Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:24
A proposal to create a larger buffer zone between new wind turbine developments and neighboring properties was tabled by the Honolulu Planning Commission Wednesday pending further investigation into the matter. But commissioners seemed inclined to go with a smaller buffer zone than the 5 miles originally proposed by Councilwoman Heidi Tsuneyoshi and approved by the City Council Zoning Committee last year in the wake of the arrests and controversy involving a wind farm in Kahuku. That proposal, which targets utility-scale . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:20
The third Boone County Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing for the proposed wind farm regulations took place Thursday night in Ashland. There were 20 people in attendance, and the audience heard from six speakers at the Central Office Board Room of Southern Boone County Schools. Four of the speakers, Susan Goodman, Terrie Nagel, Greg Toul and Tom Weislocher, had spoke at both of the previous hearings. The conversation centered around the turbine height restrictions – proposed to be 355 feet – . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:17
Offaly County Council planners have backed calls from the wind industry to remove the 2km buffer between turbines and towns and villages. The buffer was inserted in the county development plan in 2013 amid significant opposition to wind farm development all over Offaly. While councillors adopted the buffer zone, they were warned the move went against national policy at the time. A new development plan which will govern planning up to 2027 is now being drafted and several energy companies, . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:15
State Sen. George Borrello, seeing a tool in his fight against industrial wind turbines in undeveloped areas, is backing an effort to increase land conservation in New York state. S.6191 was passed Monday in the state Senate by a 54-8 vote with Borrello voting in favor. The Sunset Bay Republican had planned to vote against the proposal but was swayed after a lengthy discussion on the Senate floor with Sen. Todd Kaminsky, D-Rockville Center and sponsor of the legislation. “I’m . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:12
The continuing spread of windfarms across South Knapdale and Kintyre should be paused to allow their broad impact to be assessed, community councils have said. In a joint letter to Scottish Government ministers with responsibility for transport, electricity transmission, rural economy and tourism, South Knapdale and Tarbert and Skipness community councils joined forces with their five Kintyre equivalents to express concern at the pace and size of windfarm developments on valuable landscapes. They also claim that some windfarm developers have . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:09
CREST HAVEN – “So far, for the commercial fishing industry, (the offshore) wind (turbine project) does not seem compatible,” said Greg DiDomenico, of Lund’s Fisheries, in Lower Township. “It does not seem we are going to be able to exist with (the project) in the current size and scale. The impact to the commercial fishing industry will be serious,” he continued. DiDomenico was one of three industry representatives who voiced concerns for their livelihoods to the Cape May County Board . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:06
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Thursday it is about to open a 30-day public comment period for an offshore wind farm, Revolution Wind, planned for waters south of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. This comment period kicks off the environmental review of the project. If BOEM approves it, Revolution Wind would be allowed to construct and operate an 880-megawatt (MW) wind energy facility. The Vineyard Wind project is slated to be 800 MW. BOEM will hold three virtual public . . .
