Ron Huber's Blog Posts Tagged 'offshore' (33)

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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Added by Ron Huber on February 5, 2017 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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

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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Added by Ron Huber on March 16, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

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.

 

START LIVE…

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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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Added by Ron Huber on October 4, 2010 at 12:46pm — No Comments

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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Added by Ron Huber on September 21, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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

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

Maine's wildlife whacking wind apologist at Ocean Energy 2010

At Energy Ocean 2010 in Ft Lauderdale Florida this week, consultant Richard Podolsky will explain, as the title of his talk says, that his..

"Year-Long Seabird Surveys Indicates Acceptable Risk For Offshore Wind farm
Richard Podolsky, Ph.D., Senior Ecologist, Avian Systems
Abstract: Year-long surveys were conducted during 2007-2008 in order to assess the potential for…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 8, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Rockport Wind Forum: Ragged Mountain plan; UMaine Prof says no more land windfarms: its time to go 20-50 miles offshore.

The May 20, 2010 wind energy forum at the Rockport Opera House was extraordinary for several reasons. Listen to podcasts of the meeting; below the picture.


1.Camden Windfarm Plan. On June 15th George Baker and assorted hangers-on will present a plan to Camden Select Board for a Ragged Mountain windfarm. The wind snatchers have set their eyes on the Camden Hills. (cont'd below picture) Already a meteorological tower has been set up. But don't worry,…
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Added by Ron Huber on May 21, 2010 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Maine Deepwater Windmill R&D Site: New Development in court case

I've just received the "Administrative Record" that Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands was required to supply me and Maine Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Hjelm. Please help me…
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Added by Ron Huber on May 18, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

U Maine's offshore wind vision in one graphic

This diagram is also available online on the KJ's website Click here. This sends a chill through a cod hunter's heart










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Added by Ron Huber on May 13, 2010 at 2:51am — 1 Comment

Cape Wind: Maine public radio news gets it righter than most

There but for the grace of ...I'm assured that decades of litigation shall be wreaked upon the hapless Cape Wind Wannabes that want to set their poles in the seafloor off Massachusetts.


Maine public radio's story is better coverage than…
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Added by Ron Huber on April 29, 2010 at 1:32am — 4 Comments

IT ISN'T FARMING. IT'S AN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY.

The thing about Wind Farming: IT ISN'T FARMING.…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 28, 2010 at 8:00pm — 2 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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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