The Wall Street Crowd Changes its Mind on Wind Power When it's Their Front Yard
Hamptons town leaders object to new offshore wind farm plans
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 2, 2016 at 3:49pm
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A request for what is effectively a 30 mile setback from ocean front yards while rural Maine back yards get a setback of only 1.5 times turbine height is rather rich when it's these Wall Street types that dreamt up the wind industry in the first place.
Because ocean wind is now being considered for Maine, let's demand an ocean wind setback rule. If they make it 1.5 times turbine height, the lawyered up coast will go crazy. If they don't, we will indeed have a case of discrimination and grounds to give land based wind the same setback as ocean.
So please push for a law delineating an ocean setback.
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on August 2, 2016 at 12:34pm
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I LOVE IT:
Among those concerns, he said, is the potential for 450-foot turbines to mar pristine ocean views, even if they’re 12 miles from the town’s waterfront.
“I am sensitive to the aesthetics of visible wind farms off our shore because the beaches in our community are such an important asset,” he said. “Anything that might distract from those, I would have a concern with.”
Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said he was unaware of the state and LIPA maps but expressed concerns.
“I’m not against wind power, but they have to do it in a way that doesn’t have visual impacts to a really important scenic resource,” he said. “Nobody minds seeing a beautiful sailboat in the water, but I’m not sure about wind farms.”
Schneiderman said the likelihood that homeowners along the coast, among the nation’s wealthiest, would object was “100 percent.”
“I would think there would be tremendous opposition to that, and well-funded,” he said.
The answer is simple, Schneiderman said. “They have to put them farther away. It’s not a big deal ... They have to go beyond the visible horizon, otherwise they’re going to get a lot of resistance.”
But placing wind farms far away increases cost and can make the arrays less efficient.
But, those Hampton millionaires saying it, makes it more true???
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It's okay to put these five hundred foot tall turbines right next to rural residences but if you're lucky enough to have ocean front property you're demanding a thirty mile set back? Out of sight over the horizon? That's discrimination.
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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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