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Comment by Joanne Moore on March 28, 2010 at 7:48pm
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Comment by Scarlett on March 28, 2010 at 10:28am
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For the coastal wind development, I have yet to meet a lobsterman who hates what he/she does. After all, it is a hard life, and to do it IN SPITE OF THE HARDSHIPS must mean that it has special value that you can't get anywhere else. I have yet to meet a commercial fishermen who is begging to become, instead, a full-time factory worker, linesman, truck driver or other worker related to 'jobs' with wind energy development. Usually, those jobs are seen as something to supplement their real way of life - the sea. Turbine manufacturing is not green - you have to get the iron out of the ground, smelted and processed, and made into the final product - and, to date, it relies on fossil fuels! So, while someone may support putting turbines up all over the state here, they are supporting environmental degradation and greenhouse gases elsewhere - isn't that a form of NIMBY-ism? ...hypocrisy? I'd like to see the facts about the entire 'green-ness' of wind energy development!! I believe that there is a study out of Denmark recently that shows that while they have had commercial wind energy for over 20 years, they have yet to see any significant decline in greenhouse gas emission...doesn't this defeat the purpose?
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Great points! Lots of people point to Denmark, too which actually has inincrease of CO2s and they pay more for electricity than any other country in the European Union. Wind just doesn't do the job and the money wasted on it could go to weatherization, which would save much more fossil fuel use and give us far more real jobs for American workers. And I agree with you completely about the education system.
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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