Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T09:56:45ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarmshttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3451582414?profile=RESIZE_48X48https://www.windtaskforce.org/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=wow123&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBe wary your state is in the crosshairstag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-05-23:4401701:Topic:2405182022-05-23T13:19:18.297ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>Ever since the "pandemic" you can see every aspect of the way we live our lives is under attack.</p>
<p>but it doesn't stop there!</p>
<p>Huge corporations are buying up beloved farms, destroying open space with cluster housing and subdivisions, all the while crying Global warming, environmental disaster, while they are the ones enacting policies that are extremely destructive to the environment.</p>
<p>There has been a non stop assault on everything we do, everything we stand for, and where…</p>
<p>Ever since the "pandemic" you can see every aspect of the way we live our lives is under attack.</p>
<p>but it doesn't stop there!</p>
<p>Huge corporations are buying up beloved farms, destroying open space with cluster housing and subdivisions, all the while crying Global warming, environmental disaster, while they are the ones enacting policies that are extremely destructive to the environment.</p>
<p>There has been a non stop assault on everything we do, everything we stand for, and where we live.</p>
<p>lets look at the ABSURDITIES we are faced with:</p>
<p>making gasoline unaffordable to PUSH people into electric vehicles ( which actually have been around since the 1800's but were sidelined ...hmmm I wonder why? Lead acid batteries would take the car 600 miles on a charge ...perhaps that isn't enough control for the communists in charge today)</p>
<p>electric cars wouldn't be a bad Idea for some of us if we CHOOSE to use them, but how the hell do you get the world to use electric cars , let alone just America? Without company,Evelyn taxing the grid...you know, we all get to where we are going and plug in , hundreds of thousands of ev's???? </p>
<p>Lets be real, we couldn't install enough wind turbines ( which are hugely expensive and horribly inefficient, and the giant blades need to be replaced along with the motors frequently) where do you dispose of those non recyclable items??</p>
<p>and we cannot cover every mountain tops and open fields in every state with enough solar panels ( which are also hugely inefficient and non biodegradable) to power just 4 states worth of ev's</p>
<p>There is a wind company out of Austria that has an office in Natick, Massachusetts that has its eye firmly set to destroy the pristine Maine mountains and forrests and install their turbines.</p>
<p>they never had the Austrian people's support for the turbines in their own country, but that's the country of Klaus Schwab...the very Architect of the chaos that is going on around the world, along with some other very dastardly, sick control freaks. Yes In Austria they would not install these wind Turbines, so the threw a dart to decide what beautiful, part of America they could steal the beauty and peace from and Maine was one of them.</p>
<p>They continue to use the words climate change as the flavor of the day, but all of us, farmers, homesteaders, campers, hikers and lovers of the countryside, the forresets, mountains lakes , rivers and streams , lovers of the wilderness, people who see the beauty and understand our connection to the land, see right through this meaningless gas,ighting and dicisionary buzzword. We have worked the land for years and generations. We know the real destruction is greed and control, we know the real destruction is removing mountain tops to place a wind turbine, to remove hundreds of acres of tillable growing fields for a so,at farm is ridiculous and leaves the people with no place to grow food....( oh and we have heard of PLANNED food shortages too) imagine if you had no fields to plant, to provide you and your family with something to eat....or to help your neighbors.</p>
<p>speaking of helping your neighbors , this is the time to come together to help each other, reach out to others in the communities around Maine, and around the country. Arm yourself with the knowledge of the constitution, your sovereign rights , your state rights, protect the land , protect the wildlife, keep big government and Globalist interests out of your state, and off your land.</p>
<p>There is a lot to protect in Maine, and around our beautiful country. </p>
<p>They are doing all of this destruction on purpose to force an agenda, but remember you can stop it, a mandate is absolutely not a law and the word is meant to scare you into complying and also</p>
<p>you speak with your vote.</p>
<p>sending this note with love and intention!</p>
<p>save beautiful Maine</p>
<p></p> Offshore wind energy extraction: Bigger turbines than ever as industry poised to spread into Gulf of Maine.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-03-08:4401701:Topic:1833182020-03-08T17:49:27.523ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the Offshore Wind event at the Maine Fishermen's Forum, the industry supporters note that a push is on to start setting up windfarms in the Gulf of Maine. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is time for some pushback! Want to help? Let's discuss defense of Wild…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the Offshore Wind event at the Maine Fishermen's Forum, the industry supporters note that a push is on to start setting up windfarms in the Gulf of Maine. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is time for some pushback! Want to help? Let's discuss defense of Wild Atlantis. Below, some backstory on scientists trying to figure out the effects to the water's very currents - and the marine life that use them.