Windmills - Fed Dept of Energy proposes new "categorical exclusions"
On January 3, 2011, the US Dept of Energy published a notice on a plan to add twenty new categorical exclusions to review of development projects as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Windpower is, alas, part of that plan. Deadline to add your input is February 17, 2011.
What kinds of changes does DOE propose?"DOE proposes to add 20 new categorical exclusions. These categorical exclusions (in the order in which they appear in Appendix B) address: ..... combined heat and power or cogeneration systems; small-scale renewable energy research and development and pilot projects; solar photovoltaic systems; solar thermal systems; wind turbines......DOE proposes to remove two categorical exclusion categories, one EA category, and two EIS categories. DOE also proposes to modify many of the existing categorical exclusions."
The changes relating to windmills are excerpted below. Read complete documentat this link.
B1.9 Airway Safety Markings and Painting
DOE proposes to include repair and in-kind replacement of lighting
within the scope of this categorical exclusion....DOE proposes to add
wind turbines as structures similar to transmission lines and antenna
structures to which the exclusion applies. DOE has determined that
these proposed changes would not have the potential to cause
significant impacts.
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B5.18 Wind Turbines
The installation, modification, operation, and removal of
commercially available small wind turbines, with a total height
generally less than 200 feet (measured from the ground to the
maximum height of blade rotation) that (1) are located within a
previously disturbed or developed area; (2) are located more than 10
nautical miles from an airport or aviation navigation aid; (3) are
located more than 1.5 nautical miles from National Weather Service
or Federal Aviation Administration Doppler weather radar; (4) would
not have the potential to cause significant impacts on bird or bat
species; and (5) are sited or designed such that the project would
not have the potential to cause significant impacts to
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persons (such as shadow flicker and other visual impacts, and
noise). Covered actions would be in accordance with applicable
requirements (such as local land use and zoning requirements) in the
proposed project area and would incorporate appropriate control
technologies and best management practices.
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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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