Governor Baldacci: "It's All About The View"
“It's all about that view,” Baldacci said, staring out over the tops of trees at Mooselookmeguntic Lake and the Bemis Mountain Range.
“That view says 'Maine,'" Baldacci said. "It gives people an inspiration and it's going to be that way forever.”
http://www.sunjournal.com/franklin/story/893848
Meanwhile, coming soon on close to 2,000 sites in Maine if Governor Baldacci and his wind industry friends get their way:
Marred hill, Mars Hill, ME
All this for a few dollars in a few men's pockets that they can't take with them - and skyrocketing electricity rates and hundreds of miles of industrial turbine & transmission blight for everybody else. What would Percival Baxter think?
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Comment by Karen Bessey Pease on August 15, 2010 at 7:46pm -
Unbelievable! Do you know how many times anti-industrial wind activists have been denigrated by the wind industry, this administration and its supporters for wanting to preserve a 'view'?
Wow... what a foolish thing for this foolish governor to say.
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Comment by Barbara Durkin on August 15, 2010 at 12:50pm -
Governor Baldacci has it wrong, it's not "all about the view".
According to the Chairman of the Clean Tech Investor Summit: “Clean tech is all about the green, not the environment,” he said.”
According to Randall Swisher, Executive Director AWEA, renewable energy credits, "are the primary incentive that the nation provides for these technologies today.”
Renewable Energy World
“The clean tech sector is the fastest growing area of the venture asset class and fertile ground for growth and profits, said Ira Ehrenpreis, general partner, Technology Partners, and conference chairman. The environment and profit go hand in hand, according to Ehrenpreis. “Clean tech is all about the green, not the environment,” he said.”
Source, the Chairman of the Clean Tech Investor Summit: “The Clean Tech Investor Summit, now in its fifth year, brought venture capitalists and emerging clean tech companies from diverse sectors together in Palm Springs, CA, in January, for two days of panel sessions and networking opportunities.”
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/02/ventur...
Renewable Energy World
“The nation needs an ambitious plan to promote the deployment of wind and other renewable energy technologies — and the urgent first step it must take is to rapidly extend the expiring renewable energy credits, which are the primary incentive that the nation provides for these technologies today.”
– Randall Swisher, Executive Director, AWEA
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2008/08/us-lea...
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT (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 http://pinetreewatchdog.org/2010/08/09/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?" http://pinetreewatchdog.org/2010/08/11/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.” http://pinetreewatchdog.org/2010/08/12/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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