Must Read Testimony on "An Act To Protect and Expand Access to Solar Power in Maine" (LD 1373)

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Thursday, May 4, 2017 1:00 PM,Cross Building, Room 211
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http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?snum=128...

Ahearn, Beth Environmental Priorities Coalition
Anderson, Helen Portland
Bell, Arthur Yarmouth
Bernard, Kaitlyn Appalacian Mountain Club
Blanchard, Andre Liberty
Blasi, Antonio Hancock County Commissioner
Boothroyd, Carole Dover-Foxcroft
Bouchard, Kathy
Boucher, Lance American Lung Association
Brand, Glen Sierra Club
Brown, Ashley Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Brown, Marc New England Ratepayers Association
Burke, Gary East Wilton
Cadot, Andrew Portland
Canavan, Marilyn Waterville
Chapman, Jan Cape Elizabeth
Clark, Hilary York
Collamore, Clinton Town of Waldoboro
Cote, Karen Orland
Coyne, Eileen Leeds
Dansinger, Larry Bangor
Davis, Corliss Belfast
DeFrees, Evelyn Maine Audubon
Denno, Dale Maine State Legislature
Dunn, Mary Portland
Eshoo, Amy North Yarmouth
Freshly, Craig Brunswick
Gideonse, Hendrick Brooklin
Gilbert, Nancy Durham
Green, Emily Conservation Law Foundation
Groff, Deborah Portland
Hall, Seth Waldoboro
Hall, Susan Falmouth
Harmon, William Benton
Harrington, Joel Central Maine Power
Hart, Debra Retail Association of Maine
Hashen, Julie Emera Maine
Hepler, Allison Woolwich
Hoglund, Andrew Thorndike
Hoglund, Lorranne Thorndike
Holt, Edward Harpswell
Hudson, Steve Industrial Energy Consumer Group
Kando, Paul Midcoast Green Collaborative
Keene, Elery Winslow
Kidder, Patricia Springvale
Kimber, Greg Temple
Kimber, Robert Temple
Klotz, Bob South Portland
LaBrecque, James Governor's Office
Larson, Donna South Portland
Larson, Mary Ann Maine Unitarian Universalists State Advocacy Network
Lauchlan, Susan Waldo
Lyman, Bob Freeport
Lynch, Janet Pownal
Marysdaughter, Karen Bangor
Mills, Cheryl Wells
Monroe, Angela Governor's Energy Office
Morrison, Abi Rockland
Neal, Phillip Harborside
O'Neil, Chris Friends of Maine's Mountains
Pare, Pauline Etna
Parsons, Elizabeth Portland
Pease, Julie Topsham
Perkins, Paul Bath
Phillips, Ronald Waldoboro
Piper, Chuck Sundog Solar
Rawlings, Judith Chesterville
Rice, Sukie Durham Friends Meeting
Rodden, Bonny Maine Council of Churches
Rubly-Burggraff, Roberta
Sanderson, David Lamoine
Schelling, Joyce Orland
Schneider, Timothy Office of Public Advocate
Smith, Nancy GrowSmart Maine
Tessier, Jason Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Thorne-Lyman, Caroline Freeport
Throckmorton, Mary Somerville
Tietenberg, Tom Waterville
Vannoy, Mark Maine Public Utilities Commission
Voorhees, Dylan Natural Resources Council of Maine
Ward, Stephen Newcastle
Weems, Steven Solar Energy Association of Maine
Whitmore, Dale Wardtown Mobile Home Park Cooperative
Wood, Rob The Nature Conservancy
Woodruff, Vaughn INsource Renewables
Yarrow, Fauna Etna

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 7, 2017 at 4:39pm

Another Arctic ice panic ends as world temperatures plummet

http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/05/07/another-arctic-ice-panic-end...

Comment by Eskutassis on May 7, 2017 at 2:25pm

It seems that all but 7 of the comments have a dog in this fight or have the blind belief that we are the ones killing the planet. Chris O'Neil's letter shows the lunacy of developing statewide solar to save the planet. We would spend $4 billion more dollars to add 1% of the energy needed for the grid. And with bureaucratic costs thrown in, that figure would probably double. Rates would climb so high that none of us could afford to pay them. The meltdown by the warmists continues and at some point the truth has to be told by Trump and his EPA about the facts that NOAA cooked the data. I think that should about put an end to the alarmism we have had for the last 20 years. Some of these leaches, though, will never believe the facts that will put them and their subsidy sucking businesses out of business. I find this unscientific religious doctrine they have has been propagandized by the media and the government since they were children and their education from kindergarten to the universities has been corrupted by political correctness and the idea that they can question NOTHING the bureaucracy promotes as truth. 

The whole idea of science is to QUESTION EVERYTHING! It is the scientific method. And when you find data that does NOT fit the theory, you look for a new theory. This has not been done in this case. And sadly we have devoted $2 - $3 trillion dollars and done absolutely NOTHING to stop the climb of CO2, proving that it is NOT the driver of climate change because for almost two decades the temperature has NOT gone up and CO2 has.   

 

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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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