All Blog Posts Tagged 'LURC' (5)

Challenging LURC's scope of wind farm review and their default to D.E.P. ..correspondence with Stacie R. Beyer Chief Planner, Land Use Planning Commission

Hello again:

 

I reviewed your authority under your enabling statutes and find it decidedly covers environmental impacts of wind farms in areas under your jurisdiction:

 

"To preserve …support and encourage Maine's natural resource-based economy and strong environmental protections; … to honor the rights and participation of residents and property owners …while recognizing the unique value of these…

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on November 29, 2018 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Windpower and the Lepage Administration

While keeping an eye on the lame ducklings, who are no doubt continuing to foul the state nest, we need to turn to develop strategies for getting the LePage Administration and Republican legislature to end the WindSchluss. Legislative and rulemaking strategies, among others. There is still time to introduce bills for the upcoming legislature. Bills that a Dem dominated legislature would not have considered. And rulemaking with (hopefully) new agency… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on November 3, 2010 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Civil, but not Silent



When I began to research the topic of industrial wind on the mountaintops of Maine, it was with one purpose. Last…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on September 10, 2010 at 3:05pm — 2 Comments

lurc PUBLIC HEARING 9-22-2010

From: LURC <LURC@maine.gov>

Subject: LURC - Champlain Wind rulemaking petition to add lands in Kossuth Twp to the wind power expedited permitting area

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Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 10:22 AM…





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Added by alice mckay barnett on August 11, 2010 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Need advice: First Wind trying to redefine expedited zone again.

HELP! They're at it again. First Wind (Champlain Wind LLC) is about to apply for the permit to put 25 turbines on Bowers Mtn and Dill Hill Ridge. That's about 20 miles east of Lincoln and just south of their Stetson industrial wind facilities (DeLorme map 45, 1E). Although some of the project will be in Carroll Plt, which is in the Expedited Zone, the other part is in southern Kossuth Plt which is NOT in the Expedited Zone. All of… Continue

Added by Gary Campbell on June 29, 2010 at 11:11am — 4 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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