Against this background, the government published an official report on wind farms' impact on the countryside.

在这种背景下，政府发布了一份关于风力发电场对农村产生影响的官方报告。

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In a report released last December, the U.S. Department of Energy estimated that widespread use of electric-drive vehicles and offshore wind farms could cause shortages of these metals by 2015.

在去年十二月份发布的的一份报告中，美国能源部估计电传动汽车和近海风力田的广泛使用，在2015年前可能导致这些金属元素的短缺。

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The report stresses that a key component of success will be ensuring that wind farms are built in places where some key requirements are present.

该报告强调，成功的关键在于确保风电场的建设选址要满足相关的要求。

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To put the scale in perspective, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2010 was about 1.79 MW, up from 1.74 MW in 2009 and 1.66 MW in 2008, according to the 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report.

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Police have arrested five people in eastern Sicily suspected of involvement in Mafia corruption over contracts to build wind farms, Italian media report.

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