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Ridge protections could endanger wind power
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
By Joel Burgess • July 7, 2009 12:15 AM Legislation to get consideration today would restrict wind turbines on ridge tops from being more than 35 feet tall, ...
Ocean plan curbs uses for Buzzards Bay
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA
To date, none of those communities has proposed a plan to build wind turbines offshore, he said. Smith said he plans to meet with other coastal planning ...
University should follow local lead on wind turbines
Daily Illini - Champaign,IL,USA
Invenergy, a Chicago-based company, has leased 25000 acres north of Route 74 with plans to build over 130 wind turbines next year. Local farmers have leased ...
Winds of change: Three-county wind farm project moves forward
Freeport Journal-Standard - Freeport,IL,USA
As of now, Navitas plans to build a 200 megawatt farm east of German Valley that includes approximately 100 wind turbines stretched across the three ...
More wind turbine talk at planning commission Monday night
Woodbury Bulletin - Woodbury,MN,USA
One of the items likely to get some attention is a chapter in the draft ordinance on wind turbines. The South Washington County School District has ...
Grants available for rural wind turbines
Northern Colorado Business Report - Fort Collins,CO,USA
The grants can be used to purchase and install small wind turbines or other renewable energy systems, covering up to 25 percent of the installed cost. ...
Pickens paring down wind farm project
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
In May 2008, Pickens announced that his company, Mesa Power LP, would order 687 wind turbines, or 1000 megawatts of capacity, from GE for about $2 billion. ...
Green Energy Technologies' First WindCube(R) Rooftop Wind Turbine ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The installation will be the first commercial rooftop wind turbine in Ohio to provide on-site supplemental power generation using net metering. ...
Duke plans Colorado wind farm
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
It will feature 34 wind turbines. Duke doesn't have any wind-power projects in Ohio, Kentucky or Indiana. In May, the company acquired the 70-megawatt North ...
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Wind Watch: Wind turbines
Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson's concerns over the “excessive development” of wind farms in his constituency (Echo, June 26) presumably reflect the broad views of constituents likely to be adversely affected? South Durham, basically rural in ...
National Wind Watch: News - http://www.wind-watch.org/news/
DARTMOUTH HITCHING POST: Wind turbine ballons fly tomorrow July 7
By Bill Trimble
I just this minute learned that Atlantic Design will be hoisting two balloons tomorrow (Tuesday, July 7) at the proposed sites for the wind turbines. The balloons will mark the tip of the blades for 100-meter towers and they should be ...
DARTMOUTH HITCHING POST - http://dartmouthhitcingpost.blogspot.com/
Power supplier to electric co-ops in 4 Western states signs wind ...
By Colleen Slevin
Tri-State to buy power from new Colo wind farmDENVER — A company that supplies power to rural electric cooperatives in four Western states announced Monday that it will buy electricity from a new wind farm on Colorado's Eastern Plains.
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filed: July 3, 2009 • Nova Scotia
Turbine strategy delayed; Wind farm calls Digby council’s draft bylaw ambiguous
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DIGBY — Municipal councillors decided Monday to delay the passing of a municipal planning strategy to regulate wind turbines in the Municipality of the District of Digby.
Some senior executives of the proponent of a Digby Neck wind farm spoke out Monday at a public planning hearing in council chambers, urging councillors to kill a draft of the bylaw because they didn’t think it was council’s best work.
Corey Basel, vice-president of SkyPower Corp., said his company did not support passing the draft bylaw, which he said was ambiguous.
Barry Zwicker, vice-president of Scotian WindFields, said council should defer passing the document while it rethinks its position.
Scotian WindFields Inc. is a Nova Scotia company that has partnered with SkyPower Corp. in Ontario to operate the Digby Wind Park, officials announced in 2008.
Their 1,100-hectare wind park is planned for leased private land, said company officials.
