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The brewing tempest over wind power March 1, 2010 by Robert Bryce in Wall Street Journal People living near turbines increasingly report sleep deprivation, headaches and vertigo. The wind lobby says there's no proof Imagine this scenario: The oil and gas industry launches an aggressive global drilli...

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 Finding a fix for the energy crunch: Nuclear option http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1748507.html?story_link=email_msg By Judy Pasternak- Investigative Reporting Workshop WASHINGTON — The Obama administration soon may guarantee as much as $18.5 billion in loans to bu...

PLSC 135: Politics of the Environmental Crisis Final Draft Case Study: Wind Turbines by Erin Nachtman Case Study: Wind Turbines in Our Region In recent years central Pennsylvania has been exposed to some major controversy on the topic of wind turbines. What is a wind turbine? Merriam-Webster’s onlin...

Hundreds of miles of new heavy-duty gravel roadway have been constructed on the Allegheny Front between Tyrone and Maryland to accomodate 400 industrial-scale wind turbines. Here's an article about the effects of such roads: Forest Roads Facilitate the Spread of Invasive Plants http://live.psu.edu/s...

Environmentalists, DEP raise issues with wind farm http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/524644.html?nav=742 By Greg Bock, gbock@altoonamirror.com POSTED: November 24, 2009 PORT MATILDA - Iron pyrite was among the risks to water quality that opponents of the Sandy Ridge Wind Farm poin...

Environmentalists, DEP raise issues with wind farm http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/524644.html?nav=742 By Greg Bock, gbock@altoonamirror.com POSTED: November 24, 2009 PORT MATILDA - Not everyone at the hearing was against the project. Debbie and Mike Flanagan of Hollidaysburg ar...

ICE MOUNTAIN PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PUBLIC HEARING INVITATION The public hearing will be held at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, November 23, 2009 at the Fraternal Order of Police Bald Eagle Lodge #51, 1979 Reese Hollow Road, Port Matilda, PA 16870. A public meeting will be held at...

http://www.powermag.com/POWERnews/2312.html Senators Unveil Bipartisan, Nuclear-Heavy Climate and Energy Legislation Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) on Monday introduced a climate and energy bill that proposes to spend $20 billion over the next 20 years to fund a series of nu...

Posted on Thu, Nov. 5, 2009 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Commentary Old foes welcome clean fuel Rising demand for emission-free energy is spurring a nuclear rebirth. By Patrick Moore Nuclear energy, a prime source of electricity for Pennsylvania, is finally getting the respect it deserves. It's not hard to...

The editoral in Saturdays paper was very upsetting, I guess the voters who already made their voice heard in May, are not "serious minded" I guess the ones of us who rallied at the council meetings, are not " serious minded" or the 1500 people who signed the petition to Save Ice...

Get rational about Appalachian wind energy; The harm is greater than the good October 25, 2009 by Rick Webb in Roanoke Times It was only a few years ago that habitat loss was front and center among causes for concern about the future well-being of the American ecological landscape. Not much has chan...

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PUBLIC HEARING INVITATION SANDY RIDGE WIND LLC NPDES PERMIT FOR STORMWATER DISCHARGES ASSOCIATED WITH CONSTRUCTION ACTIVTIES APPLICATION The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will conduct a public hearing on an NPDES Permit...

PA Energy Alliance Members & Friends: Please find below an interesting article by John Rowe, chairman and CEO of Exelon Corporation, that was published in the Fall issue of Deadalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This article was taken from a speech given by Rowe at the C...

PA Energy Alliance Members & Friends: We wanted to let you know that Three Mile Island's Unit 1 license renewal was approved today by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. As an Alliance, we could not be more pleased with this news. According to the Bates White, LLC study released in 2008, TMI lowe...

Dear PA Energy Alliance Members & Friends: Tom Kauffman, Senior Media Relations Manager for the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and Alliance supporter will appear this Sunday, October 25th on PA Newsmakers, hosted by Terry Madonna. PA Newsmakers is Pennsylvania's premier politics and public polic...