Ron Huber's Blog – August 2010 Archive (8)

Windpower operators and ski resorts: friends or foes?

It occurred to a friend that a conniving ski company could allow a wind developer to use ski trails to winch components up slope instead of building new roads. Has that been happening? Here's Wind Power and Ski Resorts By: Alexandra Kotelon,akotelon@kentlaw.edu, Energy Law 2009 Chicago/Kent College of Law Mostly a general review of the official line on windpower…
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Added by Ron Huber on August 29, 2010 at 10:51am — No Comments

¡No Pasarán! Coastal Mountains Land Trust gives Camden Hills wind turbines proposal the digital salute.

On August 24, 2010 Coastal Mountains Land Trust sent a letter to the Camden Selectboard concerning the proposal being floated about for a Ragged Mountain Text below or read a copy of letter here .
Not exactly a sternly worded letter - at first. But then it gets better and better.


COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND…
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Added by Ron Huber on August 29, 2010 at 12:20am — No Comments

Maine DEP fines Fox Islands Wind Limited Liability Corporation

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Added by Ron Huber on August 26, 2010 at 9:04am — No Comments

UMaine offshore windmill test site anemometer is up & online

The DeepCwind consortium has had its wind measuring buoy up off
Monhegan since August 11th. Photo taken before installation.…
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Added by Ron Huber on August 22, 2010 at 3:21am — No Comments

Camden selectboard votes to create Ragged Mountain wind workgroup.

On August 17th the Camden Selectboard listened to a precautionary report by Concerned Citizens against a Windfarm on Ragged Mountain, then, following discussion and questions by citizens at the…
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Added by Ron Huber on August 18, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

Camden Hills: "Wind work group" proposed for Ragged Mountain by Camden's Energy Committee

Listen to a 38 minute podcast of the August 12, 2010 meeting of the town of Camden energy committee to discuss the proposal they will ask the Camden Selectboard to implement: a Ragged Mountain Wind Workgroup.… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on August 13, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Maine Lobster Festival - late start, but visitors are hip to our message

My bad, I didn't get there and set up the Pen Bay table until 12:30 noon. Stayed until about 4pm. I Davy Jones' Lockered my cellphone. My new cellphone# is now 593-2744 My new wall phone will be the old cell# 691-7485 It hasn't got voicemail yet.…


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Added by Ron Huber on August 5, 2010 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

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

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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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