• Lobstermen united against Monhegan offshore wind project #ME

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:55
    FRIENDSHIP, Maine – In one of Maine’s biggest lobster harbors, close to 100 fishermen and their supporters packed the town dock to stand, side by side, in opposition to offshore wind power development in the Gulf of Maine. They were also united in their worry about the prospect of those projects happening. “There is so much at stake, so many livelihoods, so many families,” said George Gilbert, a lobsterman from New Harbor. “Big business is coming to Maine, on the water, . . .

  • Wind and solar energy are costly and unreliable #MA (letter)

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:53
    My fellow citizens need to know what “Sherborn Power Choice” currently proposed by the Town means for our community. Electricity is the only commodity for which supply must be matched to demand every second. The way that the modern grid achieves this is by continually adjusting the power of the inputs to maintain grid energy within a very narrow tolerance. This is one of the great engineering achievements of our time. Gas, oil, coal, nuclear, biomass, and hydroelectric power can . . .

  • Wind Farm Commissioner’s role expanded as clash over high voltage power lines looms #AUS

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:51
    A clash between farmers and electricity transmission companies is looming as the rapid growth in renewable energy sparks the need for new high voltage power lines across regional areas. The transmission network needs major upgrades across the eastern states so that new wind and solar farms can feed electricity into the grid and distribute power generated by the Snowy 2.0 hydropower project. In anticipation of disputes over the location of new lines, the federal government is appointing an independent commissioner . . .

  • South Carlow wind farm plan rejected by council #IRL

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:49
    There was a collective sigh of relief in south Carlow as Coillte’s plans for a wind turbine farm on the side of Mt Leinster were rejected by local planners last week. However, many see the decision as ‘Round 1’, with Coillte expected to appeal the decision to An Bord Pleanála in the coming weeks. The wind farm was to consist of seven turbines with a maximum blade tip height of 178m in the townlands of Rossacura, Cranemore, Kilbranish North, Bealalaw, . . .

  • Plan to limit turbines riles growing Kansas wind industry #KS

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:34
    “Now, our way of life will never be the same,” Janet Beene, whose family has a farm southwest of Fort Scott, inside the footprint of a planned wind farm, said in written testimony. “The beautiful pastures with amazing sunsets will never be the same. And what about the pasture and cropland that is being destroyed for this so-called ‘green energy’?”

  • Mariano says Massachusetts should ‘lead the way’ on offshore wind #MA

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:29
    House Speaker Ronald Mariano pledged to make the South Coast a “hub of wind energy for the region” as he pushed a $10 million plan to create jobs and make the Bay State a leader in the burgeoning industry. “The United States is on the cusp of an offshore wind energy revolution, and Massachusetts should lead the way,” Mariano said Thursday. Mariano pitched his vision of a wind-driven future during an address to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. He . . .

  • House speaker vows to increase state’s investment in offshore wind energy #MA

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:24
    House Speaker Ronald Mariano knows Massachusetts is losing ground in the race with rival states for offshore wind-energy development, so he is pledging to pick up the pace of public investment for in the emerging industry. Mariano compared the effort that he would like to see for offshore wind to the hundreds of millions the Legislature has plowed into the life-sciences industry over the years. “Now, the Boston area is known the world over for its biopharmaceutical innovations,” he said. . . .

  • Los Angeles now has a road map for 100% renewable energy #CA

    Updated: 2021-03-26 11:00:21
    Los Angeles will need to add 470 to 730 megawatts of solar, wind and batteries every year for the next 25 years on average, NREL found — three times as much as in recent years, on the high end. Building all those facilities will require navigating land-use disputes that are only growing more contentious as renewable energy developers increasingly lock up open space in rural areas. And getting all that electricity to L.A. will require building new transmission lines, which can take as long as a decade.

  • Douglass Township Planning Commission asks township board to repeal wind ordinance #MI

    Updated: 2021-03-26 00:30:25
    DOUGLASS TOWNSHIP – The Douglass Township Planning Commission on Wednesday unanimously voted to recommend the Douglass Township Board repeal its recently approved wind energy ordinance. If the township board votes to repeal at its meeting April 7, it would render moot a planned voter referendum on the ordinance later this year. Township officials could then begin working on a new ordinance to regulate wind turbines in light of Apex Clean Energy’s efforts to create a wind farm in multiple Montcalm County . . .

