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CenterCOLCHESTER, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2006--Green Mountain Power Corporation (NYSE:GMP) announced today that its customers now have the choice of buying all or a portion of their power from renewable resources. The Vermont Public Service Board has given its final approval to the program, effective immediately.
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RICHMOND — A bill to give localities the option of how to tax wind utility equipment passed the House of Delegates Monday by a margin of 10 votes.
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Virginia]
DENVER -- The state property tax administrator annually would determine the amount of a production tax to be paid by new wind farms under a bill that won unanimous approval Thursday in the Colorado House Finance Committee.
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DENVER - Peetz could have more wind turbines than people if state lawmakers can settle a dispute over how to tax them.
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Anti-wind power group says New Yorkers are unfairly taxed
February 19, 2006 by Michele Pearson in legislativegazette.com
February 19, 2006 by Michele Pearson in legislativegazette.com
Handing out packets of Lipton tea and slices of sugared ginger, a group of anti-wind farm residents from areas in rural New York staged their own “Albany Tea Party” last week, calling a surcharge on electricity bills “taxation without representation.”
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Danish island touts clean energy, but reality sets in
February 9, 2006 by Mary Jacoby in The Wall Street Journal
February 9, 2006 by Mary Jacoby in The Wall Street Journal
SAMSOE, Denmark -- In the late 1990s, Denmark set out to turn this farming and summer-vacation island in the Kattegat Sea into a showcase for clean energy. The government dangled generous financial subsidies. A former environmental studies teacher, Soren Hermansen, was hired to persuade residents to invest in wind turbines, solar panels, electric cars and giant straw-burning furnaces.
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Otsego group joins others in protest against wind fees
February 7, 2006 by John Milgrim in thedailystar.com
February 7, 2006 by John Milgrim in thedailystar.com
ALBANY — Outspoken residents from the rural North Country, Mohawk Valley and Otsego County lobbied legislators in Albany on Monday against unfettered development of wind generators and electric-utility fees that help pay for them.
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Wind farm proposal stirs storm in Kenedy
December 13, 2005 by John MacCormack, Staff Writer in Express News
December 13, 2005 by John MacCormack, Staff Writer in Express News
The hearing to discuss a tax abatement sought by the developers drew more than 100 people, roughly a quarter of the county's population.
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Missouri orders Lenexa firm to stop selling securities
December 2, 2005 in Kansas City Business Journal
December 2, 2005 in Kansas City Business Journal
Missouri Commissioner of Securities David Cosgrove has issued a cease and desist order against Krystal Planet Corp. and its executives for allegedly selling unregistered securities and deceiving investors.
In the next two years, a Virginia company hopes to pump upward of $400 million into what could be Colorado's largest wind farm on private grazing land near Grover.
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