A coalition of citizens advocating responsible, science based, economically and environmentally sound approaches to Maine’s energy policy.

Members

  • Lester R. Thurston, Jr.
  • Ron Huber
  • Lyle
  • Terry Tesseo
  • Stan Wood
  • Michele Currivan
  • guy venturen
  • Lisa Lindsay
  • Mary Elen Marucci
  • Allen Barrette
  • freemont tibbetts
  • Art Brigades
  • Andy Ford
  • Sally
  • Leola R. Ballweber
  • Brian Raynes
  • Carrie Schlup
  • Robert N. Bartone
  • Long Islander
  • Harrison Roper

Latest Activity

shared the news First Wind eyes IPO amid maturing loan
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1 hour ago
Joanne Moore commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine Lobstermens Association - copy of their written testimony on LD 1810'
This is most excellent! Thanks, Ron.
2 hours ago
shared the news Windham: Wind ordinance deserves long, hard look
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2 hours ago
shared the news Thorndike residents to vote on rigid wind ordin...
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5 hours ago
Ron Huber added 3 blog posts
7 hours ago
Joanne Moore commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.'
Hello Lisa, You're darned right! It must be exhausting to fight this battle one town at a time. Just hold on to this -- if we can run these bast*rds off the shoreline, they won't have the money to launch a full offensive inland. I have heard them sa…
11 hours ago
Long Islander commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.'
I believe Habib also tried to make it sound that deepwater would be potentially less expensive because you build them on shore and avoid offshore cranes. While I have no reason to believe his work in composites is not laudable, I also think he is fa…
11 hours ago
Mary Elen Marucci is now a member of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine
Welcome Them!
13 hours ago
Lisa Lindsay commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.'
I do love irony. But this is painful. This one-town-at-a-time thing has got to stop. It's all we have at the moment--fighting every day to run them off. It is very frustrating and incredibly insulting that those of us in the hills are not being hear…
13 hours ago
Art Brigades commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.'
For those who weren't listening, the administration and the Windies came in with hat-in-hand. They heard the outcries at last week's public hearing and they scaled it back quite a bit. They took out a lot of the language that would attempt to force…
13 hours ago
shared the news Connecticut bill would cut targets for use of r...
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13 hours ago
Art Brigades commented on Lyle's blog post 'Passes Unanimously today LD 1786 (HP 1274) "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"'
Please click on this link to see that some folks are OK with allowing cheap green power in from Quebec, and make sure to click on the pdf at the bottom: http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/ld-1786-an-act-regarding?xg_source=activity
13 hours ago
Ron Huber commented on Lyle's blog post 'Passes Unanimously today LD 1786 (HP 1274) "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"'
There's land and sea fights breaking out everywhere. A third set of folks should focus on those infrastructure things - though its all one flapping mass of windies and windie-wannabes, hands out, juking our land and wanting to attack the Maine terri…
19 hours ago
Ron Huber commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'LD 1810 ocean wind bill: 2 hr slugfest. Windies driven ten miles offshore? Meeting again Tuesday 1pm'
I understand ten miles from maine's ocean islands. Same as mainland distance.
22 hours ago
Joanne Moore commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'LD 1810 ocean wind bill: 2 hr slugfest. Windies driven ten miles offshore? Meeting again Tuesday 1pm'
Ron, what about the islands? Will they be protected? Thanks for your untiring efforts to keep us up to date, by the way.
23 hours ago
Lyle added a blog post
LD 1786 http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280035631 Representative HINCK for the Joint Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Public Law 2009, chapter 372, Part F, section 4, subsection 6 reports that the Bil…
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Ron Huber

Maine Lobstermens Association - copy of their written testimony on LD 1810

Here's a PDF copy of the Maine Lobstermen's Association's submitted written testimony to the Utility and Energy Committee on LD 1810 (pdf file)

Posted by Ron Huber on March 19, 2010 at 4:16pm — 1 Comment

Lyle

Passes Unanimously today LD 1786 (HP 1274) "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"

LD 1786 http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280035631 Representative HINCK for the Joint Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Public Law 2009, chapter 372, Part F, section 4, subsection 6 reports that the Bill be REFERRED to the Committee on UTILITIES AND ENERGY and printed pursuant to Joint Rule 218.