  • Why Norwegian fishermen are against more offshore wind farms #NOR

    Updated: 2021-03-26 00:30:22
    The Norwegian Fishermen’s Association fears that the large-scale development of offshore wind farms will cause damage to their livelihoods. Large-scale expansion of the wind farms could cause irreversible damage to coastal fishing, the association has said. “There is a risk of destroying one of Norway’s most important industries in order to build up something (wind energy) that we don’t know the impact of,” the leader of the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association, Kjell Ingebrigtsen, told newspaper Klassekampen. There are approximately 11,000 fishermen . . .

  • Midwest transmission morass: A 100% clean power warning? #USA

    Updated: 2021-03-26 00:30:18
    A first-of-its-kind transmission line proposed to help move Midwest wind energy east to the nation’s largest electricity market was designed to avoid pitfalls that dog similar projects. Instead of building a network of steel lattice towers and overhead wires, developers behind the 350-mile Soo Green HVDC Link would bury underground a pair of cylindrical cables about the diameter of wine bottles. The route would mostly follow an existing Canadian Pacific Railway corridor from Mason City, Iowa, to just west of . . .

  • Wind farm developer withdraws permit requests with DEP #PA

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:02:33
    Broad Mountain Power LLC, the firm that wants to build a wind project on the Broad Mountain in Packer Township and Nesquehoning Borough, has withdrawn two applications it had before the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The action comes three months after the Packer Township Zoning Hearing Board on Dec. 22, by unanimous vote, denied the firm’s request for a special exception permit and also for three variances. That decision came after more than 20 hearings in the multiyear dispute. . . .

  • Renewable-energy backers want 10-year tax credits in Biden plan #USA

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:02:31
    The clean energy industry is rushing to hitch a ride on President Joe Biden’s emerging infrastructure plan, lobbying for a decade-long extension of coveted tax credits as the White House drafts a recovery proposal that could top $3 trillion. Lobbyists for the industry want to attach the long-term extension of credits used by the wind, solar and other industries, to the plan – a windfall that would be worth billions of dollars if successful. “The flood gates are open,” said Paul . . .

  • Floating wind turbines in Great Lakes? State agency to study idea #NY

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:02:29
    You’ve seen wind turbines along the lake. But you might soon see them in the lake. A state agency will spend $1 million this year on a study of the feasibility of building wind turbines in the Great Lakes, including whether they can be placed on floating platforms instead of being anchored to the lake beds. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority was ordered to complete a study for release in early 2022 on whether wind power . . .

  • Landowners air their wind farm concerns #KS

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:02:27
    ANGOLA – A community meeting in Angola on Tuesday night brought forward a number of questions and concerns from landowners in or near the proposed footprint of a wind farm. The meeting took place in the former Angola school building. RWE is exploring the development of a wind farm that would have 50 to 75 turbines generating between 200 and 250 megawatts of power. The turbines could be 500 feet tall at the tip of the blade, according to RWE, although . . .

  • ‘How do we stop it?’ — Lobstermen voice concerns over wind development in meeting with regulators #ME

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:02:02
    State marine regulators kicked off a series of online outreach meetings on Tuesday evening with lobster zone councils that represent fishing grounds where the administration of Gov. Janet Mills could site a 12-turbine wind-energy project. And as recent protests over a smaller project planned off Monhegan Island show, the gap between Mills and fishing communities is only growing. Harpswell lobsterman Chris McIntire asked Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher how the bigger array could be stopped altogether. “Do we need to . . .

  • Conneaut turbine case reaches potential settlement #OH

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:59
    CONNEAUT – A decade-long legal battle may be over, as lawyers in the case are hammering out details of a settlement. The legal fight between NexGen Energy Partners and Elecon Engineering started just over a decade ago, with a complaint filed in the Ashtabula County Municipal Court on March 21, 2011. The lawsuit centered around a wind turbine erected at Conneaut Middle School. A trial took place in January of 2020, but was called off soon after it started due to . . .

  • Fishermen didn’t violate rules in dispute with wind developers, state says #ME

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:57
    State marine regulators are providing an update on a dispute between fishermen and the developers of a wind energy project off Monhegan Island. The flashpoint has been recent activity by a 150-foot vessel contracted by the developers, New England Aqua Ventus, to survey possible routes for a cable running between the project and the mainland. Project officials said Monday that fishermen appeared to be putting gear in the vessel’s way, bringing their boats too close, and thus forcing survey operations . . .

  • Commissioners say no tax abatement for wind turbines #TX

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:36
    After eight weeks, the saga over whether to grant tax abatements for wind turbines in Bosque County finally came to a close this week as commissioners passed a resolution saying they would not allow tax abatements to wind development companies. In January Steve Harr along with other Bosque County residents began attending weekly commissioners court meetings to voice their concerns about what… To access content, please login. Subscribe to the Clifton Record or to the Meridan Tribune.

