Sentences with phrase «wind energy facilities»

Studies have documented that wind energy facilities kill birds and bats.

Not a single wind energy facility has obtained a permit.

It protects the property rights of non-participating landowners, while setting uniform minimum requirements for the construction, operation, or redevelopment of wind energy facilities in the state.

«It is critical to have rigorous evaluations of direct and indirect effects of wind energy facilities on species such as prairie - chickens,» according to grassland wildlife management expert Larkin Powell, who was not involved with the research.

And, in a footnote, it says more golden and bald eagles have since been killed at wind energy facilities in three additional states - Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.

Rivière - du - Moulin Wind Project represents the largest wind energy facility in Canada at 350 MW total under a single Power Purchase Agreement and the largest onshore wind facility to be developed, built and put into service by the EDF EN Group globally.

Freedom, Me.: Industrial Wind Energy Facility Ordinance [PDF]-- 13 × height setback from property line, 4 × height from public roads, 2,500 ft from special resources; sound limits 5 dBA above preconstruction ambient level, 40 dBA during day, and 35 dBA at night at property line, and 20 dBC above preconstruction ambient dBA level at property line and inside dwellings; shadow flicker limitations; decommissioning

A1899 would allow the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to provide tax credits for wind energy facilities in the «Portfields Initiative» in Middlesex County.

The research affirms an AP investigation in May, which revealed dozens of eagle deaths from wind energy facilities and described how the Obama administration was failing to fine or prosecute wind energy companies, even though each death is a violation of federal law.

The pattern means that different groups of eagles are likely to be vulnerable to different threats — for example, eagles that summer in southern Canada also winter primarily in the northeastern Appalachian Mountains, where increasing numbers of new wind energy facilities are being built.

Sumner, Me.: Industrial Wind Energy Facility Ordinance [PDF]-- 1 - mile setback from property line, 35 - dBA / L90A +5 dB noise limit, 50 - dBC / L90A +15 dB low - frequency noise limit, shadow flicker limitations, decommissioning

Ohio's Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) reject the assessment's claim that the planned Icebreaker wind energy facility would have little to no impact on birds and bats, citing the critical importance of Lake Erie to migratory birds such as the endangered Kirtland's Warbler.

More than 90 countries have installed wind energy facilities, with the global leaders being China, the U.S., Germany, India, Spain, Brazil, the U.K., France, Brazil, Canada and Italy.

ABSTRACT: The topic of the risk of harm to human health associated with wind energy facilities is controversial and debated worldwide.

So, let's get this straight: if the Macarthur Wind Energy Facility was being run on coal or gas instead, the residents» complaints would have been treated seriously; the Council would have acted consistently with its duty under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act; and ordered that the Facility be shut down at night?

Accordingly, although the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services's recently released LBWEG purport to encourage the development of environmentally responsible wind energy facilities, because compliance with the guidelines is voluntary and because of other problems with the guidance, these guidelines do not appear to meet the stringent standards established by NEPA, ESA or MBTA.

Brookfield Renewable Energy Group, LLC applied (July 2015) for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to construct five meteorological equipment towers (i.e., remote testing facilities or METs) to measure the wind regime on four parcels owned by Mulqueeney ranch family for planned future wind energy development (repowering of previously developed wind energy facilities).

The transmission line connects two proposed solar photovoltaic facilities under construction by Tenaska Solar Ventures as well as Pattern Energy's operating Ocotillo Wind Energy Facility — all of which are located in Imperial County.

The N.C. Utilities Commission said Thursday that it had no legal authority to reject the Pantego Wind Energy Facility, which would spread over 11,000 -LSB-...]

In 2013 Edward Arnett, Gregory Johnson, Wally Erickson, and Cris Hein published the report: A synthesis of operational mitigation studies to reduce bat fatalities at wind energy facilities in North America.

Once completed Rivière - du - Moulin Wind Project will be the largest wind energy facility in Canada at 350 MW total under a single Power Purchase Agreement.

The risk they face from wind energy facilities is likely greater during conditions of high winds, heavy rain, fog, or low cloud cover, which can affect flight altitude and bring them within the rotor - swept area of the turbines.

As this industry evolves, local, state, and federal regulations and planning methods must also evolve so that new wind energy facilities will be sited, designed, and built in an environmentally sound manner.

He cited the risk of oil spills and argued that offshore drilling runs counter to New York's own plans to increase offshore wind energy facilities.

BIO: Carmen M Krogh is a full time volunteer and published researcher regarding health effects and industrial wind energy facilities and shares information with communities; individuals; federal, provincial and public health authorities, wind energy developers; the industry; and others.

This amendment creates a six - member joint legislative study committee to evaluate and make recommendations relative to the siting of wind energy facilities.»

Rivière - du - Moulin Wind Project represents the largest wind energy facility in Canada at 350 MW total under a single Power Purchase Agreement and the largest onshore wind facility to be developed,... Read More

However, the development of wind energy facilities should be conducted in a way that minimizes impacts to the environment.

«Neither the view of wind energy facilities nor the distance of the home to those facilities was found to have any consistent, measurable, and significant effect on the selling prices of nearby homes,» said Ben Hoen, the report's author and a consultant to the lab.

That hope came to fruition Wednesday with passage of House Bill 3561, which «prohibits construction or operation of a wind energy facility, or facility expansion, from encroaching upon or having a significant adverse impact on the mission, training or operations of any military installation or branch.»

The bill requires agreement from the military for any planned turbine construction, or an approved mitigation plan from the Department of Defense Siting Clearinghouse «before a wind energy facility may be constructed or expanded.»

Using communication, advocacy and (if necessary) legal tools, the work will focus on establishing mitigation requirements and regulations to protect birds at wind energy facilities; addressing the most poorly sited wind projects; educating key decision makers and the public; and engaging industry representatives to protect threatened and endangered species, eagles, and other federally - protected birds.

Wind energy facilities can be quickly brought on - line at a scale that matches increases in electricity demand, creating more efficient outcomes for consumers.

WASHINGTON — Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists.

These wind energy facilities would then supply more than 20 per cent of Saskatchewan's electricity needs, up from less than three per cent today.

An important tax bill to watch this year is HB 1305 (Jackson Miller, R - Manassas, referred to Finance), which changes the state and local tax treatment of solar and wind energy facilities.

(Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to prepare a detailed roadmap for implementing solar and wind energy technologies and associated recommendations, including the establishment of five projects in geographically diverse areas to demonstrate hydrogen production at existing solar and wind energy facilities.

Large numbers of migratory bats are killed every year at wind energy facilities.

An investigation in May by The Associated Press revealed dozens of eagle deaths from wind energy facilities, including at Duke's Top of the World farm, the deadliest for eagles of 15 such facilities that Duke operates nationwide.

Once completed Rivière - du - Moulin Wind Project will be the largest wind energy facility in Canada at 350 megawatt (MW) total under a single Power Purchase Agreement.

Tennessee: House Bill 1021 passes nearly unanimously: «Subject to an exemption for counties and municipalities that have adopted regulations related to the siting of wind energy facilities in their jurisdictions on or before July 1, 2017, beginning on the date that this bill becomes a law until July 1, 2018, this amendment imposes a moratorium on the construction, operation, expansion, or redevelopment of a wind energy facility in this state.