Help protect Maine's North Woods from Future sprawl!
"If you did not get this NRCM request..."
here is the body of their letter.
Please take this survey to help protect what you love about Maine’s North Woods.
In response to pressure from developers and large landowners, Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) is revising their zoning system. If developers get their way, subdivisions and other incompatible development could be allowed in areas now reserved for wildlife habitat, recreation, agriculture, and forestry.
LUPC wants input from people who live, work, or recreate in the areas that LUPC serves. Do you live in The Forks, work in Grand Lake Stream, have a camp in the greater Moosehead region, or frequent Maine’s Western Mountains? If so, then please provide input that could help preserve the region’s special character. LUPC has created a 10-minute survey through which you can share what you value most about these special places.
Now is the time when we all must take a stand to help conserve Maine’s healthy, intact forests; improve the health of existing communities; and protect wildlife habitat. We need to speak up in opposition to those willing to sacrifice future generations’ interests for short-term gains.
This survey is the first step.
Thank you for taking part,
Eliza Donoghue, Esq.
Forests & Wildlife Policy Advocate
P.S. We’d like to know if you took the survey.
Please send me an email at eliza@nrcm.org or call (207) 430-0118.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 14, 2016 at 10:15am
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Any info as to whether they plan to make public this Survey Result (online for download vs a onetime (slanted report ?) news print notification) ??
If we had a legislator with any credibility, they would have submitted a bill to end this slaughter via a green dream. Failing a first time like the Mining Rules Chapter 200 issue does not mean the end as this is on a 3rd attempt. If that legislator and citizens do not succeed, push it again with another legislator and yet another attempt.
With all the negatives in the pages of this blog, there should be sufficient justification, if there is but a few of Maine's Legislators that truly care about Maine vs the Glut of Southern New England.
NRCM should be 100% anti development when it comes to depleting our Natural Resources. They should be working to Sustain (or better) those same resources, if they are truly as their name implies.
Otherwise just another Brick in the Wall as the saying goes.
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 14, 2016 at 9:25am
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Color me wary and suspicious. Even good people can be led down the garden path. By participating you enable the carpetbaggers to more finely hone their spiel. By contacting them you provide them with your contact info and get you on their list of 'opinionated people' to work with or around as the case may be. Color me scalded and hung out to dry by past experience and determined not to be so stupid and dumb and gullible in the future. That's the very cynical me these days.
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Comment by Brad Blake on October 13, 2016 at 11:50pm
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I completed this survey and shared it on Face Book, asking people to respond and share. It asks a lot of check off the box questions allowing expression of opinion about whether or not or what type of development might be considered in the area you indicate.
Most importantly, there are several comment boxes providing us the opportunity to castigate the siting of industrial wind sprawl and make our points about destruction of natural & scenic resources, how out of scale & out of place are 500+ft tall wind turbines, impacts on wildlife, etc. My bottom line was NOT ONE MORE wind turbine in the area that is their jurisdiction! Please participate and give them an eyeful of comments!
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Put this together with the PPH editorial on increasing programs for the interior of Maine and what do you get? Follow the money and the scoundrels and the scams.
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Personally this looks more like a survey to justify development with a guideline for a limit of objection by the NRCM. They were promoting development outside the Now Monument area, in secret, and this is almost like providing permission limits. Though Some other areas are mentioned, this has been a major concern for the Greenville area also. The amount and type of development. The question here is how much will we allow for others, rather than how much do we NEED as citizens. If you reply via Email........ give em hell........
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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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