Summaries for: Wind Power
All Politics is Local, All Land Use is Political – American Coal Online
(American Coal Online has published an article on land use politics, written by Christopher Hopkins, senior vice president for aggregates and mining, and Ben Kelahan, senior vice president for energy, both of The Saint Consulting Group)
By Christopher Hopkins and Ben Kelahan, The Saint Consulting Group
Former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill used to say, “All politics ...
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Six groups file suit to stop Cape Wind farm project
A legal challenge to the federal approval of Cape Cod’s proposed offshore wind farm has been filed, the first of an expected flurry of lawsuits attempting to stop the construction of the 130-turbine Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.
Ben Kelahan, Saint Consulting's senior vice president for energy, wrote about the Cape Wind project last January, ...
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Pentagon drops objection to huge Shepherd Flats wind farm project
The Pentagon, under strong political pressure, has withdrawn its objections that the huge Shepherd Flats wind farm project in Oregon could interfere with Air Force radar systems, with the Obama Administration apparently agreeing that homeland security concerns shouldn't thwart home-grown renewable energy.
The agreement will allow Caithness Energy to proceed with the 845-megawatt, $2 billion Shepherds Flat ...
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Pentagon objections hold up Oregon wind farm
One of the Obama administration's prime initiatives -- the development of sources of alternative energy to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil, create American jobs and combat climate change -- is being jeopardized by competing concerns of the Defense Department.The Pentagon is threatening to scuttle what promises to be the world's largest wind farm, in ...
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Prepare for UK NIMBY Government – big, radical, scary policies
By Nick Keable,Vice President, UK Operations, The Saint Consulting Group Assuming that the Tories do manage to come out of the General Election in control of the UK, and that is by no means certain at all, they have this week laid out their proposals for reform of the planning system. And it’s big. And radical. ...
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Classic wind project support dilemma: like it, won’t pay for it
North American WindPower recently reported that a poll by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Center for Policy Analysis found that while Massachusetts electric ratepayers generally support wind energy, this support erodes rapidly if wind projects contribute to an increase in electric bills. The poll found that 55% of respondents would not pay more for electricity produced ...
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Saint’s Ben Kelahan in podcast on US offshore wind trends in 2010
Cape Wind Offshore project developer Cape Wind Associates refers to the wind farm on its Web site as "America's First Offshore Wind Farm on Nantucket Sound."Given the project's continued struggles to begin construction and the advancement of other proposed projects along the Eastern seaboard, it seems unlikely that Cape Wind will be the first U.S. ...
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Support for Delaware offshore project a lesson for wind farms
By Ben Kelahan,Senior Vice President, Energy, The Saint Consulting GroupGetting major stakeholders on board early to support a wind farm proposal means identifying and mapping who they are, continually educating them about your project and mobilizing them to take some action to demonstrate their support. The passion and emotion surrounding these projects based on the issues ...
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Offshore developers need stakeholder acceptance, policy initiatives
In recent months, The Saint Report has published several posts on how wind turbine developers need to engage the public with stakeholder and policy incentives to win over local support for offshore projects.
Ben Kelahan, the senior vice president for energy for The Saint Consulting Group, repeated these points in a panel discussion early this month at the ...
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Pro-active developers can counter NIMBY opposition to wind farms
By Ben Kelahan,
Senior Vice President, Energy, The Saint Consulting Group
In a recent Boing Boing blog post on Re-thinking NIMBY, freelance j0urnalist Maggie Koerth-Baker reflected on why wind power could lead to new ways of defining (and dealing with) public naysaying. As one who follows the effects of NIMBY all day, there are some real solid points Maggie makes ...
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