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A Richmond-based energy company has bought a 50 percent stake in a wind turbine project in Grant County, West Virginia that residents are seeking to block.
Dominion, one of the country’s largest energy producers, announced today it plans to develop the first phase of the 300 (m) million-dollar project, to be located near the company’s coal-fired energy plant at Mount Storm.
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Details and a registration form are available at the link below for the Wildlife and Wind Energy Conference to be held on Saturday, December 2, 2006 at Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA USA.
Energetic activist tilts at modern-day windmills
June 6, 2006 by Felicity Barringer, New York Times in International Herald Tribune
June 6, 2006 by Felicity Barringer, New York Times in International Herald Tribune
For four years or more, Boone has traveled across the mid-Atlantic region to make every argument he can muster against local wind-power projects: they kill birds and bats; they are too noisy; they are inefficient, making no more than a symbolic contribution to energy needs.
Rural Tucker County, W.Va., has 44 mountaintop windmills. They're tall enough that their rotating blades can be seen for miles, and loud enough that their whooshing sound is heard in the nearby hollows.
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Will U.S. Wind extend Liberty Gap project into Highland?
February 3, 2006 by Anne Adams, Staff Writer in The Recorder
February 3, 2006 by Anne Adams, Staff Writer in The Recorder
MONTEREY — Highland County residents opposed to the wind utility proposed by Highland New Wind Development LLC have often cited the proliferation of more such industrial projects as a large concern in granting the first one. And it appears they have reason to believe a second project is planned.
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Wind energy committee gathers on Wednesday
December 8, 2005 by Anne Adams • Staff Writer in The Recorder (VA)
December 8, 2005 by Anne Adams • Staff Writer in The Recorder (VA)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Virginia Highlanders following the debate on the impacts of commercial wind turbine projects may want to head next door to West Virginia next Wednesday.
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'Friends of Pendleton' gear up for battle
November 23, 2005 by WILL O'CONNOR , STAFF WRITER in The Recorder
November 23, 2005 by WILL O'CONNOR , STAFF WRITER in The Recorder
"I think the battleground is right here in the county right now with the landowners who've said no," said Sites.
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