Several Mass. Communities Eye Wind Power
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Wind power projects are in various stages around the state, from the Atlantic coast in the east to the wooded slopes of the Berkshire Mountains in the west, gigantic towers whose hurtling blades are designed to create clean energy.
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Wind power is emerging as an alternative in fast-growing countries like India and China that are avidly seeking new energy sources.
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By Tom Breen  A Virginia energy giant has bought a 50 percent stake in a Grant County wind turbine project that is the subject of a case before the state Supreme Court.
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Some families are trying to save money and the planet, with energy from backyard turbines.
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Wind farms can change the weather, according to a model of how these forests of giant turbines interact with the local atmosphere.
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A proposal to build the world's largest offshore wind power plant in Nantucket Sound is pitting environmentalists against opponents who foresee it as a blight.
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By Traci Watson  Never mind solar panels and windmills. Communities across the nation are turning to an unlikely source of clean energy: garbage.
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By JOHN ROSS  A CONTROVERSIAL wind farm that has been held up by red tape for more than four years is being recommended for approval.   Highland Council voted in favour of Amec Wind's plan for a 27- turbine wind farm at Edinbane, Skye, in November 2002, despite a protest campaign.
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THE REGION U.S. Power Generating Co., the power producer with buyout firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC as its largest shareholder, may spend more than $3 billion in a decade to expand output of its plants in New York and Boston. Timing and pace of the expansions depend on market incentives provided by officials in New York and New England, chief ...
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The state's attempt to balance wind power generation with wildlife protection on a western Maryland mountaintop is under attack from both sides.
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Responding to a call from Governor Deval L. Patrick , dozens of Massachusetts "green power" companies, trade groups, lawyers, and academics agreed yesterday to launch a Massachusetts Clean Energy Council by fall and pledged tens of thousands of dollars to fund it.
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QUEBEC (CP) - A massive windmill power project unveiled by Quebec on Monday will more than double Canada&#39;s output of wind energy and vault the province past Alberta as the country&#39;s main producer, says an industry group.
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THE REGION The same energy investor proposing the 130-tower Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound officially began the process of seeking state environmental approval to build a diesel power plant in Chelsea to run during periods of peak electric demand. Cape Wind backer Jim Gordon's Energy Management Inc. asked the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office to approve the 250-megawatt Chelsea ...
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When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity Â an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
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By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.  Dec. 19--In an effort to limit bat and bird kills by windmills, the  Pennsylvania Game Commission Monday suggested a voluntary agreement with  wind-farm developers.
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FORT WORTH, Texas _ Dallas oilman and investor Boone Pickens wants to build the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, a project that would put as many as 2,000 turbines on nearly 200,000 acres in four counties.
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QUEBEC - The Quebec government will spend a billion dollars over the next eight years to create a series of private wind-powered electrical plants, Premier Jean Charest announced today.