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A decade ago I asked a Norwegian scientist what impacts to expect to the Gulf of Maine's marine hydrology and ecosystem if ocean windmills are operated there. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span><span>Gøran Brostrøm</span> is author of a pioneering work on the impact of ocean wind energy extraction on the structure and dynamics of the waters passing into and through the "wind shadows" directly behind each turbine. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>That work is </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span><a href="https://wiki.met.no/_media/windfarms/brostrom_jms_2008.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On the influence of large wind farms on the upper ocean circulation (pdf)</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>Excerpts:" Large wind farms exert a significant disturbance on the wind speed in the vicinity of the installation ... We find that the size of the wind wake is an important factor for the oceanic response to the wind farm....The generated upwelling is sufficiently enough that the local ecosystem will most likely be strongly influenced by the presence of a wind farm."</em> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Brostrom is an atmospheric scientist and notes his study is very preliminary and largely model based. That the topic had received very little study by atmospheric and oceanographic scientists to date (2008).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dr Brostrom responded to my aforementioned 2010 inquiry.. He wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br/> <span>" I do think large wind farms can potentially have a relatively large impact on the local oceanographic conditions. I say potentially because it has not yet been proven yet. Thing that should be investigated may be:</span><br/> <br/> <span>"1. Will the wind farms increase the upwelling in the area? If so, how will the nutrient levels and primary production be affected by the increased nutrient levels? Will the risks for toxic algae blooms increase?</span><br/> <br/> <span>" 2. Will the induced changes in wind stresses (or more specifically, the large increase in wind stress curl) give rise to a changing current system in the area? Will this affect local transport mechanism for e.g., plankton, larvae and sediment. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>" Will the new current pattern influence wave climate in nearby areas and the nearby coast. What is the extent of the induced current system (if barotropic motions are excited there is a possible remote affect from the wind farms).</span><br/> <br/> <span>3. It should be noted that different wind farms may act in concert such that you cannot investigate the impact of each wind farm seperately, it could be that the most important aspect is the total area covered by wind farms."</span><br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>He went on to write </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>" For your question concerning Lobster larvaes I think that the transport of these may change. However, without really knowing I would say that the wind farms will not affect Lobster production in a negative way. The possibility of increased primary production will probably take out any negative impacts on larvae transport but I really do not know. "<br/></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>RELATED:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span>Read a 2010 report UMaine oceanographer Peter Jumars sent to the federal bureau of Ocean Energy <a href="http://penbay.org/wind/ocean/science/jumars_oceanwind_envir_effects_2010.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Anticipated environmental effects of offshore windpower development in the Gulf of Maine"</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Interested in keeping our coastal currents from chaos? Contact Friends of Penobscot Bay at coastwatch@gmail.com </span></p> Watch out for this one!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-10-07:4401701:Topic:1755612019-10-07T20:08:42.327ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p><a href="https://www.transportationandclimate.org/sites/default/files/TCI-Framework_10-01-2019.pdf"><font style="background-color: #ffffff;">https://www.transportationandclimate.org/sites/default/files/TCI-Framework_10-01-2019.pdf</font></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.transportationandclimate.org/sites/default/files/TCI-Framework_10-01-2019.pdf"><font style="background-color: #ffffff;">https://www.transportationandclimate.org/sites/default/files/TCI-Framework_10-01-2019.pdf</font></a></p> Judge Deals Blow To Biggest Wind Project In U.S.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-02-14:4401701:Topic:1243622018-02-14T14:10:49.563ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Judge-Deals-Blow-To-Biggest-Wind-Project-In-US.html">https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Judge-Deals-Blow-To-Biggest-Wind-Project-In-US.html</a></p>
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<p>"American Electric Power Co.’s Wind Catcher project received a blow from an Oklahoma state judge who <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/biggest-ever-u-s-wind-farm-suffers-blow-from-oklahoma-judge">said</a> the project failed to prove…</p>
<p><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Judge-Deals-Blow-To-Biggest-Wind-Project-In-US.html">https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Judge-Deals-Blow-To-Biggest-Wind-Project-In-US.html</a></p>
