State of the Environment – Maine DEP Commissioner & Bureau Chiefs

Date: Thursday, July 09, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Maple Hill Farm Conference Center, 11 Inn Road, Hallowell, Maine


 

E2Tech is inviting Maine’s Air, Land, Water, and Waste leaders from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to give us the “State of the Environment” in Maine. What are the trends in environmental quality?

 

What regulatory actions are making a difference and what’s new on the horizon? What are emerging contaminants and issues of concern?

We are also interested in how the DEP assists businesses through the state regulatory maze to promote jobs and businesses in the environmental services sector.

 

Speakers

  • Patricia Aho, Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection
  • Mark Cone, Director, Bureau of Air Quality
  • Michael Kuhns, Director, Bureau of Land & Water Quality
  • Mark Bergeron, Director, Bureau of Land Resources Regulation
  • Melanie Loyzim, Director, Bureau of Remediation & Waste Management

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Comment by Kathy Sherman on June 26, 2015 at 1:43am
I hope it will include the 'waste disposal' of all those decommissioned turbines and those 'repowered' and the parts such as gear boxes replaced along the way. I hope, but don't expect, that it will include GLOBAL environmental impacts from rare earths to SCADA costs (and all data mining costs along the way) and transport as well as materiel and the fossil fuel dependencies for today's turbine not the end of the 90s turbine in all of above, with true assessment of external costs of noise pollution, dependence on foreign nationals as manufacturers, utilities, developers and buyers once the permits are in place, and I hope it will explain how further indebtedness to a growingly militaristic nation that holds our debt as well as our consumerism and has been wielding its monopoly on all things dependent on rare earths or traditional energy - how is that an improvement? Well it was explained to me yesterday at my post office
Comment by Pineo Girl on June 25, 2015 at 11:43am

This should be interesting!! 

 

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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