Sentences with phrase «wind farm developments»

He advises developers on nuisance claims, including noise and flicker issues in relation to wind farm developments and has extensive experience of development phase property disputes, including all aspects of agricultural tenancy law.

A slew of announcements about gigantic 1.2 GW offshore wind farm developments and 32MW solar arrays suggests the fog that has been hovering over the UK renewable energy industry for the last few years may finally be lifting.

I would hope and expect that national parks and conservation parks would be kept free of wind farm developments.

Residents of Grey Highlands are banding together to fight a couple of proposed wind farm developments.

Earlier this week, TRUenergy announced it had signed power purchase agreements for two wind farm developments in NSW, each of around 107MW.

Wind farm developments have an impact on soaring bird species as a study on movements of golden eagles in flight shows.

For those fighting wind farm developments, you may be interested to know — but not surprised to hear — Infigen Energy Development Manager Jonathan Upson is a former Babcock and Brown employee.

Andrew Whitaker — News.Scotsman — April 30, 2013 PROPOSALS to protect large parts of wilderness and unspoilt land in Scotland from controversial wind farm developments will be unveiled by government ministers today.

Is it now seems official: is wind energy is now a partisan technology, given the enthusiasm of the NSW conservative government and the SA conservative opposition to fall in behind the Victorian conservative government's crackdown on wind farm developments.

According to wind project opponent Kevon Martis, the revised zoning would make the township an unattractive place for wind farm developments.

I started with this statement because it is typical of so many made by those who are opposed to wind farm developments; emotional, aimed at having a big impact on the people who hear it, and quite without factual basis.

Stephen Boutwell, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which oversees wind farm developments in federal waters, says his agency is addressing concerns raised by fishermen.

The developer is Wind Farm Developments.

There is a Net site by Wind Farm Developments.

Moyne Shire Council declined planning permission and Wind Farm Developments has appealed the decision to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)(sources close to the project, 2009/08/20).

Wind Farm Developments had until 2012/03/15 to start work on the project, but having failed to do so, lost the approval that they previously held.

Information from these agencies can «either support, or be used to avoid, wind farm development in the identified areas,» Interior said.

Minkes are thought to be abundant in many of the areas earmarked for wind farm development, which can be noisy for days on end.

That could set the stage for other offshore wind projects all along the East Coast as the federal government expands the waters available for new offshore wind farm development.

Candidate Conservation Agreement for the Lesser Prairie - Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)... fws.gov... grassland habitats include the construction of the infrastructure associated with oil and gas extraction and wind farm development....

So those who oppose a wind farm development are most likely prioritising their personal preferences over the welfare of the planet and of future generations.

On this basis, the Fremantle Ports Board determined that it is not in the best interests of the business to support a wind farm development within the Port.»

Yet as Dr Phillips notes, instead of protecting the public, governments are actually complicit by encouraging wind farm development via generous subsidies.

No further wind farm development can take place on Eyre or Yorke Peninsulas, where there is a very high quality wind resource, because of the lack of suitable power transmission lines.

Analysis of Future Offshore Wind Farm Development in Ontario Prepared for Ontario Power Authority by Helimax Energy Inc..

Wind Concerns Ontario, a coalition of provincial groups opposed to wind farm development, said it is concerned that birds and, significantly, bats are being killed in numbers that were not forecast by either the Ontario government or the wind power developers.

When Repower / Senvion was spruiking the virtues of its planned 600Mw Ceres wind farm here in SA in 2012 its then head honcho «Pretty boy» in the face of an uproar from local citizens declared at a business lunch in Adelaide that «Opposition to wind farm development in South Australia is driven by political ideology dressed up as a grass roots movement.»

There has been conflict in Champaign, Seneca, Hardin, and Logan counties regarding wind farms and some, including our neighbors in Auglaize and Mercer counties, made it impossible for the initial wind farm development by never establishing and Alternative Energy Zone (AEZ)-- a plain invitation to go elsewhere.

Some fish habitats off the coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York are protected from wind farm development.

These preferences are a point of contention with activists like Kevon Martis, who has helped people in Michigan and Ohio oppose local wind farm development.

He is responsible for oversight of Heritage in relation to technical engineering aspects of wind farm development projects.

The NSW position, however, includes some subtleties, and proposes some mechanisms to unlock a deadlock if a resident objects to a wind farm development — it's just that wind energy developers and renewable energy groups are yet to decide whether this is for the better or worse.

But a new report released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory highlight the advances in wind turbine technology that make wind farm development here almost inevitable.

With advanced turbine technology, wind farm development within the Southeast is also now a reality.

Sustaining this increase in wind energy output is an increase in wind farm development.

Another clue to the scale of future wind farm development can be seen in transmission lines under construction and being planned.

PRINCETON — Danish power company Orsted, the world leader in offshore wind farm development, will open an office in Atlantic City in May at the Bella Condominiums and start hiring staff soon, its president said Tuesday at the fifth annual International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum.

Ironically, adverse impact on agriculture from a wind farm development has been used by at least one wind farm opposition group as justification for its activities, but climate change will have an incomparably greater adverse impact on agriculture than any wind farm.

Here's the Crookwell Gazette detailing the scale of Goldwind's arrogant «rules are for fools» approach to wind farm development.

Clearly, wind farm development offers rural counties feeling the brunt of increased production costs for wheat and other crops an excellent opportunity to diversify their local economy, tap into another plentiful natural resource, and help keep their farms profitable and their public services well - funded.

Chris DeLisle reported that graduates of the program find employment at all stages of wind farm development, from construction through to commissioning and ongoing facility operations and maintenance, and added «Students have told us they are happy with how the program prepared them for life in the renewable energy industry and that the college is teaching things that are relevant.»

Ontario's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change received thousands of formal complaints from people living near industrial wind turbines, but did little about it, a coalition of groups and individuals opposed to wind farm development is charging.

Until now, these have been in small solar development in Israel (16 small PV facilities) and last year one was announced in Italy, and this marks the company's first foray into wind farm development.

In South Australia, for example, southern Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas, Kangaroo Island and the Limestone Coast (south - eastern SA) would have more wind farm development if the existing transmission lines had more capacity.

Worth County resident Merlin Bartz, who has wind turbines on his property, requested the project be approved and said wind farm development has substantially increased Worth County's tax base and created jobs.

«In the meantime, the precautionary principle requires that all future wind farm development should be put on hold, pending the outcome of the study.

Wind farm development in the south has been slow.

The agreement by Macquarie Capital Group Ltd. to take «responsibility for all of the ongoing development activities for the proposed wind farm» (reported in Border Watch, 2009/12/22) is very significant because it indicates that financial backing has been obtained; always a hugely important mile - stone for any wind farm development.

«The concept is simple: a local community co-operative has established to raise funds and purchase a wind turbine in a commercial wind farm development project.

The Australian Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) in their National Wind Farm Development Guidelines draft of July 2010 stated that: