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		<title>Lack of Engineers Put Offshore Wind Farm Development at Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lack of experienced renewable energy engineers could put contracts for nine new wind turbine projects in jeopardy as there are not enough suitably qualified people to install the turbines at their designated locations in the Firth of Forth and Moray Firth in the Scottish Highlands. The development partners were announced today by the Crown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vestas Workers Lose The Battle To Keep Wind Turbine Factory Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 18 days of sit in protests from 11 workers trying to get their voices heard and save the Vestas Blades factory on the Isle of Wight the fight is over. A court order granted last week gave the authorisation for bailiffs to forcibly remove the sit-in protesters from the building. The wind turbine factory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Of The Earth Call On Government To Save British Wind Power Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the release of the DECC White Paper announcing the government&#8217;s intention to invest more in wind power, committing to a target of 30% of the country&#8217;s energy to be generated through renewable energy sources by 2020 and promising the creation of jobs in the environment sector, environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antiwind Super Group NAWAG Could Cause Problems For Wind Farm Developers</title>
		<link>http://thegreenvillage.co.uk/news/antiwind-super-group-nawag-could-cause-problems-for-wind-farm-developers-688/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when governments and organisations are striving to make commitments to cut carbon emissions, the source of the UK&#8217;s energy is a bone of contention for many. Discussions about nuclear, new generations of coal fired power stations and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are discussed almost daily, and the arguments about wind power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isle of Wight Wind Turbine Factory To Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vestas Blades, Britain&#8217;s only wind turbine manufacturing factory, shut down operations and announced closure yesterday. The decision to close down has been blamed on a lack of demand for wind turbine parts in Northern Europe and the effects of the global financial problems currently affecting the world. Workers at the plant have been given 90 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Turbine Controversy in Staffordshire</title>
		<link>http://thegreenvillage.co.uk/news/wind-turbine-controversy-in-staffordshire-137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Severn Trent are causing controversy in Staffordshire with proposed plans to install a test mast to ascertain whether it would be a feasible site for the installation of full size wind turbines on the site of their sewage treatment plant near Checkley in the Staffordshire Moorlands. A meeting was held on Friday 6th March to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Turbines Blown Away</title>
		<link>http://thegreenvillage.co.uk/news/wind-turbines-blown-away-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month B&#38;Q made the decision to remove wind turbines from the shelves following months of customer feedback and a report from Encraft, an independent energy consultancy business. The report had shown that the wind turbines that had been on sale at B&#38;Q were not producing the levels of energy that the manufacturer had [...]]]></description>
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