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Latest coverage from EWEA 2012 liveblog day 2

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:09:00 GMT

The second day of Windpower Monthly's blog from the EWEA 2012 conference in Copenhagen. Covering launches and events as it happens. Or if you're at the event, visit Windpower Monthly at stand BL-13.

Unesco fear causes French wind project cancelation

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:09:00 GMT

FRANCE: The French authorities have withdrawn a permit for three turbines 20km from Mont-St-Michel in preparation for imposing an exclusion zone around the Unesco World Heritage Site.

Eagle deaths push policy up the agenda

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UNITED STATES: Long-awaited federal policy intended to help protect bald and golden eagles from wind turbines and blades began coming into focus in late March, as the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released the first of two voluntary guideline documents.

US government unveils voluntary bird death guidelines

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:15:00 GMT

UNITED STATES: The US federal government has finally unveiled voluntary guidelines to help wind developers minimise the impact of onshore projects on wildlife such as golden eagles, bats and desert tortoises.

The complexities of recycling begin to bite

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WORLDWIDE: The wind energy industry is right to portray itself as a "clean" and genuinely green energy sector. With this image comes the responsibility of making sure that the sector does not rest on its environmentally sound laurels. Looming on the horizon are questions about wind-farm decommissioning and the recycling of end-of-life turbines, especially complex components such as blades.

Wind developers 'at fault over anti-wind backlash'

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:42:00 GMT

UK: Wind developers in England are fighting a legacy of “resentment and hostility” caused by their own past behaviour when going through the permitting process, according to one of the UK’s foremost environmentalists.

Call for new law as condors return

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UNITED STATES: The California Wind Energy Association (CalWEA) last month called on the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to update its 1996 policy on California condors, an endangered species making a vigorous comeback in the state's wind-friendly Tehachapi region of Kern County.

Conservation body ponders licence to kill

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:50:00 GMT

US: The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to grant a permit that would allow a wind farm to legally "take" up to three Golden Eagles over its 20/30-year lifetime.