Off-shore Atlantic City wind farm may blow $1 billion, 30,000 NJ jobs

By   /  March 8, 2012  /  Energy, News, State Government  /  No Comments

TRENTON – Based on cost per kilowatt, the proposed Fishermen’s Atlantic City Windfarm could become the world’s most expensive offshore wind energy projects, warned a study released by the state’s chief advocate for utility customers.

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Stimulus funding for controversial wind farm up in air

By   /  December 15, 2011  /  Energy, Federal Government, News  /  No Comments

By Tom Steward | Minnesota Freedom Foundation
Minnesota Congressman Leads Effort to End Green Energy Stimulus Funding Behind Controversial Goodhue County Wind Farm
An initiative led by Congressman John Kline (MN-R) would do more than terminate the federal stimulus renewable energy program that funded the bankrupt $535 millionnotorious Solyndra solar power project. If successful, it would also [...]

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Threat of Eminent Domain Hangs in the Air Over Minnesota Wind Power Project

By   /  December 4, 2009  /  Featured, News  /  No Comments

Will prevailing political winds lead to takings of opponents’ air space?
ST.PAUL, MN–Does the government’s power of eminent domain include seizing the rights to the wind that wafts over your property? That’s the controversial question swirling around an 8 megawatt wind farm proposed by the southern Minnesota city of New Ulm and opposed by several farmers in rural [...]

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