All Blog Posts Tagged 'Island' (9)

DeepWater Wind formed by First Wind gets SLAMMED as a "corporate welfare program"

Think Wind-Generated Power Is Saving People Money? Check Out America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

America’s experiment in off-shore wind-based energy is raising rates on residents and…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on August 7, 2017 at 4:25pm — 4 Comments

Maine ocean windpower wannabees hear from Mass & Rhode Island windpower officials & stakes AUDIO

At the Offshore Wind: Tools and Information for Maine Coastal Stakeholders" meeting in Belfast on December 145h , one of the afternoon panels was called Lessons Learned from Siting Renewable Energy Projects. Panelists included the Mayor of Block Island off Massachusetts, a Rhodes Island commercial fisherman, a representative of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone…

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Added by Ron Huber on December 16, 2010 at 1:45am — No Comments

Met Tower on Peaks Island

Now we have a met tower up on Peaks Island. As a property owner on an island close to Peaks, I am not pleased. It is not enough to destroy our mountains where I live in western Maine. Now the aim is for the islands to have wind energy. Can you picture the islands of Casco Bay and the other bays up and down the coast being covered with wind turbines? Little or no thought goes into the aftermath of the degradation of the beauty of our State of Maine. How long… Continue

Added by Linda Miller on September 29, 2010 at 7:55am — 11 Comments

Conservation Law Foundation fights ocean windfarm plan on constitutional grounds

A recent story in a New England newspaper details how the Conservation Law Foundation has joined up with the attorney general of Rhode Island to oppose reconsideration of a power-purchase agreement between National Grid and Deepwater Wind Co which proposed windmills off Rhode Island. Both are seeking to have the contract dismissed.… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on July 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — 3 Comments

Opening Maine's pension fund to windpower wannabes? That's the word at June 2010 Island Institute mtg

The June 11, 2010 meeting of the Maine Islands Coalition was attended by Maine legislators Rep Hannah Pingree,…
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Added by Ron Huber on July 2, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Ragged Mountain could get three to 7 turbines if Camden, other towns take the bait.

How many? That fundamental question nearly went unanswered during the hour long presentation and Q&A session at the June 15th meeting of the Camden Selectboard, by George Baker of the Island Institute's "Maine Community Wind" group, the institute's for-profit subsidiary. Listen to Baker (30 minutes) and to the question and answer session afterward.(24…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 16, 2010 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

Tonite at 7pm Camden Selectboard hears from Ragged Mtn Wind wannabes

Tonight the Island institute's lucrative community wind subsidiary will be giving a dog and pony show to the Camden Maine selectboard about their plan to put windmills on Ragged Mountain. They are agenda item 3.


Listen to a 7 minute recording discussing this plan from May 20th, of (1) Des Fitzgerald of principle power and of the Camden Energy Committee describing what the 'Tute and he and various…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 15, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Angus and the 'tute see the light

Added by Ron Huber on March 16, 2010 at 3:04pm — 7 Comments

Metinic Island nightmare. Windies poised for major state waters-grab.

Like sea slugs under the dank surface of Maine'…
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Added by Ron Huber on February 24, 2010 at 4:00pm — 18 Comments

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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."

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

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