Alternative energy

Land Report May 2014 Newsletter

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Land Report Editors

A diverse group of news items are featured in our May newsletter. You’ll recognize the name of one of the all-time great rock and rollers as well a former Presidential hopeful. May I add that there was a teeny tiny transaction…

Market Watch: Cape Wind Project

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Land Report Editors

Is construction on the Cape Wind Farm finally about to get under way?

Tagged with: Alternative energy, Cape Cod, Cape Wind Farm, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Renewable Energy, Wind power
Posted in Farmland, News Desk

Top Ethanol Producer Files For Bankruptcy

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

One of the leading stories of 2008 has been skyrocketing commodity prices and the corresponding surge in land values throughout the Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, and other mineral-rich areas of the country. Although the bubble has by no means burst, there…

Tagged with: Alternative energy, biofuels, corn, Farming, Midwest, VeraSun
Posted in Farmland, News Desk

Native Americans Harvest the Wind

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Each Friday I scan the Escapes section of The New York Times for an urban take on life in the hinterland. But the keeper in today’s Times was not in the Escapes section but in National: Felicity Barringer’s report on how the 29,000 Rosebud…

Tagged with: Alternative energy, American Indians, Eric O'Keefe, Rosebud Sioux, Sioux, South Dakota, Wind Belt, Wind power
Posted in Farmland

The Clean Energy Scam

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Amazing new diets, intriguing self-help books, a daily dose of St. John’s Wort – we are a country obsessed with quick fixes. Now, as Time points out in this cover story titled The Clean Energy Myth, we can add ethanol…

Tagged with: Alternative energy, corn, CTL, energy, energy policy, ethanol, global warming, nuclear power, solar power, soybeans, Wind power
Posted in Farmland, News Desk

Texas at Vortex of Wind Power Debate

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOE NICK PATOSKI El Capitan stands as a stone sentinel, a jagged limestone monolith that buttresses the southern flank of the tallest mountain range in Texas. It is imperious and daunting, the most visible landmark for hundreds of miles.…