Lyle's Blog (7)

Maine Senate Democrats cast vote in favor of industrial wind power lobby, against unorganized territories.

Need to get the roll call and give those who voted with the lobby an earful.

Can we start protesting now? It's such a corrupt business.

Added by Lyle on June 19, 2013 at 9:51pm — 2 Comments

Friends of Maine's Mountains. v. Bd. of Envtl. Prot.

Al Diamon has a piece up

http://thebollard.com/2013/06/19/media-mutt-87/

saying he can't find a bias in Colin Woodard's new Press Herald "expose" of the Board of Environmental Protection & Patricia Aho:…

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Added by Lyle on June 19, 2013 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Effects of industrial wind turbine noise on sleep and health. Nissembaum et al

http://www.noiseandhealth.org/article.asp?issn=1463-1741;year=2012;volume=14;issue=60;spage=237;epage=243;aulast=Nissenbaum

Industrial wind turbines (IWTs) are a new source of noise in previously quiet rural environments. Environmental noise is a public health concern, of which sleep disruption is a major factor. To compare…

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Added by Lyle on November 27, 2012 at 10:28am — No Comments

Wind Turbine Noise Effect on Human’s Health and Well-being The European Human Rights Perspective

http://www.windmolenoverlast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Legal-Research-external-perspective-Kinanya-Pijl.pdf

Systematic studies find a causal link between annoyances and sleep

disturbance. It is plausible that annoyance and sleep disturbance will lead to other

symptoms, such as stress or psychological distress, inner ear…

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Added by Lyle on November 26, 2012 at 8:55pm — No Comments

Maine Wind farm noise does harm sleep and health, say scientists

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9653429/Wind-farm-noise-does-harm-sleep-and-health-say-scientists.html

 

 

Wind farm noise causes “clear and significant” damage to people’s sleep and mental health, according to the first full peer-reviewed scientific study of the problem.

Wind farm noise does harm…

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Added by Lyle on November 26, 2012 at 8:29pm — No Comments

Passes Unanimously today LD 1786 (HP 1274) "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"

LD 1786 http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280035631 Representative HINCK for the Joint Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Public Law 2009, chapter 372, Part F, section 4, subsection 6 reports that the Bill be REFERRED to the Committee on UTILITIES AND ENERGY and printed pursuant to Joint Rule 218.

Report was READ and ACCEPTED.

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Added by Lyle on March 18, 2010 at 9:29pm — 2 Comments

Campaign to persuade Maine Attorney General Mills to introduce a Code of Conduct for Wind

I have just begun a campaign to persuade Attorney General Janet Mills to introduce a Code of Conduct governing the relationships between elected officials & wind company officials.



I am going to write up a Petition and put it up on the petition site. Does anybody want to help me write the Petition? I have been looking at NY State's code but wonder whether Maine's will need to include a class of Politicians that the NY code doesn't focus on. The NY code talks about Municipal… Continue

Added by Lyle on December 31, 2009 at 7:30am — 17 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/

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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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