Report was READ and ACCEPTED.

The Bi… Continue

Posted by Lyle on March 18, 2010 at 9:29pm — 2 Comments

Ron Huber

Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.

Maine ocean windfarm bill LD 1810- Two hour five sided slugfest with no clear winner yet. Battle/worksession to be rejoined Tuesday 1pm before Utility and energy Committee. Incredible to hear the forces of Beauty & wild fish and wildlife giving the multibillion dollared industrial wind horde quite the walloping! Though the Wind empire is hammering back, hungry for… Continue

Posted by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 8:58pm — 4 Comments

Ron Huber

Listen NOW to Maine legislature deciding on whether to allow nearshore windfarms

Listen to the Maine Legislature's Utility and Energy Committee deciding the fate of the Gulf of Maine. Will the legislators approve a bill that
would open nearly all of Maine State waters to absentee-owned
industrial marine windfarming? Or will they transform the bill LD1810,
into a resolve that is sent out to communities and stakeholders for a
year



Right now (5:10 pm) they are talking about an
… Continue

Posted by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 5:11pm

Ron Huber

Neptune Wind, the ocean windfarm wannabe from Boston, "not very hopeful about forward progress"




… Continue

Posted by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 2:21am

Ron Huber

BDN (Maineville edition): State legislators scrambling as furious fishermen fight plan to "close the commons".

Bangor Daily News 3/ 17/10

Maineville Edition



… Continue

Posted by Ron Huber on March 17, 2010 at 2:49pm — 4 Comments

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Harrison Roper

UMPI's wind website has been partially updated 2 Replies

The University of Maine at Presque Isle is very proud of its windmill, and has been long on promises to share what has been learned from it. After monitering it for months, I see the website has a ne…

Started by Harrison Roper. Last reply by Charlie Mar 13.

MaineBeauty

Maybe A Strange Way To Attract The Public Eye But See The Response 3 Replies

I had no idea this video was going to hit the huge papers. I asked for answers and I had got none. Beaver Ridge didn't know really how to respond when I called to tell them you have black substance i…

Tagged: Maine, Freedom, wind, turbines, substance

Started by MaineBeauty. Last reply by MaineBeauty Feb 27.

Art Brigades

For a laugh, Google "Saudi Arabia of Wind" 3 Replies

I was curious who might have first uttered that tired phrase. Try it. The results are hilarious. Pretty much every state and country that has an outdoors has gratuitously been called that by Iberdrol…

Started by Art Brigades. Last reply by Art Brigades Feb 22.

Charlie

Webinar Invitation: Wind Turbine Syndrome - Myths and Facts, Thurs. Feb. 11 at 11am EST 2 Replies

What's below is sponsored by a pro-wind government sponsored "working group" here in Michigan.  Be sure it will be a hatchet job.  May be it's time for the rest of us to show up in force to make a po…

Started by Charlie. Last reply by Charlie Feb 15.

Stacey Scotia

Wind Turbines Appear to Cause Vibro-Acoustic Disease

Have you all seen this document. Interesting stuff from a PhD out of Portugal who has done extensive research on the low freq. noise issues associated with professions such as pilots, flight attendan…

Started by Stacey Scotia Jan 27.

Stacey Scotia

Citizens' Initiative 6 Replies

Maybe all of our groups should get together and put together a Citizens' Petition for a Satewide MORATORIUM on these Wind Turbine Developments. The procedure, etc. can be found at the following site…

Started by Stacey Scotia. Last reply by Karen Bessey Pease Jan 26.

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