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Dustup in the Wind Proposed wind farms spark controversy in Kansas		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Dustup in the Wind Proposed wind farms spark controversy in Kansas It seems that controversy over wind turbines -- a common feature of the European political landscape -- has crossed the Atlantic and headed for the American heartland. In the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas, farmers and ranchers are organizing to ward off plans by wind developers to build dozens of turbines on the untilled prairie. The issue has divide ...
Topics: energy, Kansas, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Credit Where Credit is Overdue Congress renews wind-energy tax credit for a year		27 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Credit Where Credit is Overdue Congress renews wind-energy tax credit for a year A popular tax credit for companies generating wind energy will likely live on through 2005. Renewal of the wind-energy production tax credit was included in the monstrous Bush administration energy bill, but that bill is, to enviros' great relief, currently stuck in legislative limbo. However, lawmakers inserted the tax credit in ...
Topics: energy, politics, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Breaking Wind U.K. Military Accused of Thwarting Wind-Power Development		01 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Breaking Wind U.K. Military Accused of Thwarting Wind-Power Development The U.K. Ministry of Defense is blocking efforts to expand wind energy in the country, said a group of top scientists today. The MoD objected to 48 percent of applications to build land-based wind turbine farms in 2003 because it doesn't want turbines within 46 miles of air defense radar installations. While the MoD ...
Topics: energy, green living, renewable energy, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

A Mighty Wind New California Wind Farm Blows Previous Efforts Away		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Mighty Wind New California Wind Farm Blows Previous Efforts Away Between San Francisco and Sacramento lies the nearly completed High Winds Energy Center, a state-of-the-art wind farm expected to generate roughly 162 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 75,000 homes -- and make wind power competitive with extractive energy sources. The turbin ...
Topics: business, California, energy, food and agriculture, green living, San Francisco, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Spin Meisters New Mini-Turbine Can Generate Electricity from Atop Homes and Offices		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Spin Meisters New Mini-Turbine Can Generate Electricity from Atop Homes and Offices The winds of change may soon bring mini-turbines to rooftops near you. A Scottish company today is launching Britain's first wind-power system designed to be affixed to almost any roof to supplement electricity gotten from the grid. The 3-by-2-foot box with three rotating blades, which will be sold for about $1,300, will be able to prov ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Dollars and Sense Big Institutional Investors Press for Info on Climate Change Risks		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Dollars and Sense Big Institutional Investors Press for Info on Climate Change Risks Officials controlling the largest pension funds in the U.S. on Friday called on publicly traded companies, federal regulators, and Wall Street to get serious about assessing and disclosing the financial risks posed by climate change. The comptrollers of New York state and New York City, the treasurers of California, Co ...
Topics: energy, international government agencies, wind power (all these topics)

A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State Texas is probably not the first place that comes to mind when the topic turns to clean energy -- but the land of fossil fuels is looking to become a leader in renewable power by investing heavily in wind energy. The state is already the second-largest wind-energy producer in the country, trailing only California. In the last three years, Texas h ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Austin Powers		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

A Shore Thing		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Shore Thing Controversy is bubbling along the East Coast of the U.S. as a handful of companies press forward with plans to build offshore wind turbines -- 858 off the Maryland shore, 221 off Virginia, and 130 off Cape Cod, Mass. There are now some 15,000 wind turbines on U.S. land, providing clean, renewable power and decreasing U.S. dependence on fore ...
Topics: East Coast, energy, green living, Maryland, Massachusetts, renewable energy, Virginia, wind power (all these topics)

