http://www.windaction.org/ facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts en-us Windaction hourly 1 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.windaction.org/articles/10710 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:15:45 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/10710 http://www.windaction.org/articles/3711 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:09:07 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/3711 http://www.windaction.org/articles/3064 Thu, 18 May 2006 12:17:20 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/3064 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37409 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:10:07 GMT "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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37409 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36685 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:13:13 GMT Canadian 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36685 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36552 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:03:51 GMT Officials 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." http://www.windaction.org/articles/36552 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36650 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:19:13 GMT Piedmont 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36650 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35983 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:36:16 GMT The 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35983 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35551 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:05:33 GMT J.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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35551 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35058 Fri, 25 May 2012 11:58:49 GMT A 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35058 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34419 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:52:21 GMT "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." http://www.windaction.org/articles/34419 http://www.windaction.org/articles/34134 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:48:57 GMT The 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/34134 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33834 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:29:56 GMT A 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33834 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33816 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:02:20 GMT A 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33816 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33774 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:59:30 GMT In 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33774 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33684 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:21:06 GMT The 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33684 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33420 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:32:28 GMT Fitzgerald, 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." http://www.windaction.org/articles/33420 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33389 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:24:42 GMT With 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33389 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33361 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:11:48 GMT The 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33361 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33330 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:32:34 GMT Word, 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. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33330