Maine is New England's patsy
First Wind has pre-sold the output of the Oakfield, Bowers and Bingham projects to MA, RI and CT.
None of these projects have been built yet. Oakfield is under appeal. Bowers is twice denied and under appeal. The Bingham application hasn't even been considered yet.
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on November 20, 2013 at 4:23pm
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Unfortunately the statement is all too true. It is unfortunate that what might kill or delay Bingham project is the threat to bats -- most likely it will just be a minor hiccup since First Wind can point to the still unproven strategies to reduce bat deaths, and curtailing operations for bats likely will not impact production all that much (low in summer anyway, and daytime uncurtailed). At least the threat to bats is taken seriously (by all but fanatics). The threat to the human environment and other wildlife is not, and is not mitigated so cheaply. The legislator said that these issues would probably not capture the headlines as much in '14, despite very weighty issues to be resolved. Make it not so, despite the battle fatique.
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Who are the OWNERS Of First Wind-That will tell U right There Whom is Going to BEnefit the Most From These three Projects!They Do NOT Care what it DOes to the STATE of MAine all they care about is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$-They Are EXPERTS in EXPLOITATION....
Most of The Citizens of The State of MAINE could Care Less about the Great North Country of MAINE!
They are too wrapped up in their own Lives..
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When will Mainers realize we are being taken advantage of ? Some of us get it, too many do not. How many tens of thousands of turbines will be built in our state before the majority wakes up? Meanwhile, China is choking from the air pollution from building these industrial eyesores so the US developers can cash in on easy money.
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The historical average curves illustrate a key point that should not be missed -- all three cities plotted show a major, major flaw: Wind speed dips in the summer when peak demand is highest. Peakers and diesel generators will still be needed; "price suppression is a bad joke and plans to replace about five times the added wind nameplate by closure of dirty fossil generators (not to mention nuclear) is totally unrealistic. Analysis of Maine Wind Farm generation from FERC data confirms this dip in summer, as well as showing poor capacity even in winter. However if these plots are from 10 m (airport data) as I strongly suspect, be aware that Logan in Boston is very atypical of New England -- It has normal wind shear; it is open with unimpeded wind flow. Most places in New England do not. For example, Logan at 10 m has as good or better average wind speed as Fairhaven MA at 40 m off the ground, the height of turbines back in the day when the surveys were done that proponents like your Dr. Mills and our Prof. Manwell interpret as saying, turbines are fine, "just a little annoyance". To compensate for weak wind resource, and take advantage of our phenomenal wind shear, ever larger rotors can be put on ever taller towers, but adverse impacts increase at least as the square of rotor radius (rotor swept area).
If it is any consolation I believe that the Patrick administration's goal for wind energy in Massachusetts will industrialize as big a percentage of the state in sq. mi. or miles of ridge and coastline, and in so doing irrevocably impact as many lives. Maine only gets to be 25th in theoretical wind capacity by virtue of its large land mass.
Blame the folks in Augusta and on Beacon Hill. Blame the folks that refuse to acknowledge the negative local impacts, fairly clearly outlined by the Danish. In Massachusetts, the administration makes the unfounded claim that the people on Cape Cod and other coastal communities want the turbines in the Berkshires and vice versa. Please do not let this strategy win. People who value life in the natural world need to unite against the energy sucking world of virtual reality.
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Comment by Long Islander on November 11, 2013 at 9:18am
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Source: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/avgwind.html
And you have the gall to call the people in Maine NIMBY's.
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HistoricalAverageWindSpeeds.xls
See:
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hey-angus-hey-shell-com...
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
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(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."
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