Maine Investigative Reporters Attacked by Wind Industry

Alan Michka is not a sole individual who is fighting a good fight against the Goliaths. The anti-wind coalition is a well-funded minority ...

http://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/14/letter-to-the-editor-center-f...

Press Herald Owner Incubated D.E. Shaw (Half owner of First Wind)

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Comment by Martha thacker on January 14, 2015 at 4:04pm

Art.. The truly evil corporations have this little game plan called opposites as you have referred to below. Nice people don't even like to use the word lies. It goes beyond that. Like the beginning of the Iraq war being called shock and awe. Looked like a fun video game in the "news". "Those" people have elevated lying to an art form..believe me, the newspapers, tv stations and legislators are not fooled. They are bought and paid for.

Comment by Art Brigades on January 14, 2015 at 1:44pm
Contributions?   Friends of Maine's Mountains gave ZERO dollars to campaigns last year, and ever. The wind lobby spent hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- on campaign contributions last year.  Here is just a glimpse of Big Wind's political spending:   
Comment by Art Brigades on January 14, 2015 at 1:42pm

 "Well-funded" anti-wind coalition?  FMM spent under $2500 on lobbying in ALL of 2014. The Wind Lobby spends that much PER DAY on lobbying.  
It's all documented on the Ethics Commission web site:  
Comment by Art Brigades on January 14, 2015 at 1:31pm
80 % support.  Sure sure. When people learn the truth, including the dozens of towns that have written good ordinances, Williamson's mythical 80% support is reversed:

http://www.friendsofmainesmountains.org/fmm/2014/5/20/maine-poll-ex...

 

 

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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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