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The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) could soon give the green light to the biggest wind project ever developed in North America, even larger than the 781 MW Roscoe Wind Farm built in Texas. Once completed and fully functional, the ChokeCherry-Sierra Madre Wind Project, proposed by... |
11 January 2012
07:36 GMT |
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The quest to find and exploit renewable sources of power has taken an unexpected turn, as a team of experts from Civitas has recently issued a disturbing report highlighting that wind farms count as inefficient, expensive methods of curbing greenhouse gas emissions while providing clean, green energy. Their main a... |
10 January 2012
03:17 GMT |
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The American government has recently decided to approve two giant projects involving renewables, developed on public land, in an attempt to green up the US and reduce its oil and coal dependency.
The first project relies on the benefits of clean solar power and will be implemented in Arizona, while the second one, t... |
22 December 2011
04:42 GMT |
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A reports issued by the World Development Movement indicates UK climate aid is currently used to help Walmart save more than a few dollars on energy, relying on clean affordable wind power. Instead of guiding the poor towards a sustainable future, this project helps the major company protect its own numbers.
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5 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Renewables are meant to deliver a safer, cleaner alternative to dirty coal exploitation. However, this option was not good enough for a couple who decided to drag the owners of a wind farm to court, hoping to get their hands on no less than £2.5m ($3.9m/€2.9m).
They filled a case and hoped for justice to... |
2 December 2011
08:33 GMT |
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GE works in partnership with Newcom Llc Mongolia, one of the most important players in the energy field in Mongolia, to open the gates of the first wind farm in the country. The project is worth $100 million and will be completed in 2012.
The location of the future wind power plant is 70 kilometers southeast of Ulaa... |
18 November 2011
10:34 GMT |
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A report issued by the Fish and Wildlife services announced the fact that 500 birds met their death near the Laurel Mountain wind farm, located in West Virginia. According to the data provided by the study, the creatures were not killed by the sharp blades of the machine, they were rather attracted to the night light... |
10 November 2011
08:33 GMT |
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E.ON France has recently opened a new onshore wind farm on the “Kergrist Moëlou – Plounevez Quintin” site in the Côtes-d’Armor. The company’s sixth such project has increased its installed renewable power capacity in France to 83.5 MW.
The onshore wind farm has 13 wind turbine... |
10 October 2011
03:38 GMT |
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Google is continuing its investment in green energy projects. Lately, it's been pouring quite a lot of money into renewable energy sources, wind farms in particular, and now it's revealing yet another such investment. The company, through its Green Business Operations arm, is providing $55 million for the c... |
24 May 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Google has invested in yet another green energy project, this time pouring in $100 million in a wind farm site in Oregon. When completed, the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is expected to be the largest such project in the world. This is Google's second big investment in green energy in the past few weeks."We recently... |
19 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Swedish energy company Vattenfall, has partnered with Germany's largest municipal utility to build a huge offshore wing farm in the North Sea, of a value of over 1 billion euros, by 2014.The wind farm is called DanTysk and it will contain 80 giant wind turbines supplied by Siemens, spaced out over an area of nea... |
22 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Apparently, the Mafia's influence in Italy is as strong as ever, according to central authorities. Police and other law enforcement agencies are currently engaged in a massive crack-down on all the major Sicilian families, who have been planning, over the last months, to make sure that the contract for a new maj... |
19 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Although independent Scottish scientific reports acknowledge the fact that the nation could indeed rely on renewables to offer it 20 percent of its electricity by 2020, they also stress the fact that nuclear power is probably the best option in the long run. New surveys draw attention to the fact that a five-fold inc... |
9 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is forced by a Supreme Court decision to start regulating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of all states, under the new Cleaner Air Act bill. Its proposal for the state of Texas was met with extreme hostility by Governor Rick Perry, who said yesterday that implementing the me... |
26 November 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Environmental activists suffered another defeat recently, as ballot results showed that the states of California and Colorado rejected enacting laws that would have regulated the use of electrical energy and would have forced utility companies to produce their energy from renewable sources, or to only purchase electr... |
14 November 2008
06:30 GMT |
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The new wind farm, one of the largest in the United States, is scheduled to be completed sometime in 2012 and will by then be one of the largest such installations in the world. It will be more than 7.5 times larger in production capacity than the biggest wind farm in Africa, a French-financed project in Ethiopia. Wi... |
30 October 2008
05:38 GMT |
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The European Union seems pretty determinate in its struggle against fossil fuel, as evidenced by the enthusiasm that has overwhelmed the scientific community of the "Old Continent" over the past couple of years. Scientists from different countries and organizations are beginning to draw attention to the fact that a s... |
28 October 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Over the last few years, Ethiopia was hit by several drought waves, which relentlessly crippled the nation's electricity production, seeing how most regions are powered up by hydroelectric power plants. That's why national authorities recently inked a deal with the French company Vergent, which is to begin ... |
22 October 2008
10:23 GMT |
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