Clifton Maine's Massive wind turbine parts begin to arrive at Pisgah site !

Massive wind turbine parts
arrive at Clifton site

A 14-foot diameter, 60-ton base of a Vestas V90-1.8 megawatt wind turbine is hauled up the access road to the Pisgah Mountain wind farm site in Clifton Friday morning. This is the first of 45 pieces that will be trucked from the port in Searsport to the site in Clifton over three weeks. Developer Paul Fuller said that the five turbines need to be in place before Oct. 15 to meet a deadline required as part of the Public Utility Commission's 20-year Community-based Renewable Energy contract between Pisgah and Emera Maine. Each turbine has a hub height of 305 feet and each blade is 140 feet long. A 351-foot crane was brought in to install them on the mountain. This $25 million wind farm project was unanimously approved by the Clifton Planning Board back in October 2011.

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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 27, 2016 at 2:09pm

WABI-5 VIDEO clip added

Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 26, 2016 at 7:54pm

If you want to see one of the Pisgah partners sitting at the Select Board table as they discuss the Town's response to the Beckford's victory in court go to the youtube link, click the arrow on the right and then scroll down and click on every load more and the last ones will be from 12.18.13. The man in the black coat and then the red sweater with back to the camera is John Williams. A select board member at the time.

Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 26, 2016 at 7:48pm

Link to Clifton meeting videos posted by Clifton Task Force on wind in 2014

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKC8nCz5v71g8tha0-HG1QQ?feature=watch

Comment by Brad Blake on September 26, 2016 at 6:40pm

I was, of course, delighted to see the truck with tower section end up in the ditch!  But it appears this developer has not created the wide swath of access road that is normally seen at every wind site.  One small consolation for the destruction of Pisgah Mt.

Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 26, 2016 at 1:38pm

See my comment under Eric's Bingham project posting.

 

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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."

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