Reposted from Rutland Herald.   A local environmental group, Vermonters for a Clean Environment, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court asking that the U.S. Forest Service be prohibited from issuing a special permit for the construction of an electricity generation plant using 15 wind turbines in Readsboro and Searsburg.

Reposted from Bennington Banner.   SEARSBURG — A Vermont non-profit is taking the Green Mountain National Forest to court over a proposed wind power facility.

Reposted from Rutland Herald.   WATERBURY — Officials in the north central Vermont towns of Waterbury and Duxbury are launching a year-long effort in which they hope to double the number of solar-power projects in the town.

Reposted from Times Argus.   With energy costs on the rise, renewable energy has received a fair amount of attention lately — from wind and solar power to electric cars.

Reposted from Rutland Herald.   The city is in talks with manufacturer AllEarth Renewables in Williston to install $750,000 worth of solar panels on the old poor farm property off Woodstock Avenue.

Reposted from Newport Daily Express.   STANSTEAD, QUE./DERBY LINE, VT – Many Canadian citizens are very concerned over the proposal to build two industrial size wind turbines just east of Derby Line near the U.S.-Canadian border.

Reposted from Caledonian-Record.   NEWPORT CITY — The newspaper publisher arrested at the Lowell Mountain wind project site with six protesters will continue asserting his first amendment rights in his defense.

The struggle over wind project proposals started again this week in Newark, VT. Out of state firm Eolian Renewables, in partnership with foreign turbine manufacturer Nordex, is proposing to build a project covering three towns, with 35 turbines, roughly twice the size of the Lowell project.