MREA Member: Campaigning on wind smacks of disconnected, ivory tower, Portland-centric elitism
It sounds as though Michael Cuzzi is still an advocate for wind plants, (either out of obedience to party dogma or personal belief), but in the same breath he recognizes wind has become a loser politically. Here's an earlier piece he'd written:
http://www.pressherald.com/2013/11/03/michael_cuzzi___now_competiti...
QUESTION:
If wind is now deemed a political loser by political observer Cuzzi, who is also a member of the Maine Renewable Energy Association, what does this tell us about the validity of the polls the Maine wind industry unfailingly trots out claiming Mainers like wind power?
ANSWER:
Those polls are rigged from the word go and Mainers do NOT like wind power. Moreover, as more and more information on wind is circulated in Maine, for example, via advertising, the numbers against wind will increase. Please go to Saving Maine and Friends of Maine's Mountains today to contribute (even a small amount) to building awareness of the facts on wind factories in Maine.
Cuzzi writes:
"There are Maine paper mills shutting down for lack of access to natural gas and Democrats are campaigning on wind and solar. It smacks of disconnected, ivory tower, Portland-centric elitism, especially in towns like Bucksport where jobs are disappearing by the hundreds".
Michael Cuzzi is a former campaign aide to President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Congressman Tom Allen. He manages the Boston and Portland offices of VOX Global, a strategic communications and public affairs firm headquartered in Washington.
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/11/16/mike-cuzzi-maine-voters-weren...
When will the various non-profits and politicians taking money from the wind industry realize that their support of wind is tarnishing them?
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Comment by Art Brigades on November 18, 2014 at 6:50am
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Interesting that the Portland Press ran the column again two days later.
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Comment by Martha thacker on November 17, 2014 at 7:17am
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"It is foolish to reduce rural Maine to a vast wind turbine plantation and sell out our unique natural heritage to help them feel good about the false premise that they are saving the planet by destroying Maine with wind power that doesn't work."
Well said.
Polls are so arbitrary. So much depends on the way questions are worded. Do the pollsters have an agenda..i.e. only surveying those who are likely to give the answers wanted.
If elections can be fixed, so can the polls.
A popular local selectman at one time , in permitting stage of Rollins, asked for the small town of Lee to donate 50,000 to a group of lawyers, Eaton Peabody, to work on getting the best TIF for them. That selectman lost the next election. So there was a recount. Then 50 votes were found for him...he continued on for a while. It takes a village.
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Comment by Brad Blake on November 16, 2014 at 3:18pm
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Mike Cuzzi is correct about the wind power issue. The blind following of Obama's misguided push for feckless wind power by Democrats is ruining the state and losing them support. The proliferation of sprawling industrial wind projects in Maine brings a few construction jobs and a bit of tax revenue (though not what should be since TIF has been wrongly applied to nearly every wind project).
Maine gets very little benefit and we are saddled with destruction of hundreds of miles of Maine's uplands, ruination of natural and scenic resources, and negative impact on nature-based tourism. We are already the "greenest" power producer in the USA and we already generate more power than Maine consumes and will for decades to come. The only purpose for developing industrial wind power in Maine is to satisfy arbitrary mandates for renewable sources of electricity in MA, CT, and RI. It is foolish to reduce rural Maine to a vast wind turbine plantation and sell out our unique natural heritage to help them feel good about the false premise that they are saving the planet by destroying Maine with wind power that doesn't work.
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Comment by Jim Wiegand on November 16, 2014 at 2:58pm
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Energy Hypocrisy.............Currently Canada and the US export about 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The consumption of this oil is equivalent to the energy that would be produced by about 1.5 million 1 MW turbines running at 20% capacity. How worthless are wind turbines in the big picture? North American wind turbines do not even save 1/20th the carbon emissions created from this exported oil or create 1/20th the energy.
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Comment by Whetstone_Willy on November 16, 2014 at 2:35pm
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Comment by Long Islander on November 16, 2014 at 2:02pm
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Friends of Maine’s Mountains (FMM), a group that opposes industrial wind turbine projects, commissioned Critical Insights of Portland, Maine to ask three questions about wind energy in its semi-annual Tracking Poll. The company completed 601 telephone interviews (including cell phones) with randomly selected voters across the state between April 16th and April 24th, 2014. CLICK HERE for a PDF of the results, which indicate that support for building industrial wind turbines declines appreciably when respondents learn that:
- Building industrial wind turbines does not significantly reduce Maine’s reliance on nuclear energy, coal or oil;
- Building industrial wind turbines in Maine yields only a negligible reduction in carbon dioxide emissions;
- Maine may not experience positive benefits from the proliferation of industrial wind turbines on the state’s mountains.
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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