UMS Board of Trustees Approved UMPI Turbine in "Lovefest" - But three trustee terms expire this month
Academia, including the University of Maine is one of the forces that blindly supports politically correct wind energy. Many universities can simply never be "green" enough, even if they don't quite know what that means or that their dogma-driven goals are largely ill conceived.
Following is an excerpt on how the UMS System blindly approved the UMPI wind turbine disaster:
"The University prepared carefully for a discussion of the wind project at the September meeting of the Trustees. It asked permission for a $2 million total cost project that would install a mid-size wind turbine on campus property. The president and CFO were armed with data and prepared for the wide variety of questions that the project could legitimately have raised, including the possibility of instinctive dislike of wind power or too bold a campus entrepreneurial activity. Instead of a grilling, UMPI encountered a love fest."
Excerpted from president Donald Zillman's December 2009 account of the UMPI wind turbine project at:
http://www.washburnlaw.edu/wlj/49-1/articles/zillman-donald.pdf
Separately, following are the term expirations of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees - in 25 days, the composition of the board will be 50% Governor LePage appointees. Hopefully, our Governor will choose trustees who, in the finest tradition of academia, do their homework and will put the University's blind rush to green under the microscope.
A year later, Governor LePage's appointments will constitute the majority. If there could be an investigation into trustee Kurt Adams, perhaps the majority could occur sooner. Adams, in his UMS hearing told the Education Committee that there was no conflict between his company, First Wind and the University's wind power investments. Adams claimed that the University was involved in offshore wind and his own company was involved with only "terrestrial wind". This ignored the facts that:
1. The University has invested over $ 2million in its failed terrestrial UMPI turbine experiment. (Adams, as PUC chair, personally handed them a $50,000 check for the UMPI debacle) Additionally, the University assists land based wind projects.
2. First Wind and Deepwater Wind have the same owners. Deepwater's website states:
"Deepwater Wind is the United States leader in development of renewable, offshore wind-power projects."
http://dwwind.com/about/company
Hardly terrestrial Mr. Adams.
The following term expirations is compiled from:
http://www.maine.edu/board/board_membership.php?section=3
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Comment by Long Islander on May 1, 2012 at 10:21am
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Wind is a problem everywhere. But if we can momentarily suspend disbelief and assume it works SOMEWHERE (which it doesn't), why would the whole nation have this same ill conceived one size fits all cookie cutter goal of 20%? Maine's wind resource is 89% below the national average on a wind resource per square mile basis.
See the entry dated 5/12/11 at:
http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/maine-s-wind-is-poor
Why a one size fits all cookie cutter goal shoved down our throats no matter what state we live in?
Because an inept, mindless and likely corrupt Federal bureaucracy is too big and stupid to be sensitive to varying local situations. It's like making wood burning for heat a 20% requirement everywhere, including states where there are hardly any trees.
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on May 1, 2012 at 10:04am
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watched the movie FUEL last night which suggests biodiesel and wind..wind to make 20% of the total, that dumb magic formula they have come up with..but boy do they gloss over wind, not dealing with ITS carbon imprint or mess it creates for wildlife, habitat and HUMANS for that matter..really bothered me.
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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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