There is an eGroups forum named Gaia-L, where there is an avid posted of environmental news stories...

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GAIA-L provides a forum for the discussion of Gaian theory and practice, in order to help create and disseminate a worldwide Gaia movement, a shared global postindustrial culture based on awareness of humanity's embeddedness in, and dependence upon, a healthy biosphere.

http://www.egroups.com/group/gaia-l

The poster, Mark, gets hot news of the wires, but doesnt tend to inclued a URL. Worth it... thanks for the earlier lead Hallyx!

Diane

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BELGIUM: May 9, 2000 [Fair Use: For Educational/Research Purposes Only]

BRUSSELS - Belgium may soon build its own wind energy park in the sea, if the cabinet approves plans later this month, an energy ministry spokesman said on Monday.

Built off Belgium's short coastline, the windmill park or parks would be a source of renewable energy harnessing the power of winds racing across the North Sea between it and Britain.

"We could soon have the biggest wind energy park in the North Sea," minister Olivier Deleuze is quoted as saying to local new agency Belga.

Deleuze's spokesman Olivier Arendt told Reuters that if a draft decree, setting out conditions for bids to build and operate windmill parks was agreed, construction may start by the year end.

A number of companies, including Belgian power firm Electrabel , already had advanced plans for wind parks in the North Sea, Arendt said, adding it was possible more than one company may be granted such concessions.

Arendt declined to say how much energy the windmill parks were expected to produce, but said they would play a major part in achieving the government's aim of getting 3.5 percent of the country's electricity consumption from renewable sources.

Offshore wind farms are an established concept in Denmark, which is a world leader in renewable energy, but Belgium currently produces practically no electricity from renewables such as wind and solar.

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000