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LePage Admin's choice: exploit the Gulf of Maine for ocean wind power for Boston? Or for lobsters, scallops & haddock for Maine?

As far as the Gulf of Maine goes, Governor Paul LePage must begin by either

(1) supporting the rough and tumble economy of Maine's existing small ocean businesses - lobstering and other commercial & recreational fisheries offshore and onshore of Maine, and their supporting landbased economic partners. Or…
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Added by Ron Huber on November 21, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

The lemmings hit the surf at Fed/state ocean wind meeting in Augusta 11/16/10. Notes & audio.

Listen to your government officials speaking November 16, 2010 at the second fed-state ocean energy task force meeting at the Statehouse, Augusta. click here for recordings or scroll down this page. For recordings of first task force meeting on September 14, 2010, Belfast, Click… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on November 17, 2010 at 12:00pm — 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

DeepCwindies meet in Northport - news coverage & podcast of keynote

TV news about the ocean windturbines issue - I floated my "this could harm the lobster larvae" factoid out there. Listen to Dr Dagher's 1hr keynote speech…
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Added by Ron Huber on October 20, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Jonathan Carter, Vinalhaveners give presentation at Camden Library

October 14, 2010, presentation on Maine windpower issues

by Jonathan Carter at Camden Public Library.



Note: these are mp3 files

Introduction by Ken Gross 2minutes…

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Added by Ron Huber on October 15, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Rockport Selectboard disses windpower re scenic impacts, but opts in on Ragged Mtn 3-Town Wind Group

On October 12, 2010 the Rockport Selectboard heard…

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Added by Ron Huber on October 13, 2010 at 4:38pm — No Comments

UK ocean windsprawl-wannabees balk at feed-in tariffs, lowered subsidies

According to the magazine Offshore Wind Biz the Norwegian sea windie Statoil, presently affixing a 315MW ocean windturbine complex onto the seafloor of Sheringham Shoal off eastern England,…
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Added by Ron Huber on October 4, 2010 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Help block federal rollback of Maine's law keeping ocean windmill wannabees at least ten miles offshore

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has come to Maine and is determined to force the state to re-write its new state law protecting Maine commercial fishermen from windmills encroachment within ten miles of shore. Under the state law, the Maine Public Utilities Commission has…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 21, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

NRCM calls for Maine mountain top removal, so that West Virginians will stop removing their mountaintops.

Pete Didisheim at NRCM is busy today trying the spin of calling anti-windmill activists supporters of mountaintop mining, heartlessly willing to let Appalachian children suffer so long as their Maine views are not marred.



Asked for a response by the BDN's Abigail Curtis, I noted that mountaintop removal for the profit of energy companies is as bad an idea here as in West Virginia. Two wrongs don['t make a right.



Destruction of high… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on September 16, 2010 at 3:00pm — 8 Comments

Feds sets up Maine Offshore Wind Task Force. State told: map offshore wind sites. AUDIO

Federal offshore wind agency tells Maine: prepare to turn federal & EEZ waters off state into offshore wind farms.…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 15, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Bummer? Yes, but spelled BOEMRE. On Sept 14th in Belfast, fed/state ocean power task force holds first meeting

On September 14th at the Hutchinson…

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Added by Ron Huber on September 10, 2010 at 12:56pm — No Comments

Are windpower researchers "welfare queens in white coats?"

Over at the The Oil Drum a new take on that old question asked decades ago about subsidizing wind,solar, hydro and lunar energy…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 7, 2010 at 4:30pm — No 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

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

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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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