A small wind tower astride N.C. State’s Center for Marine and Science Technology in Morehead City may be a beacon for small-scale renewable energy along the coast.
Energy
Community Colleges Offer Courses in Green Jobs
Someone will have to install those solar panels and tend to those wind farms. Several community colleges along the N.C. coast offer courses to teach the skills needed by alternative energy companies.
The Greening of the Marines
Solar panels are sprouting up all over Camp Lejeune. You can see them in fields, covering parking lots and on the roofs of new base housing, which are far “greener” than most houses outside the gate.
Roanoke River at Risk if Uranium Mined
The potential contaminants from any uranium mining in the Roanoke River basin in Virginia could have effects far downstream as the river flows on to the N.C. coast.
N.C. Could See Effects of Uranium Mining in Va.
North Carolinians should pay attention to the ongoing debate in Virginia about uranium mining. Yes, the stuff they make bombs out of. One of the possible mine sites is just across the Va. border in the Roanoke River basin.
New Wind Guidelines Meant to Protect Birds
The developers of a controversial wind farm in Beaufort County say they intend to follow the new federal standards to protect migrating waterfowl.
OLF Opponents Set Sights on Proposed Wind Farm
Some of the same groups and people who successfully fought Navy plans for a jet landing field now worry about a proposed wind farm amid migrating waterfowl.
Wind Energy Could Benefit Morehead City
This port town in Carteret County is uniquely situated near prime offshore sites to take advantage of any wind-energy boom off the N.C. coast.
