NEW WIND POWER SITE APPEARS
If you Google wind power a new site appears! Brought to you by the University of Maine, and touting off shore wind as Maine's most untapped natural resource - clean, responsible, renewable! The site goes on to extol the virtues of U Maine's Aqua Ventus I project - jobs, minimal view shed issues, reduced energy cost, etc. ( I wish they had consulted their neighbors of the project - the citizens of Monhegan Island!) And the site states that the University had already been selected to receive $39.9 Million Dollars from the US DOE. If you look closely though, when you google wind power, the web site comes up as an ad - which means the University is using Google ad words and paying Google to be a top site when the words are googled! I guess they want to dominate wind energy information- and the push is on for the project!
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Comment by Steve Winter on March 18, 2017 at 12:17pm
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The ends of the blades of the big commercial turbines are typically moving (when spinning) at about 100 miles per hour ... despite what a casual observer might think when their eye focuses on the "slow spinning" center of the turbines. They shred the birds quite nicely.
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Comment by Jim Wiegand on March 18, 2017 at 11:53am
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Google call it business, but this search engine routinely rigs their front pages with wind industry propaganda. Google also has wind turbines killing eagles and likely whooping cranes because they have been placed in their spring/fall migration habitat. Nerds love money.
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Comment by Brad Blake on March 18, 2017 at 11:51am
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I have been hoping the new administration would move swiftly to pull the plug on the taxpayer waste. Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars going to R & D for renewables that is akin to putting lipstick on a pig. Wind & solar are still marginal, feeble sources of electricity in spite of the tax dollars wasted.
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Comment by Pineo Girl on March 18, 2017 at 10:24am
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I have heard that also! Why does everyone in the wind industry sink to the same low level?
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Comment by Gary Campbell on March 18, 2017 at 10:04am
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I hear that a few of the Monhegan-based lobstermen have accepted packages (translation: bribes) not to oppose the project. Anyone know how much they got? If this is like all the other wind projects in Maine those who accepted the money are bound by a gag clause in the agreement they signed.
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Perhaps the saddest thing is that this project is right in a major bird migration path! Hundreds of birders go to Monhegan and sometimes spend all summer bird watching! It is positively shameful that no consideration is given to the thought of killing birds!
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on March 17, 2017 at 1:20pm
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Ridiculous
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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