Items of interest:

1-Friends of Blackwater press release – (h/t Allegheny Highlands Alliance)

• Friends of Blackwater demands protection for Little Brown Bat – Friends of Blackwater (West Virginia)

2-“Talk about throwing good money after bad. Despite more than $30 billion in subsidies for “clean energy” in the 2009 stimulus bill, Big Wind still can’t make it in the marketplace.”

• The Wind Subsidy Bubble – Wind Concerns Ontario

3-“We didn’t trust them to just walk away as they said they would,” Paine said. “We expected them to come back.” – (h/t AHA)

• Wind farm opponents vow to continue fight in Tazewell County – Bluefield Daily Telegraph (WV)

4-“Without government support, wind projects don’t have a profitable business model.”

• The hot air behind wind subsidies – Houston Chronicle

5-“Wind is not the energy of our future.”

• Industrial Wind gets no respect in the “Annual Energy Outlook 2011” Early Release Overview.  – Jefferson’s Leaning Left