KEAG PARTY Thursday Night July 12
Passadumkeag that is. And hardly a party, but hopefully a turning point.
Exercise your rights as a citizen and be present at the DEP Public Meeting in Greenbush on Thursday, July 12 from 7-9 PM.
Maine Government News
Proposed Wind Power Project Second Public Meeting A Maine DEP First
June 28, 2012
Environmental Protection
Samantha DePoy-Warren, Maine DEP Director of Communications samantha.depoy-warren@maine.gov / (207) 287-5842
-The Passadumkeag Wind project is the first to go to a second public meeting under a new grid scale wind review process enacted by current DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho, who will attend the meeting, to ensure more robust public participation-
GREENBUSH – The Maine Department of Environmental Protection will host a public meeting on Thursday, July 12 to get feedback on its draft analysis regarding a proposed 14-turbine, 42-megawatt wind farm atop Passadumkeag Ridge in Grand Falls Township.
The meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Greenbush Town Office on 132 Military Road and will be attended by several DEP representatives, including Commissioner Patricia Aho, project manager Jim Beyer and other staff and contractors involved with the agency’s review of the project’s Site Law and Natural Resources Protection Act permit applications, including the department’s noise and visual consultants.
While this is the second public meeting on the project, it’s the first time the department has held two public meetings on an application to the agency as part of a new internal review process established by Commissioner Aho last year that requires two public meetings be held on all proposed grid scale wind power projects in Maine.
Developed to ensure adequate opportunity for public comment and a transparent, inclusive review of often controversial wind power projects, the new process also requires the presence of the department’s Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner at that second meeting to hear the public’s comments on DEP’s draft analysis, which for the Passadumkeag proposal, will be available one week prior to the meeting at http://www.maine.gov/dep/ftp/WindPowerProjectFiles/Passadumkeag/
Following these second meetings, the additional comments and information heard there will be considered before a final decision is issued by the department.
As part of the application from Passadumkeag Wind Park, LLC, the proposed Passadumkeag Wind Project would include upgrading approximately 17.5 miles of existing transmission line and constructing approximately 1.5 miles of new roads for construction of and access to the project as well as a substation and an operations and maintenance building in Greenbush. The turbine portion of the project is located entirely within property currently used for commercial forestry operations and transmission lines will follow existing roads for all of the distance from the 459-foot tall turbines to the transformer.
Applications and supporting documentation for the project, which was accepted as complete for processing by the department in late February, are available at DEP’s Eastern Maine Regional Office during normal working hours or online at http://www.maine.gov/dep/ftp/WindPowerProjectFiles/Passadumkeag/ as well as at the municipal office in Greenbush.
Written public comments on the application may be sent to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, 106 Hogan Road, Suite 106, Bangor, ME 04401.
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Comment by Dan McKay on June 29, 2012 at 8:54am
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Oh, good, we get to watch the esteemed panel of DEP people sit there with their hands holding their heads in place long enough to look like they are not sleeping.
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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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"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."
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