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Long Islander 560 WGAN Interview with J. Dwight

3/13/10

Below is the link to an archive of 560 WGAN's radio interview with J. Dwight on wind power on 3/13/10.

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Added by Long Islander on March 14, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Dan McKay After The Wind Rush

Will Maine become an electrical importer because of the “ wind rush ?” Currently, Maine produces electricity using 50% reliable, renewable sources ( hydro-power and biomass ) and exports a surplus. With 3 large natural gas plants built in the 1990’s, Maine will be able to meet electrical demand until 2017. What will all the new generation wind facilities do for us ? Experiences in California and Denmark may answer this question. Denmark has reached the goal of producing 20% of their electrical d… Continue

Added by Dan McKay on March 14, 2010 at 5:41am — 4 Comments

Michele Currivan Wind Turbine Jargin

In Connecticut in the New Haven Harbor ONE company placed ONE 150 ft. turbine. It now is supplying this company with a good portion of their electricity, so they say. But what caught my ears was the interview with the company that constructed it. Word for word right out of their book on how to talk to people and how to sell the turbines. No matter how big or small they quoate the same stories. Green Energy, Fossil Fuel and Carbon Footprints. Not even an add lib, they are very good salesman I wou… Continue

Added by Michele Currivan on March 13, 2010 at 8:10am — 2 Comments

Joanne Moore Land For Maine's Future?

Don't ask me why, but I Googled Land For Maine's Future and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust - Protecting the Character of Maine for Future Generations. Almost 500,000 acres of land have been bought up by the gov'mint. Lots of money was bonded, I remember 'cause I voted for these bonds. Is any of that land in danger of being industrialized by big windies? And, if Maine is supposed to be protecting the character of Main… Continue

Added by Joanne Moore on March 12, 2010 at 7:29pm — 7 Comments

Frank J. Heller, MPA One analysis of the 'true costs' of wind turbine maintenance & operation.

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 12, 2010 at 11:39am — No Comments

Ron Huber Biostitute Alert: wind industry bird consultants set to spew guano in Camden March 18th

Camden Public Library on Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m.
Richard Podolsky, who has "a twenty year track record in helping “big box” developers, oil and gas, electric and renewable (especially wind), energy comp
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Added by Ron Huber on March 12, 2010 at 4:30am — 17 Comments

Ron Huber The War of 1810 - Maine's fishermen move to repel Big Energy invaders from their home waters.

A good day for fishermen at Maine's State Legislature co

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Added by Ron Huber on March 11, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

Thinklike A. Mountain LD 1786, An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development

Friends of Maine's Mountains (FMM) is having many communications with the legislature. Attached is a note sent to them yesterday regarding a crucial distinction they intend to make, largely in a vacuum.

Please review and contact legislators on the Utilities and Energy Committee at the following contact link:

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 11, 2010 at 11:47am — No Comments

Art Brigades R.I. Businesses Oppose Expensive Wind Power

Business group balks at cost of wind power

Alex Kuffner, Journal Staff Writer, The Providence Journal, www.projo.com 10 March 2010


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Added by Art Brigades on March 11, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments

Ron Huber Maine faces new 'Closing of the Commons." State's fishery agency "caught with its pants down."

Maine faces new 'Closing of the Commons'. State's fishery agency "caught with its pants down."
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Added by Ron Huber on March 10, 2010 at 6:30pm — 23 Comments

Frank J. Heller, MPA Reforestation and Carbon Sequestration

As the initiator of a reforestation effort in the Mid-coast region of Maine, I have researched out the benefits of using living plants to remove various air pollutants, including CO2, and sequester them for as long as 100 years in wood and permanently in peat and coal.

The benefits of reforestation go way beyond CO2 removal; but the addition of oxygen into our air; the improvement of habitat for rare birds, small mammals, and the insects they feed upon; the stabilization of
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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 10, 2010 at 9:09am — 6 Comments

Long Islander 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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Added by Long Islander on March 9, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Long Islander 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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Added by Long Islander on March 9, 2010 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

Cathy Mattson See Robert Rand's presentation to the Jackson Planning Board

Robert Rand is one of only two acoustical engineers in Maine certified by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. He spoke to the Jackson Planning Board on August 27, 2009.

As part of h
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Added by Cathy Mattson on March 8, 2010 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Ron Huber Nearshore Wind Rush: What you can do to stop it


IF YOU WANT MAINE FISHERMEN TO KEEP FISHING, AND WINDJAMMERS TO KEEP SAILING, tell your legislators to vote NO on

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Added by Ron Huber on March 8, 2010 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Whetstone_Willy Peaks Island Slated for Misguided Self-Inflicted Wind Turbine Problems?

I just came across the website for Wind Power on Peaks Island.

http://www.greenerpeaks.org/windpower

It looks as though some well intentioned folks are at the point in the painful learning curve where wind power can do no w

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 7, 2010 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

Long Islander 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.

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Added by Long Islander on March 7, 2010 at 5:14pm — 2 Comments

Lisa Lindsay Weld Rejects Six Month Moratorium on Wind Power

For some reason, this article does not allow comments. In any event, I think this was a mistake on the part of Weld's voters, but when there is not a wind proposal on the table, it's my sense that moratoriums are harder to get.

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/809451

WELD — Voters rejected establishing a six-month moratorium on wind development facilities on Saturday. However, they decided informally to set up a c

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Added by Lisa Lindsay on March 7, 2010 at 11:48am — No Comments

Ron Huber Nearshore wind wannabes at Maine Fishermen's Forum face grimly silent lobstermen, scallopers, shrimpers

At the Maine Fishermen's Forum in Rockport Maine on Saturday March 6, 2010,a group of industry reps, academics and ENGOs rolled out a new bill LD 1810 that would open up all of Maine's fishing grounds to windfarms. A skeptical crowd of fishermen listened silently, grimly, as the speakers made their pitches for leasing off Maine's state waters to… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on March 6, 2010 at 9:30pm — 10 Comments

Scarlett UMO bird scientists show danger of wind farms in Maine!

The Penobscot Valley Chapter of Maine Audubon hosted a really cool talk on birds and wind power last week in Bangor given by some scientists at UMO. They showed how tons of birds could be affected by wind farms in different ways at different places around the state. You should get them to talk to your local groups about this.....contact the biology department - I think the head scientist was a Dr. Holberton (spelling?). It was a good talk and will make the wind companies sit up! Continue

Added by Scarlett on March 6, 2010 at 8:41am — 6 Comments

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