{"id":32164,"date":"2013-11-13T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32164"},"modified":"2013-11-13T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:53:09","slug":"psc-approves-courtenay-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=32164","title":{"rendered":"PSC Approves Courtenay Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/windmill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23166\" alt=\"windmill\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/windmill.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Public Service Commission has approved a $350 million, 200 megawatt wind farm in the southeastern part of the state.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The PSC approved Geronimo Energy&#8217;s Courtenay Wind Farm on Wednesday.\u00a0 The commission&#8217;s action came after the company agreed to delete nine of the proposed 136 turbines from its plan after safety concerns were brought up by owners of a nearby crop-spraying business, at \u00a0public hearing on the project\u00a0 July 12 in Jamestown.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The crop sprayers worried that the turbines were too close to their private runway in Stutsman County.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The entire project covers about 21,000 acres, or about 33 square miles. Developers hope to begin construction later this year, with completion done by late 2014.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Xcel Energy Inc. has agreed to purchase all power produced from the wind farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Public Service Commission has approved a $350 million, 200 megawatt wind farm in the southeastern part of the state. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The PSC approved Geronimo Energy&#8217;s Courtenay Wind Farm on Wednesday.\u00a0 The commission&#8217;s action came after the company agreed to delete nine of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32186,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164\/revisions\/32186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}