Wind Ordinance Informational Meeting in Island Falls Today - FISH AND GAME CLUB Mattawamkeag Lake


Blinking Lincoln turbine lights on Rocky Dundee seen from Upper Pond


YOU ARE INVITED TO COME TO AN OPEN INFORMATIONAL MEETING WITH

 

RANDALL FAIRMAN

 

SATURDAY MAY 12  1:30pm

 

ISLAND FALLS FISH AND GAME at Lake Mattawamkeag Public Boat Landing area  

 

Randall is on the Planning Board of Dixmont

 

A small town similar to Island Falls which has gone through the process of creating a WIND ORDINANCE for their town to create guidelines for this experience, which is the right of the voters to understand.

Randall has extensive knowledge and understanding of how small towns can work with the new industry of wind farms.

Whether you are for the wind development in our area or against it this informational meeting is a great opportunity to understand better the many factors involved in the process before voted on and how you can have a voice and say in the matter.

 

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

Please tell anyone you know pro or con wind this is a rare opportunity to see how another small town handled the WIND ORDINANCE issue  especially if you are on or know people on the Planning Board and Select People..but ALL VOTERS and people who own property in the area.  thanks much  

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Comment by Long Islander on May 12, 2012 at 11:31am

I guess Prentiss is about 25 miles away, meaning a minimum 50 mile radius, with emphasis on the word minimum.

How many turbine infected 50+ mile viewshed footprints do they think they can inflict upon Maine without having a transformative industrial effect on our hallowed natural beauty? To say nothing of the attendant transmission blight.

Comment by Harrison Roper on May 12, 2012 at 11:01am

The photo above was taken on a clear night from the vacinity of the highly visible gazeboin downtown Lincoln.  The turbine lights are about 7 miles away. they are required by the Federal Aviation Agency, and must be operated all night, every night, year 'round.  The Lincoln area turbine lights blink on and off in unison, changing  about every 10 seconds.  They are visible from the high ground in Prentiss, on Rt. 169. Harrison Roper  Houlton/Danforth

Comment by freemont tibbetts on May 12, 2012 at 10:40am

     Got to put a stop to what they are doing to this GREAT STATE of MAINE one way or the other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. 

Comment by Long Islander on May 12, 2012 at 9:54am

Every town anywhere near the proposed Oakfield-Chester wind transmission line should start protecting themselves:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/oakfield-chester-line

http://www.windtaskforce.org/photo/first-wind-eyes-katahdin-country...

Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on May 12, 2012 at 8:25am

thank you wind task force..Oakfield has done us a get travesty,..we are still fighting on..

Comment by Long Islander on May 12, 2012 at 8:20am

"Wind turbines are a horror show for anyone who lives within a mile of them" 


From today's Morning Sentinel at http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/wind-farm-resentments-seep-back-...

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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