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All Clear for Wind Farm in Utah's West Desert
By: AP
21 October 2008 @ 06:16 pm
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MILFORD, Utah - A Massachusetts-based company has federal approval to install 137 giant wind turbines in Utah's west desert.
The Bureau of Land Management says it granted rights of way Oct. 15 for transmission lines and a wind farm across 40 acres of federal land.
The Massachusetts-based First Wind says it has a contract to send the power - up to 200 megawatts - to Los Angeles, Burbank and Pasadena, Calif.
First Wind says it will start erecting the wind towers by year's end [2008].
Source: International Business Times
Shell Oil Dumps Wind Power
By:
March 18th, 2009
Oil Change International
Shell Oil will no longer invest in renewable technologies such as wind, solar and hydro power because they are not economic, the Anglo-Dutch oil company said.
Executives at its annual strategy presentation said Shell, already the world’s largest buyer and blender of crop-based biofuels, would also invest an unspecified amount in developing a new generation of biofuels which do not use food-based crops and are less harmful to the environment.
Until recently, Shell’s investment in wind power featured prominently in its corporate advertisements. FoE said the company’s move heralded a slightly more honest approach. “Shell is at least being a bit more honest about the fact they are a fossil fuel company. It has seen the limitations of the greenwash it was putting out a few years ago.”
The company has predicted that by 2025, 80% of energy will come from fossil fuels and 20% from alternative energy sources. Yet it is spending just over 1% of its budget on alternative technologies. Over the past five years, only $1.7bn of the $150bn it has invested has gone towards alternative energies.
Source: Oil Change International
by Eric Rosenbloom — September 5, 2006
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