I Am Getting A Very Uneasy Feeling
This week I have been one of the Mainers that has experienced a loss of power for three days, and there are still more that are going to be out for several more days. I have been out driving around Southern Penobscot County and can honestly say I have seen very few Emera crews out there doing ANYTHING for the first three days. It was a minor storm, lasted but a few hours, but there were some pretty high wind gusts and there were a lot of trees down. I didn't see a lot of wires down, but did see some. The weather since the storm has been perfect for doing repairs. I was told Monday at 3:00 PM that they still had not even sent crews out to access the situation though the winds were down and the storm was gone. That was a full six hours after the damage was done.
My bad feeling comes from the idea that Emera and CMT have been calling for huge upgrades to the grid, which we really don't need except for the hookup of wind and solar facilities. They could be setting up a slowdown so they can go to the PUC and claim that the grid is defective. Let's just wait and see if they don't try and push through some kind of upgrade bid.
Believe me when I say, these guys are as sleazy as the wind and solar shills and will do whatever they can to collect government money like they do. It will be sold as a security issue. And the sheeple and the media will fall in line to support them.
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Comment by Paul Ackerman on November 2, 2017 at 7:20am
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It wasn't lost on me that the trucks fixing the lines in Tenants Harbor the other day were Cianbro trucks.
With the local consternation about the Aqua Ventus project and bringing transmission lines thru Port Clyde-Tenants Harbor I wondered if Cianbro was a likely contractor for same.
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My observations: I work in Freeport and my mother's house is two blocks from McDonalds on route 1. My business is right across from it. We never lose power on that grid because it's tied to L.LBean...but due to the amount of trees down, all of main street lost power from six am Monday to 7 pm Monday and the big tree wrapped in power lines that was closing off route one north to Brunswick was still across the road when I left Freeport Tuesday morning at 11 am. Never saw a single CMP truck all day Monday on route 1 in Freeport; i'm sure they were working as fast and as safely as they could. There were tons of trees down and our employees, the ones that could make it in to work, had to take multiple side roads and drive over trees and power lines to get there. Lots of folks still without power in that region due to the 75 mph wind gusts. Makes you truly appreciate the force of Mother Nature and what Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico went through. We were lucky compared to them.
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traveling from Port Clyde to Yarmouth today,then So.Freeport and Durham even more rural areas,I can say that I was shocked by the amount of major tree down/line-pole damage down that way. Almost every road I was on off Rte 1 or 95 had no power except for those with generators running.What a mess down that way.
In Wiscasset,at the big grocery store parking lot about 4:30pm there must have been a rendezvous of boom trucks and service trucks from a CMP subcontractor as there were at least forty+ trucks there with crews taking a break or organizing for tonight's work schedule (if there is one) ...saw maybe 12-16 boom trucks scattered between Yarmouth and Freeport--lots of big pines down on lines throughout that area,and lines down all over the place once you were off Rte 1.
While I am not skeptical that the political players within CMP/Emera won't try to soin this as a rationale for further "energy insecurity" bs upgrades,right now all I see are crews out doing everything they can given the volume of damage to deal with.
What this ought to tell us is that in the event of an even worse natural --or man-made (EMP for example) disaster,that beyond a very small area of concentrated damage to the grid,the addition of wind and solar won't make spit difference in how efficiently the damage can be fixed.In fact, when you look at damage to the wind farms on Puerto Rico--basically destroyed-- one should recognize the cost to repair will far exceed any power generated in the future.
I lost power here for about 14 hrs,I'm lucky and grateful for that.The boom trucks down here were not CMP,they were some sub-contractor,but they did a speedy job of fixing three main line breaks/damage between So.Thomaston and Tenants Harbor within a day.
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on November 1, 2017 at 9:17pm
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interesting observation as I remember that in my 35 years of living in Maine and in a very desolated area, the response from CMP was always immediate and well synchronized when power outages occurred.
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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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