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Comment on the Permit to Kill Eagles with Wind Turbines

Green Building Law Update

Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it is soliciting comments through November 12, 2013 on the issuance of a take permit “for recurring eagle mortalities” associated with the operation of the Shiloh IV wind turbine project in Solano County, California. To appreciate this take permit some content may be useful.

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Phases of Commercial Real Estate Development

Construction Marketing

This phase includes determining the project’s scope, selecting materials, and determining the necessary permits and approvals. Engineers will also work on the design to ensure that the building is structurally sound and that all systems, such as electrical and plumbing, are correctly designed.

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11 Advantages Of Fabric Buildings

Construction Marketing

They can even be used as meeting spaces or offices—all you have to do is include electricity. What’s more, they don’t need a building permit, allowing you to maximize time, as well as save on cost. Aside from these applications, fabric structures make for great workshop spaces for masonry, carpentry, manufacturing, or agriculture.

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Three Easy Steps to Building a Commercial Building

Wolgast Corporation

We also gain all permit approvals, get materials ordered, and trade contractors scheduled for construction to commence at this time. We always have the goal in mind of building a longstanding relationship because it is important to us that we are building Solid foundations… Solid Results… the Wolgast Way !

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Off-Grid Monolithic Cob House

Natural Building

It has a 1-kilowatt solar power system and a backup generator for electricity, a propane radiant in-floor heating system and a Rumford fireplace for heat, and a constructed wetland for natural wastewater treatment. They also worked closely with an engineer and with their municipality to ensure the structure would be legally permitted.

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First Ever Criminal Prosecution For Deaths Of Birds By Wind Turbine

Green Building Law Update

District Court for Wyoming, wind turbines can cause the deaths of birds in four primary ways: collision with wind turbines, collision with associated meteorological towers, collision with, or electrocution by, associated electrical power facilities, and nest abandonment or behavior avoidance from habitat modification.

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A Zero Fossil Fuel House in Massachusetts

Natural Building

Two years later he and his partner Hannah got the occupancy permit on the very day their son, Max, was born. Spartan said, “I have not paid an electric or heating bill for seven years, since both the solar hot water and collectors generating electricity started running — just water/sewer, mortgage and taxes.