VOTE TO BE HELD TOMORROW ON UMAINE OFFSHORE WIND BOND
Tomorrow, slipped quietly in an off election, Mainers get to vote on the $50 million dollar bond to be used to help fund the Aqua Ventus offshore wind project. Please vote NO and save our birds!
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Comment by Pineo Girl on June 21, 2017 at 7:43pm
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Willem..sadly... too late for Maine..and birds..the bond issue passed
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Comment by Willem Post on June 21, 2017 at 5:54pm
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Offshore wind energy is an expensive folly for the benefit of European Re global companies.
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-very-expensive-offsho...
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Thank you Paul.. I felt the same way,,,this just got slipped in..when we were all looking the other way!!
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I sure voted NO,but was extremely disheartened by the voter turnout here in St.George--only 250 votes cast...Very poor showing for the area that will be directly effected long term. I'm sure the vote count was overwhelmingly YES from what I saw during the count.
Also the select board slid a local ballot question in,with virtually no one knowing about it, only ten days after having a poorly attended (who even knew about it?) public meeting where they rammed thru the pet project of the board head,to give the board authority to negotiate contracts to install solar/PV systems on the municipal buildings---as,you guessed it, "...the most economical and environmentally friendly way to produce electricity..."
I was stunned at the dishonesty in the ballot wording. Ten days from meeting to putting it out to vote with a school budget and the state bond referendum mentioned.Low turnout,no one will pay attention,we'll get the carte blanche to do what we want --sleazy tactics,and very questionable legality of the vote I think
All this even though the board head had admitted in another meeting that it was a "virtuous argument,but we know it won't break even,(it will cost more than it will produce essentiall)so we need a way to convince the townspeople we ought to do it anyway..."
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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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