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1. Calling Oregon filmmakers: What does whole watershed restoration mean to you.
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Calling Oregon filmmakers: What does whole watershed restoration mean...

2010-05-25 20:25

Carrie Sturrock, Special to The Oregonian - Climate Change

The Stories From Our Watershed is offering a total of $3,500 in prize money for two categories of filmmakers: 21-and-over and 20-and-under. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. July 19.

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Nation's First Freshwater Offshore Wind Farm Planned for Lake Erie

2010-05-25 19:20

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It's an exciting time in wind energy these days. The U.S. will be getting its first offshore wind farm thanks to Cape Wind's long-awaited approval, and now plans for the first freshwater offshore wind farm in the U.S. have been announced as well. The Lake Erie Energy Development Corp has signed a deal with GE to purchase five offshore wind turbines destined for the Ohio waters of the lake.

The 4-MW turbines will be placed three to five miles offshore though their exact planned location isn't known. This is expected to be the first order of many from the development corp that has made a goal of having 1 GW of freshwater-based wind energy online by 2020.

That's not a very long time to install that much energy capacity and this first order only takes care of 20 MW. That means we'll be hearing a lot more about this project soon.

via Earth & Industry