Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, points out a basic conflict: Wind farms have to be places the winds blow steadily, which often also happen to be areas favored by raptors and migratory birds.

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Soon after the LDP returned to power in December after three years in opposition, the government said it would publish by the end of 2013 a new National Defense Program Guideline, the most basic policy statement that determines the course of the nation's defense strategies for the medium- to long-term, or up to 10 years.

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