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1 hr ago | Indiana's NewsCenter

Hundreds Show Opposition to Wells County Wind Farm

Wind farm company Apex Wind Energy not only wants to set up shop in Wells County, but now they're changing the height of the turbines, and where they want to build them.

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Related Topix: Wells County, IN, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

5 hrs ago | Energy Tribune

Poland Could Generate 6 GW from Offshore Wind Energy

Poland could generate up to 6 GW from expanding its offshore wind energy program, provided that 6 GW of marine turbines are built by 2025, Ernst & Young wrote in a report prepared for the Polish Wind Energy Association.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

9 hrs ago | Energy Tribune

Nalco Commissions Part of its Second Wind Energy Project

State-owned aluminium maker Nalco has commissioned a part of its Rs 283 crore wind power project in Rajasthan, taking its total green energy capacity to 65 MW.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

13 hrs ago | National Geographic

Wind Power and the Thrum of Lawsuits

I encountered my first wind turbines in the early 1980s when, on a family holiday to the Pacific coast, my father drove through the Altamont Pass Wind Farm in northern California.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, 9

13 hrs ago | Domestic Fuel

Sioux Indian Tribes Adopt Wind Energy

In this edition of "The Ethanol Report", we hear about a new study that shows no direct correlation between the Renewable Fuel Standard and the overall increase in food prices since 2008.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, US Politics, US News, Byron Dorgan, US Senate, Democrat

15 hrs ago | Sheffield Star

Minister defends lack of turbine restrictions

Visit to Banks Penny Hill wind farm site nr. Rotherham by Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

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Related Topix: South Yorkshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy

19 hrs ago | International Business Times

Early Monsoons Claim 10 Lives in Uttarakahand; Delhi's IGI Airport Inundated, Power Demand Falls

The early arrival of the monsoon is proving to be a bane with incessant rains causing floods and claiming lives in many parts of the country.

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Related Topix: Weather, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

22 hrs ago | This is Bath

A setback a " and an opportunity a " for wind power

We suspect those opposed to energy generated by wind turbines will be rubbing their hands together with a good deal of glee this morning, following revelations that the wind farm industry is being propped up by domestic energy bills.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

22 hrs ago | Free Republic

FEATURE: Wind power firm hires thugs to protect site

It became clear as the taxi entered the narrow road, hemmed in on both sides by lush rice fields, that we were not welcome there.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Smoking, Medicine, Health

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Cape Cod Times

Wind energy developer defies shutdown order

The developer of Fairhaven's two wind turbines decided Friday night to resume overnight turbine operation just five days after the Board of Health ordered the turbines be turned off overnight.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

WCSH-TV Portland

Students take green energy fight to international stage

A student group called The Windplanners has planned for, negotiated with townspeople and done all the fundraising for the installation of a 100 KW wind turbine.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

Free Republic

Wind power has failed to deliver what it promised

Today, The Sunday Telegraph reveals how many ''green jobs'' the wind-power industry really generates in exchange for its generous subsidies.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

Asian Correspondent

Largest anti-wind rally storms Australian capital

Watch for the biggest renewable energy rallies in Canberra on Tuesday, June 18. Supporters and opposition to the Julia Gillard Government's clean energy plans will converge into the capital to hold two separate rallies in a showdown of rhetoric on wind power turbines.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Julia Gillard

Forbes.com

How Fracking Killed Nuclear Power

Last week Exelon canceled plans to upgrade the Lasalle nuclear plant in Illinois and the Limerick plant in Pennsylvania.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Energy, Exelon, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

The News Journal

Google's wind plan: Evidence of global reach

Google plans to corner the wind energy market in New Jersey. It's a first-of-its kind venture that could cost Google and its partners $1.3 billion, but one Google believes fits its core mission: You can make money without doing evil.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Computers, Internet, Science / Technology, Mountain View, CA

GantDaily.com

PUC Recognizes Global Wind Day

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is publicly recognizing today as Global Wind Day.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Asbury Park Press

Wind power still tied up in NJ politics

The proposed New Jersey Energy Link is an offshore electrical transmission cable, buried under the ocean, linking energy resources and users in northern, central and southern New Jersey.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Chris Christie, US Governors, Norfolk, VA

Clarks Hometown News Patriot

Activists March On 2nd Annual Global Wind Day

New Jersey residents and families will join the Sierra Club to march down the Asbury Park boardwalk today for the second annual Global Wind Day.

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Related Topix: Asbury Park, NJ, Chris Christie, US Governors, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy

The Argus

UKIP leader Nigel Farage with Argus reporter Ben Leo

NIGEL FARAGE : I voted Green once in 1989 when it was a Eurosceptic party. The environmentalism that first got it popular has faded completely for two reasons.

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Related Topix: Activism, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, East Sussex County, England, West Sussex County, England, World News, United Kingdom,

KOLD-TV Tucson

Sonoran Institute welcomes BLM progress on SunZia assessment

In response to U.S. Bureau of Land Management releasing its final draft of an environmental assessment of the proposed SunZia transmission line, the Sonoran Institute issued the following statement: "We hope that it will provide more detailed information about why this project is needed, as well as how the project's environmental impacts will be ... (more)

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Lincoln County, NM