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Nation of Change - The world’s first 6-MW offshore wind turbine went up in the North Sea this week. Wind company REpower and C- Power NV, a Belgian offshore development company, installed the wind turbine, the first of 48 for the Thornton Bank II wind farm.

Manitoba Wildlands - Manitoba Wildlands filed review comments about Manitoba Hydro's environmental statement for the contentious BiPole III transmission project. The proposed corridor and transmission system will be a 500 kv high-voltage direct current system to move power from northern dams to a converter station south east of Winnipeg.

HydroWorld.com - BC Hydro has taken the next step toward a US$1.35 billion overhaul of its 126-MW John Hart Generating Station.

HydroWorld.com - Rolls-Royce subsidiary Tidal Generation Limited has surpassed the 200-MWh mark of electrical power generated and fed into Scotland's national grid with its 500-kW tidal turbine prototype.

IPS News - Numerous non-governmental organisations used the World Water Forum (WWF) held in Marseille last week as an opportunity to remind the international community about the serious global impacts of large dams all over the world.

Manitoba Wildlands - The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) has released draft environmental guidelines for the Keeyask Generation Project. The guidelines were drafted following a public review of the CEAA Keeyask Background Document. Manitoba Wildlands provide comments to CEAA on the Keeyask Background Document January 31, 2012.

Inside Climate News - Election-year politics, $4-a-gallon gasoline and an anti-regulatory fervor on Capitol Hill have aligned to thwart EPA's vow to issue final carbon emissions standards for oil refineries this year.

Inside Climate News - The recent explosion of efficiency efforts across the country has slashed energy use in U.S. buildings, but by how much, exactly?

Manitoba Wildlands - On February 27th, Prince Rupert British Columbia became the latest community to officially oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline.

Manitoba Wildlands - The second attempt by Taseko Mines to obtain required environmental licenses for the "New Prosperity Mine", which once again threatens Fish Lake in British Columbia's interior, continues to attract public controversy.

Planet Ark - The Canadian province of Ontario's review of its pioneering green energy program will not alter controversial rules that require local content for all projects, the province's energy minister said.

Manitoba Wildlands - President Obama and the Senate, received the delivery of over 800,000 signed letters from Americans who oppose the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline.

Manitoba Wildlands - Two Global Forest Watch Canada reports, released January 18, 2012, conclude that while hydro electricity releases less carbon than power generated by fossil fuels, emerging research suggests the difference isn't as great as previously thought.

Manitoba Wildlands - A recent sampling of air pollution in Boulder Colorado discovered an unusual amount of methane that was linked to emissions from a nearby natural gas field.

Toronto Star - As a province that imports all of its natural gas and that sells much of its electricity below cost, increasing energy efficiency is a sure fire way to increase economic growth and provincial revenues.

Manitoba Wildlands - More than two thousand residents from across Northern British Columbia (BC) joined forces in Prince Rupert February 4 to demonstrate against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Investor Calendar - A 15-year agreement that calls for Minnesota Power to buy carbon-free hydroelectricity from Manitoba Hydro beginning in 2020 was unanimously approved today by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.

Calgary Herald - A new report says the Northern Gateway pipeline will boost crude oil prices $2 to $3 per barrel annually over the next 30 years, causing significant damage to consumers, businesses and the Canadian economy.

TckTckTck - North Carolina's Semprius Inc. and its German backer Siemens said they have developed the world's most efficient solar panel.

Manitoba Wildlands - President Obama has stopped the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would have stretched 1700 miles from the Tar Sands in Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

Washington Post - In 2010, the world spent $409 billion on fossil-fuel subsidies to artificially lower the price of coal, gas and oil. Eliminating those subsidies would curb fuel use and lead to half the emissions cuts necessary to avoid 2°C of warming.

PlanetArk - Norway will spend NOK 1.8 billion ($300 million) a year to devise ways to help some of the world's poorest people get better access to energy and to develop a new market-based system to limit emissions from global energy production.

Wake Up World - The International Clean Energy Analysis (ICEA) gateway estimates that the U.S. possesses 2.2 million km2 of high wind potential (Class 3-7 winds) - about 850,000 square miles of land that could yield high levels of wind energy.

Manitoba Wildlands - The Canadian joint review panel (JRP) hearings, on whether to approve the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, which would deliver crude from Alberta's oilsands to Kitimat, British Columbia (B.C.), for shipment to Asia, began January 10, 2012.

PlanetArk - New solar installations reached a fresh record of 7.5 gigawatts (GW) in Germany in 2011, playing into the hands of advocates for steeper cuts in tariff subsidies to reduce growth of solar power and the resulting higher costs for consumers.

Treehugger - Over at Wind-Works, Paul Gipe points out another interesting facet of the German renewable energy saga: 51% of all renewable energy in Germany is owned by individual citizens or farms, totaling $100 billion worth of private investment in clean energy.