The towns of Blue Hill, Orland, Brooklin and Stonington also are in various stages of considering a moratorium. ...Many of these smaller towns have limited land use restrictions, Jenkins said Thursday, and developers of commercial wind turbines and communications towers are attracted to those areas where the permitting process is relatively easy.

After hearing a report from Town Planner, Danielle Truax regarding the limited and potentially costly remedies available to municipalities with regard to wind power, Kingsville Council has decided to make a concerted, cohesive, and collected effort to deal with matters concerning the potential impact of offshore wind turbines.

Neighbors irritated by We Energies' continued search for Glacier Hills Wind Park easements have won the right to review changes to a project the state approved two months ago. "If they don't need easements to build the project, then why are they still bothering nonparticipants?" said Friesland resident Gary Steinich. "We didn't ask for this fight."

On the surface, it all seems sort of like a schoolyard disagreement. In a letter to the Town Council - and copied to the Jamestown Press - Wind Energy Committee Chair Don Wineberg resigned his position on both the Wind Energy Committee and the Jamestown Zoning Board of Review, writing, "I cannot serve a council majority that shows such poor financial, environmental and political judgment."

Michael Feyen was giving evidence before a government-appointed board of inquiry yesterday, opposing the wind farm Mighty River Power wants to build about 10 kilometres southeast of the city centre. The council has a contractual agreement with the state-owned enterprise as landowner of the proposed site. But Mr Feyen said if the project was denied resource consent, the council would change its district plan to prevent any further wind farms being built.

Residents who want local lawmakers to take a more active role in Goodhue County wind energy development will have to continue waiting for answers. Goodhue County Planning Advisory Commission members will take a month to absorb comments and information from Monday's five-hour meeting before discussing an application from rural Goodhue landowners Steve Groth and Paul Reese.

Several months after TransCanada announced plans to expand its Kibby Mountain wind project to adjacent Sisk Mountain in western Maine, the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission has begun reviewing the request. Local residents turned out to wholeheartedly endorse the project. But several environmental groups are only offering partial support. They're worried about development of what they say is an ecologically sensitive area.

TransCanada's petition to add 156 acres to the state's accelerated, wind power development permitting process drew mixed reaction during a public hearing Wednesday. ...The company proposes to add 15 turbines to the 44 already permitted in 2008 for the Kibby Wind Power Project in northern Franklin County.

U.S. companies are getting squeezed out of the big Chinese wind-power market even as Dallas investors are bringing Chinese firms here via a big wind farm in Texas, according to a new industry report.

Spain's wind power industry will have shed two thirds of its jobs by year-end compared with the end of 2008 as a consequence of a regulatory uncertainty ...Spain's government ...established stringent quality prerequisites for new wind parks in order to slow the uncontrolled growth of wind power.

Kevin Parzyck, project manager for Invenergy LLC, said the company already is adjusting its plans to account for standards imposed by state regulators on another wind project - with wind turbine setbacks of 1,250 feet from surrounding properties rather than the 1,000 feet originally planned by Invenergy.

Residents, landowners, politicians and interested professionals turned up at the Lucknow Community Centre March 9, to have their say in a proposed wind project from Capital Power. While information was provided as to the environmental approval of the project, there was still notable concern from the public about the unknown. "We have (turbines) all around us," said Rita Tigert. "I've read a lot about health problems and concerns."

The Oswego County Legislature voted last week to oppose a New York Power Authority project that would locate dozens of towering wind turbines in Lake Ontario. The NYPA's proposal called for the construction, siting and operation of wind-turbine facilities in Lake Erie and/or Lake Ontario's eastern basin. The project would include inland transmission lines.

The winds of defiance continue to howl from the neighborhoods that could be in the shadow of two proposed commercial wind turbines. Monday night, about a dozen residents continued their protest of town plans to lease land to Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative. The rancor was fortified by news of two turbine failures in Nantucket and Marstons Mills. A broken blade was cast nearly 200 feet at Bartlett's Ocean View Farm on Nantucket in late January.

As a longtime resident of Grand Haven's North Shore, Jan Beukema has fought the growing number of rental units, seasonal homes and condominiums in her Lake Michigan view neighborhood. But the neighborhood located north of Grand Haven Channel may have a new battle on its hands after a proposal was unveiled this week calling for a for a 500-megawatt wind turbine farm to be located six miles off Grand Haven in Lake Michigan.

The expansion of a wind farm in northeast Weld County was approved by the Weld County Planning Commission on Tuesday following some last-minute changes by the company proposing to build it. The first phase of the Cedar Creek facility, about eight miles east of Grover, began full commercial operation in January 2008, according to BP Wind Energy.

About a dozen critics of the plan spoke at length, pushing the meeting past 11:15 p.m., and several pleaded with selectmen to abandon the project. Resident Alice Kuntz asked Rick Toma to show the selectmen what the impact of shadow flicker would be like in a home. Toma walked to the light switch and began to turn off half the lights every one second to demonstrate the passing shadow of the turbine blades.

All that's left now is construction of wind turbines in the town of Howard to make them a reality. The town board and planning board held a special meeting Tuesday evening to approve a $250 license fee to EverPower Renewables and approve an agreement with LaBella Associates to become project engineers.

A larger than normal group of people attended Monday night's Egg Harbor Town Board meeting to talk about wind turbines used to generate electricity. The catalyst for the discussion was the Feb. 25 installation of a turbine behind the Feathered Star Bed and Breakfast on Wisconsin 42 north of Carlsville.