Full letter from MPs to David Cameron on wind power subsidies
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyAs Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum, we have grown more and more concerned about the Government's policy of support for on-shore wind energy production. In these financially straightened times, we think it is unwise to make …
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Wind power 1 billion and growing
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyIn Maine, the wind power industry has invested $1 billion in recent years. No other industry in the state can claim a similar level of investment or job creation. Much maligned by critics who claim industrial turbines will destroy our environment and …
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Interior Department Announces Wind EnergySweet Spots Yahoo News
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyFrom Yahoo! News: Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes has announced the opening of "sweet spots" off the Mid Atlantic coast for the development …
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Local Teachers Learn About Wind Energy
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyTwenty-eight educators from around the desert attended a Wind Energy Workshop at College of the Desert's Enterprise Center. Teachers learned the basic principles behind wind energy, and how to engage their students in learning about it.
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EUobservercom Wind Energy Wind Energy
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyEurope is the world's biggest fan of wind energy. But other parts of the world, notably China, are catching up fast. EUobserver explores the issues in this …
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100 Tories revolt over wind farms
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyIn the letter sent to No 10 Downing Street last week, which has been seen by The Sunday Telegraph, the MPs say they have become “more and more concerned” about government “support for onshore wind energy production”. “In these financially straitened …
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Green Mountain Energy Providing Wind Energy To Power The Super Bowl
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyOver the course of the two year contract Green Mountain will supply nearly 110 million kilowatt hours of wind energy RECs reducing the iconic New York landmark's carbon impact by 200 million pounds. Since its inception in 1997 Green Mountain Energy has …
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Brazil the largest wind energy market in Latin America
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyWind turbines with 400 megawatts of total wind energy capacity will be supplied to three wind farm developers from a factory Fuhrlander is building in northeast Brazil, according to Bloomberg. The wind energy company will begin construction in March on …
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Documentary exposes the downside of wind power
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyObama's favorite crony capitalist, who is also a prominent supporter, heads up General Electric, a prime beneficiary of the wind power subsidies, grants, and mandates that have poured forth from the federal government ever since the president took …
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Mass firm acquires Oklahoma wind developer
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | Filed under Wind EnergyBy AP BOSTON – A Massachusetts-based utility company says it has invested about $23 million of late-stage development capital to own the majority stake in a firm developing a wind power project in Oklahoma. Atlantic Power Corp. says the deal leaves it …
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