  • Ford County Zoning Officer issues building permits for Apex Clean Energy #IL

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:34
    Ford County Zoning Officer Brandon Magers announced March 22 that he was issuing building permits to APEX Clean Energy for forty-six, with an additional seven alternate Wind Energy Conversion Systems compromising the Ford Ridge Wind Farm which will be located primarily in Sullivant Township. This comes after Magers previously had denied the building permits citing discrepancies between the original plans which were approved in 2009 and the building permit applications which were submitted in September of 2020. Those discrepancies included . . .

  • Senate energy panel advances bill to establish wind, solar reclamation bonding program #WV

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:31
    The West Virginia Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee signed off on establishing a wind and solar reclamation bonding program Wednesday via a bill identical to one already advanced in the House of Delegates. Senate Bill 492 would establish a minimum bond value of $150,000 and exempt facilities with capacities less than 0.5 megawatts, meaning smaller solar energy producers and those with solar panels on their roofs would be excluded from the reach of the bill. The bill was referred . . .

  • Why New York is clearing forest for Northland power’s wind farm #NY

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:08
    In a pair of small towns outside Binghamton, New York, a battle is raging over competing priorities in the state’s efforts to mitigate climate change and protect its environment. A new 27-tower wind farm promises to significantly boost clean energy production in New York, which imports most of its energy from other states. But the project comes at the cost of some 313 acres of local forest that currently act as a “carbon sink” for emissions. And preserving such forests . . .

  • Plans for south Wales wind farm between Port Talbot and Maesteg may be ‘unacceptable’ experts warn #WLS

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:05
    Experts have warned plans for a wind farm in south Wales could be “unacceptable” and damaging to local tourism. Coriolis Energy and the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) hope to build 26 wind turbines in a semi-rural area between Port Talbot and Maesteg, an operation that would last for 50 years. However, a report by White Consultants on behalf of Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot Councils states the turbines “are likely to be too large for this site”. The developers want . . .

  • Council seeks update on Port Hawkesbury Paper’s wind farm plans #NS

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:03
    ST. MARY’S – Councillors for the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s raised questions at their committee of the whole meeting last week about the status of a major energy projected for the Strait area, tentatively slated to begin construction next year. In February, Port Hawkesbury Paper (PHP) announced that it had “directly funded” the installation of two meteorological towers as crucial steps to building a 112-megawatt wind farm at Pirate Harbour in Guysborough County. During a routine review . . .

  • Marine Patrol directed to remove gear from path of wind power survey if Monhegan fishermen won’t #ME

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:01:02
    The state is telling Monhegan Island-area lobstermen to remove fishing gear from the path of a survey vessel – or the Marine Patrol will. That’s after the Department of Marine Resources determined that there is enough gear in that area to prevent the vessel from doing its work. The 150-foot Go Liberty is surveying possible routes for an electricity cable that would stretch from a planned floating wind turbine developed by New England Aqua Ventus to the mainland. Earlier this week, . . .

  • Antrim residents want new wind project hearing #NH

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:00:38
    ANTRIM – Residents who live close to the Antrim Wind Project near Gregg Lake say the project is out of compliance with state guidelines, and that they have not been given a chance to weigh in on the problems. Antrim Wind, a project owned by Canadian utility company TransAlta, is made up of nine wind turbines spread out across 1,700 acres in Antrim. The project was approved by the state’s Site Evaluation Committee with limits on the amount of noise the . . .

  • Windfarm firm hits back at Council #IRL

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:00:36
    The company behind a controversial wind farm project in north Kerry, that is opposed by Kerry County Council (KCC), have defended the plan and hit out at claims they had used the Covid pandemic as an excuse not to engage with the local community. The firm, EMPower, have also accused councillors of issuing ‘public pronouncements’ that go against their own parties position on green energy. In January Shronowen Wind Farm Limited – a subsidiary of Dublin-based EMPower energy – applied . . .

  • Opposition to wind farm plans because of negative impact on tourism #WLS

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:00:32
    Experts have warned plans for a wind farm in the south could be “unacceptable” and damaging to local tourism. Coriolis Energy and the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) hope to build 26 wind turbines in a semi-rural area between Port Talbot and Maesteg, an operation that would last for 50 years. However, a report by White Consultants on behalf of Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot Councils states the turbines “are likely to be too large for this site”. The developers want . . .

