May 25, 2005

Polly Toynbee on the despair behind embracing the wind

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To the editor, the Guardian: It's amusing to note that Toynbee calls it heroic to stand against the apparent popularity of nuclear powe...
May 22, 2005

Unaccountable

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The New York Times today writes about the continued bullying of Latin America by the U.S., this time in trying to get the Organization of A...
May 20, 2005

Embrace the Revolution

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"Embrace the Revolution" is the name of the British Wind Energy Association's government-sponsored campaign to convice people ...
May 19, 2005

Incredible

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"People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?" --Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita. I...

Wind advocacy rather weak

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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) issued an amusingly inept response to Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander's Environmentally...
May 18, 2005

"Utilities put cap on wind power"

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An article in the May 18 Asahi Shimbun: Just when it looked like smooth sailing for wind power generation, electric power companies, its mai...
May 17, 2005

"100 percent wind-powered"

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The Sunday New York Times Travel section went to Boulder, Colo., and recommends an eatery that boasts it is "100 percent wind-powered....
May 16, 2005

Giant wind turbine foundations

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From "Wind farms remain pricy propositions," The Citizens Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), May 15: The Waymart Wind Farm, located in Cl...
May 14, 2005

Not so insignificant harm

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From today's Herald Sun of Melbourne: Andrew Richards, external affairs manager for Australia's biggest renewable energy company, P...

The Fenner wind farm show

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Sue Sliwinski of the Sardinia (N.Y.) Preservation Group writes about the frequent developer-sponsored tours from around New York to the wind...

Lamar!

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The Appalachian range in the mid-Atlantic states is being aggressively targeted for industrial wind development. The Allegheny Ridge alone, ...
May 12, 2005

Noise level not acceptable

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Near Meyersdale in the Allegheny Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, the wind facility with which Florida Power & Light replaced a fore...

"With us or against us"

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An article in the New York Daily News Saturday quoted Richard Kessel, chairman of the Long Island Power Authority, regarding his desire to ...

Environmentalists hoisted with their own petard

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Press and Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland), May 4, 2005: Scottish ministers are planning to give themselves unprecedented powers to push throug...
May 10, 2005

Wind turbine tower snaps in Oklahoma

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After a week of operation, one of the 71 GE 1.5-MW wind turbines in FPL Energy's Weatherford, Okla., wind power facility snapped apart l...
May 9, 2005

Industrial Wind Warriors Unite!

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Organize! I just spent the weekend with industrial wind opponents from around the country. We're getting together to better protect the ...
May 6, 2005

"Violating ridges"

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[letter published in Burlington Free Press, May 5, 2005] Barbara Grimes, general manager of Burlington Electric Department (Free Press, Apr...
May 1, 2005

Meat in style

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The New York Times published their Spring "Style" Magazine today, featuring plenty of animal corpses as de rigueur entertainment...
April 30, 2005

"The atheist"

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An interview in Salon with Richard Dawkins: 'Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the...

"Cornell halts planning for wind project"

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'ITHACA -- Cornell University decided not to proceed with its wind energy project on Mount Pleasant after more than four months of prepa...