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 AMERICAN
CORN GROWERS ARE MAJOR SPONSOR OF WINDPOWER 2008 IN HOUSTON
Energy Independence, New Transmission, 20% Wind Energy
Vision, C-BED Wind Model Are Key
HOUSTON, May 23, 2008---The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF)
and the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA), through their
Wealth From The Wind (WFTW) program, are a major
sponsor of WINDPOWER 2008 June 1-4 in Houston, Texas. WINDPOWER
2008 is expected to be the largest wind energy conference and
trade show ever held in North America with as many as eight
thousand representatives of the wind industry, government and
advocacy organizations participating in the activities.....complete Story
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for the (.pdf) Press Release.
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Congress Should Act Quickly To Extend
the Wind Energy Production Tax Incentive
An Editorial
Comment on Wind Energy Policy
By Dan McGuire, Chief Executive, American Corn Growers
Foundation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2008—Congress
needs to prioritize extending renewable energy incentives. In so
doing they will be in step with the vast majority of the
American public in acknowledging and endorsing wind energy’s
many benefits.
Wind Energy is Green Power: According to the U.S. Department of
Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Wind
Energy Benefits fact sheet
www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37602.pdf, “Wind energy is clean
energy that produces no emissions, which means it doesn’t
contribute to acid rain and snow, global climate change, smog,
regional haze, mercury contamination, water withdrawal, and
particulate-related health effects.” Water use is also a
critical issue for this country, especially in the Great Plains
and the western U.S. NREL estimates that 4,000 Megawatts of wind
energy results in 10.51 billion gallons of savings in water
withdrawn and 6.31 billion gallons of savings in water consumed.
A 1/23/08 AP article reports that one nuclear plant in America’s
Southeast draws 33 million gallons of water a day, with 17
million gallons lost to evaporation in the cooling towers. And
fossil/thermal plants don’t operate 100 percent of the time
either....complete Story
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American Corn Growers Foundation
Continues Wind Energy Information, Education and Outreach
Project Through New W. K. Kellogg Foundation Grant WASHINGTON,
DC, June 21, 2007—The American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF),
through its Wealth From The Wind program, is
continuing its information, education and outreach project aimed
at developing the economic and environmental potential of wind
power generation for the economic benefit of farmers, the people
living in rural communities and for the future energy security
of the American economy and society overall.....complete Story
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 Wind Energy Works as an
Integral Part of Future Farm Policy
Author: Dan McGuire
CEO-American Corn Growers Foundation (ACGF)
WASHINGTON, June 4,
2007—“Farm and commodity
groups have come together to support progressive wind energy
policies as a result of the ACGF-ACGA Wealth From The Wind
program. The American Agricultural Wind Coalition (AAWC)
continues to inform farm Organization leadership and continues
to promote policies that help both individual farmers and rural
America capture the economic benefits of wind turbine ownership
or wind project involvement,” says David Senter, AAWC national
coordinator and ACCF consultant, Washington, DC.......complete Story
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Severe Decline in Corn Gluten Exports
Weakens US Ethanol Industry's Future
New ACGF Survey Shows Only
26% of Elevators Segregate GMO from Non-GMO
....complete Story
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for the Survey Results. |
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Wind
Energy Works As Farm Policy Evolves--ACGF WINDPOWER 2006 Poster
Presentation.
Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and
Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a
Billion-Ton Annual Supply....complete Story
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Biomass as Feedstock poster (pictured above) is available as a
full size pdf suitable for printing.
NOTE:
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dimensions are 46" x 34" and 11.6 MB (12,213,609 bytes).
Approximate download time over broadband connection may be as
long as 3-4 minutes.
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