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Plans in place to meet our green energy targets 'three times over'
Scotland :: SD :: USA | about 15 hours ago
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There are enough on- and offshore wind farms, hydro projects and marine renewable schemes in the pipeline to generate 26,073 megawatts of electricity, according to a new report by Scottish Natural Heritage...SNH said the statistics showed "excellent"...
Tags: Scotland, renewable energy, SNH, wind farms, energy target, scottish renewable, climate change
Siamas talks wind farms with League
Crawfordsville :: IN :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility County Commissioner Harry Siamas tried to answer some of those questions during Lunch with the League Monday sponsored by the Montgomery County League of Women Voters. Siamas spoke about the challenges and opportunities wind farms present to an audience...
Tags: wind farms, Crawfordsville, allnews
UK must take smart meter step to climate goal
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Smart meters, which encourage consumers to cut energy consumption, are crucial for Britain to limit costs for achieving its ambitious 2050 greenhouse gas reduction target, an executive from National Grid said. Without big curbs on energy use, hitting...
Tags: smart meter, smart grids, Britain, wind farms, billion pounds, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Electricity distribution, Energy economics, Smart grid, Energy policy, Renewable energy, Electric power transmission systems, Renewable-energy economy
Markell asks feds to back wind permits
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Speaking to a wind industry trade group Thursday, Gov. Jack Markell urged federal agencies to speed the permitting of offshore wind farms so construction can begin on schedule. But one federal official key to the permitting process said there's value...
Tags: Jack Markell, offshore wind, wind farms, Minerals Management Service, minerals manager, Boston, Environment, Wind power, Wind farm, Renewable energy, Bluewater Wind
UN halts funds to China wind farms
Bonn :: Germany | 7 days ago
Credibility China has earned 153m carbon credits, worth more than $1bn and making up almost half of the total issued under the UN-run programme in the past five years, according to a Financial Times analysis...Industrial countries can meet part of their commitments...
Tags: wind farms, suspended approving, China, Germany, Bonn, Environment, Carbon finance, Climate change, Clean Development Mechanism, Carbon credit, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon project, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon offset, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Environmental economics, Hydroelectricity, Carbon dioxide, Action on climate change
Transmission line key to wind farms
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Edmond, said the project is a necessary one if developers are going to build more wind farms in the state. "This should allow for an additional 3,000 to 4,000 megawatts of Oklahoma wind capacity to be developed in the next five to eight years," he said....
Tags: Oklahoma Energy, Bobby Wegener, transmission line, wind farms, Woodward-to-Hitchland, Tulsa, Environment, Wind power, Wind farm, Renewable energy, Wind power in the United States, Wind power in Texas
Kansas Supreme Court rules against wind farms
Topeka :: KS :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that Wabaunsee County commissioners have the right to prohibit the construction of commercial wind farms in their county. But the court also questioned whether an ordinance banning commercial farms but allowing smaller...
Tags: wind farms, court rules, Wabaunsee County
Fossil fuels running out, so why keep fighting about climate change?
Updated 9/28/09 Since fossil fuels are, in fact, running out, it seems senseless to keep arguing about climate change. The point is, whether or not you care to believe the evidence under our noses, what we need to be concentrating on is finding...
Tags: fossil fuels, climate change, global warming, conservation, coal, mountain top removal mining, wildlife, wind farms, green energy
Yahoo! News: Germany paves way to offshore wind farms
Berlin :: Germany | 2 months ago
Credibility The German government on Wednesday agreed a plan to set aside special zones off its northern coast for a host of wind farms that could provide energy for more than eight million homes...Wind parks should play a significant role in this," said Wolfgang...
Tags: North Sea, wind farms, Germany, Berlin
California condors, wind farms on collision course
Two of California's greatest environmental causes, renewable energy and saving the California condor, are on a collision course. The explosion of lethal prop-style wind farms being built in condor habitat is putting the hard-won future of the condor...
Tags: Wildlife, conservation, green energy, wind energy, wind farms, California condors, endangered species, birds of prey
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