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<p>"American Electric Power Co.’s Wind Catcher project received a blow from an Oklahoma state judge who <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/biggest-ever-u-s-wind-farm-suffers-blow-from-oklahoma-judge">said</a> the project failed to prove sufficient need. More specifically, administrative law judge Mary Candler said American Electric Power Co. had failed to convince the court that customers should pay for the US$4.5-billion wind farm..."</p> An update on North America's eagle slaughter by wind turbinestag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-11-28:4401701:Topic:596402014-11-28T19:43:03.547ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>This fraudulent industry has voluntary regulations. With these voluntary regulations this fraudulent industry has reported very little of its eagle mortality. Yet since 1997 and including 2014 numbers about 31,000 eagle carcasses have been shipped to the Denver Repository. In a hidden FWS document now in my possession it was reported that wind turbines were one of the primary sources of these eagle carcasses.</p>
<p>This fraudulent industry has voluntary regulations. With these voluntary regulations this fraudulent industry has reported very little of its eagle mortality. Yet since 1997 and including 2014 numbers about 31,000 eagle carcasses have been shipped to the Denver Repository. In a hidden FWS document now in my possession it was reported that wind turbines were one of the primary sources of these eagle carcasses.</p> The voice of 28,600 dead eaglestag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-07-26:4401701:Topic:563752014-07-26T20:33:32.793ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>The wind industry is currently asking for 30 year eagle killing permits. It is long overdue that the public took notice to the Putin style politics taking place with the Interior Department and the wind industry. <br></br> <br></br> Most of the public is not aware that the FWS has been secretly collecting dead eagles from wind farms for at least 20 years. In the last 15 years they have collected about 28,600 eagle carcasses and wind farms in eagle habitat are the most likely location for a person to…</p>
<p>The wind industry is currently asking for 30 year eagle killing permits. It is long overdue that the public took notice to the Putin style politics taking place with the Interior Department and the wind industry. <br/> <br/> Most of the public is not aware that the FWS has been secretly collecting dead eagles from wind farms for at least 20 years. In the last 15 years they have collected about 28,600 eagle carcasses and wind farms in eagle habitat are the most likely location for a person to ever find an eagle carcass. <br/> <br/> In highly quoted and bogus stories carried by the national media, only 67-85 of these eagle carcasses have been attributed to wind farms outside of Altamont. Over 28,000 are unaccounted for and they weren't killed by buildings, cars or transmission lines.<br/> The USFWS collects by far the most eagle carcasses from Region 3. This is a Region that includes the states of Minnesota and Iowa. Last year most of the 557 eagle carcasses collected by the FWS from Region 3 were bald eagles. This was about 4 times the total number dead eagles collected from California. Region 3 also now has about 3 times the installed wind energy as CA. <br/> <br/> FWS Region 6 which includes Montana and Wyoming was not far behind sending in 502 eagles to the Eagle Repository in 2013. But Region 6 has only two thirds the installed wind capacity as Region 3. All things being equal using the Region 6 recovered eagle carcass rate/ per installed MW of wind energy, Region 3 would be probably sending in about 750 eagle carcasses a year.<br/> <br/> California no longer sends the most golden eagle carcasses to the National Eagle Repository. This is because their populations have been decimated by wind energy. The FWS now collects the fewest eagles from California.<br/> <br/> A quote from The National Eagle Repository web site...............</p>
<p><b><i>Please note:</i></b> <i>The Repository does maintain a limited <b>supply of shipping boxes</b> for those in need of shipping containers. These boxes are designed to hold 4-5 eagles. If shipping less, we recommend the use of an adequate small box or ice chest.</i> <b><u>The Repository is happy to provide a prepaid shipping label via email</u></b></p>
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<p><b> Now think about this very carefully...........Who would ever need a shipping box that will hold 5 eagles carcasses? How would anyone ever find that many? I will tell you how. They are found from a place where dead eagles regularly hit the ground and are then stored in freezers. A place like a wind farm built in eagle habitat.</b></p>
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<p>Regarding these turbines, one thing is certain, the industry and has been killing thousands of bald and golden eagles and lying about it to the public. They did the same thing with all the endangered species being killed in Hawaii by turbines. They covered it up for 7 years until it recently was leaked to the public. <br/> I recommend that everyone read more about the thousands of eagles being killed by wind turbines. Three articles have been published that discuss the rigging of studies, the hidden data held by the Interior Department, and blistering statements made by former FWS special agents disgusted by this runaway industry. It is all in a recently published series on MasterResource ..........."The voice of dead eagles".</p>
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<p> </p> Bingham Wind Decision Delayed to 2014tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-11-13:4401701:Topic:525762013-11-13T19:06:37.586ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>I have been informed that the DEP is delaying its decision on whether to permit First Wind's proposed 62+ turbine "Bingham Wind" project until early 2014.</p>
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<p>I was under the impression that the Maine Wind Energy Act required projects within the Expedited Area to be permitted within 6 months of the application being accepted as complete for processing. That deadline would be at the end of November 2013. </p>
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<p>Would this delay be cause to require First Wind to reapply? At…</p>
