BDN - DEP plans public hearing for Bowers Mountain wind proposal
DEP plans public hearing for Bowers Mountain wind proposal
Last modified Dec. 20, 2012, at 5:20 p.m.
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Comment by Long Islander on December 21, 2012 at 3:34pm
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1. Keep fighting for what is yours and what is right.
2. If you feel your chances have dimmed, reread #1.
We will prevail.
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Comment by Barbara Durkin on December 21, 2012 at 1:18pm
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If Bowers Mtn is permitted, the likely outcome will be failure, with risk of fires, and cost still borne by the public, environment, and wildlife. Hasn't First Wind caused enough socio-economic damage in ME already?
Thielen: Cable Could Cost $16B, Kahuku Adds to Mass of Unused Turbines Littering the Land
SA: Harsh reality shows that modern wind power has been contentious throughout the world.
Wind turbines are eyesores that often disturb the natural landscape, endanger wildlife and regularly need backup fossil fuel. Great Britain recently announced that it would halt most land-based wind projects.
The situation is exacerbated in Hawaii, where wind energy costs range from 20 to 28 cents per kilowatt hour — more than three times than in California. Fires at First Wind's Kahuku Wind Farm have led to turbines that do not work — adding to the mass of unused turbines that litter America's lands….
The addition of an interisland cable should also be cause for alarm. ABC News reported that according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the cost of an undersea cable is expected to be $16 billion — with "most" of the costs paid by the private sector..."
read … Wave power, not wind power, is the way to go for Hawaii
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesDailyNews/tabid/65/articleTy...
Thank You,
Barbara Durkin
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on December 21, 2012 at 9:40am
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yes and let's hope they get it right again for Bowers and do NOT permit it..looks like we are going ahead with Oakfield and waiting to act on their need for a permit for the Army Corps of Engineers..keep fighting off the scourge of wind turbines to our beautiful State.
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Comment by K Campbell on December 21, 2012 at 9:18am
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Congratulations and thanks to all who wrote to DEP requesting a public hearing. Your voice matters and you were heard.
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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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