Crop Rotation		14 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Rotation Iowa may soon play host to the world's largest wind farm, after Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) on Friday signed a measure that removes regulatory hurdles to clear the way for the project. MidAmerican Energy Co. expects to start construction in September of a 200-turbine facility in northern Iowa that would pump out 310 megawatts of electricity. Vilsack touts Iowa's prospects for becoming "a national lea ...
Topics: energy, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Hawkeyes on the Prize		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Hawkeyes on the Prize Iowa will soon be home to the world's largest land-based wind farm if MidAmerican Energy Company has its way. The power company plans to erect between 180 and 200 turbines capable of generating 310 megawatts of electricity and powering some 85,000 homes. If approved by the Iowa Public Utilities Board and state lawmakers, the $323 million project would be completed in 2006 and wou ...
Topics: business, energy, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Rose-colorado Glasses		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Rose-colorado Glasses Colorado residents overwhelmingly support the use of renewable resources over fossil fuels, according to a new study by the Wells Fargo Public Opinion Research Program of the University of Colorado at Denver. Three out of every four of the survey's respondents said the state should meet its energy demands through boosting efficiency rather than increasing gen ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, green living, hydropower, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Reilly Factor		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Sweet Carolina		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Carolina For the first time, residents of North Carolina will be able to buy their electricity from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and biomass. Under "NC Greenpower," a new plan approved by the state earlier this week, industrial electricity customers can choose to pay about 2.5 extra cents per kilowatt hour for green power; residential consumers would pay roughly ...
Topics: energy, green living, North Carolina, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Windy Cities		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Windy Cities Wind power is usually generated in vast, open spaces -- mountaintops, prairies, or offshore in shallow waters. But the Netherlands is taking wind power to new heights, literally: the rooftops of buildings in metropolitan areas. With light, quiet, efficient designs that often blend into the surrounding architecture, these urban windmills are built to take advantage of the severe t ...
Topics: energy, European Union, green living, placemaking, wind power (all these topics)

Wind Bags		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wind Bags The company behind a highly controversial proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod announced yesterday that the project could be 14 percent smaller than previously anticipated, thanks to technological improvements. Under the revised plan, Cape Wind Associates would build 130 rather than 170 wind turbines over 24 rather than 28 square miles of ocean. The resulting project would still p ...
Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, wind power (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Tilting at Windmills Activists are split on a proposed wind project off Cape Cod	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2002	Powers That Be
Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where 30 or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth." "Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

A Blow to the Solar Plexus		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
A Blow to the Solar Plexus Renewable energy use in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2001, according to a new report by the Department of Energy. Much of that decline stems from a drought that cut hydroelectric power generation by 23 percent, but the DOE's Energy Information Administration also found that in 2001, solar equipment was retired faster than it was replaced. The bulk of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, hydropower, Iran, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Saddam		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Saddam For some U.S. citizens, solar panels, wind turbines, and fuel-efficient cars have become the ultimate patriotic statement. With a war looming in the Middle East, green groups are framing the cause of energy conservation in terms of national security. They are issuing reports, creating websites, and hitting the airwaves with the message that true se ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, renewable energy, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Oh My Cod!		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Oh My Cod! Cape Wind Associates has been given the green light on a project to build a data-collection tower that could lead to the largest renewable-energy plant in the United States -- 170 windmills off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. The collection tower, opposed by locals for its possible harm to tourism and the environment, will collect information on air and water turbulence, the direction and veloci ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Bird Slaw		22 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bird Slaw Compared to traditional energy sources (coal, oil, natural gas), wind energy seems like an environmentalist's dream come true: It doesn't pollute the air, land, or water, and it's infinitely renewable. Indeed, wind energy has a reputation as being one of the greenest energy sources out there. So why are environmentalists trying to put a stop to the constr ...
Topics: energy, green living, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, Sierra Club, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Gross Out		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Gross Out If Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) has his way, a part of his state's share of the national tobacco settlement will be used to fund alternative energy projects. On Wednesday, Vilsack suggested spending $50 million of the $438 million settlement to help cities in Iowa build renewable energy plants such as wind turbines. The governor said his goal was to develop statewide energy resources, reduc ...
Topics: energy, green living, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Answer, My Friends		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Answer, My Friends The biggest wind-energy meeting ever held in the U.S. opened today in Portland, Ore. Industry-watchers say the large turnout -- more than 1,500 people have registered for the three-day conference -- is a good sign for wind energy in general and for the role of the Pacific Northwest in the wind market in particular. Oregon doesn't have the bes ...
Topics: energy, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Wheels in the Sky Keep on Turning		08 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Wheels in the Sky Keep on Turning Solar power might be popular in Salem, Ore., but wind is the world's fastest growing energy source, powering 10 million homes around the globe, according to a report issued yesterday by European, American, and Indian wind energy associations. Last year, wind turbine installations increased by 45 percent, or some 6,500 megawatts. Europe, long the leader in wind energy, accounted for mos ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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