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December

27-Dec-2006 – (News) Added Proposed (Bishop) Wind Farm cancelled  (The Daily Messenger, December 27, 2006)
July

24-Jul-2006 – (Links) Added Towns included in Current and Proposed Wind Projects in NY State (links to www.savewesternny.org)

24-Jul-2006 – (Links) Added Stop Ill Wind.org (seeks to illuminate problems associated with the windpower industry and suggest means for correcting them)

24-Jul-2006 – (Links) Added Cohocton Free (Cohocton, New York)
24-Jul-2006 – (Links) Added Industrial Wind Action Group (promotes awareness of the risks and related impacts of industrial wind energy development)

24-Jul-2006 – (News) Added Golisano plan may be dead: Perry stoppage, lack of state aid, hostile environment cited (Hornell Evening Tribune, July 20, 2006)

May

16-May-2006 – (Links) Added Cohocton Wind Watch (Cohocton, New York)

16-May-2006 – (News)  Added Couple in Howard Denied Request to Have A Statement on Windfarms Read into Meeting Minutes (National Wind Watch, May 11, 2006)

16-May-2006 – (News)  Added Lawsuit filed to halt wind turbines - Residents challenge environmental review in Yates and Steuben (The Rochester D&C, April 8, 2006)
March

30-Mar-2006 – (News)  Added SPC Information Update – Edition 1, April 2006 (PDF File)
30-Mar-2006 – (News)  Added Controversy in the Wind (March 24, 2006 – National Wind Watch)
22-Mar-2006 – (Meetings) Added update on the March 20th Town Board meeting on the WECS ordinance vote
22-Mar-2006 – (Stories) Added Editorial Opinion (A response to the recent Town Board approval of the WECS Ordinance)
22-Mar-2006 – (Stories) Added Wind Economics (by Bob Radell, Springwater, NY)
22-Mar-2006 – (Stories) Added Landmark Legislation (Another response to the recent Town Board actions on the approval of the WECS Ordinance)
22-Mar-2006 – (Links) Added Save Western New York (Wethersfield, New York)
15-Mar-2006 – (News)  Added Wind power debate no smooth sailing (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 8, 2006)
15-Mar-2006 – (News)  Added Remarks Delivered To The Assembly Committee On Energy…. (March  7, 2006 by Ad Hoc Coalition Of Local Community Groups In Upstate New York)
15-Mar-2006 – (Links) Added Town of Springwater (Springwater’s official website)
15-Mar-2006 – (Links) Added Citizen’s for Responsible Energy Development (Castile, New York)
15-Mar-2006 – (Links) Added Project Pendleton (WV)
15-Mar-2006 – (Stories)  Added An open letter to Sen. Frank Wagner of Virginia Beach (from the Recorder, Bath and Highland County, VA)  

January

16-Jan-2006 – (News)  Added Notice of Special Election; Springwater Fire District (Genesee Country Express, December 29, 2005)

16-Jan-2006 – (News)  Added Perry Approves Wind Farms (13-WHAM.com, Jan. 11, 2006)

16-Jan-2006 – (News)  Added Debate swirls as wind power grows rapidly (MSNBC.com, Jan. 8, 2006)

16-Jan-2006 – (Stories)  Added Letters to the Town Board – medical consideration of wind turbines by Joan E. Flender, M.D. & Margaret Bush, Springwater, NY  

December

20-Dec-2005 – (Links) Added Tug Hill (NY)- a.k.a. Maple Ridge links to “National Wind Watch.org” w/ credits to the Watertown Daily News
20-Dec-2005 – (Stories)  Added For the Record – Presentation at WECS Ordinance Public Hearing Meeting By Russ Dudash, Springwater, NY
20-Dec-2005 – (News)  Added Windmill deal is dead, says power agency (The Buffalo News, Dec. 16, 2005)
20-Dec-2005 – (News)  Added National Wind Watch Welcomes GAO Study Report, Challenges Wind Industry on Wildlife Impacts
09-Dec-2005 – (Stories)  Added More Quality Government by Bob Radell, Springwater, NY
09-Dec-2005 – (Links) Added link to Chilling Statistics - birds / windfarms - a compilation of bird mortality reports
04-Dec-2005 – (News)  Added 'Whoosh' spells uneasy progress (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Dec. 4, 2005)
03-Dec-2005 – (Meetings) Added December 12th Public Hearing meeting on the proposed wind turbine ordinance
03-Dec-2005 – (News)  Added UPDATED draft of Proposed Ordinance Regulating Wind Energy Conversion Systems (Town of Springwater)
03-Dec-2005 – (Stories)  
Added Does the proposed Springwater WECS ordinance go far enough to protect you? by the Webmaster

November

12-Nov-2005 – (News)  Added Renewable Energy? You’re already paying for it (The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Nov. 12, 2005)
12-Nov-2005 – (Stories)  Added Many Problems – Few Answers by Publicus
12-Nov-2005 – (Links) Added link to Friends of Blackwater Canyon (WV)
12-Nov-2005 – (Links) Added link to Iberica 2000 (links to misc. pictures from their website)
12-Nov-2005 – (News)  Added Effects of the wind profile at night on wind turbine sound by G.P. van den Berg (University of Groningen, Netherlands, Sept. 22, 2003)
12-Nov-2005 – (Stories)  
Added Inappropriate Technology (submitted by Kerry Lipp, Prattsburg, NY)
12-Nov-2005 – (Stories)  Added How many homes can one wind turbine provide power for? (submitted by Kerry Lipp, Prattsburg, NY)

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