Fighting for Feathered Friends (and other creatures) – Sunday 5/20/12 7pm ET

WWR will talk with an expert working hard to save birds, other wildlife, and desert flora from being negatively impacted by industrial scale wind developments in sensitive areas and a journalist who is a leader in the effort to tell these stories.

Ileene Anderson is the Biologist and Public Lands Deserts Director for the Center for Biological Diversity – a nonprofit conservation organization with more than 350,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

Ileene coordinates campaigns throughout the southwest deserts, while focusing on conservation projects in the deserts and urban wildlands of Southern California. Her project areas include all public lands in the California deserts and the Santa Ana River Watershed, western Riverside County, Tejon Ranch, and the Santa Clara River Watershed. She holds a master’s in biology from California State Northridge and is a research associate at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens.

Miriam Raftery, Editor and Founder of East County Magazine   – A 25-year journalist and editor, Miriam has received the American Society of Journalists & Authors’ national Arlene Award for community journalism. She has also received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, National Women’s Press Club, and top honors from San Diego Press Club including best of show, best investigative journalism, and best series for “Changing Face of East County” prior to founding ECM. She has covered major stories on topics including the California wildfires, Congressional and presidential elections, Hurricane Katrina, election integrity, health, real estate, and political corruption. She received nine more awards in 2009, all for stories published in ECM. Her works have appeared in many other national and regional news publications including Woman’s Day, Women’s e-News, RawStory,com, California Real Estate Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Home/Garden, Décor & Style, Home Magazine, Arizona Highways, Nutrition Business Journal, Environmental Business Journal, In Business, and Writer’s Digest. A former columnist and freelance writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune, she has also worked as an editor of a national nutrition journal and a literary magazine as well as senior national investigative reporter for RawStory.com. An East County native, she takes pride in exploring East County’s back roads and byways, leaving no stone unturned in the quest for news and feature stories.

East County Magazine  is an award-winning nonpartisan community publication. ECM provides in-depth news, views and events coverage for all areas east of I-15 in San Diego County, California, reflecting the broad diversity of people and issues in our region, particularly those under-represented in other media.

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Ocotillo Express Articles:  http://eastcountymagazine.org/taxonomy/term/14625

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: U..S. GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZES KILLING OF ENDANG...

 

 

http://basinandrangewatch.org/Ocotillo-Wind-Construction.html

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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