The oft-delayed Nantucket Sound wind farm faces more hurdles. A District Court in Boston has ruled that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service need to revisit Cape Wind’s impact on migrating birds and endangered…
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Market Watch: Cape Wind Project
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
Posted in Farmland, News Desk
68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in California Sells for $48 million
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning on a huge transaction in California: the 68,000-acre Onyx Ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just outside of Bakersfield sold for $48 million ($705 per acre) to a joint partnership of the CIM Group, a…
Tagged with: California, Onyx Ranch, Pickens Plan, Renewable Resources Group, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, wind energy, Wind power
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Native Americans Harvest the Wind
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
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Posted in Farmland
The Clean Energy Scam
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
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