Updated: 2021-04-30 11:00:03
ASHLAND – The Boone County Planning and Zoning Commission held its final public hearing to discuss restrictions of wind farms in Boone County on Thursday. According to previous KOMU 8 reporting, Boone County Commissioner Janet Thompson said wind turbines have been successful in Missouri for areas with smaller populations, such as counties outside of Boone. “What we’re looking at is making sure that the people that own the big tracts of land aren’t the only voices in the conversation,” Thompson . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:29
LOWELL – Two conservation groups want an independent inspector to oversee stormwater discharge controls for the Lowell Wind Project. The 21 Kingdom Community Wind turbines went up in late 2012, to become the second large-wind project in Vermont. The 16 turbines in Sheffield were the first. The turbines are owned and operated by Green Mountain Power and partners, including Vermont Electric Cooperative. Stormwater controls are in place along the crane access road built to reach the ridgeline pads where the turbines . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:27
AUGUSTA, Maine – Ongoing friction between fishing interests and Gov. Janet Mills is shaping up to be a major battle in next year’s gubernatorial race as the incumbent’s opponents look to leverage frustration with her long-term offshore wind plan. Lobstering supporters turned out in droves on Wednesday morning to protest the Mills administration, with people selling T-shirts and water bottles and carrying signs depicting a lobster claw crushing a windmill. A group of attendees laid ropes to illustrate how much space . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:26
WINFIELD TOWNSHIP – While a solar energy ordinance was the only topic on Monday’s agenda for the Winfield Township Planning Commission, a wind energy ordinance was the main topic of discussion during public comment. Winfield Township does not yet have a wind ordinance but is working on one in response to a proposal from Apex Clean Energy to place 75 wind turbines throughout Montcalm County. The Planning Commission discussed and voted 5-2 on Monday to recommend a solar ordinance to the . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:22
More than 400 fishermen and their supporters staged a protest in Augusta today against Gov. Janet Mills’ support for wind projects proposed for waters off the coast of Maine. At the same time, the governor formally introduced a bill that would prohibit wind projects within three miles of the coast for 10 years. Mills, the University of Maine and international wind energy companies are pushing two floating-platform wind projects: a single turbine off Monhegan Island to be deployed within two . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:19
Fisheries regulators have for well more than a century bumped head on into the tragedy of the commons’ economic theory. And acknowledging it without acting on it has cost them dearly time and again. Such is beginning to show its harmful self again in the marine environment—this time in the 5,000 square nautical miles of Atlantic Ocean waters the federal agency, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, has given over to the highest foreign investment fund bidder intent on erecting electricity . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:15
JEFFERSON – After more than a decade, a lawsuit focusing on a wind turbine in Conneaut is finished. According to court records, NexGen Energy Partners’ case against Reflecting Blue Technologies was dismissed with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be brought again, and parties in the case are responsible for their own costs. The ruling caps of just over a decade of legal fighting over a wind turbine adjacent to Conneaut Middle School. In 2009, the district signed a 10-year contract with . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:14
A major political row has erupted over new marine legislation that will pave the way for developing ocean power and offshore wind farms in future. The Opposition has accused the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O’Brien of railroading the National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) through the Dáil this week without allowing the all-party housing committee an opportunity to carry out adequate pre-legislative scrutiny. The planning framework is a spatial plan that sets out how development and activities . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:09
AUGUSTA – Christopher McIntire, a lobsterman out of Harpswell, doesn’t want to see the Gulf of Maine become a “floating test tube” for offshore wind energy, whether it’s 3 miles from shore or 30. McIntire was one of hundreds gathered outside the Augusta Civic Center on Wednesday to protest offshore wind power development in Maine, with particular emphasis on a proposed 16-acre, 12-turbine floating research array, which state officials are touting as the first of its kind proposed for the United . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:07
Lower wind speeds and cable problems hit first-quarter earnings at Denmark’s Orsted , sending shares in the world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer lower on Thursday. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) came in at 4.9 billion Danish crowns ($799 million), missing analysts’ consensus forecast of 5.2 billion crowns. However, Chief Executive Mads Nipper said the company’s operational performance “was good during Q1 2021 and slightly exceeded our expectations”. Nipper took the helm in January. His predecessor, Henrik Poulsen, . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:04
Wind power in Carbon County has been much more contentious than what was covered in the Weickum article, History documentation is dependent on who tells the story. This paper (Sun) illustrates that with the old news excerpts of mining in the early 1900’s and the exaggerated claims of farming potential by newspapers of the 1880’s, many in the Territory of Wyoming. Terry Weickum is originally from Goshen County and started his Carbon County political career pushing against Agricultural land lot . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:01:01
A controversial $1.2 billion transmission line in northeastern Oregon is on a new list of 22 projects nationwide that a coalition of advocacy groups and industry players says are primed to be built, yielding renewable energy benefits and green jobs. The projects “could begin construction in the near term if more workable transmission policies are enacted,” the coalition said in a report that was endorsed by the Biden administration on Tuesday. But Idaho Power, the utility spearheading the 300-mile, 500-kilovolt . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:00:58
(Washington, D.C., April 27, 2021) A proposed wind energy facility in Orleans County, New York, is among the first projects proposed under the state’s new renewable energy development law. This law ignores well-established best practices that would minimize impacts to birds, despite outcry from bird conservation organizations. Regulations to implement the law went into effect in March 2021, and developers are clamoring to shift to the streamlined permitting process. “The Orleans County project is located in a major migratory pathway . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:00:55
Ensminger also spoke to why the wind farm had been allowed to develop in the first place, including that it was believed the windmills would financially aid the school district.
