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O2 Vind and Arise accused of overpromising to investors
March 17, 2010 by Anders Bjartnes in Recharge News
March 17, 2010 by Anders Bjartnes in Recharge News
Swedish wind companies O2 Vind and Arise Windpower have been accused of presenting overly optimistic revenue forecasts.
Both firms have applied for public listing on Stockholm’s Nasdaq OMX exchange. O2 Vind aims to drum up to SKr 1.2bn ($168m), while Arise Windpower is looking for around SKr687m in its initial public offering.
Oakfield board OKs wind farm guidelines
September 17, 2009 by Nick Sambides Jr. in Bangor Daily News
September 17, 2009 by Nick Sambides Jr. in Bangor Daily News
The town is poised to become Maine’s first municipality to enact guidelines aimed at eliminating adverse impacts allegedly caused by industrial wind sites, Town Manager Dale Morris said Wednesday.
Intended for First Wind’s $120 million wind-to-energy facility proposed for Oakfield Hills, the guidelines set a post-construction protocol for noise complaints and require post-construction sound monitoring, Morris said. They also require First Wind to fix problems that occur, he said.
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Maine]
For years, Jason and Ann Wirtz poured countless hours into transforming their country farmstead into a place where they could raise their family and grow old together.
That dream has been blown away by the wind towers that sprang up around their County Trunk YY farmhouse located a half-mile north of Highway 49.
Just 18 months after the 86-turbine Forward Energy Wind Center went online, the couple abandoned the home.
Oakfield family's lawsuit could affect the future of wind farms
April 18, 2010 by Colleen Kottke in The Reporter
April 18, 2010 by Colleen Kottke in The Reporter
Jason and Ann Wirtz filed a noise complaint with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission earlier this month arguing that noise created by the surrounding turbines in the Forward Wind Energy Center created health issues for their family, created havoc with their alpaca-breeding herd, and forced them to leave their home.
"Invenergy has a responsibility not to inflict hardship on the people. That's in the law," said Ed Marion, legal counsel for the Wirtzes.
Oakfield vote advances $300 million wind project in Aroostook County
November 23, 2011 by Jen Lynds in Bangor Daily News
November 23, 2011 by Jen Lynds in Bangor Daily News
Oakfield wind farm panel reviews proposal
September 2, 2009 by Nick Sambides Jr. in Bangor Daily News
September 2, 2009 by Nick Sambides Jr. in Bangor Daily News
A town committee will release recommendations for a proposed $120 million wind-to-energy facility on Oakfield Hills that, if implemented, will make the town a standard-bearer among communities with wind sites, the town manager said Tuesday.
The Oakfield Wind Farm Review Committee has worked since mid-June reviewing the mammoth application submitted by First Wind of Massachusetts.
The town will begin its review today of a plan submitted by the state's largest wind power developer to build a 34-turbine, 51-megawatt wind-to-energy facility along Oakfield Hills.
The Wind Energy Review Facility Committee will start reviewing First Wind of Massachusetts' application to build the $120 million facility at 6:30 p.m. at the Oakfield Community Center, Town Manager Dale Morris said. He strongly urged residents to attend.
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Zoning/Planning|
Illinois]
Oakfield wind-to-energy project gets Maine DEP permit
January 18, 2012 by Nick Sambides Jr. in Bangor Daily News
January 18, 2012 by Nick Sambides Jr. in Bangor Daily News
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection's approval is the project's final state regulatory hurdle, though a local group opposing the project is expected to file a civil court appeal. The project still needs a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit.
O’Malley seeks help on jobs, wind power from congressional delegation
March 6, 2012 by Danielle E. Gaines in Gazette.net
March 6, 2012 by Danielle E. Gaines in Gazette.net
Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) asked the state's congressional delegation Monday to advocate for funds to create jobs and for an offshore wind project.
"There is no progress without jobs," O'Malley told the lawmakers Monday afternoon during a presentation of his 2012 congressional priorities.
