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Dr. Michael Nissenbaum continues his criticism of wind turbine noise

Dr. Michael Nissenbaum of Maine has continued to publish his findings an analysis of the impacts of industrial wind turbines on people.  His latest publication is in New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Michael A. Nissenbaum, MD - November 5, 2013.  

Click here: http://necoem.org/documents/V2_38e.pdf

Mars Hill is where Dr. Nissenbaum's study…

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Added by Brad Blake on November 20, 2013 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Property Values Article by Michael McCann

Folks, the wind industry has made a huge deal about the flawed report recently released by NBNL.  Mike McCann has done a great rebuttal which was posted by National Wind Watch (see attribution at end of the article).  Ask anyone who lives within a mile of the turbines in places like Mars Hill, Freedom, and Vinalhaven how much they believe their property value has dropped.  In Lincoln Lakes, nobody will buy any of the dozens of properties on the lakes that are now surrounded by wind…

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Added by Brad Blake on September 18, 2013 at 12:57am — No Comments

Wind Noise Modeling Consistently Below Actual Post Construction Measurements

Below is a chart presented by Mark Cool of the Firetower Wind Watch group in Massachusetts.  He has assembled a number of wind projects actual post construction dBA measurements and compares them with the noise modeling numbers presented in the wind developers' applications.  Shown on the chart is the range of dBA to which the measured readings exceed the developers' calculations based on modeling.  Remember, the section on modeling always touts the fact that the estimates are weighted to…

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Added by Brad Blake on September 2, 2013 at 12:18am — 1 Comment

Maine's Wind Law (PL 661) is Illegal

Ever since people realized the ramifications of LD 2283 being rammed through the Legislature in the waning hours of its short session in 2008 under the guise of being an "emergency", many have believed this product of such a flawed and manipulated process was illegal.  Even worse was its administrative process, which was being made up as DEP was considering applications for Rollins and Record Hill projects.  Attempting to have a say about the proliferation of destructive industrial wind…

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Added by Brad Blake on August 31, 2013 at 12:45am — No Comments

Medway to Oakfield: First Wind Targets Every Ridge Within Sight of Mt. Katahdin

You MUST READ this piece posted from Maineenvironews.com  By responding to Connecticut's call for PPA proposals, First Wind has tipped it hand about its intentions.  The 57 mile long transmission line from Oakfield to Mattawamkeag opens up ridge after ridge in the shadow of Mt. Katahdin for behemoth wind machines.  Thoreau and Gov. Baxter must be spinning in their graves!  We…

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Added by Brad Blake on August 13, 2013 at 12:47am — 5 Comments

Maine's Wind Future?

We have heard over & over again that we should look at Europe, and especially Denmark and Germany, for the way to a renewable energy/clean energy future centered around wind power.  Well, look we should, at the dire warnings coming from Germany as put forward in this piece.  It is lengthy, but compelling.  Read it through, then think about Maine having wind power thrust upon it to this extent.…

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Added by Brad Blake on July 13, 2013 at 11:58pm — No Comments

Op-Ed Piece in June 18 Wall Street Journal Critical of Wind Power

This piece ran in today's Wall Street Journal.  One has to buy the paper or be an on-line subscriber to read it.  By a stroke of luck, this is actually a piece picked up from June 17th in "The Hockey Schtick" blog.  So I have picked it up from that blog.  But being on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is a major coup.   The Heartland Institute was instrumental in helping to defeat the renewal of the Production Yax Credit in Congress last year and the author is the science…

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Added by Brad Blake on June 18, 2013 at 11:16pm — 2 Comments

Brad Blake Discusses Wind on WLOB on June 1

CTFWP co-chair Brad Blake was the guest for a half hour on "Box Talk Radio" show hosted by Derek Volk on WLOB-AM on Saturday, June 1.  Click on the link to hear this far-ranging discussion of wind issues.

http://www.boxtalkradio.com/BradBlakeJune2013.mp3

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Added by Brad Blake on June 4, 2013 at 2:25pm — No Comments

To EUT Commiittee; Be Bold!

I am writing today to plead to the Energy, Utilities, and Technology committee to take BOLD ACTION when considering the various wind-related LDs that were heard by your committee.  Having been involved with the citizens’ battle against the destructive proliferation of utility scale wind power projects for 5 years, I strongly believe that PL 661 must be repealed.  The bills before you only “nibble at the edges” of what is wrong with this statute.