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:00:53
GRUNDY CENTER- The debate over a proposed wind farm in northeastern Grundy County and southeastern Butler County is already heating up as representatives of Invenergy approach landowners about easements. For the second week in a row, a concerned property owner addressed the Board of Supervisors to voice opposition to the project during Monday morning’s regular meeting. Bruce Hayes, who lives in Dike and owns land in the surrounding rural area, told the board that representatives of the company had spoken . . .
Updated: 2021-04-29 11:00:50
The County Board met on April 21, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. with all members present. After minutes, bills, and fees were approved, the board moved on to ordinances and resolutions that were on the agenda. The board approved ordinance 21-0-2 which approves the sale of baked goods from home kitchens. Those who are considering offering baked goods for sale in the county should contact the Health Department to determine what goods may be sold. Resolution 21-R-13, extension of a declaration . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:53
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – They could not all go in to the meeting of the Cape May County Commissioners on Tuesday afternoon, but opponents of a planned offshore wind farm knew they were heard when the members of county government came out to them. About 50 people gathered outside the county administration building on a sunny spring day, most carrying signs in opposition to wind turbines off the New Jersey coast. Ocean Wind, the furthest along of what could be . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:49
In its rush to burnish its green bona fides, the Biden administration is showering billions of dollars of subsidies onto European offshore wind developers, and in the process threatening both the environment and the livelihoods of Atlantic coast commercial fishermen. The most recent example is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) decision to fast-track offshore leases to wind energy companies in the New York Bight – a 16,000 square mile triangular area off the coast between Long Island and New . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:49
On a recent afternoon in mid-April, hundreds of Missourians rallied at the Missouri Capitol to urge the legislature to protect their property rights. The rally was sparked by an egregious abuse of eminent domain in northern Missouri. Several years ago, a group of investors announced plans to build a high-voltage wind energy transmission line from western Kansas to Indiana. They named this proposed “merchant transmission line” the Grain Belt Express. Then the project changed hands. Like the first proprietors, the . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:49
For renewable energy to power the United States, the country will need ambitious politicians, public buy-in, and billions of dollars in investment. But there’s a slightly less flashy tool that will also play a key role in the renewable energy transition: eminent domain law. Eminent domain is the government’s power to seize private property for public use (with fair payment). It’s controversial – many Americans staunchly defend their private property rights – but the truth is that eminent domain has shaped the . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:40
Recent letters and articles in The Buffalo News promoting industrial scale wind and solar power make many assumptions. Wind and sunlight are free, but they have built-in downtimes and their conversion to electricity requires expensive spans of machinery. The petroleum and mining industries these writers decry have simply expanded into wind turbine, solar panel and battery production, manufactured in other countries where the accompanying environmental destruction is out of our sight. We maintain our ignorance and profess our cleanliness with . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:36
FAIRBURY, NE – A major renewable energy company is studying to see if Jefferson County would be a good spot for a new wind farm. The Jefferson County Commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a special use permit for Big Blue Nebraska Wind LLC to build a meteorological tower. The tower will be built about two miles northwest of Harbine. Big Blue Nebraska Wind LLC is owned by NextEra Energy, a Florida-based company that claims to generate more wind and . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:35