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Tax Breaks & Subsidies|
Maryland]
Obama admin sweats legal response as turbines kill birds
January 27, 2012 by Lawrence Hurley in Greenwire
January 27, 2012 by Lawrence Hurley in Greenwire
The turbines, positioned just so to harness the wind, are dead in the path of hawks, yellow-billed cuckoos, wood thrushes and other migrating birds. On one night last September, Mount Storm turbines killed 59 birds when a light was left on in one of the towers.
Obama administration and Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer at odds over wind power
April 8, 2010 by Jon Ward in The Daily Caller
April 8, 2010 by Jon Ward in The Daily Caller
The Obama administration thinks Sen. Chuck Schumer can't see the wind farms for the turbines. The New York Democrat doesn't want taxpayer funds spent to ship jobs to China.
The disagreement between the two camps stems from Schumer's insistence that money from the $787 billion stimulus bill should not subsidize wind energy plants in the U.S. if they create more jobs in other countries than they do here.
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Energy Policy|
USA]
Obama administration draws criticism for fast-tracking transmission line project through National Park Units
October 10, 2011 by Kurt Repanshek in National Parks Traveler
October 10, 2011 by Kurt Repanshek in National Parks Traveler
"The Obama Administration has failed to protect three popular national park sites in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with today's decision to include the controversial Susquehanna-Roseland power line project on its list of fast-tracked transmission projects," said Bryan Faehner, the National Parks Conservation Association's associate director for park uses.
Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies
May 14, 2013 in The Associated Press
May 14, 2013 in The Associated Press
Nearly all the birds being killed are protected under federal environmental laws, which prosecutors have used to generate tens of millions of dollars in fines and settlements from businesses, including oil and gas companies, over the past five years.
"What it boils down to is this: If you electrocute an eagle, that is bad, but if you chop it to pieces, that is OK," said Tim Eicher, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent based in Cody, Wyo.
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Impact on Birds|
California]
With a decision possibly looming in the weeks ahead, the proposal to build the country's first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound could face another delay.
Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Paul Kirk, temporarily filling the seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy, sent a letter to President Obama urging that any decision on the proposed 130 turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound be delayed until a national policy on ocean management and planning is in place.
Obama blocks Chinese firm's Oregon wind farm projects
September 29, 2012 by Neela Banerjee and Don Lee in Los Angeles Times
September 29, 2012 by Neela Banerjee and Don Lee in Los Angeles Times
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.
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.
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.
Republicans who control the House of Representatives have criticized Obama's clean-energy initiatives as wasteful boondoggles, pointing to the high-profile bankruptcies of companies like solar-panel maker Solyndra that benefited from federal backing.
But the budget proposal signals that clean energy will remain a priority for Obama in his second term in office.
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Tax Breaks & Subsidies|
USA]
Obama faces tough fight over EPA's carbon emission rules, Beinecke says
November 16, 2010 by Jim Efstathiou Jr. in Bloomberg News
November 16, 2010 by Jim Efstathiou Jr. in Bloomberg News
President Barack Obama must fight to defend rules cutting global-warming emissions that some lawmakers have vowed to block, said Frances Beinecke, head of the Natural Resources Defense Council. ...The administration is facing lawsuits over the pending rules.
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Energy Policy|
USA]
Obama green-energy dream may lag development pace of Bush years
January 26, 2009 by Jim Efstathiou Jr. in Bloomberg News
January 26, 2009 by Jim Efstathiou Jr. in Bloomberg News
Obama, more supportive of clean energy than George W. Bush, may struggle to shift quickly from coal-burning plants that spew global-warming gases. In Bush's last three years, solar and wind production doubled, helped by easier financing and tax breaks that attracted loans from Lehman, now bankrupt, and insurer American International Group Inc., later taken over by the government. ...Michael Morris, chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., the biggest U.S. producer of electricity from coal, said "as a practical matter," Obama's target is too ambitious.
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Energy Policy|
USA]