  • Windfarm permission refused but local residents fear appeal #IRL

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:00:28
    Residents between Monasterevin and Rathangan have another four weeks to wait to find out if the decision to refuse the five huge turbines planned for Ummeras bog which was refused last week (19 March) by Kildare County Council will be appealed to An Bord Pleanala. “I would be 100 per cent sure they’ll go to An Bord Pleanala,” said Mary Fanning, spokesperson for the residents’ group which has opposed the plan since first mooted. “They’ve put €10m into this according . . .

  • Nearly 100 fishing boats gather to protest wind turbine off Monhegan #ME

    Updated: 2021-03-25 11:00:26
    Nearly 100 fishing boats gathered off Monhegan Island to trace the proposed route of an undersea cable that would connect an offshore wind turbine to the mainland power grid in East Boothbay on Sunday, March 21. “We just wanted to make our voices heard,” Larry Reed, a Bristol lobsterman who participated in Sunday’s protest, said by phone on Wednesday, March 24. Reed said he is mainly concerned about the potential environmental impacts of the cable installation and its potential to . . .

  • Anderson County property owner compares wind farms to menacing strip clubs, landfills #KS

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:01:30
    TOPEKA – Anderson County resident Mike Burns ripped pages of his prepared speech in half Monday to speak from the heart about why Kansas had to pass a law regulating placement of wind farms to protect property rights and bring peace of mind to folks in rural areas attractive to developers. Burns joined dozens of people at the Capitol eager to testify on behalf of Senate Bill 279, which would establish state-crafted regulation of wind generation facilities from the turbine to . . .

  • Concerns over plans to build windmills around protected nature reserves #NLD

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:01:27
    About 40 percent of permits issued for new wind turbines to be placed in the Netherlands are located in or around protected nature reserves, according to a study by Investico, Trouw, EenVandaag, and De Groene Amsterdammer. Nature organizations are concerned about the effect of these turbines on local bird and bat populations, Trouw reported. Over 600 windmills have already been built in protected nature areas. And energy companies have received permits to build another 175 windmills in Natura 2000 areas . . .

  • Wind and solar farm planned north of Flagstaff #AZ

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:01:25
    After a decade, a new windfarm appears to be moving forward on an area about 30 miles north of Flagstaff. The project, by the Florida-based company NextEra Energy Resources, hopes to bring about 61 wind turbines and between 400 and 600 acres of solar panels, as well as a battery storage facility, to an area east of Valle. The turbines would have a maximum height of 614 feet from their base to the tip of the blade. The entire Babbitt . . .

  • Proposed, controversial restrictions on wind turbines pop up again in Kansas #KS

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:01:23
    The deadline for bills this year to be considered by the Kansas Legislature is coming soon, but Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, is still spicing things up. Thompson, the Kansas Senate Utilities Committee chairman who has not hidden his distaste for renewable energy, held packed hearings this week on the controversial Wind Generation Permit and Property Protection Act, an item he supports. The act would mainly define setbacks for wind turbines, or how far turbines have to be kept from property . . .

  • Councillors refuse to budge on wind energy stance #IRL

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:01:21
    Westmeath’s councillors are on a collision course with central government once again after refusing to budge on stringent planning policies relating to wind energy development. At an eight-hour online meeting on Monday to agree the final amendments to the Draft Westmeath County Development Plan (2021-2027) (CDP), local representatives were adamant that they would not soften their stance on wind energy and bring it in line with national policy despite a number of submissions by the Office of the Public Regulator . . .

  • New proposed Teviothead windfarm bid raises ‘huge concerns’ – despite £3.6m a year community benefits #SCT

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:57
    A massive new Borders windfarm bid has engendered deep concerns despite the promise of a £144m ‘golden nugget’ for communities around Teviothead. Lanark-based Muirhall Energy has announced plans for a 75-turbine windfarm on forestry and farmland to the east of the village of Teviothead, 10km south of Hawick. It says the development would net local communities £3.6 million a year – £144m over its lifetime – as part of the UK’s largest Community Investment Fund. Muirhall will also offer a . . .

  • Tenaska responds to Knox County residents concerned about proposed wind farm #MO

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:55
    EDINA, Mo. – Wind energy is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of energy in the country, with rural communities like Adair and Schuyler counties shifting toward the renewable resource. Knox County is the latest Heartland county to have wind energy proposed, but the community is heavily split on the topic. Tenaska, a power company based out of Omaha, Nebraska, says it has a plan to start building a wind farm in Knox county by the end of this . . .

