BDN: First Wind Appeals Bowers
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PPH:
First Wind to appeal rejection of Maine wind project
The state’s highest court will be asked to consider a finding that the installation of 16 wind turbines on Bowers Mountain would have a negative scenic impact.
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Comment by Martha thacker on July 9, 2014 at 10:52am
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"I suggest PPH put aside its bias and do some actual investigative reporting on the wind power scam"
There is a reason that PPH and BDN are not selling newspapers..it is the same reason that First Wind sold RECs or made a power purchase agreement (whatever) from a rejected wind project. And continues to appeal.
They don't know that the days of corporate unquestioned control are over. Power and money does not always guarantee common sense.
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Comment by Brad Blake on July 9, 2014 at 8:50am
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Yet another example of the PPH bias towards promoting wind power in Maine. The DEP and BEP decisions got hardly a blip when they happened. Now, in the paper edition, a huge blaring headline and a sympathetic story for First Wind. First Wind is like the petulant child that can't take "NO" for an answer when legal hearings in both the LURC application 4 years ago and the DEP application last year yielded the same result--denial of First Wind's huge industrial impact on the Downeast Grand Lakes, which clearly meet the heinous "Wind Law" definition of Scenic Resource of State or National Significance.
The reporter also trots out the output misrepresentation, though with carefully constructed verbiage. There are very few days in a year when sustained winds in the right range provide for the output of these turbines to power X number of homes, which is a slick marketing point to sell the scam to the unknowing public. In reality, these turbines will produce a fickle trickle of unreliable, unpredictable power that cannot be dispatched when needed. There is no reason to believe that turbines on Bowers Mt. would produce any better than the Stetson and Rollins projects in the same region (within 10 miles of this site), which over the last two years have averaged no better than 25% of rated capacity.
It surely is not worth destroying Bowers Mt. in the Downeast Grand Lakes region or any other place in scenic rural Maine for the wind power scam. I suggest PPH put aside its bias and do some actual investigative reporting on the wind power scam
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Comment by arthur qwenk on July 9, 2014 at 8:39am
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The appeal should Not even Be considered by the Supreme Court of Maine. Enough is enough. BEP, LURc and DEP decisions have spoken. There is nothing new in the appeal. First Wind is just trying to shore up their financial bottom line. It has nothing to do with the facts of the case.
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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."
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