Our View: Compromise on Maine wind project offers model for land funds dispute

A PPH Editorial tries to make the FMM/SunEdison deal sound like a plus for both and a good compromise.  It is like putting lipstick on a pig!  I really think Sun Ed got the best of the deal and made FMM look like they had to buckle.  I only hope it may slow things down a bit.  Of course the biggest brakes that could be applied would be an end to the tax subsidies.

http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/19/our-view-stubborn-governor-pr...

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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 20, 2015 at 12:55pm

Better yet, (First Wind) SunEdison should disclose how much is to be doled out, then how much has been paid, how much they produce (when online), how much received in tax incentives, taxes paid, and so on, every 6 months for the entire lifespan, along with expenses paid toward reclamation (if it is ever done). Also the receivers of funds, such as ATV clubs, Communities, Environmentalists, ATC, and all, should show publicly their uses of such funds, when they receive (on time or not) and amounts.  They should all be held publicly accountable in their Gains of destruction, on any aspect of this destruction (with facts not approximate or proposed or offsets and deferments). 

Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on October 19, 2015 at 2:02pm

FMM should publish the Patriot and SunEdison settlements in their entirety including the gifts to the beneficiaries of the SunEdison settlement.   

Comment by Pineo Girl on October 19, 2015 at 1:36pm

We now know the agreement was a complete Joke! Hardly a good model for Maine - Just more of the same - Exploiting Mainers!!  This editorial is just payback demanded by FMM for the not so great article earlier this month!

 

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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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