Dan McKay's Blog – May 2018 Archive (7)

Escape From The Bully Agenda

  • Maine has a Canadian electric connection with New Brunswick with a transfer rate up to 700 megawatts, could be 1000 megawatts if transmission constraints didn't exist.
  • Maine can obtain another Canadian connection with Hydro-Quebec with a transfer rate of 1200 megawatts with the NECEC project.
  • The combined total power from these two sources can provide most of Maine's power needs.
  • The power will be delivered to the…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 28, 2018 at 8:01am — 1 Comment

ROXWIND LLC UPDATE

Town of Roxbury :  Planning Board Minutes 
APRIL 12th , 2018 Meeting at 6:00 pm 

Mattson moved Roxwind, LLC up from unfinished business. Roxwind update- state DEP has accepted their permit and considered it complete on 4/10/18. A copy of the letter received was submitted for the file. 

• Roxwind would like answers to the questions submitted via email to the town.-- Planning board reviewed the email. 
• Moratorium is being…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 12, 2018 at 8:46am — 4 Comments

Counter Petition, Anyone ?

Department of Environmental Protection

Information About Petitions to Require Agency Rulemaking

An individual does not have to wait until an agency proposes a rule to institute a change. Title 5, Section 8055 establishes procedures for anyone to petition a department for the adoption, repeal or modification of any rule.

The petitioner should first contact the department to make sure that such rulemaking change does not conflict with another state or federal law or…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2018 at 9:28am — No Comments

ANNUAL REPORT ON NEW RENEWABLE RESOURCE PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENT Report for 2016 Activity

See at Maine PUC website: " reports submitted by MPUC "

Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2018 at 8:03am — No Comments

Wind Energy Act Standards, Effective Date: April 30, 2018

Chapter 382: Wind Energy Act Standards

Fact Sheet (PDF) :: Draft Rule (PDF) :: Adoption packet…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2018 at 7:58am — No Comments

"Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Along a Trajectory that is Based on the Best Climate Science"

This sounds ominous............from the Department of Environmental Protection website :

Rulemaking to Require the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to Fulfill its Statutory, Constitutional, and Public Trust Obligations to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Along a Trajectory that is Based on the Best Climate Science and that will Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change in Maine (GHG Petition)) to initiate rulemaking pursuant to 5 M.R.S. § 8055. The GHG Petition was…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2018 at 7:56am — 2 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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