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/25400 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:56:49 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/25400 http://www.windaction.org/articles/17588 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:24:55 GMT Willow Creek wind farm in Oregon's Gilliam and Morrow counties begins operating by year's end (2008). Power from the site will flow to California. http://www.windaction.org/articles/17588 http://www.windaction.org/articles/11542 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:52:00 GMT Turbine collapsed at PPM's Klondike III wind plant. One man killed, a second seriously injured. http://www.windaction.org/articles/11542 http://www.windaction.org/articles/11541 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:46:23 GMT Wind turbine collapsed at PPM's Klondike III wind plant. One person killed, a second seriously injured. http://www.windaction.org/articles/11541 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4193 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:05:46 GMT Wind plant near the Oregon-Washington border http://www.windaction.org/articles/4193 http://www.windaction.org/articles/38370 Thu, 16 May 2013 20:59:14 GMT An initiative that would allow utilities to count all hydroelectric power toward renewable energy requirements was approved this week for signature gathering. The initiative seeks to alter renewable portfolio standards approved in 2007 ...The law prohibits large utilities from counting hydroelectric power generated by dams built before 1995 towards the standard. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38370 http://www.windaction.org/articles/38315 Thu, 09 May 2013 21:02:57 GMT New wind energy development is off to a slow start in 2013, following a surge of projects last year that added 1,700 megawatts of generation across the Pacific Northwest. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38315 http://www.windaction.org/articles/38260 Fri, 03 May 2013 10:47:34 GMT NAW has learned that West Butte Wind Power LLC has withdrawn its permit application enabling the developer to "take" golden eagles at a proposed wind project in central Oregon. ...the developer withdrew its take permit request in March due to the difficulty in finding a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the project. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38260 http://www.windaction.org/articles/38098 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:46:26 GMT The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) this week released a new proposal to share the "oversupply costs" that pile up when there is not enough demand for all the electricity produced by hydroelectric dams and wind-power producers. During these oversupply periods, when wind-power producers may be asked to shut down, the plan would compensate them for lost revenue, according to Doug Johnson, a BPA spokesman. http://www.windaction.org/articles/38098 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37664 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:52:11 GMT The developer of the mammoth wind farm, New York-based Caithness Energy, went though the legal exercise of subdividing the project on paper to qualify for three separate, $10 million state subsidies. The Energy Department approved them in the last six months, despite sufficient evidence in two of its own analyses to define the wind farm as a single facility, deserving only one tax credit. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37664 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37508 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:44:32 GMT The state Department of Energy is reviewing whether a major wind farm in north-central Oregon should have received $30 million in tax credits. Officials decided to re-evaluate their recent approval of the tax breaks for the Shepherd's Flat wind farm after The Oregonian newspaper raised questions about whether it should have qualified for them. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37508 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37491 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:45:44 GMT Jackson threw out the bulk of Ralls’s lawsuit against the Obama administration, which focused on whether the president exceeded his power by ordering the company, an affiliate of China’s Sany Group Co., to sell the wind farm assets. “The statute expressly authorizes the president to do what he deems necessary to accomplish or implement the prohibition." http://www.windaction.org/articles/37491 http://www.windaction.org/articles/37490 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:01:55 GMT The Oregon Department of Energy said it will reevaluate its recent approval of $30 million in tax credits for the Shepherd's Flat wind farm, a collection of 338 turbines in Gilliam and Morrow counties that bills itself as one of the largest wind farms in the world. http://www.windaction.org/articles/37490 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36399 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:42:47 GMT Last Tuesday morning, wind farms plugged into the Bonneville Power Administration's transmission network hit a new generation record of 4,289 megawatts. In fact, earlier the same morning, wind farms exceeded the output of the federal hydroelectric system... there was no brouhaha over excess energy supply as there was last spring. Everyone went about their business and got paid. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36399 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36262 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:41:19 GMT The trailer struck the guardrail, damaging about 100 feet of railing before hitting the bridge and going over the embankment into the river, Duncan said. A small fire started in the grass, but firefighters put it out. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36262 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36256 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:00:55 GMT This month marks the 12th anniversary of designation of the remote Steens Mountain country of southeast Oregon as a protected area, some of it as federal wilderness. But conservation groups are in court, trying to keep wind turbines and transmission lines off the mountain. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36256 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36184 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:34:26 GMT No one has ever before sued the US president over this type of ruling, but Ralls argues that Mr Obama exceeded his powers ... On Friday afternoon, Obama issued an order compelling the company to sell within 90 days four wind farm sites in Oregon, and to clear all its equipment and structures off the sites within 14 days. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36184 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36174 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:38:15 GMT The wind farm sites are all in or near restricted airspace at the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility in Boardman, Ore. ...The interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States initially recommended against allowing the transaction in July. But only the president can halt an acquisition. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36174 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36163 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:17:20 GMT Barack Obama said he had decided that Ralls, the company behind the project, "might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States," and ordered it to sell its four sites and remove its equipment. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36163 http://www.windaction.org/articles/36198 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:54:49 GMT Obama ordered Ralls Corp., a company owned by Chinese nationals, to divest its interest in development rights for the small wind farms -- with just five turbines each --near the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility. ...Ralls said it would lose the chance for $25 million in federal renewable energy investment tax incentives if the farms weren't running by Dec. 31. http://www.windaction.org/articles/36198