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Wind Power News Friday September 8th 2006
Wind tower mishap snarls Route 1 traffic
High-tech wind power met old-fashioned road pavement Thursday as a truck hauling an 80-foot-long, 197,000-pound tube for a major power generation project in Mars Hill got stuck. The driver's inability to make a turn from a road at Mack Point onto U.S. Route 1 resulted in the tube rolling off its trailer, damaging the road surface. Traffic was blocked for at least three miles. About 50 tower sections resembling giant culverts 10 feet in diameter arrived by ship at Mack Point. They were put onto flat trailers designed for oversize loads. The sections are part of the $55 million Mars Hill Wind Farm project.
Manitoba to quadruple its wind power
The Manitoba government plans to build enough wind towers over the next two years to quadruple its wind-generated power, Energy Minister Dave Chomiak announced Thursday. The province, along with Manitoba Hydro, hopes to add 300 megawatts of wind power to the province's energy grid — enough power for 100,000 homes. That could mean up to 160 more windmills, although newer and evolving wind turbine technology could make that number smaller.
Wind plan whips up opposition
On one of those sunny, cloudless days that makes this island a summertime playground for the rich and famous, about the only things visible on the horizon are the white sails of the pleasure craft that ply the waters between here and Cape Cod. A Boston-based energy company wants to add something else to the view - a thicket of 130 wind turbines that would occupy 24 square miles of salt water between Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the cape. Known as Cape Wind, the $1 billion project would be the first in the U.S. to be built offshore, an approach that has been used in Europe and offers advantages over land-based wind projects, according to energy experts. But this clean-energy proposal has whipped up the kind of intense local opposition that once was reserved for nuclear power plants or radioactive waste facilities.
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