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Conflict in Minnesota -- Accusations of eagle baiting and harrassment have been thrown around and ended up in court and the news. We will be speaking with Mary Hartman and Kristi Rosenquist about the latest with the AWA Goodhue wind project.
Just this week, Westwood, the "wildlife biologists" hired to study the bat and bird populations for the Goodhue project celebrated their 9th year of attendance at the huge, national WindPower convention. According to their website you could visit them at booth #7225 and "have a drink!"
These are the same fine folks whose original "study" found zero eagle presence in the site area. After the good citizens in the impacted area submitted photographic evidence to the public utility commission, the commission sent Westwood back to the drawing board. Westwood is now working with the Fish and Wildlife Service to get a take permit to kill some of these "non-existent" eagles. All this is causing Westwood's "Senior Environmental Scientist", Rob Bouta, to whine about how, "The days of wind projects breezing through wildlife approvals are over..." Yep, those sweet times are gone -- thank God!
Landowners are pulling out of leases, towns are refusing road permits, T. Boone Pickens is moaning about "losing his A$$" on national TV, and little old ladies are being sued by the developers because they won't submit to the wind developer's wants. See also: http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_20414341/construction-contro...
A tongue-in-cheek proposal for a wind "park" in the waters of Vermont's Lake Champlain has provoked a flurry of media attention and discussion.
We will get the latest on the responses to Champlain Wind from its creator, Annette Smith.
The fast-tracked give away of public lands for the Ocotillo Express wind development has attracted three lawsuits. The Ocotillo project is destroying habitat and bulldozing significant native American cultural sites. A 5-day vigil was held by tribe members. We will speak with our contributor, Miriam Raftery, the editor of East County Magazine about the latest efforts to stop this senseless destruction.
An open letter to President Obama to meet with tribal leaders has been ignored. The tribes have invited the public to attend another educational ev... Meanwhile the destruction continues.
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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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