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Believe in America again?

Can a citizen of Maine appeal any agency decisions? YES! Become an interested party of the project you are interested in.  Make comments where you have knowledge of projects’ impacts.

If the projects’ impact is still adverse in the permit then appeal the agencies final action.

Take the appeal to a higher court.

My experience in this procedure was un-expectantly pleasant.  The clerk of Maine Judicial Supreme Courts in Portland Maine walked…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on December 4, 2014 at 8:21am — 1 Comment

Eagle kill comment

Dear Interested Party,
We (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to 
approve the information collection for the Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines described in the attached Federal Register Notice. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and …
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Added by alice mckay barnett on July 10, 2014 at 10:26am — No Comments

E2Tech

E2Tech is bringing legislators, lobbyists and political experts together to discuss recent legislation and look ahead at initiatives that will define the political and policy landscape for the next Governor and Legislature.  Maine State Legislature:

 Senator John Cleveland - Chair, Energy, Utilities & Technology Committee Senator Tom Saviello - Member, Environment & Natural Resources Committee Business & the Environment:Stacey Fitts, Regulatory Manager, Summit Natural Gas…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on May 9, 2014 at 7:42pm — No Comments

Saddleback Ridge Remand sept 17 comment deadline

http://www.maine.gov/dep/bep/featured.html

please write comments about noise issues to these folks.

It seems all projects have the same complaint protocols. Leave enforcement in the hands of the developer.

 

Here is another chance to tell BEP the truth of the…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on August 30, 2013 at 9:26am — No Comments

Canton Mountain Wind and DEP meet Wednesday 7/24

July 17, 2013  

To: Interested Persons  

RE: Canton Mountain Wind Project Draft Staff Analysis, #L-25558-24-A-N & L-25558-TB-B-N  

Dear Interested Person:  

Attached you will find a draft staff analysis for the Canton Mountain Wind project.  This represents the Department’s current analysis of the statutory requirements in the Site Location of Development Act, the Natural Resources Protection Act, and the Wind Energy Act as they pertain to this project.  The…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on July 19, 2013 at 9:34am — 8 Comments

It is appeallable!!! Saddleback Ridge Wind does not have a permit.

BEP and DEP and Saddleback Ridge remand.   Saddleback Ridge Wind  does not have a permit.

 

Wind law states DEP Commissioner AHo, alone,  approves permits.  BEP will work with DEP but they do not want it appealable at DEP level. BEP law advisor states that whomever does the review of noise modelings; the public will have a chance for comment and “due process”.  It is appealable!!!!!

Patriot Renewables is buying easements and they present a case of NO…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on May 2, 2013 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Thursday, November 8, 2012 at Penobscot Judicial Center, Bangor

BEP-12-137 Friends of Maine's Mountains et al. v. Board of Environmental Protection

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Attorneys: Rufus E. Brown, Gerald D. Reid, Gordon R. Smith, Juliet T. Browne   Friends of Maine's Mountains (FMM), Friends of Saddleback Mountain, and several individuals appeal from a final order of the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) affirming the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) order approving…
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Added by alice mckay barnett on November 5, 2012 at 8:48am — 1 Comment

citizen's referendum initiative against WIND in Maine

 

Crash Barry, Jennifer Bolduc, Amity Beane, Cathy and Allan Ackley, Terri and Norman Mitchell, Chad Luce myself and others have agreed to help in signature collecting.

 

Who can write the wording?  Who wants to see a citizen's petition against WIND? 

 

I see it as one way of saving/stalling the destruction of UT.

 

 

 

this document i have explaining the true logistics of such an operation (written by Maine People's Alliance…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on September 26, 2012 at 9:45am — 4 Comments

A genuine query here: any pals know why a LLC for a Maine company would be formed in New Hampshire? Would there be a tax benefit?

A genuine query here: any pals know why a LLC for a Maine company would be formed in New Hampshire? Would there be a tax benefit?

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Added by alice mckay barnett on July 17, 2012 at 3:13pm — No Comments

How many got this? O Snowe

Dear Alice:

 

Thank you for contacting me about our nation's energy tax policy. I appreciate having your thoughts on this issue.…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on April 27, 2012 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

Public Hearing Dixfield Wind Ordinance

 

Any body want me to present some facts against GRID scale WIND ... let me know.   amb

 

Looking for people who hear the turbines.  

 

letter sent to out of staters.

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Neighbor,                                                                                             Appril 2012

I am writing to you because you own property in Dixfield with-in 2 miles+- of a proposed GRID scale WIND…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on April 26, 2012 at 4:33pm — 3 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

******** 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/

Not yet a member?

Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?

We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi 

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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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