Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
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Transmission|
California]
Wind industry faces 'Prairie Rebellion' in Kansas County
November 5, 2009 by Scott Streater in New York Times
November 5, 2009 by Scott Streater in New York Times
Local governments are beginning to flex their permitting authority to challenge commercial-scale wind farms, a trend some industry observers say could impede broader federal efforts to expand renewable energy production.
The latest round in the emerging battle between local governments and wind-energy developers occurred last week in Kansas, where the state Supreme Court upheld a Wabaunsee County zoning ordinance banning industrial-scale wind ...Experts say the Wabaunsee ordinance, unanimously upheld by the Kansas court, is a key test of local governments' power to effectively ban large-scale wind farms, as opposed to blocking a specific project or proposal.
Renewable energy projects threaten some of California's rarest plants
October 17, 2009 by Louis Sahagun in Los Angeles Times
October 17, 2009 by Louis Sahagun in Los Angeles Times
The proposed construction of massive wind and solar energy projects on public land in the California desert would hasten destruction and further fragment land that is home to 17% of state's rarest plants, botanists said Saturday.
"Most of the solar and wind projects currently under review are in the wrong places," said Greg Suba, conservation program director for the California Native Plant Society.
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California]
Sitting shoulder to shoulder in the portrait room at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, community members listened intently to panelists before engaging in a somewhat heated debate about windmills and nature. Lights were dimmed as images emerged of Don Quixote's jousting windmills and of dead bats to illustrate the wind-energy debate.
The presentation, titled "Windmills: Viewed through the lens of art, science, and animal impact" included panelists Patrick Marold, Thomas Tailer and Scott Darling in this culminating event of a three-part series, "The Energy Project Vermont," a partnership between ECHO and Burlington City Arts with the support of University of Vermont.
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Impact on People|
Vermont]
Noise concerns, bird habitat hold up alternative-energy plans
October 11, 2009 by Bill Utterback in Beaver County Times
October 11, 2009 by Bill Utterback in Beaver County Times
Bell Acres Council will soon decide whether one more footprint will disturb the great blue herons and other residents.
An alternative-energy demonstration site - involving a single 66-foot-high wind turbine, a 15-foot-high turbine, some solar panels and a trailer - has been proposed by a collaboration of Metal Foundations (Ambridge), Vox Energy (Allison Park) and Jet Industries (Ellwood City) for a site near the intersection of Big Sewickley Creek Road, also designated as the Red Belt, and Turkeyfoot Road.
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Noise|
Pennsylvania]
Every state in the northeast has set a target for increasing the amount of renewable energy it produces. Wind power is a big part of this push. Those towers and turbine blades can pose dangers to birds and bats. With more interest nationally in developing wind power, scientists are searching for more answers about the impacts, and how to minimize them.
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New York]
A proposal to put 15 wind turbines as close as one kilometre offshore in Lake Erie should require an environmental assessment, Gord Meuser, a spokesman for the group Citizens Against Lake Erie Wind Turbines, said Friday.
SouthPoint Wind has completed its environmental screening report but Meuser said the group will be asking that it be bumped up to an environmental assessment with more studies specifically on Lake Erie.
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Canada]
Researchers look for ways to eliminate bird, bat deaths from wind turbines
September 7, 2009 by David Chanatry in VPR News
September 7, 2009 by David Chanatry in VPR News
Every state in the Northeast has set a target for increasing the amount of renewable energy it produces.
Wind power is a big part of this push, but it may pose a danger to birds and bats.
As part of a collaboration of northeast public radio stations, David Chanatry reports from the site of the biggest wind farm in the region.
Nature conservationists are expected to raise concerns over potential plans to place four wind turbines close to an internationally important bird reserve. ...Martin Kerby, RSPB planning officer for the North-east said: ...
"When the planning application is submitted we will be looking very carefully at it. It depends on how many birds are passing through.
"It's about 1km from Saltholme but of most concern is the North Tees mudflats."
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Impact on Birds|
UK]
Highland New Wind Development (HNWD), the self-touted "Greenest Wind Farm in the World," has initiated clearing, road work, and excavation for its 19-turbine project in the remote Allegheny Mountain, Laurel Fork area along the Highland County-Pocahontas County, Virginia-West Virginia border. ...The SCC has scheduled a hearing to be convened on September 23, 2009 to receive evidence and testimony from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) and HNWD concerning the wind energy developer's compliance with the SCC's December 2007 order
State officials discourage Delaware Bay wind farm
September 3, 2009 by Aaron Nathans in The News Journal
September 3, 2009 by Aaron Nathans in The News Journal
New Jersey and Delaware environmental officials say a wind farm planned for the Delaware Bay could disturb an important flyway for birds.
Delsea Energy of Toms River, N.J., has a plan to construct 106 turbines in the upper Delaware Bay, on the New Jersey side of the shipping channel that divides Garden State waters from those controlled by Delaware.
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Delaware|
New Jersey]
N.J. lining up against proposed Delaware Bay wind farm
September 2, 2009 by Joe Tyrrell in New Jersey Newsroom
September 2, 2009 by Joe Tyrrell in New Jersey Newsroom
A host of New Jersey environmental officials and scientists have lined up against another proposed "wind farm" in the Delaware Bay.
In an Aug. 20 letter, Scott Brubaker, an assistant commissioner of the New Jersey state Department of Environmental Protection, listed numerous concerns about Delsea Energy's proposal for a 42 square mile field of wind turbines off the Cumberland County shore.
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New Jersey]
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