Ministers overrule wind farm plan (BBC News) Plans for a wind farm in Perthshire have been given the go-ahead after Scottish ministers overruled the local council's decision to refuse it. The 16-turbine rural development near Alyth will generate enough electricity to power about 35,000 homes.
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Green Is the New Camouflage (Grist Magazine) U.S. general in Iraq calls for renewable power The latest dirty hippie to issue an urgent call for renewable power is ... U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer. The top U.S. commander in western Iraq recently sent the Pentagon a "Priority 1" request for solar panels and wind turbines to augment traditional diesel generators.
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Thoughts on Bush's alleged new climate policy (Grist Magazine) So, rumor's in the air about a new Bush climate policy. As Bart says, this is no doubt an authorized leak and, like everything the Bush administration does, done with politics in mind.
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More on Gore's speech (Grist Magazine) "It seems to me that there are three particularly newsworthy features of Gore's speech: A "carbon freeze"? I've never even heard of that. But if we took it seriously - if we really halted, immediately, the growth of our collective GHG emissions - it would functionally amount to huge cuts."
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