ON RIGHT NOW (4:00PM) First Wind/MPBN Bill - Listen Live to Judiciary Committee Hearing on Web Today at 1:00PM

Hearing begins today (Wednesday, Apr 1, 2015) at 1:00PM. The exact time for this particular bill is TBD.

SP0090, LD 252 An Act To Increase Transparency of Entities Receiving Substantial Amounts of Public Funding -- Room 438 State House

Listen live on the Web at: http://legislature.maine.gov/committee/#Committees/JUD

After clicking the above link, turn up your speakers and use the audio buttons immediately to the right of the words "Room 438 State House". 

Descriptions of the three audio buttons are as follows:

If they start late or take a break, there will be dead air.

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First Wind is an MPBN underwriter/sponsor.  MPBN has frequently covered First Wind related stories.  Last fall, Jay Field reported on the acquisition of First Wind ; last month A.J. Higgins reported on a PUC decision to reexamine a First Wind project permit.  None of the stories included a disclosure of First Wind’s underwriting/sponsor status.

An Act to Increase Transparency of Entities Receiving Substantial Amounts of Public Funding

The bill is an attempt to shame MPBN into doing the right thing. When MPBN does a story which substantially involves and/or quotes from an underwriter/sponsor, that underwriting/sponsor relationship should be disclosed. The hearing is April 1st, and I’m sure MPBN and the environmental left will have plenty of lame excuses as to why MPBN’s lack of transparency should continue unchallenged. *

Please read the full article at:

http://www.themainewire.com/2015/03/transparency-needed-publicly-fu...

* Wednesday, April 1, 2015 1:00 PM,Room 438 State House

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Comment by alice mckay barnett on March 30, 2015 at 8:39pm

tell the guy voting for this.. ....the committee members.   I love the truth.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on March 30, 2015 at 5:16pm

Have someone video record. Also find where to get the audio file link at the Maine Archive. I doubt MPBN will present an audio or video.

Big Bird's time has come and gone. Poultry only stays fresh so long then it is Fowle. MPBN has reeked of Fowle for a long time. But that is what happens when small donations become invisible though they exceed the sum of the larger ones.

Comment by alice mckay barnett on March 29, 2015 at 6:54pm

I, for one, am devastated at the missed opportunity to spend an additional $36,000,000 in taxpayer money.

Comment by Whetstone_Willy on March 29, 2015 at 11:05am

MPBN will say this bill is trying to kill Big Bird. Yet we know that MPBN's sponsor First Wind is killing uncountable big birds, and small ones too.

 

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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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