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A new potential roadblock has been raised to a commercial wind farm that developers want to build in Ira and Poultney. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says the ridgelines being considered for the project are rare and irreplaceable natural…
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Joanne - For what it's worth, here are some stats on % forest cover by nation from the UN. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y7581E/y7581e16.htm#TopOfPage According to them, the % of land area that is forest is: - 29.6% of the world - 24.7% of the U.…
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Frank - this is great. I have made a note to look up the iTREE software suite you reference. I totally agree that forests have a myriad of benefits that go beyond CO2 removal. When I first started managing a small woodlot that I bought about 20 year…
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I often wonder about NRCM. My guess is that they have some very dedicated members whose hearts are in the right place. But the history of the modern day environmental movement is one of well intentioned organizations morphing into, well, different o…
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LI This is good stuff. Have you heard from NRCM? Maybe their members will start to quit that organization and join here. Didn't NRCM get a six-figure hush-check from the Kibby wind project?
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Maine’s Wind Goals, CO2 and the Forest NRCM has published figures on CO2 emissions avoided by select Maine wind farms. Then, to show that the clearcuts and clearing needed for these complexes, their roads and transmission lines should not be seen as…
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Another letter he wrote to President Obama, this one about First Wind, is a must-read if you have not yet seen it: http://batr.net/cohoctonwindwatch/CohoctonWindmillsTOObama.pdf
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apparenlty the noise issue is being raised to a national issue. http://betterplan.squarespace.com/todays-special/2010/3/5/5510-the-noise-heard-round-the-world-and-a-look-at-the-futur.html In my neighborhood lives a retired British accoustics engine…
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Hey Angus - A Mountain is something You don't wanna F with You don't wanna F with Don't F around (Don't F around) Don't F with Roxbury (No!) And don't F with Highland DON'T F AROUND! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Mountain
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Hey... nice! That got a smile. We CAN move mountains... but in the non-dynamited, excavated, eroded and denuded way. :o)> Kazza
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This is simply amazing information. I went to Infrasound at Wiki and found lots more info such as why animals flee infrasound and how birds use infrasound to migrate and how whales use infrasound to communicate. This would explain the disappearance…
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Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood “[Movie] sound engineers deliberately include loud noises well below the lowest frequencies that can be detected by our hearing system (20 Hertz) because, although we cannot hear such sounds directly, our body a…
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Maine’s Wind Goals, CO2 and the Forest

Please click on the file below entitled "Maine’s Wind Goals, CO2 and the Forest." The document is intended to put the Governor's wind goals into perspective.






NRCM has published figures on CO2 emissions avoided by various Maine wind farms. Then, to try and argue that the clearcuts and clearing needed for these complexes, their roads and transmission lines s

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Posted on March 9, 2010 at 7:00pm —

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Congressman Eric Massa Went Up Against Some Very Powerful People

With all the news on Congressman Eric Massa's resignation, I started googling and came across the letter below.



Massa has said on the news in the last 24 hours that some powerful forces in Washington, D.C. set him up and pushed him out.



From our vantage point, we know that he was a true thorn in the side of First Wind. First Wind is essentially half owned by hedge fund D.E. Shaw which paid National Economic Director Larry Summers $5.2 million for

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Posted on March 9, 2010 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

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Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood

Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood


“[Movie] sound engineers deliberately include loud noises well below the lowest frequencies that can be detected by our hearing system (20 Hertz) because, although we cannot hear such sounds directly, our body actually feels them. Studios apparently insist that theaters playing big-bang films be equipped with Dolby-type sub-woofers that can generate frequencies well below 20 Hz.



“This

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Posted on March 7, 2010 at 5:14pm — 2 Comments

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Why the Double Standard Olympia, Susan and Habib?

Yesterday, each of our U.S. Senators issued a press release about a bill they have introduced called the Deepwater Offshore Wind Incentive Act which would provide a tax incentive of 3.04 cents per kilowatt production tax credit for the first 6,000 Megawatts of Deepwater Offshore Wind Production in the United States.

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Posted on March 4, 2010 at 6:00pm — 8 Comments

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At 11:28am on January 24, 2010, Art Brigades said…
Investigative reporting.... We need to whip this beast a little better.

Interesting to read Tux Turkel's piece this morning. While his focus was narrowly on noise, and only at Vinalhaven, it surely helped puncture the huge bubble just a bit. More noteworthy than what he wrote was what he did not write.

How he could interview Hanna Pingree and NOT ask her why she withdrew her turbine noise bill is either abject stupidity or laziness. Legislators regularly rush to the statehouse with a new bill whenever a constituent says "there oughtta be a law..."

Could it be that he didn't ask the Speaker of the House (who can get anything she wants to a public hearing) why she doesn't think this is worthy of a bill, or why she isn't raising holy hell over getting a hearing???

It would be one thing if her district was Old Orchard Beach, but these are HER constituents who are under the bus!! Investigative reporting??? Please. One doesn't need to be a political veteran to know that the ties that bind among the Pingrees, Baldaccis, Adamses, and the wind mafia are very tight indeed. Turn a blind eye to a monumental calamity in your state, district, and town why? To repay political favors? Now that's a story that'll sell papers.

Turkel needs to pursue this angle. He also needs to expose the tragic economic realities of this trojan horse that has been wheeled into Maine.
At 9:41am on December 5, 2009, Martha Thacker said…
Sorry I got that link wrong. http://bit.ly/3XMRV1
At 9:39am on December 5, 2009, Martha Thacker said…
The transmission lines are not only congested , they are full. Alternative power plants are being kicked off to make room for wind energy. http://bit.ly.3XMRV1 proves the grid was full before Stetson Mt wind farm was even built. Windaction.org had an article up stating Brookfield and Indeck were to close in order for Stetson MT wind farm to go on the grid. Indeck was forced to sell because Iso New England did not pay agreed upon price. Fort Fairfield was forced to sell because Iso New England could buy cheaper from Canada. I am glad that Rep. Erric Massa and Attorney General Blumenthal from Conn. are looking into political favoritism to certain corporations.
At 1:07pm on November 12, 2009, Alexander Powers said…
Watched the video through - still no sound... Other videos work fine just not this one...
 
 

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