Trading Maine's Ridges for Virtually Nothing as Illustrated by NRCM CO2 Data

Stop Advocating the Maiming of Maine's Ridges NRCM!

Katahdin from Rollins Wind Project (photo by Brad Blake) - and the wind companies' test towers have since moved far closer to this greatest mountain,e.g. MEDWAY.

 

NRCM management uses CO2 as the primary justification of scarring Maine's ridges with wind factories and transmission blight. This certainly predated their wind advocacy du jour based on "jobs", most of which are temporary and often staffed by out of state crews.


The PDF document at the following link puts NRCM's own published CO2 information into proper perspective using the Maine woods as a point of reference.  It is undeniably way past time to change course and stop so many Mainers' anguish and the ill conceived and recklessly reasoned befouling of Maine's cherished ridges.

Please click on the following to read the PDF:

Maine's Wind Goals in Proper Perspective

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Comment by Robert Feller on July 24, 2021 at 12:09pm

Ever Ascendant: True Cost of Unreliable Wind & Solar Continues to Rise Unabated

https://stopthesethings.com/2021/07/24/ever-ascendant-true-cost-of-...

Comment by John F. Hussey on March 16, 2018 at 3:11pm

Remember money talks: https://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/25/business/anti-wind-group-got...; "...

PORTLAND, Maine — Wind power developer SunEdison announced it agreed to give $2.75 million to conservation efforts and limit where it pursues wind farms to advance the state’s largest wind project to date in Bingham.

SunEdison said Friday the conservation fund is one part of an agreement between it and the group Friends of Maine Mountains, which in March withdrew an appeal of the Bingham project before the Board of Environmental Protection..."

Comment by John F. Hussey on March 16, 2018 at 3:05pm

Maine has been easy pickings for commercial wind and they don't to see this stopped.  One of the reasons Weyerhaeuser bought out Plum Creek is they thought they could pepper the land with turbines.  This morning was a pro wind dog and pony show !

Comment by Long Islander on January 17, 2014 at 10:27am

Big, old trees keep growing and capturing carbon, study finds

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-old-trees-carbo...

Comment by alice mckay barnett on January 22, 2013 at 9:32am

reason # ?  for suspension of WIND....the WIND act is wrong on the CO2 calculations..

Comment by Mike DiCenso on October 4, 2012 at 12:23pm

Great link. I wonder how we can get rid of Dylan Voorhees?

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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