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Environment - "Porter County Commissioners OK regulations for wind turbines" [Updated]
Updating this list of earlier ILB entries on wind turbines in Porter County, Jane Huh of the Gary Post-Tribune reports today:A new energy source for Porter County is blowing in the wind. Porter County Commissioners laid out the welcome mat...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 16, 2009 12:47 PM
Environment - "Environmentalists divided over wind farm, endangered bats"
An earlier ILB entry on wind turbines and the Indiana bat was: "Indiana bat endangered by wind farms?" from June 9, 2009. This long story from the Washington Post, by Maria Glod, is dated Oct. 21 and headed "Environmentalists divided...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 22, 2009 07:16 AM
Environment - "A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel"
That is the lede to this story by Clifford Krauss in today's NY Times. More from the story:Italian and Norwegian oil engineers and geologists have arrived in Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to learn how to extract gas from layers of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 10, 2009 01:38 PM
Environment - More on "NW Indiana counties stop residents' wind tower ventures"
Updating this ILB entry from August 15th, Vicki Urbanik of the Chesterton Tribune reports: Porter County now has the framework in place to welcome a major new industry: Alternative energy. The Porter County Commissioners on Tuesday approved two amendments to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 8, 2009 01:27 PM
Environment - "Request to install up to 2 wind turbines goes to Hancock County zoning board Thursday"
The ILB has had a number of entries now on wind turbines, their impact, and local regulation. Today Bill McCleery reports in the Indianapolis Star:GREENFIELD -- Windmills might be making a comeback in Hancock County as a handful of residents...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 23, 2009 10:24 AM
Environment - "Turning to Windmills, but Resistance Lingers: Court Ruling Highlights Odds Against Them"
Adding again to this long list of earlier wind turbine stories, the NY Times' Abby Goodnough has this long story today - some quotes:BOURNE, Mass. — Wendie Howland grows her own food and heats her water with rooftop solar panels....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 13, 2009 04:47 PM
Enviroment - "Porter County readies wind mill ordinance: Move spurred by firm that wants to put towers between Kouts-LaCrosse"
Updating this ILB entry from August 15th headed "NW Indiana counties stop residents' wind tower ventures," and adding to this long list of earlier wind turbine stories, James D. Wolf Jr. of the Gary Post-Tribune reports today:VALPARAISO -- County officials...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 11, 2009 10:24 AM
Ind. Courts - "Homeowners spin wind turbine lawsuit back to judge"
Adding to the ILB's lengthening list of wind turbine stories, Lydia X. McCoy of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today:A Warrick County judge will rule again on a variance granted by the county's Board of Zoning Appeals that allows...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 10, 2009 09:28 AM
Environment - Wind turbines "can appear on Doppler radar like a violent storm or even a tornado"
From the AP, a story that begins:SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Wind farms have been blamed for disrupting the lives of birds, bats and, most recently, the land-bound sage grouse. Now the weatherman? The massive spinning blades affixed to towers 200...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 30, 2009 05:49 PM
Environment - "NW Indiana counties stop residents' wind tower ventures"
Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post-Tribune has a very long story today on the premise: "County ordinances aren't prepared to deal with wind towers and spires." Some quotes:Four months ago, Jackson Township retiree Tom Martin put down about $15,000 for...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 15, 2009 10:53 AM
Environment - More on: "St. Joseph County to consider windmills: Bill would regulate turbine installation in St. Joseph County"
Updating this ILB entry from Tuesday, Troy Kehoe of WSBT South Bend reports this afternoon:Energy generating wind turbines put up in St. Joseph County will soon have to conform to a new set of rules, aimed at keeping homeowners and...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 14, 2009 04:18 PM
Environment - "St. Joseph County to consider windmills: Bill would regulate turbine installation in St. Joseph County"
Updating this ILB entry from August 9th, Ed Ronco reports today in the South Bend Tribune. Some quotes:Tonight, the St. Joseph County Council will hold a public hearing on proposed regulations for building windmills. So far, the turbines have gone...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 11, 2009 04:39 PM
Environment - "Blowback: Indiana's emerging wind farms whip up controversy: More and more critics say windmills aren't that green, aren't a great source of energy -- and can be harmful to people's health"
The ILB has a number of earlier entries on wind turbines. Today Jeff Swiatek has a front-page story in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:What's happening in other states suggests that the warm and fuzzy feeling many Hoosiers have for wind...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 9, 2009 09:56 AM
Environment - Wind turbines in Indiana [Updated]
Here is a list of some earlier ILB entries on wind turbines:Environment - Indiana bat endangered by wind farms? Bats are already at serious risk because of a fungus -- this May 6th story in the Chicago Tribune is...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 16, 2009 08:54 AM
Environment - Indiana bat endangered by wind farms?
