Friends of natural Maine breezes
It is always helpful to check in on the Maine legislature's Energy and Utilities Committee and Environment and Natural Resources Committee, to see if they are discussing windpower related bills. It is easy to do this.
Check the list of public hearings by committee and time window
Go to these two committee…
ContinueAdded by Ron Huber on February 5, 2013 at 10:52am — 1 Comment
The texts are not quite available yet but here are the windpower-related titles send the EUT committee.
LR 1337 An Act To Enhance Maine's Economy and Environment Sen. Patrick of Oxford
LR 1842 : An Act Regarding Wind Power Siting in the Unorganized Territories Rep. Crockett of Bethel
LR 851 : An Act To Make Decibel Level Limits Consistent on All Wind Turbines Rep. Keschl of Belgrade
LR 1281: An Act Concerning Noise Rule Amendments To Protect the Health and Welfare…
ContinueAdded by Ron Huber on January 28, 2013 at 10:08pm — No Comments
2nd ANNUAL MAINE WIND CONFERENCE 1/25/11 Edited Morning and afternoon sessions
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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…
ContinueAdded by Ron Huber on January 25, 2011 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments
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…
ContinueAdded by Ron Huber on January 14, 2011 at 1:24am — No Comments
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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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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For immediate release February 10, 2010
Contact Ron Huber 207-691-7485
DeepCwind Consortium drops intervention request in lawsuit over Maine offshore wind plan
The DeepCwind Consortium has withdrawn its request to intervene in a legal battle over a state decision to designate waters near Monhegan Island as a windpower R&D center.
Attorney…
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U.S. Sen Angus King
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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"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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