Ron Huber's Blog Posts Tagged 'wind' (34)

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

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

Dozens of windpower bills before Maine legislature for 2011

The following is a list of 29 bills relating to windpower (one or 2 include tidal energy) that will come before the Maine legislature between now and the close of the 2011 session. It comes from this list of more than 1,000 submitted bills accepted by the Maine legislature for this session. (58 page pdf file)  More about the Maine legislature…

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Added by Ron Huber on January 14, 2011 at 1:24am — No Comments

NRCM, Environment Maine & other ocean windrush boosters should look before leaping offshore.

Rockland.

The announcement of a federal decision to fast-track the siting of ocean windmills off the US Atlantic coast, risks leaving many environmental impacts,including some potentially harming Maine's lobster and scallop fisheries, unexplored until after the windmills are in place. See… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on December 1, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

LePage Admin's choice: exploit the Gulf of Maine for ocean wind power for Boston? Or for lobsters, scallops & haddock for Maine?

As far as the Gulf of Maine goes, Governor Paul LePage must begin by either

(1) supporting the rough and tumble economy of Maine's existing small ocean businesses - lobstering and other commercial & recreational fisheries offshore and onshore of Maine, and their supporting landbased economic partners. Or…
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Added by Ron Huber on November 21, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

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

Federal Ocean Energy Task Force-Maine meets November 16th, Augusta. Feds will try to force piledriven windfarms, not floaters

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation & Enforcement's Maine Task Force will hold a meeting on November 16, 2010 at 10am in Room 228 of the Statehouse (the Appropriations Committee room) Read State Planning office notice of this meeting.… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on November 7, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Windpower and the Lepage Administration

While keeping an eye on the lame ducklings, who are no doubt continuing to foul the state nest, we need to turn to develop strategies for getting the LePage Administration and Republican legislature to end the WindSchluss. Legislative and rulemaking strategies, among others. There is still time to introduce bills for the upcoming legislature. Bills that a Dem dominated legislature would not have considered. And rulemaking with (hopefully) new agency… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on November 3, 2010 at 4:00pm — 2 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

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

At Camden Energy Meeting, Ragged Mountain turbine plan twists slowly in the wind.

Hah...Went to the August 2nd meeting of the Camden Energy Committee...Listen to podcast of meeting here. Plans for a Ragged Mountain turbine complex twist slowly in the wind: See below....


If it is to be community wind, the residents of Rockport, Hope and Camden must cough up many tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to even get out the starting gate of preliminary…
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Added by Ron Huber on August 3, 2010 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

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

Maine DeepCwind Consortium: will it factor in the climate-altering effects of their ocean energy extraction plans?

Or must it be pushed into meeting its ethical responsibility to avoid lasting harm to the climate?…
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Added by Ron Huber on July 11, 2010 at 5:00pm — No 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

Problems of Maine offshore wind energy extraction. Part 1

While many consider offshore Maine locations for windfarming to be preferable to the building of more and more wind utility operations in Maine's majestic mountains, a decent respect for the opinions of humankind requires we take a careful look at what effects ocean wind extraction operations could have on Maine's ocean weather and currents, and thusly on the wild fishes shellfish whales plankton birds and others that already occupy that oceanic environment.


The…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 23, 2010 at 9:00pm — 2 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

Coming up: Maine Wind Week

May 9-15th is official Maine Windthieves Week During the week there will be open houses, facility tours, and public events. Time for the Truth Force to emerge and dog the governor and… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on May 2, 2010 at 11:24pm — 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

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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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