Vermont's
Sen. John Rodgers
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The "Golden Fleece" is on VPIRG’s back

    I feel compelled to set the record straight after reading a press release

by VPIRG’s Ben Walsh.

This is not the first piece that I have seen by Walsh that is filled with untruths and misinformation. The $50,000 that Walsh claims was “buried deep” was discussed multiple times in committee, supported by the entire committee, labeled on the spreadsheet, printed in the capital bill and was mentioned in the floor presentation to the entire Senate. This money is seed money that must be matched by the college and is for the purchase of sound monitoring equipment to be used to educate students how to properly measure sound produced by industry and others. The Senate Institutions Committee has been trying to help our colleges to buy equipment and offer programs where there are job opportunities.

Walsh goes on to attack one of our many great and dedicated State College professors just because VPIRG and the energy developers that support VPIRG disagree with him politically. Ben Luce has a Ph.D. in Physics, a BS in Sound recording, is published in nonlinear sound theory and is not an opponent of wind energy. In fact Luce has worked on the deployment of a huge amount of both wind and solar power projects. Luce has done the math and weighed the impacts and cost of industrial wind in Vermont and concludes that it does not work here.

Walsh goes on to say “this taxpayer gift to the extreme opponents of renewable energy in Vermont was essentially hidden in the budget,” This statement is wrong in so many ways. I have already outlined that it was not hidden and this money is for our State College system.

Senator John S. Rodgers is a Democrat from Glover, Vt., serving the Essex-Orleans Senate District. He is vice chair of the Senate Committee on Institutions and a member of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy. He previously served for eight years in the Vt. House of Representatives.

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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."

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