<p>I have been informed that the DEP is delaying its decision on whether to permit First Wind's proposed 62+ turbine "Bingham Wind" project until early 2014.</p>
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<p>I was under the impression that the Maine Wind Energy Act required projects within the Expedited Area to be permitted within 6 months of the application being accepted as complete for processing. That deadline would be at the end of November 2013. </p>
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<p>Would this delay be cause to require First Wind to reapply? At least 7 local people wrote to the DEP requesting a formal Public Hearing and Intervenor status, but were denied due to not getting comments in within the 20-day deadline from when the application was accepted as complete for processing (even though there was no notice in local papers.)</p>
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<p>I know there are a number of major problems with the proposal, and major pieces of information missing from the application. I think we have a chance to challenge this, though even many opponents of the project are claiming this is a "done deal." </p>
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<p>Anyone who believes this does not have to be a done deal, and is interested in circulating petitions (or helping with editing video or website design) and helping organize to support local communities fighting this proposal, please be in touch.</p>
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<p>More information: </p>
<p><a href="http://eastwestwindway.wordpress.com/">http://eastwestwindway.wordpress.com/</a> (under construction)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.maine.gov/dep/land/sitelaw/selected-developments/">http://www.maine.gov/dep/land/sitelaw/selected-developments/</a></p> PPH ad from many months ago.....tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-11-02:4401701:Topic:524382013-11-02T14:05:28.853ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Can someone send me a link to an ad that ran some months ago denouncing wind development?<br/>I remember thinking that it was effective .As "Save Our Senecas" (.org) is considering publishing an ad, I thought that it might be helpful to see what else is (was?) out there....</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>P.S. Check our website to see more about our efforts.... </p>
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Can someone send me a link to an ad that ran some months ago denouncing wind development?<br/>I remember thinking that it was effective .As "Save Our Senecas" (.org) is considering publishing an ad, I thought that it might be helpful to see what else is (was?) out there....</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>P.S. Check our website to see more about our efforts.... </p> Public Comments Due Today (Oct 23) on MA-ME Wind Contractstag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-10-23:4401701:Topic:521762013-10-23T11:12:02.031ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>Public comments due before 5pm Today on MA plans to buy electricity from First Wind's Oakfield and Bingham wind projects (even though the Bingham project hasn't even been permitted.) Comments need to be sent as an email attachment to to dpu.efiling@state.ma.us , jessica.buno@state.ma.us and selma.urman@state.ma.us . The comments must include (1) the docket number of the proceeding (D.P.U. 13-147); (2) the name of the person or company submitting the filing; and (3) a brief descriptive title…</p>
<p>Public comments due before 5pm Today on MA plans to buy electricity from First Wind's Oakfield and Bingham wind projects (even though the Bingham project hasn't even been permitted.) Comments need to be sent as an email attachment to to dpu.efiling@state.ma.us , jessica.buno@state.ma.us and selma.urman@state.ma.us . The comments must include (1) the docket number of the proceeding (D.P.U. 13-147); (2) the name of the person or company submitting the filing; and (3) a brief descriptive title of the document. The electronic filing should also include the name, title, and telephone number of a person to contact in the event of questions about the filing. <a href="http://www.env.state.ma.us/dpu/docs/electric/13-147/13-147-Notice-4741.pdf">http://www.env.state.ma.us/dpu/docs/electric/13-147/13-147-Notice-4741.pdf</a></p> Herbicides use around power poles & towerstag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-10-23:4401701:Topic:521732013-10-23T10:23:16.236ZWe Oppose Windfarmshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WeOpposeWindfarms
<p>I pulled over on our country road to ask the person coming out of an Edison truck with a decal on his door titled Edison Pacific Weed Control. He said he was spraying around all the power poles. I wrote the local Southern California Edison to find out what was being used, strength and spray cycle. </p>
<p>This is what they use:</p>
<p>Bayer Esplanade 200 SC…</p>
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<p>I pulled over on our country road to ask the person coming out of an Edison truck with a decal on his door titled Edison Pacific Weed Control. He said he was spraying around all the power poles. I wrote the local Southern California Edison to find out what was being used, strength and spray cycle. </p>
<p>This is what they use:</p>
<p>Bayer Esplanade 200 SC</p>
<p><a href="http://www.backedbybayer.com/industrial-vegetation-management/herbicides/esplanade-200-sc">http://www.backedbybayer.com/industrial-vegetation-management/herbicides/esplanade-200-sc</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.backedbybayer.com/industrial-vegetation-management/herbicides/esplanade-200-sc">http://www.backedbybayer.com/industrial-vegetation-management/herbicides/esplanade-200-sc</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.dowagro.com/vm/products/milestone.htm">http://www.dowagro.com/vm/products/milestone.htm</a></p>
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<p>The wind developers appear to kill the environment rather that create clean energy.</p>