Ron Huber's Blog Posts Tagged 'nearshore' (6)

Listen NOW to Maine legislature deciding on whether to allow nearshore windfarms

Listen to the Maine Legislature's Utility and Energy Committee deciding the fate of the Gulf of Maine. Will the legislators approve a bill that

would open nearly all of Maine State waters to absentee-owned

industrial marine windfarming? Or will they transform the bill LD1810,

into a resolve that is sent out to communities and stakeholders for a

year


Right now (5:10 pm) they…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 5:11pm — No Comments

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

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

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… Continue

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

 

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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