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Oklahoma wind energy to be harnessed
price tag of a $1 million per tur- dependency on coal and gas a
JEAN HARMON
Tim Hughes, project director with Hughes.
transform the energy of the great natural resources and has
wind into electrical power.
excess generation capacity with
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it," McAlpine said.
"We see wind as a potential
Oklahoma. He plans to start
construction next year on a
plant with turbines that will
Texas, Kansas, North and
South Dakota are all developing
wind farms because of legisla-
tive action, Gagliano said.
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have need for your mercy.
May Your healing hand bless
the ill and injured. Comfort
families who have lost loved
ones. Give wisdom to those
trying to help the needy and to
some who must make impor-
tant decisions.
Making the tax time deadline
Kathy Freeman is mailing her state and federal tax returns on the last
legal date, April 15. A family of four making the median income - $64,600
a year in 2001 - paid 6.8 percent of its earnings in federal income taxes.
That compares with 10.3 percent in the 1980s for the same median
income family and is the lowest rate since 1957. Americans have already
benefitted $57 billion from the tax relief law.
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On this day in 1817, the
construction of New York
State's Erie Canal was autho-
rized. The canal, which cost
89 million, connected the
Hudson River with Lake Erie.
On this day in 1986, the
United States launched an air
raid against Libya in retalia-
tion for the terrorist bombing
of a Berlin discotheque. Nearly
40 people were killed.
On this day in 1990, the
crew of the space shuttle
Discovery placed the Hubble
Space Telescope into orbit. '
bine. Even a small project
of Oklahoma Wind Power
Initiative, said Oklahoma has
Happy birthday JEAN HAR-
MON. Happy anniversary
ADOLPH and CECILIA ABILA
effort of destroying Osama bin Laden’s al
Qaida network, blamed in the Sept. 11
attacks on America, and his Taliban sup-
porters.
Troops have been scouring caves and
countryside in the search — often finding
and blowing up weapons caches. There
also are many land mines left over in
Afghanistan from years of war.
The incident followed a difficult week-
end for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, when
fighting in the six-month war was on an
upsurge.
Two explosions occurred Sunday night
at an airfield used by coalition forces in
the southeastern city of Khost on the
Pakistani border, said Hilferty, the U.S.
military spokesman. The blasts came near
the spot where two rocket-propelled
grenades exploded Saturday night, he
said.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Oklahoma is "where the wind
comes sweepin’ down the
plain," but that wind is not
being harnessed commercially
to produce electrical power.
This could change if some state
and business leaders have their
way.
Texas, New Mexico, Kansas
and Colorado, along with 18
other states, have commercial
wind-power projects.
Pacific Northwest Laboratory,
a government-sponsored wind
energy research group, ranks
Oklahoma 8th in the nation for
wind energy potential.
Jaime McAlpine, president of
Chermac Energy Corporation in
Edmond, is a petroleum engi-
neer by training, but he is bet-
ting on the wind.
He said the risks involved in
developing wind energy are sim-
ilar to the risks in the oil field.
"Being in the oil and gas
business I know there are a lot
of risks, but if you think it will
work you just go out and prove
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Four Americans killed in Afghanistan
state or federal policy is needed
to stimulate wind development,
said Hughes.
Troy Gagliano who special-
ized in renewable energy poli-
cies for the National Conference
of State Legislatures agrees
WASHINGTON (AP) — An explosion
Monday killed at least four American sol-
diers disposing of ordnance in
Afghanistan, defense officials said. Several
were injured and others were missing.
“It doesn't appear to be hostile fire,"
said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Dave
Lapan. “It is related to ordnance."
Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a military
spokesman in Afghanistan, indicated
details were still unclear and that four
were presumed killed in an explosion that
happened while they were disposing of
"large-caliber rockets."
Another official said the number of
dead was expected to climb above four
because a number were unaccounted for.
Officials said a team of about 10
Americans was handling old Russian or
Chinese artillery rounds, which can be
extremely unstable and difficult to even
move without detonating.
By MARK GLENN__
ALTUS TIMES
The trial for accused kidnapper Lyndell
Mitchell has been scheduled for May 8
through May 10 in Jackson County Distric t
Court.
Mitchell, 36, has been charged with the
Jan. 20 kidnapping and stabbing of 73-
year-old Alga Hitchcock.
He faces two counts of assault and bat-
tery with intent to kill, robbery with a
weapon, kidnapping, extortion and bur
glary. He has plead not guilty to all of those
charges and faces up to five life prison
terms.
Mitchell was bound over for trial after a
90-minute preliminary hearing earlier this
year in Jackson County District Court.
Hitchcock testified during the hearing
that Mitchell kidnapped her, stabbed in the
arm and throat and left her in the trunk of
her car. She was found on the morning of
Jan. 21 in the trunk of her car which was
parked in a ditch about one-half mile away
from her home. She survived the attack
after a long stay at Jackson County
Memorial Hospital.
Hitchcock and Mitchell became acquaint-
ed at the First Baptist Church where he
was employed as a janitor and she is
Director of the Intercessory Prayer Ministry.
District Judge George Lindley of Duncan
will preside at the trial. He is expected to
hear a motion filed by defense attorney
Steve Gogalater this week to continue the
trial to a later date.
Yusuf Pashtoon, spokesman for the
governor of Kandahar, said the explosion
occurred next to the compound of Mullah
Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who
fled the former Taliban stronghold in the
south of the country and as been in hid-
ing since the U.S.-led bombing and
ground campaign ousted his government
in December.
Omar’s compound is about 2 1/2 miles
north of Kandahar city. The U.S. team
was working in an area where ordnance is
normally destroyed in controlled detona-
tions, Pashtoon said.
The injured were being treated at a
U.S. hospital set up months ago at the
Kandahar airport.
"It was an accident," said Maj. Ralph
Mills, a spokesman at U.S. Central
Command in Tampa, Fla.
Nearly 7.000 Americans are deployed in
Afghanistan to continue the anti-terrorism
resource and hope to be one of would likely cost more that
the companies to capitalize on $100 million, McAlpine said,
that potential.” ’This is a long-term invest-
McAlpine said his company is ment that we have been work-
working on several projects, pri- ing on for at least three years,"
marily in northwestern McAlpine said.
One barrier is getting the coal and gas, which presents a in Texas laws were passed
energy from the wind farm to problem with developing wind requiring electricity retailers to
the power grid. energy, include a specific amount of
"Developing wind energy The Oklahoma Wind Power renewable energy in the total
requires a lot of development in Initiative, funded by a grant resources they use to generate
rural areas and these rural from the federal government electricity.
areas Just don’t have the trans- that is funneled through the This has encouraged develop
mission lines. This is one of the Oklahoma Department of ment. Texas is now projected to
highest negatives aspects in Commerce, investigates and surpass California as leader in
developing projects," McAlpine promotes wind energy this type of energy resource,
said. resources in the state. Their Gagliano said.
Building those transmission goal is to provide resources and In Kansas, the Legislature
lines to interconnect with the economic information to policy passed a law exempting com-
power grid is the responsibility makers, land owners and mercial wind farms from all
of the developer. potential wind energy investors, property taxes.
Without figuring in the cost of said Hughes.
transmission lines, there is a In order to overcome the Please see *WIND page 2
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