More than 200 protesters from around Western New York gathered in Sunset Bay on a Saturday afternoon in October 2019 to express their worries and concerns about wind turbines being placed in the Great Lakes waters. “We’ve got to get on the bandwagon with this and stay on the bandwagon because this reared its ugly head 10 years ago, and now it’s back again,” said Erie County Legislator John Mills on that day. “Do not disturb our freshwater, period. It’s . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:30
A renewable energy company is making a second attempt at securing planning permission for a wind farm at Sallachy Estate. Scottish ministers rejected in 2015 an application from WKN to erect 22 turbines with an installed capacity of 66mw at Sallachy. It was felt that the development would have an unacceptable impact on the Reay-Cassley Wild Land Area. The power company has now lodged a fresh planning application for nine turbines up to a maximum blade tip height of 149.9m . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:27
The wind energy sector in the U.S. shattered records in 2020, recording its biggest year yet in terms of new capacity added to the grid. Last year, 16,913 megawatts of new wind power capacity was installed in the U.S. – an 85% increase compared to 2019, according to a report compiled by the American Clean Power Association. That amount of power is roughly equivalent to what 11 large coal plants can produce. Wyoming played a large role in helping the country’s . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:24
There were no chants or marching at a protest late Tuesday afternoon outside the Cape May County Administrative Building. Instead, several dozen Jersey Shore residents and business owners who oppose a wind energy farm coming 15 miles off the coast quietly held up signs. Tricia Conte organized the demonstration. She also created the group Save our Shoreline which has over 4,000 members. A lot of people are upset about seeing the turbines when looking out on the coast. For Conte, . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:22
PROVIDENCE – At the request of Gov. Dan McKee, state coastal regulators are putting off a key decision on the South Fork Wind Farm to give the project developers more time to reach a compensation agreement with the fishing industry. Pressure is growing for Orsted and Eversource to find common ground with fishermen, as McKee’s office has signaled a closer interest in the talks. The Coastal Resources Management Council was expected to consider a federal consistency certification at its meeting . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:20
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed into law a bill establishing a state-administered wind and solar reclamation bonding program. Justice signed Senate Bill 492 into law Monday, approving the final version of the legislation that relaxed some of the bonding requirements included in the original version. The bill was amended in the House of Delegates to eliminate the original bill’s minimum bond value of $150,000 for wind and solar facilities and increase the minimum capacity for facilities to be . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:16
Resource-poor South Korea wants to spend billions on wind power to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, but its plans are being delayed by fishermen who say the fight against climate change threatens their catches. The centrepiece of the scheme is what the government says will be the world’s biggest offshore wind power complex. The eight-gigawatt farm off Sinan in the country’s southwest will help the South become one of the world’s top five offshore wind energy powerhouses by the end . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:13
Apex Clean Energy Inc. cleared a hurdle in its attempt to build a wind farm in Young County Monday at a regular scheduled Young County Commissioners Court meeting at the Young County Courthouse. In two votes, the commissioners unanimously voted to approve a request from Apex for a reinvestment zone and the acceptance of an application for a tax abatement agreement with the county. The county hosted a public hearing at 10 a.m. Monday to hear from both supporters and . . .
Updated: 2021-04-28 11:00:09
Jeff Reichle and his son, Wayne, didn’t hold up signs expressing their opposition to a proposed offshore wind farm during a peaceful protest Tuesday outside of the Cape May County Administration Building in Cape May Court House. But the two men, from Lund Fisheries Inc. in Cape May, along with several of their fellow fishermen and women, are concerned. They are concerned about their livelihood and what the gigantic wind turbines built in the ocean could mean to marine life . . .
