UN ruling puts future of UK wind farms in jeopardy !!!

THIS RULING  FROM  THE UN  IS  A VERY  IMPORTANT  DECISION FOR  ALL  WIND  WARRIORS :

HERE  IN  MAINE ,WE HAVE FOR  YEARS  NOW  TRIED  TO EXPRESS THAT PL661 ( THE EXPEDITED WIND LAW )  HAS  BEEN WRITTEN AND  IMPOSED IN 2008  ON  MAINE CITIZENS IN  THE  MOST DICTATORIAL FASHION.   

FOR  THREE  CONSECUTIVE  LEGISLATIVE  SESSIONS WE  HAVE TRIED  TO EXPRESS  THE FLAWS   AND INJUSTICES BOTH  ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL OF  THAT LAW .

AT THE END  OF  THE LAST  LEGISLATIVE SESSION  AND  AFTER   YET  ANOTHER REJECTION  OF ALL  THE  BILLS  PROPOSED  TO AMEND THE  INFAMOUS  EXPEDITED  WIND  LAW  THAT  WERE  PRESENTED  TO THE  ENERGY , UTILITY AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE , A NEW  SERIES  OF  PUBLIC  MEETINGS OR PRESENTATIONS  WILL  BE  MADE  TO FURTHER " RE -EDUCATE " THE  COMMITTEE ON  THE  MATTERS OF  WIND POWER  IN SEPTEMBER AS  A COMPROMISE  TO ALL  BILLS  PRESENTED AND  KILLED IN  COMMITTEE.

AS  IT APPEARS  NOW THE PUBLIC  WILL NOT  HAVE  ANY  IMPACT ON  THE MATTER.

YOU  MAY  RECALL  THAT  THE EUT  COMMITTEE HAS RECEIVED  THE FULL REPORT CALLED: " WIND ASSESSMENT  2012 FROM THE OEIS"  LAST MAY.  A REPORT THAT CONTAINS  25 RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE   WIND PERMITTING  PROCESS AS  WELL AS  ITS  MANY FLAWS.  

THIS REPORT HAS BEEN CONVENIENTLY IGNORED BY THE COMMITTEE.

WE  WILL  KEEP  YOU  POSTED  OF  THE FORMAT  OF  THOSE  EDUCATIVE  SESSIONS , IF INDEED PUBLIC  PARTICIPATION  IS NOT ALLOWED   WE  MAY  HAVE  A STRONG  CASE OF BEING  EXCLUDED  FROM  THE PROCESS OF DECISION MAKING IN  WIND  FARM PERMITTING AS EXPRESSED IN THE UN  RULING .

THE EUT COMMITTEE  IS  ESSENTIAL IN RULING ON ALL ATTEMPTS  TO  CORRECT THE  UNDEMOCRATIC  WIND LAW AND IF  IT  PERSISTS IN  REJECTING THE INPUT  OF  CITIZENS  IN FAVOR  OF  THE  WIND INDUSTRY , IT DE FACTO PARALYZES THE REGULATORY AGENCIES LIKE DEP AND  EVEN THE LAW COURTS DECISIONS ON  THE PERMITTING OF PROJECTS.

IT  IS  THUS OF  UTMOST IMPORTANCE FOR THAT COMMITTEE TO LISTEN TO CITIZENS INTHE UPCOMING  SEPTEMBER  SESSIONS .  

 

MONIQUE

    

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-un-ruling-p...

Exclusive: UN ruling puts future of UK wind farms in jeopardy

Tribunal warns that the Government acted illegally by denying public participation
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Plans for future wind farms in Britain could be in jeopardy after a United Nations legal tribunal ruled that the UK Government acted illegally by denying the public decision-making powers over their approval and the “necessary information” over their benefits or adverse effects.
The new ruling, agreed by a United Nations committee in Geneva, calls into question the legal validity of any further planning consent for all future wind-farm developments based on current policy, both onshore and offshore.
The United Nations Economic Commission Europe has declared that the UK flouted Article 7 of the Aarhus Convention, which requires full and effective public participation on all environmental issues and demands that citizens are given the right to participate in the process.
The UNECE committee has also recommended that the UK must in the future submit all plans and programmes similar in nature to the National Renewable Energy Action Plan to public participation, as required by Article 7.
The controversial decision will come as a blow for the Coalition’s wind-power policy, which is already coming under attack from campaigners who want developments stopped because of medical evidence showing that the noise from turbines is having a serious impact on public health as well as damaging the environment.\

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Comment by Martha thacker on August 31, 2013 at 7:44am

I have heard that the movie Promised Land, co written by Matt Dameon , was originally intended to showcase wind farm crimes. Matt is from Boston, and could very well be aware of First Wind's illegal business practices. Mass. was the original destination for ME wind energy. It is hard to fathom the stupidity, but it is what it is.He changed his mind because most people do not understand wind energy and it's devastation to the environment/people. He used fracking instead. But I saw the movie  and recognized the same nefarious business practices in the fracking push as wind energy. Bribery in many forms is the key. 

