Senate Bill 771, submitted by Senator Edwards, was to set up a study committee in the legislature to formulate statewide performance standards for industrial wind turbines. The bill received a 45-0 vote from the full Senate, but died in the House of Delegates without even the courtesy of a committee vote. What happened here?
Losing Bill 771 means that there are no safety, health, or environmental protections against industrial wind turbines at the local or state level. It means . . .

The Nevada region looks ideal for constructing large scale solar power plants, but the large scale projects proposed for the region may threaten water resources and disrupt wildlife movement.

ANTHONY M asked: It would seem a natural, especially in the southwestern states that get a lot of sun.
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COHASSET — Five hours of deliberation, four motions proposed, three Planning Board members seemingly in favor of the two-wind turbine project, two huge wind turbines proposed for off Route 3A, one Planning Board member only willing to approve the project with one turbine and, at the end of the night, no decision.
Despite what seemed to be a 3-1 split decision on approving the project as it was submitted, the Planning Board hesitated to take that leap. . . .

Tilting at windmills is a literary phrase that means attacking imaginary enemies or fighting unwinnable battles.
Lorrie Gillis is no Don Quixote and she doesn’t think her enemies are imaginary, nor does she believe her battle is a lost cause, so she continues to “tilt” at the wind power companies that want to turn the rolling farmland in her rural neighbourhood into a wind farm, and the provincial government, that through its proposed new Green Act, will take away her right . . .

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Thirty years ago Sir William Birch was a key architect behind the National government’s “Think Big” energy projects.
But yesterday the former energy and national development minister was batting for the other side, leading the charge against Contact Energy’s plans to build New Zealand’s biggest wind farm along 34 kilometres of Waikato’s isolated west coast.
Sir William, who retired from parliament as Port Waikato MP in 1999, is acting as a consultant for Sunset Views and Rimanui Farms in opposing the $1 . . .

“Oh Lord, make me carbon-neutral, but not yet.”
If St Augustine were in charge of UK energy policy, he might utter such a prayer. The sheer scale and cost of putting Britain on the path towards zero carbon is only beginning to become apparent.
In its report, published on Thursday, the UK Energy Research Centre suggests that a carbon price signal of £200 a tonne, 15 times the present level, is needed if we are to reach the Government’s target of an . . .

Environmentalists have welcomed plans for three wind farm but they warned Malta was still running late and the turbines were a long way from being built.
The head of the Today Public Policy Institute, Martin Scicluna welcomed the announcement but pointed out that “these are only further studies”. He insisted Malta was still way behind everyone else and well behind its own targets.
Two of the sites earmarked for potential wind farms are on land, in Wied Rini, limits of Bahrija, and . . .

OPPOSITION continues to mount over proposed traffic plans for a controversial Isle windfarm development.
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) submitted a traffic management plan to North Lincolnshire Council (NLC) earlier this month for its proposed 34-turbine plant at Keadby.
The company was only granted consent following a lengthy public inquiry in 2008 after NLC and many residents opposed the scheme.
It was understood RES gave assurances all construction traffic, including long, abnormal loads, would travel via a purpose-built road off the A18 at Pilfrey, . . .

ORLEANS COMMITTEE: Proposal is for 3,000 feet; turbines won’t be allowed within mile of population centers
LAFARGEVILLE — The Orleans Wind Committee had early consensus on setbacks that would be the farthest in the county, if adopted.
Though the committee will continue to review the plans presented Tuesday night, members agreed on setbacks of 3,000 feet, or six times the turbine height, from nonparticipating residents’ property lines, participating residents’ dwellings, state or federal-regulated wetlands and forests, public buildings, historic areas and . . .

SCOTTISH Energy Minister, Jim Mather, has denied that any political pressure is being put on the Ministry of Defence to withdraw their objections to the 48 turbine windfarm planned at Fallago Rig, on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills so that the Scottish Government can give its approval for the development.
Plans for the windfarm had been turned down by Scottish Borders Council prompting applicants North British Windpower to appeal against the decision. A public inquiry was held in February . . .

Opposition to wind farms is not a ‘NIMBY’ issue, Oxford residents told a travelling legislative committee hearing on the Green Energy Act.
Oxford Wind Action Group’s Joan Morris spoke to the Standing Committee on General Government April 15 in London, telling them of her group’s concerns the omnibus bill would eradicate landowner’s rights, threaten agricultural lands and threaten public health in the name of making the development of ‘green’ energy easier. Its opposition is not drawn from a “not in my . . .

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A battle over plans for two huge wind turbines in the Lancashire countryside is to begin again.
Cornwall Light and Power is to re-apply for permission to build two 80m turbines at Orchard End, near Eagland Hill, between Garstang and Pilling.
Wyre Council threw out plans for the turbines, which have blades which would stretch to 125m at their peak, in May last year after more than 300 objections were received.
The developers say the new plans include fresh assurances that the turbines . . .