CAPE WIND THE UNDEAD

As legal pleadings and rulings go, Cape Wind is the poster-project for litigation. Cape Wind now appears shunned by many green pols who may fear its demise could affect their future earrings in the green private sector. But, Cape Wind limps forward even if without the blessing of MA Governor Baker.

There's Cape Wind Federal Register activity again-

"In response Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Cape Wind Energy… Continue

Added by Barbara Durkin on October 11, 2017 at 2:56pm — 1 Comment

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

By Stephen Beale | August 6, 2017, 13:55 EDT

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

The Cape Wind Autopsy

The Cape Wind Autopsy

The 2001 proposed “World’s Largest”, “America’s First”, offshore wind project, Cape Wind, challenged state and federal governments to evaluate project impacts while formulating a plan for alternative offshore development. Public safety issues had not yet been addressed through Zoning that would eliminate ocean areas from…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on May 16, 2017 at 12:13am — 4 Comments

ME AquaVentus floating windfarm federal review is starting. Critical pub mtgs in St George 2/28/17. Help prepare/be there!

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…

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Maine offshore wind test center: FOAA docs shows state trying to make it a permanent windpower site.

Maine Coastal Program's 11/22/16 response to Friends of Penobscot Bay's FOAA re Aquaventus/Volturnus

request was for "Public records in custody of you or your staff dating from April 1, 2016 to November 14, 2016 that pertain to the Maine Aquaventus /Volturnus floating ocean wind turbines project, slated to occupy the Maine Offshore Wind Test Center. (FOPB letter is page 34)

Much ado about trying to tweak the rules to make the state offshore wind test center into…

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Added by Ron Huber on December 7, 2016 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

LePage did the right thing on Off Shore wind and the wind industry acknowledges it.

from the MAINE OCEAN AND WIND INITIATIVE:

Analysis: Outlook shifting for offshore wind farms

Clean-energy advocates and many business leaders were dismayed last year when the federal Department of Energy passed over Maine for a $47 million grant to help build an experimental floating wind farm. Instead, competitors in New Jersey, Virginia and Oregon won the awards, dashing dreams…

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on September 7, 2015 at 1:26pm — No Comments

A totally new type of windfarm

The Japanese are building Floating Wind Farms to put in deeper waters....

"What sets the project apart from other offshore wind farms around the world, consortium officials say, is that its turbines, and even the substation and electrical transformer equipment, float on giant platforms anchored to the seabed. That technology greatly expands potential locations for offshore wind farms, which have been fixed into the seabed, limiting their location to shallow…

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Massachusetts fishermen hold firm against ocean windmills

"...several people expressed worry that participating in the review process is tantamount to endorsing the idea of wind farms atop a fishery and a critical habitat for spawning fish."

Wind farm hearing prompts howls from fishing interests

NEW BEDFORD — The first meeting of the…

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2nd Annual Maine Wind Energy Conference - live blogging DeepCwind section - Complete & edited

2nd ANNUAL MAINE WIND CONFERENCE 1/25/11 Edited Morning and afternoon sessions

(edited=removal of twitter links)

Live blogged by "DeepCwind Consortium"

Speakers for Morning DeepCwind Session

Jake Ward UMaine's Dept of Industrial Cooperation

Gary Hunt, UMaine's School of Economics

Caroline Noblet, UMaine's School of Economics

Mario Teisl, UMaine's School of Economics.

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Added by Ron Huber on January 25, 2011 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Maine ocean wind power - Outgoing DMR head George Lapointe's swan song presentation

Outgoing Maine Dept of Marine Resources commissioner George Lapointe's final presentation on ocean windpower off Maine.

(Photo is from a meeting a month earlier)

In his 9 slide powerpoint George has a share-the-resource POV. Selling out ocean natural…

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Added by Ron Huber on January 14, 2011 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

PEER: Feds flying blind in Cape Wind approvals.

PEER (Public Employees for environmental Responsibility) lifts the rock under which the Cape Wind political maggots have been hiding, gnawing away at our environment. Something to consider as Maine looks to de-wind its waters.

FEDERAL AGENCIES FLYING BLIND IN CAPE WIND APPROVALS — Internal E-Mails Admit Huge Data Gaps, Inability to Monitor and Pursue Mitigation

For Immediate…

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Added by Ron Huber on December 24, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

The lemmings hit the surf at Fed/state ocean wind meeting in Augusta 11/16/10. Notes & audio.

Listen to your government officials speaking November 16, 2010 at the second fed-state ocean energy task force meeting at the Statehouse, Augusta. click here for recordings or scroll down this page. For recordings of first task force meeting on September 14, 2010, Belfast, Click… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on November 17, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

UK ocean windsprawl-wannabees balk at feed-in tariffs, lowered subsidies

According to the magazine Offshore Wind Biz the Norwegian sea windie Statoil, presently affixing a 315MW ocean windturbine complex onto the seafloor of Sheringham Shoal off eastern England,…

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Help block federal rollback of Maine's law keeping ocean windmill wannabees at least ten miles offshore

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has come to Maine and is determined to force the state to re-write its new state law protecting Maine commercial fishermen from windmills encroachment within ten miles of shore. Under the state law, the Maine Public Utilities Commission has…

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Bummer? Yes, but spelled BOEMRE. On Sept 14th in Belfast, fed/state ocean power task force holds first meeting

On September 14th at the Hutchinson…

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Added by Ron Huber on September 10, 2010 at 12:56pm — No Comments

PUC gets comments on power contracts for offshore windturbines and tidal power

Responses to Maine PUC's July 20, 2010 "Request For Comments on Long-Term Contracting for Offshore Wind Energy and Tidal Energy Projects."

RESPONSES

07/28/10 PUC writes to University of Maine…

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Added by Ron Huber on September 3, 2010 at 4:55pm — No Comments

Quick interview with Robert West of Ocean Energy Institute

I visited the grand opening of the Ocean Energy Institute. Passing a lone bagpiper holding forth (short mp3) near the entry, I joined the throng streaming upstairs, where, . Amid the roar and chatter of the many folks there, I interviewed Robert West, the managing director of the organization. Kind of a 'getting to know you' interview. An…

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Added by Ron Huber on July 22, 2010 at 12:30pm — 4 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

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

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