Sherwin, surely you have seen how bribery works. After you have been bribed, you have no interest in the truth. I have still not understood who receives the benefits of renewable energy credits. Best I can understand, it is the corporations. The bribes are pennies on the dollar for the big benefits.

Comment by Sherwin Start on August 29, 2013 at 7:19pm

UNtil The Population of This STATE RISE UP And realize that they being "HOODWINKED" by both the The Wind Power LOBBY and The STATE Legislature AND the US Congress-Nothing is going to Change! What REALLY Need is ALL New People in The state Legislature-That Can Tell The TRUTH from FICTION!!

Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on August 29, 2013 at 6:24pm

Indeed the US  is  not  a signatory of the Aarhus  convention , however  the  inherent  meaning  of  this  decision will  have  consequences  worldwide  shedding  light on the undemocratic  and  unethical  concept  on  which wind  farms  permitting has been  designed worldwide .

The  wind  industry  playbook is  the same  internationally  and  the  deconstruction of  its  inequity is  an  inexorable process.

Comment by Sherwin Start on August 29, 2013 at 5:55pm

U could Stick the Info Right in Front of EVERY Member of the State Legislature and All they Would Do is Throw in the Waste Basket..THEY DO NOt CARE! How Do u Suppose that PL661 Got Thru the Legislature?? Unfortunately it Also Garnnered a Lot of SUPPORT from Some of the LARGEST "Conservation" Organizations in the State As well-Why I will NEVER be able to Comprehend!

Comment by Willem Post on August 29, 2013 at 5:31pm
Pat Swords, an Irish power systems engineer, spent about 4 years getting the Aarhus people in Denmark to listen to him about Ireland not following the Aarhus Convention. Finally he won. pat.swords.chemeng@gmail.com

It will have major consequences. The US is NOT a signatory to the Aarhus convention.
Comment by Penny Gray on August 29, 2013 at 5:19pm

This article needs to be forwarded to all members of the legislature, especially members of the EUT and BEP.  It wouldn't hurt if the Maine press gave it some air time, too, but I'm not holding my breath.

Comment by Martha thacker on August 29, 2013 at 4:07pm

Great news.

It will be much harder for calling out "NIMBY" and passing gifts around to affect law. That goes for the Maine legislature and Bangor Daily News as well.

Comment by clyde macdonald on August 29, 2013 at 3:10pm

the wind power industry and its political allies have always preferred that deliberations be made in secret as public exposure means exposing them. ClydeMacDonald, hampden

Comment by Kathy Sherman on August 29, 2013 at 2:30pm
This is a huge victory for a very brave, determined and clever woman, her supporters and those whose plight inspired her to take action. Although the challenge was to the UK's National Renewable Energy Plan, it likely will apply to EU-wide policies and mandates including all signatories to the Aarhus Convention. Unfortunately, the U.S., indeed no North, Centrsl or South American country is. However, it is the principle of the convention granting citizen rights to EFFECTIVE participation and to the facts -- evidence of claimed CO2 reduction and
of risks and harms (environmental including human health and economic). One can only hope that the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand who governments and wind energy promoters will take heed. They have all borrowed heavily from UK policies, tactics (including taking away local control and ignoring competing mandates to protect the rural countryside, heritage and scenic/landscape values, as well as habitat and species) and they borrow heavily from the U.K. WT noise working group and BWEA such misconceptions as "quiet as a whisper', and that wind-induced increases in background noise will mask increasing acoustic emissions at higher wind speed. Use of L90 for the measure of operational noise, method of correction for deviation in actual wind shear are among the bad practices adopted. So even though we are not signatory, what govt. or corporate proponent of wind, or environmental group backing them will stand up and say a Mainer or Oregonian, a Falmouth, Kingston, Fairhaven, Scituate, Florida or Monroe in Massachusetts, any American citizen has less right to environmental protection and human rights, rights to transparency and factual information and to participation in decision-making than the citizen of Azerbaijan or the U.K. whose govt. did sign? And the Convention applies to all levels of govt. from national to local.
Comment by Sherwin Start on August 29, 2013 at 2:14pm

IT only Proves that "GOVERNMENT" Will What They Want ,Where they Want and how they want DESPITE  What The The MAJORITY Of the People Want!

Is This What DEMOCRACY Has Develpoed into??

 

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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."

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