The proposed wind turbines in Derby are still causing substantial debate. On Tuesday night the town’s select board officially voted against supporting the project, and VPR and others reported on the squabble around the project.
Reposted from Caledonian-Record. Sen. Joe Benning, R-Caledonia-Orleans, did his best to get a two-year wind moratorium passed by the Senate in the waning days of the 2012 session.
Reposted from Bennington Banner. BRATTLEBORO — Among Cersosimo Industries’ many endeavors — which include lumber, real estate, gravel and landscape planning — you will soon be able to add power generation.
Reposted from Rutland Herald. MONTPELIER — With summer temperatures in Vermont on the first day of spring, House members gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill to address climate change.
Reposted from Bennington Banner. MONTPELIER — With summer temperatures in Vermont on the first day of spring, House members gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill to address climate change.
Reposted from VTDigger. Editor’s note: Josh Schlossberg is the editor of The Biomass Monitor. High temperature records in Burlington recently were broken for two days — March 13 and 18. The frigid, snowy winters that thrilled me when I first moved to Vermont at age 17 have become mild and bare, almost disingenuous.
A quick heads up, a couple of events this weekend are worth checking out: The Lowell Mountain Group Fundraiser at Eden Dog Sledding is Saturday at 10AM Wind Wise Radio features Sue Morse and Annette Smith discussing the impact of wind on VT’s ridgeline habitats on Sunday night at 7PM
Reposted from VTDigger. Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Rebecca Ryan, director of health promotion and public policy at the American Lung Association in Vermont The renewable energy policy decisions Vermont policymakers make will affect two of the state’s greatest resources: its forest and its people.
