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A proposed 150 MW wind farm in Indiana will be allowed to continue development as long as it meets certain conditions, according to a report from McClatchy.

The Prairie Breeze Wind Farm, which is being developed in Tipton, Ind. by juwi Wind, received a conditional use permit from the Tipton County Board of Zoning Appeals, provided the developers guarantee it won’t diminish property values and tubines are built at least 1,500 feet from property lines, the report states.

According to McClatchy, the only county in the U.S. that has a guaranteed property value provision for the placement of a wind farm is in DeKalb County, Ill. If a property owner is unable to sell his or her home for the appraised value, the wind energy company must provide the difference between the sale price and the appraised value at closing.

There is currently an abundance of natural gas. If it is not because of fracking, whatever the source, it is a good thing. Power Plant gas conversations should lower the price of electricity but won’t. It will keep out home fuel bills down. When your gas bill cost starts to sneak up to ~ $5. It will be time to lock in for as long as you can lock in.

And fracking had nothing to do with that !

Fracking will keep gas prices down for some time. Just look at your recent gas bill. The price of Natural Gas dropped again yesterday.

sounds like coal is out and gas is in.

Owners of coal-fired power plants invested more than $30 billion in flue gas desulfurization systems, also known as scrubbers, between 2007 and 2011, according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

According to the report, scrubbers were installed at around 110 coal-fired power plants in 34 states during that time, raising the amount of scrubbed generating capacity in the U.S. from 115 GW to just more than 191 GW. That number represents a little less than 60 percent of coal-fired, steam electric generation capacity in the U.S.

In 2003, there were 1,900 horizontal (fracked) wells operating in the U.S. IHS estimates there were closer to 45,500 in 2012. That number is set to double. Is it too late to put the clean burning gas genie back into the environmental nut case bottle?

Emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from U.S. electric power plants in 2012 dropped to their lowest level since the passage of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The decline in emissions is due primarily to retrofits of coal-fired power plants with flue gas desulfurization systems, or scrubbers, switching to lower sulfur coal, and the installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR), selective noncatalytic reduction (SNCR), or low NOx burners. Switching from coal-to-gas has also helped the decline in emissions.

Announced today: AEP will stop burning coal at the Tanners Creek Generating Station Unit 4 in Indiana, the Muskingum River power plant Unit 5 in Ohio, and the Big Sandy power plant Unit 2 in Kentucky by 2015. American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) will stop burning coal at these three power plants in the Midwest and pay $8.5 million as part of a revision of a 2007 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection agency, states and environmental groups.

No pcitures of the tiger woods /president match has surfaced yet.

In what was billed as the largest climate rally in U.S. history, thousands of people marched past the White House on Sunday to urge President Obama to reject a controversial pipeline and take other steps to fight climate change.

More than 35,000 people from 30-plus states -- some dressed as polar bears -- endured frigid temperatures to join the "Forward on Climate" rally,

Unfortunately, the President was in Sunny Florida playing golf with Tiger Woods. No word on which Girlfriend Tiger was with yesterday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this June is expected to release final rules covering water intake structures at existing power plants and large manufacturing facilities in an effort to address injury and mortality among aquatic life that can become trapped on water intake equipment (impinged) or sucked into the plant itself (entrained). Jeezzzzzzzzzzzzz. Kill birds with Wind turbines but save the fish?

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Energy Boom in Marietta Boosts Local Economy, Government Revenues

By Jesse Hathaway

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this June is expected to release final rules covering water intake structures at existing power plants and large manufacturing facilities in an effort to address injury and mortality among aquatic life that can become trapped on water intake equipment (impinged) or sucked into the plant itself (entrained). Jeezzzzzzzzzzzzz. Kill birds with Wind turbines but save the fish?

And just what does your inane blather have to do with this topic ???

free4all . . . You know that if reported you could wind up out again!

Morningstar . . . You know that if reported you could wind up out again!

changeling . . .You know that if reported you could wind up out again!

Munster . . . You know that if reported you could wind up out again!

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Internet, social media adding to problem of bullying

by Jasmine Rogers

(The Marietta Times)

As usual wrongriki starts going nuts and cuts and pastes the same garbage everywhere ! You know that if reported you could wind up out again !

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