Ron Huber's Blog Posts Tagged 'windmill' (11)

Maine ocean windpower wannabees hear from Mass & Rhode Island windpower officials & stakes AUDIO

At the Offshore Wind: Tools and Information for Maine Coastal Stakeholders" meeting in Belfast on December 145h , one of the afternoon panels was called Lessons Learned from Siting Renewable Energy Projects. Panelists included the Mayor of Block Island off Massachusetts, a Rhodes Island commercial fisherman, a representative of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone…

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Added by Ron Huber on December 16, 2010 at 1:45am — 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

Camden Hills windmill wannabes to meet August 2 on next moves. But mustn't NIMs make up part of the crew?

The Camden Hills Energy Committee Meets Monday night 5:30 p.m. in the Town of Camden's Washington Street Conference Room. News article here and below,


Their Plan: Obtain…
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Added by Ron Huber on July 31, 2010 at 1:00am — 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

Maine Prisons look into setting up windmills

Jeffrey Merrill is former maine state prison warden who was relieved of command for gross incompetence. Thanks to the insular old boy network that runs Maine corrections, Merrill was then given a make-work job as Maine state prison "Energy Coordinator".

Here's what Merrill had to say about windmills:…

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Added by Ron Huber on July 3, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Ragged Mountain could get three to 7 turbines if Camden, other towns take the bait.

How many? That fundamental question nearly went unanswered during the hour long presentation and Q&A session at the June 15th meeting of the Camden Selectboard, by George Baker of the Island Institute's "Maine Community Wind" group, the institute's for-profit subsidiary. Listen to Baker (30 minutes) and to the question and answer session afterward.(24…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 16, 2010 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

Tonite at 7pm Camden Selectboard hears from Ragged Mtn Wind wannabes

Tonight the Island institute's lucrative community wind subsidiary will be giving a dog and pony show to the Camden Maine selectboard about their plan to put windmills on Ragged Mountain. They are agenda item 3.


Listen to a 7 minute recording discussing this plan from May 20th, of (1) Des Fitzgerald of principle power and of the Camden Energy Committee describing what the 'Tute and he and various…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 15, 2010 at 4:30pm — No 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

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

Wind at the university - hearts and minds at stake

We mustn't cede the universities to the wind thieves. Winning hearts and minds is the thing. We must occupy the moral high ground, as industry occupy the economic high ground. To do this, we need to think of "University" in a larger context. Such talkers as George Baker the scholar speaking at UM Fort Kent will draw from the engineering and business administration students, appealing to them with predictions of vast wealth and gigantic power devices spawning limitless clean electrical…
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Added by Ron Huber on April 21, 2010 at 4:58pm — 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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