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Added by Brad Blake on May 22, 2013 at 12:17pm — 2 Comments

CTFWP Statement and Testimony Regarding Bowers Mt. Wind Project, May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

Good evening, my name is Brad Blake and I am a resident of Scarborough, Maine and I am the chairman of the Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power, a state-wide coalition of local groups and individuals who believe PL 661 is bad public policy and who oppose the resultant proliferation of grid scale wind power projects in Maine. The Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power fervently opposes the application that is before you in this hearing. Nothing has changed from two years ago. …

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Added by Brad Blake on May 2, 2013 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

Government's "Green" Propaganda Has Gone Too Far

Here is evidence that "Green" propaganda from the Obama administration has gone too far.  Now, the US Postal Service (another entity that can't balance its budget!) is doing stamp cancellations with wind turbines!  This card was sent to Mr. Watson at his business and he shared it with me.  This is outrageous mis-use of the power to suggest approval and promotion of wind power.…

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Added by Brad Blake on April 12, 2013 at 9:51am — 3 Comments

PTC GETS INDEXED UPWARD: MORE $$$ FOR WIND THIEVES

IRS move means more tax dollars for wind power…

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Added by Brad Blake on April 6, 2013 at 11:05pm — 5 Comments

Woodstock Approves Wind Ordinance at Town Meeting

Woodstock has joined the growing list of towns adopting protective wind ordinances, but this town is different.  Woodstock is already the home to the 20 MW Spruce Mt. Wind project constructed by Patriot Renewables two years ago.  Immediately, there were complaints about noise from impacted neighbors and complaints of visual impact and loss of property value, especially from people on Concord Pond and Shagg Pond.  As usual, the wind developer had lied to and misled the public and had…

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Added by Brad Blake on March 27, 2013 at 11:47pm — 2 Comments

Maine Wind Sites Production for entire year 2012

We have final figures for the major industrial wind sites in Maine for the entire year 2012.  We continue to track what is miserably poor production, with the exception of Mars Hill, the only project in Maine that comes near the output touted by the wind industry.  Wondering why Spruce Mountain Wind in Woodstock does not appear?  We finally have the answer:  projects of 20 MW rating or less are not required to report…

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Added by Brad Blake on March 16, 2013 at 11:00pm — 17 Comments

Joe Benning Speaks About Maine as Well as Vermont

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Added by Brad Blake on February 22, 2013 at 10:00pm — No Comments

FULL YEAR REPORT OF WIND OUTPUT IN MAINE

Folks, we have updated our reporting of Maine wind sites output by going back and adding 4th Quarter of 2011 to go with the three Quarters of this year.  Also added is some pertinent other information about these sites.  Sorry for the diminished size of the original spreadsheet. 

I consistently say capacity factor of Maine wind projects is under 25% and you can see these figures make that a true statement!  Take away Mars Hill, which performs significantly better than all the others…

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Added by Brad Blake on January 11, 2013 at 10:30pm — 11 Comments

Year to Date 2012 Maine Wind Power Output is Poor

The data for the Third Quarter (July, August, September) for production of Maine wind projects has been obtained from the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency (FERC) and the results are, as expected, very poor.  The Summer months low production completely offsets the Winter months.  Unfortunately, due to air conditioning demand, the need for generation for ISO-New England is greatest when wind power fails the most.  If the 4th Quarter mirrors the 2nd Quarter, it appears that in 2012, the average…

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Added by Brad Blake on January 6, 2013 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Wind Turbines Prove to Have Shortened Lifespan

Wind Farm Subsidies Called Into Question By New Study Which Highlights Turbines' Shortened Lifespan.



From Power Engineering on line; 12/21/2012…
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Added by Brad Blake on December 27, 2012 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

WIND TURBINES INTERFERE WITH WEATHER SERVICE RADAR

On top of all the other problems caused by wind turbines, we find that the US weather service radar picks up false images of heavy snow from the movement of the turbine blades.  While forecasters can take into consideration the location of the small number of wind turbine sites now, what happens if the dreamed of build out of 45 or 50 wind sites sprawling across Maine's landscape happens?  Will we have unpredictable and muddled weather forecasts every winter?  What happens to those who are…

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Added by Brad Blake on December 1, 2012 at 11:53pm — 2 Comments

Protect the Eagles and other Birds & Bats

Where are the groups that protect birds in our quest to end the industrialization of our mountains and, in particular the ridges and wetlands in northeastern Maine, from wind turbines?  Maine Audubon continues to promote wind turbines with the discredited concept that climate change and pollution are greater threats to birds than wind turbines.  That might be true if wind turbines actually produced enough reliable electricity to not require fossil fuel back up all the time and wind power…

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Added by Brad Blake on November 17, 2012 at 4:17pm — No 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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