In a new development related to the wind turbine controversy on Vinalhaven (ME), Superior Court Judge Michaela Murphy dismissed a motion for reconsideration filed by the state’s DEP (Department of Environmental Protection), and ruled in favor of Vinalhaven neighbors seeking relief from excessive noise. The Maine DEP and Fox Islands Wind, LLC, the industrial wind turbine operator,…
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The UMPI wind turbine has a capacity of 600 kw, or 14,400 kwH per day in perfect wind. Today the website reports 345,400 kwH "since mid-November". That's 190 days, and the power that was produced averaged 1818 kwH per day. Divide 1818 by 14,400 and you get a 12.6 % Capacity Factor. For this turbine in this location, 12.6% Capacity Factor is about average. On the 14th of this month, the turbine's third anniversary, I calculated a Capacity Factor of 8.9%, including a 210-day period of…
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5/26/12
By CHRIS O'NEIL
EXCERPTS:
Fernald is a relevant policy that ought to be remembered a hundred years later as our mountain resources are exploited for the export of…
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Please do not sip coffee before clicking this link...
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WWR will interview Chris Braithwaite about wind energy development enveloping the ridges of Vermont and the confrontations it has provoked.Chris has just published …
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By Don Hopey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 16, 2012 3:49 pm
Two big wind development projects on Appalachian ridges in Bedford Counties on Dunning and Evitts mountains (24 turbines) and the Clover Run project in Clearfield counties (40 turbines) have been canceled. Fewer new turbines will be spinning across the nation next year due to the possible end of a federal tax credit program that has driven development.…
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I Like the story at http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/letters/portland-says-cannon-is-the-citys_2012-05-25.html
Imagine one of those on the lawns of people in towns being attacked by big-wind. I wouldn't need to be real to make the message.
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This was of course before Redington-Nubble and Mars Hill, etc.
As part the approval, Kenetech must release data immediately on possible bird impacts, include in its final plan information on power contracts with buyers of electricity, submit details of soil studies and erosion control plans, and show how it might minimise road construction at the sute. Commissioners, however, rejected a proposal to have Kenetech build the…
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The next time you read some bald faced pro-wind lies in an online post, consider that the blogger may be employed by an organization that has made this commenting part of his or her job. The employer could be a wind company but also a wind industry law firm, engineering firm, a paid off so called environmental group, an ornithologist who rigs bird studies, etc.
It is now established fact that many of the pro-wind comments we see in online reader…
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WWR will talk with an expert working hard to save birds, other wildlife, and desert flora from being negatively impacted by industrial scale wind developments in sensitive areas and a journalist who is a leader in the effort to tell these stories.…
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In November 2009, about thirty bewildered individuals from around the state gathered together, stunned by the realisation that our beloved state had become the target of powerful forces driven by the lure of government largess, and that if nothing was done, soon there would be thousands of wind turbines marring Maine's formerly priceless landscape. The Citizens Task Force on Wind Power was formed that day. J was at that meeting, having already written several newspaper columns decrying…
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Because I make revisions to my articles as a result of comments, etc., I am listing the URL instead of the article.
You go to the URL and will see the latest version.…
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I recently found the listing of grants that have been awarded via Section 1603 of ARRA. This program is fortunately ending at the end of 2012, but any wind project that shows a "substantial" start on a project before then (such as beginning construction on an access road beyond just tree clearing) will be grandfathered in to this gift of taxpayer money. The Obama administration used the Recovery Act as a way to boost an industry that can't stand on its own. In lieu of the PTC for ten…
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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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"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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