A 30-megawatt wind park, comprising 20 big turbines, is proposed for Digby Neck. Each machine will produce 1.5 megawatts and will be installed in the Rossway/Gullivers Cove area of Digby Neck, about 15 kilometres west of Digby.
The wind turbine bylaw has been in the works since last year.
One interesting aspect of the draft bylaw is the tight control the municipality would have over backyard wind turbines.
The municipal document said council believes property owners should be permitted to erect wind turbines for home use on their land as long as they won’t create an unacceptable level of noise for the neighbours.
Council has determined that small windmills, which can’t exceed a 100-kilowatt generating capacity, should not create more than 45 decibels of noise at the property line.
A quiet unit could be as close as 4.5 metres from the property line, while a noisy one might have to be 892 metres back, engineering consultant Chris Millier said Monday evening.
But commercial wind turbines, which are called utility-scale turbines in the draft planning strategy, would be subject to individual development agreements that would establish setbacks from houses and public buildings.
The agreements would be negotiated between the municipality and a developer. But clearly stating what minimum setbacks should be would actually help developers by letting them know up front what they must deal with, said Scott Oldewening, SkyPower’s manager of permitting and planning.
“Any ambiguity in a bylaw could certainly affect future development,” said Mr. Basel. “It can signal to outside investors, banks or developers that there is not an opportunity for investment or development in a community.”
In the end, councillors voted to table the draft planning strategy and bylaw until they could discuss comments made Monday.
By BRIAN MEDEL Yarmouth Bureau
The Chronicle Herald
3 July 2009
Turbine strategy delayed; Wind farm calls Digby council’s draft bylaw ambiguous
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DIGBY — Municipal councillors decided Monday to delay the passing of a municipal planning strategy to regulate wind turbines in the Municipality of the District of Digby.
Some senior executives of the proponent of a Digby Neck wind farm spoke out Monday at a public planning hearing in council chambers, urging councillors to kill a draft of the bylaw because they didn’t think it was council’s best work.
Corey Basel, vice-president of SkyPower Corp., said his company did not support passing the draft bylaw, which he said was ambiguous.
Barry Zwicker, vice-president of Scotian WindFields, said council should defer passing the document while it rethinks its position.
Scotian WindFields Inc. is a Nova Scotia company that has partnered with SkyPower Corp. in Ontario to operate the Digby Wind Park, officials announced in 2008.
Their 1,100-hectare wind park is planned for leased private land, said company officials.
A 30-megawatt wind park, comprising 20 big turbines, is proposed for Digby Neck. Each machine will produce 1.5 megawatts and will be installed in the Rossway/Gullivers Cove area of Digby Neck, about 15 kilometres west of Digby.
The wind turbine bylaw has been in the works since last year.
One interesting aspect of the draft bylaw is the tight control the municipality would have over backyard wind turbines.
The municipal document said council believes property owners should be permitted to erect wind turbines for home use on their land as long as they won’t create an unacceptable level of noise for the neighbours.
Council has determined that small windmills, which can’t exceed a 100-kilowatt generating capacity, should not create more than 45 decibels of noise at the property line.
A quiet unit could be as close as 4.5 metres from the property line, while a noisy one might have to be 892 metres back, engineering consultant Chris Millier said Monday evening.
But commercial wind turbines, which are called utility-scale turbines in the draft planning strategy, would be subject to individual development agreements that would establish setbacks from houses and public buildings.
The agreements would be negotiated between the municipality and a developer. But clearly stating what minimum setbacks should be would actually help developers by letting them know up front what they must deal with, said Scott Oldewening, SkyPower’s manager of permitting and planning.
“Any ambiguity in a bylaw could certainly affect future development,” said Mr. Basel. “It can signal to outside investors, banks or developers that there is not an opportunity for investment or development in a community.”
In the end, councillors voted to table the draft planning strategy and bylaw until they could discuss comments made Monday.
By BRIAN MEDEL Yarmouth Bureau
The Chronicle Herald
3 July 2009
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