Bats are already at serious risk because of a fungus -- this May 6th story in the Chicago Tribune is headed "Fungus is bat version of the black plague." This June 4th AP story begins:WASHINGTON - A mysterious fungus attacking...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 11, 2009 06:46 PM
Environment - Two wind farm groundbreakings in Indiana this week
The ILB has had a number of entries about wind farms. Today Tom Spalding reports in the Indianapolis Star:Indianapolis Power and Light and enXco will break ground at 10:30 a.m. today on a 106 megawatt wind-turbine farm in Fowler, Ind.,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 17, 2009 09:00 AM
Envirtonment - More on coal ash; costs of coal-gasification
Coal ash. James Bruggers of the Louisville Courier Journal has a report today that begins:Coal ash ponds at several power plants in Kentucky and Indiana held some of the nation's highest amounts of six potentially toxic heavy metals, according to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 8, 2009 09:46 AM
Environment - Landowners in the West forming cooperative associations to deal with wind power developers
Following on a list of earlier ILB entries on the development of wind power, the NY Times has a long story today by Felecity Barringer titled "A Land Rush in Wyoming Spurred by Wind Power." Some quotes:WHEATLAND, Wyo. — The...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 28, 2008 01:31 PM
Ind. Courts - "Fight over Boone Co. turbines headed to court"
Richard Essex of WTHR 13 Eyewitness News had this interesting report Sunday:Lebanon - A lawsuit between two Lebanon neighbors is being watched carefully by people in the wind turbine industry. The outcome could effect future commercial and residential development of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 27, 2008 08:40 AM
Environment - More on the move to wind power - things to watch for
Recently the ILB posted an entry headed "Porter County braces for future in wind power" (8/25/08) and another headed "In Rural New York, Windmills Can Bring Whiff of Corruption" (8/19/08). Thursday the NY Times had another interesting wind power story,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 29, 2008 07:24 AM
Environment - "Porter County braces for future in wind power"
Charles M. Bartholomew reports in the Gary Post-Tribune:VALPARAISO -- Porter County is in the path of a new industrial wind that's blowing across northern Indiana, driven by funding from foreign-based energy companies. Officials here are feeling the breeze in the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 25, 2008 01:10 PM
Environment - "In Rural New York, Windmills Can Bring Whiff of Corruption"
A lengthy, fascinating story in Monday's NY Times, by Nicholas Confessore, looks at another aspect of the proliferation of wind turbines along the New York side of the Canadian border. Some quotes:BURKE, N.Y. — Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 19, 2008 06:57 AM
Ind. Law - Clinton County developing wind farm ordinance
Max Showalter reports today in the Lafayette Journal Courier:FRANKFORT -- Members of the Clinton County Area Plan Commission Ordinance Review Committee spent some time Tuesday afternoon taking a close look at zoning regulations that govern potential wind farms in the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 10, 2008 11:04 AM
Environment - "Coalition sues Land Office over wind farms"; energy alternatives, each with proponents and opponents
Wind Farms. The Austin American-Statesman had a story Wed. headed: "Coalition sues Land Office over wind farms: Groups, including King Ranch, want to require extensive environmental review of wind projects." The NY Times had a story by Felicity Barringer on...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 6, 2007 02:48 PM