BDN - Paul Rudershausen: Wind tax credits little more than corporate welfare
Some Mainers still fall for the wind energy scam. This is sad because taxes have had a crushing impact on Maine’s economic lifeblood, and it consistently ranks among the states with the greatest tax burden. Yet Dorle and Chapman have the nerve to propose that still more still tax credits (read: private taxpayer subsidies) support their lobby’s pocketbooks and debunked environmental fantasies.
Paul Rudershausen is a research associate at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology at North Carolina State University. He is the owner of sustainably managed woodlots in Burlington, Springfield, and Carroll Plantation, Maine.
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/28/opinion/contributors/wind-tax...
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Paula Moore: Wood biofuel better than wind
Unlike wind power, wood biofuel is easily stored and dispatched as needed. A wood-burning power plant requires a fraction of the land used by wind projects. Harvesting and transporting Maine’s indigenous biofuel provides a much needed boost to the forest products industry and forest landowners, especially as paper mills are shuttered. By my calculation, wood biofuel is a much better renewable energy investment for Maine — and the planet.
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/27/opinion/letters/wednesday-jan...
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Steve Bird: Not carbon neutral
Eventually the carbon dioxide will be recaptured as new trees grow to replace the harvested trees, but meanwhile, Colby’s carbon footprint has not been reduced, despite its claim otherwise.
Nevertheless, Hudson correctly points out that burning our Maine trees provides jobs and income to local Maine people, a good enough reason to support the conversion.
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/28/opinion/letters/thursday-jan-...
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Comment by Kevin Gurall on January 28, 2015 at 6:05pm
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Paul, thank you for your well written comments on the continued fleecing of tax payers through the green energy scam know as industrial wind power. It's not 'green', it's not efficient, and does nothing to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. The wind industry has the great advantage of having almost unlimited taxpayer funds and tax credits to continue to propagate this farce on Americans, and certainly Mainers to a great degree. It's unfortunate that the press in Maine has guzzled the wind industries propaganda and outright lies with great enthusiasm.
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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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