Updated: 2021-04-27 11:00:27
The battle over future wind farms potentially littering Jack County continues – as a county commissioner even resigns hours before today’s meeting. “It absolutely sickens me that we have to be threatened in this manner, we should act accordingly as fellow citizens and residents of Jack County,” Jack County Judge Keith Umphress said. Precinct two commissioner James Brock handed in his letter of immediate resignation to Judge Umphress an hour before the public forum on the morning of April 26th. “I . . .
Updated: 2021-04-27 11:00:20
The Crawford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday discussed enacting a temporary moratorium on the construction of new wind turbine towers in the county. The proposed resolution states that “the county has an interest in protecting the county’s infrastructure, natural resources and property rights through adequate setback provisions.” If enacted, the resolution would impose “a moratorium, effective immediately on the construction of wind towers for the purpose of drafting and adopting any necessary and proper revisions to ordinances, including zoning . . .
Updated: 2021-04-27 11:00:13
Two wind turbines up to 125m tall could be built north of the Brechfa Forest in Carmarthenshire. A company called Energiekontor UK is behind the proposals for Mynydd Pencarreg, near Rhydcymerau. It already has planning permission for two 100m turbines, notwithstanding many objections from people in the area. Energiekontor UK’s latest planning application to Carmarthenshire Council said the 125m turbines could be built without unacceptable change to the character of the landscape or to the views enjoyed by people living . . .
Updated: 2021-04-27 11:00:10
UPDATE: April 26, 2021 1:12 p.m. After one commissioner resigned and another did not vote due to a conflict of interest, a motion to end tax abatements for wind energy farms in Jack County died without a vote in the county commissioners meeting Monday. The motion was made and died without a second, so no vote was taken. JACK CO., TX (KFDX/KJTL) – A Jack County commissioner has turned in his letter of resignation before a meeting on a proposal to end . . .
Updated: 2021-04-26 11:00:22
A Tasmanian bird expert has thrown his weight behind claims Robbins Island is a sanctuary for shorebirds and no place for a wind farm. A group of locals, including independent state election candidate Craig Garland, has long been calling for UPC Renewables’ proposed wind farm on the island in Tasmania’s far NorthWest to be scrapped. Now BirdLife Tasmania convener Eric Woehler has joined that call, saying an industrial-scale wind farm with more than 100 turbines posed a serious risk to . . .
Updated: 2021-04-26 11:00:18
Imagine it: You step onto the beach, plant yourself on a blanket, stare into the surf and see a distant skyline of churning windmills, stationed several miles into the Atlantic Ocean. Would the new view intrigue you, or would it potentially keep you from returning to the Jersey Shore next week, next year or ever again? Such is the debate raging in several New Jersey beach towns as the shore’s waters are just a few years away from being home . . .
Updated: 2021-04-26 11:00:15
A local group opposed to the construction of a 24 strong wind turbine development in south Longford have voiced their “surprise” at a Bord na Mona led move to seek a contractor to carry out preparatory works at the proposed site despite the matter being currently before the courts. Members from the ‘No to Derryadd Wind Farm’ said they were taken aback by the semi-state firm’s decision to advertise for interested parties to carry out tree felling and site clearance . . .
Updated: 2021-04-25 13:01:23
A wind farm turbine in Johnson County caught fire, after it was struck by lighting during Friday night’s storms. The turbine in Mill Creek stood over two miles east of the nearest road, Highway 1, but caused no danger to the public. Emergency management responders say it was struck by lightning just after midnight and took responders nearly three hours to put out. Officials say the turbine is completely destroyed, and will cost anywhere between $2 to 5 million to . . .
Updated: 2021-04-25 13:01:20
Fairways North was taken out of the wind farm proposal because, according to Newsday, “with newer turbines approaching 800 feet tall, they would be visible at 15 miles from some of the most expensive homes in the nation on the East Hampton and Southampton shores.” But “a previously state-awarded project called Empire Wind will be 15 nautical miles from the shore in Nassau County, near Long Beach.” So it’s OK for the people in Long Beach to have to look . . .
Updated: 2021-03-22 00:21:01
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