  • New blow to wind turbine jobs in Australia #AUS

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:54
    SYDNEY – Regional Victorian renewable energy workers are asking the Scott Morrison government in Australia to step in after 40 people lost their jobs with a further 100 roles at risk. Keppel Prince Engineering in the state’s southwest is the only manufacturer of wind turbines in Victoria but was last week forced to sack workers after a multinational opted to use Chinese steel at a $360 million wind farm. Keppel Prince Engineering specializes in the construction, fabrication, and maintenance of industrial . . .

  • Company applies to build massive solar, wind project on farmland #WA

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:51
    A state council next week will have public hearings on plans to build solar panels and erect wind turbines on thousands of acres of farmland in Benton County in south-central Washington. Scout Clean Energy of Boulder, Colo., would lease 72,295 acres. While 6,860 acres would be “permanently impacted,” the rest could remain in agricultural production, according to the company’s application to the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council. The project has encountered opposition. Two county commissioners have said they oppose . . .

  • State Pier rehab plans moving through environmental approval process #CT

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:49
    Connecticut Port Authority critic Kevin Blacker, who has led opposition to the project, said he thought the project was not getting an unbiased review and DEEP was using bad judgment based on promises of “imaginary” jobs and revenues. “Acceptable. So that’s that’s the term Michael Grzywinski used to describe filling in seven acres of the Thames River. That’s a joke. I think that’s a slap in the face to every person that owns a marina who knows what the Connecticut DEEP makes them go through and how difficult it would be if they wanted to dump two wheelbarrows full of material into the river or the ocean,” Blacker said. “But when the state is doing a project, the rules go out the window.”

  • Some rural Kansans supporting Senate bill that would set standards for wind industry #KS

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:19
    Frankfort resident Gayla Randel said Tuesday she feels there is a disconnect between the wind industry and the people living in the areas of their proposed wind farms. “I personally feel that they don’t totally understand what it means to be rural and especially in Kansas where am 75% of the communities have less than 1,500 people at work we are a sense of family,” she said. Randel claims some neighbors have had up to nine wind turbines within a . . .

  • Wind turbine blade blocks westbound Interstate 80 traffic near Gretna #NE

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:17
    Authorities advised westbound Interstate 80 drivers traveling with plans to travel past Gretna should find an alternate route after a turbine blade slipped onto the roadway. Sarpy County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kyle Percifield tweeted a photo of the blade, noting that drivers would not be able to get past the Highway 31 exit at Gretna until the turbine was removed. Percifield told 6 News weather played a role in the accident. “Weather did make the shoulder soft, causing it to get . . .

  • Contact Energy secures first wind farm site, in lower South Island #NZL

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:15
    Contact Energy has signed a contract with a landowner for what may be a large wind farm in the lower South Island. The electricity company announced on Tuesday that it intended to begin developing wind farms for the first time, and was planning a pipeline of “large-scale” developments over the next six years. Chief executive Mike Fuge told Stuff Contact has secured its first site, which is in the lower South Island, though he has not revealed the exact location. . . .

  • Lobsterman and turbine developers trade accusations over wind project #ME

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:13
    A day after commercial fishermen held a peaceful on-the-water rally to protest plans to develop offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine, there was friction on the water over the issue. On Sunday, about 80 fishing boats gathered off Monhegan Island, near the site of a proposed floating wind turbine. New England Aqua Ventus plans to build the turbine, and run an underwater cable to the mainland to deliver the power. According to fisherman Gerry Cushman, leader of the . . .

  • Ford Ridge Wind farm building permit approved by county #IL

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:10
    A new wind farm is getting built near Sibley after being stuck in red tape for over a decade. Zoning Enforcement Officer Brandon Magers says Apex Clean Energy made the first step in the Ford Ridge Wind project in 2009 when it got a special-use permit approved. Then last month, he says the project’s building permit was denied by the county. So, Magers says, the company made some big changes to the plans when it appealed the denial. Big, as . . .

  • Extension plan for Bettyhill Wind Farm #SCT

    Updated: 2021-03-24 11:00:09
    The operators of a small north coast wind farm have made it known they are considering extending it. Bettyhill 2 Wind Ltd (BHW2L) has signalled that it is looking at adding 11 turbines and associated infrastructure to the existing two-turbine Bettyhill Wind Farm. The development is located on Bettyhill Common Grazings – part of Skelpick Estate and around 2km to the south east of Bettyhill and to the south of the main north coast A836 road. The area is close . . .

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