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| NEW THIS WEEK | JUNE 1, 2006 |  | ALTERNATIVE TO CONTENTIOUS CAPE WIND PROJECT PIQUES INTEREST
After years of political wrangling over a contentious plan to build large wind turbines in Nantucket Sound off the Massachusetts coast, a new proposal for a similar type of wind development in nearby Buzzard's Bay is gaining traction among politicians and environmentalists alike. The key difference is that the latter plan proposes to site its wind turbines in an already busy shipping channel traversed by more than 8,000 commercial ships each year, whereas the earlier Nantucket proposal calls for siting turbines in relatively pristine open ocean.
By Roddy Scheer
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 | CONGRESS FAST TRACKS POWER LINES AND PIPELINES THROUGH NATIONAL PARKS
Environmentalists are incensed at plans for the Department of Energy and Bureau of Land Management to punch thousands of miles of new power lines and pipelines through Western federal lands--including several national parks and forests--over the next 14 months. Last week, Congress passed legislation calling for the fast track construction of energy transfer corridors as a way to quickly shore up electricity supplies across the West.
By Roddy Scheer
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 | WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
From my bedroom window I can hear the sounds of traffic streaming by on Interstate 25, carrying folk around the last corner down from the pass through the Sangre de Christo foothills at Glorieta and the Pecos River, toward Santa Fe, New Mexico. They descend the mountain toward their jobs or they come down to vacation from points north, crossing a gateway where populations and commerce of the great Midwestern plains pass into a strange and almost alien country of the southwest, where civilization appears to change in some subtle manner, just like the landscape.
By Ralph Melcher
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 | PLANNING FOR A BETTER WORLD
While financial advisors have been around about as long as money itself, a new breed of so-called “green” practitioners is focusing on helping clients grow their personal nest eggs while contributing to the achievement of larger social and environmental goals.
By Roddy Scheer
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 | GRASS TO GAS
Although traditional corn-based ethanol has a loyal constituency in farm states, support for bio-ethanol, also known as cellulosic ethanol, is growing.
By Heather Augustyn
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