All Blog Posts Tagged 'wind' (118)

Barry Hobbins: We Know What's Good For You

Don't worry about the fact that ocean wind will be many times more expensive on your electric bills. Don't worry at all. It is for our own good according to Ocean Energy Task Force member and Utilities Committee Co-Chair Barry…

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Added by Long Islander on March 29, 2010 at 11:30am — 5 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

Rockland area newspaper on the Maine offshore wind bill

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Added by Ron Huber on March 26, 2010 at 2:06am — No Comments

LD 1810 Maine offshore wind bill. Final work session audio w/written summaries.

Short summaries of each audio section from Wednesday's final work session on LD 1810. Click on "Part" links for the audios themselves. All audios…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 24, 2010 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Legislator: LD 1810 nearshore wind bill "will be stripped down"

A legislator just emailed me saying:


"I have been talking to a number of committee members about 1810. What I hear is that the bill will be stripped down and at this…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 22, 2010 at 4:55pm — 9 Comments

Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.

Maine ocean windfarm bill LD 1810- Two hour five sided slugfest with no clear winner yet. Battle/worksession to be rejoined Tuesday 1pm before Utility and energy Committee. Incredible to hear the forces of Beauty & wild fish and wildlife giving the multibillion dollared industrial wind horde quite the walloping! Though the Wind empire is hammering back, hungry for… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 8:58pm — 4 Comments

BDN (Maineville edition): State legislators scrambling as furious fishermen fight plan to "close the commons".

Bangor Daily News 3/ 17/10
Maineville Edition…


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Added by Ron Huber on March 17, 2010 at 2:49pm — 4 Comments

The War of 1810 - Maine's fishermen move to repel Big Energy invaders from their home waters.

A good day for fishermen at Maine's State Legislature…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 11, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

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

Peaks Island Slated for Misguided Self-Inflicted Wind Turbine Problems?

I just came across the website for Wind Power on Peaks Island.

http://www.greenerpeaks.org/windpower

It looks as though some well intentioned folks are at the point in the painful learning curve where wind power can do no wrong. At the same time, we also know that the Community Wind grifters are sniffing everywhere they can in this state to rape the land for subsidies…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 7, 2010 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

Fishy Business: Wind industry plans heavy duty dog & pony show at ME Fishermen's Forum

If you love your Maine ocean, come to Rockport Saturday afternoon and speak for it! From 2:45 pm- 4:30 at the Maine Fishermen's Forum http://www.mainefishermensforum.org Samoset Resort, Rockport Room, Rockport, Maine:
The seminar What Does Ocean Energy and Wind Power Mean for Maine’s Fishermen? will take place, featuring this panel:…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 3, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Energy Co-chair Hinck and Wind Industry Lawyer wife Browne not a CONFLICT OF INTEREST - Who is the Maine Ethics Commission?

2/25/10

In a unanimous vote today, the six person Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices said Rep. Jon Hinck, D-Portland, co-chairman of the legislative committee that deals with energy issues, does not have a conflict of interest in voting on legislation regarding wind power by virtue of the fact his wife, Juliet Browne, represents several wind power developers at the Verrill Dana law firm in Portland.

Here is information about…

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Added by Long Islander on February 25, 2010 at 9:35pm — 5 Comments

U Maine may drop offshore wind R&D site near Monhegan

"If everybody says that it totally makes no sense,…

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Added by Ron Huber on February 23, 2010 at 12:09am — 1 Comment

DeepCwind-ers Do you know them?

http://penbay.org/monhegan/court/deepcwind_members.html
Here linked and below is a list of members of the DeepCwind Consortium. The organization is about to roll out its website, but not quite yet…


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Added by Ron Huber on February 22, 2010 at 2:30pm — 8 Comments

Can I spend wind watts?

The Natural Resources Council of Maine, who are advocating for wind power, are selling wind watts. Wondering what a wind watt was, I clicked on the link and seems like they have "partnered" with (in the old days, we would have called this getting in bed with) the Maine Interfaith Power and Light, a group of "faith communities" that sell carbon offsets (wind watts) at 20 bucks a wack. One wind watt for travel equals 1,000 miles. One wind watt for electricity equals… Continue

Added by Joanne Moore on February 13, 2010 at 11:34pm — 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

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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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