Ron Huber's Blog Posts Tagged 'windmills' (14)

Windmills - Fed Dept of Energy proposes new "categorical exclusions"

On January 3, 2011,  the US Dept of Energy published a notice on a plan to add twenty new categorical exclusions to review of development projects as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Windpower is, alas, part of that plan.  Deadline to add your input is February 17,…

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Added by Ron Huber on February 4, 2011 at 2:30pm — No 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

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

Windthieves continue counterattack against Naomi Schalit's investigative series

The wind industry continues its proxy counterattack against Naomi Schalit's investigation of the doings of the Governor's Windpower Task Force. The appearance of editorials by the industry's partisans is a sign of how accurate the three part series by Maine Center for Investigative Journalism really…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 3, 2010 at 2:39am — 1 Comment

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

Earth First! Blockades Giant Industrial Wind Turbines on Maine's Kibby Mountain

Earth First! Blockades Giant Industrial Wind Turbines in Pristine Wilderness…
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Added by Ron Huber on July 6, 2010 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Opening Maine's pension fund to windpower wannabes? That's the word at June 2010 Island Institute mtg

The June 11, 2010 meeting of the Maine Islands Coalition was attended by Maine legislators Rep Hannah Pingree,…
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Added by Ron Huber on July 2, 2010 at 1:30am — No 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

Island Institute & Richard Podolsky on the negatives of windfarming

Richard Podolsky, wind industry consultant, and Susan Pude of the Island Institute/Maine Community Wind had to say something about the adverse effects of windfarming. Wasn't easy for them. Here are excerpts on that dodgy subject, pulled from their complete talks



Here's Mr.Podolsky…

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Added by Ron Huber on May 25, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Bats win over windmills in federal court ESA case. Read case & analysis

This is an interesting case that readers may already be familiar with.Below are excerpts from pro-wind lawfirm's Stoel…

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Added by Ron Huber on April 9, 2010 at 12:26pm — 3 Comments

Veterans for wind? "Rally" Tuesday 2pm at U Maine Orono. Someone please speak truth to (wind)power!

This is a media release just sent me about the "Veterans for American Power Tour" visit to University of Maine Orono. Tuesday, March 30 @ 2:00 p.m. in the University of Maine Memorial Union, Woodbury Bumps Room.…


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Added by Ron Huber on March 29, 2010 at 8:19pm — 11 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

 

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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