All Blog Posts Tagged 'Maine' (95)

Too much time has been spent wringing our hands over the gathering storm that is climate change. Or worse, arguing with those who don't believe that pumping gazillions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere over the last 200 years didn't have an impact.Which is why I am cheered to see the roll-up-our-sleeves-let's-dig-into-this approach the Maine Climate Council is taking. Our lead story provides some frightening predictions on what our state could face, but that fear should spur action, not…

The federal process has begun for the UMaine's Maine Aqua Ventus (MAV) project to build a pair of full scale floating wind turbines off Monhegan. Please help us have the greatest impact possible at the three coming meetings on ensuring it not threaten birds, the View, and shellfish - particularly lobster larvae.

On February 28 and March 1,2017 the US Dept of Energy will hold three scoping sessions:

* Two on Feb 28 at St. George Fire Dept meeting room. 2 to 4:00…

http://penobscotbay.blogspot.com/2017/02/me-legislatures-energy-utilities.html

Audio MP3s of the lobbyists who met the Energy Utilities and Technology Committee on  Jan 31, 2017



Ben Gilman  Chamber of Commerce 85sec…

E2TECH IS SPONSORING THIS:

New England Clean Energy Procurement Project Proposals

I think it is time we watched this video again.

My friend Tom Olds and I created this a few years ago...and it is startling (and depressing) to realize how many of the rural landscapes which are showcased in this video have been lost to industrial wind development since that time.

Lincoln (Rollins Mountain, Rocky Dundee, at the hands of First Wind/SunEdison), Saddleback (Patriot Renewables), Roxbury/Record Hill (Angus King/Independence Wind), Oakfield (First Wind/SunEdison),…

Are any of you plugged into the white papers produced under the Public Advocate's office  STRATEGEN (Strategies for Clean Energy) series?

The Latest is a direct benefit for the solar PV industry in Maine, and possibly an 'end-around' to Maine's net metering, power generating, and grid interconnection rules. It would enable 'organized community shareholders' to underwrite solar farms to generate power and distribute it through the grid with a minimal charge for grid distribution and…

The last I have really heard about Saving Maine was that they were going all out in their effort to publicly blacken the reputation of Friends of Maine's Mountains. Since then has Saving Maine been doing anything positive? Any news on their effort to collect signatures and repeal the wind act? I went to their web site and it looks just as dormant as when I visited many months ago. I can't find any recent mentions of them in the press. Does anybody know if they're doing any tangible work in…

I have been monitoring the Maine 127th legislature's Energy, Utilities & Technology Committee this session

These are recordings of the February 12th meeting for those that have an Interest:

PUC Chairman addresses the EUT Feb 12, 2015 [segment 1 of 3] http://youtu.be/BI6CdBxrNPs

TransCanada & Public Advocate address the EUT Feb 12,…

Need to get the roll call and give those who voted with the lobby an earful.

Can we start protesting now? It's such a corrupt business.

Al Diamon has a piece up

http://thebollard.com/2013/06/19/media-mutt-87/

saying he can't find a bias in Colin Woodard's new Press Herald "expose" of the Board of Environmental Protection & Patricia Aho:…

Friends of natural Maine breezes

It is always helpful to check in on the Maine legislature's Energy and Utilities Committee  and Environment and Natural Resources Committee, to see if they are discussing windpower related bills. It is easy to do this.

 Check the list of public hearings by committee and time window

Go to these two committee…

The texts are not quite available yet but here are the windpower-related titles send the EUT committee.

LR 1337 An Act To Enhance Maine's Economy and Environment Sen. Patrick of Oxford

LR 1842 : An Act Regarding Wind Power Siting in the Unorganized Territories Rep. Crockett of Bethel

LR 851 : An Act To Make Decibel Level Limits Consistent on All Wind Turbines Rep. Keschl of Belgrade

LR 1281: An Act Concerning Noise Rule Amendments To Protect the Health and Welfare…

It is always useful to listen to and when possible record the meetings of the Energy Utilities and Technology Committee when they are holding hearings or meetings of relevance.   If you attend a hearing of the committee please bring a recorder along and set it on where it will record both the committee and the testifiers.  

Or you may record from afar.  Below is a freeware program that lets you record  audio…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9653429/Wind-farm-noise-does-harm-sleep-and-health-say-scientists.html

Wind farm noise causes “clear and significant” damage to people’s sleep and mental health, according to the first full peer-reviewed scientific study of the problem.

Wind farm noise does harm…

http://www.keepitgrand.org/node/75

Not pretty.

At the Hywind Maine meeting at Rockland library on Tuesday,  I was the only visible critic of deepwater floating ocean windpower among the attendees.  I  interviewed 3 Statoil officials, one consultant, a representative of the DeepCwind Consortium and a Seagrant staffer. The recordings  have background crowd sounds

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