Greenwood board to hear about wind power project tomorrow night (Tuesday Feb 6 at 5:30PM)

Another incredibly beautiful area of Maine in the target sights with 600' tall turbines.

Twitchell Pond (above)


From the Sun Journal/ Bethel Citizen:

Representatives of the Calpine Wind Corp. are scheduled to make a presentation to selectmen Tuesday, Feb. 6.

It will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Town Office or the adjacent Legion Hall, depending on attendance.

Calpine is studying the viability of a wind power project in the area of Long, Tibbetts and Elwell mountains, near Twitchell Pond, on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands..................The town ordinance limits decibel levels from routine operation of wind turbines to 55 in the daytime and 42 at night at non-participating property lines, the same as state guidelines. Setbacks from property lines are a minimum of 150 percent of the height of the towers. There are no height limits specified. The Ordinance Review Committee has recommended decibel limits of 35 maximum for daytime and 25 maximum at night. The panel also voted to limit tower heights to 250 feet and establish setbacks of 1 mile per 100 feet of tower height.

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Comment by Art Brigades on February 5, 2018 at 5:00pm

Calpine is likely to tell the selectmen "the proposed ordinance will basically ban our wonderful turbines."  

The selectmen are likely to tell Calpine, "don't let the door hit you on the way out."

People in Greenwood will probably be asked to adopt the proposed ordinance this spring, perhaps at town meeting.  Brace yourselves for another divisive wind wedge in another Maine community.  

Comment by Long Islander on January 28, 2018 at 4:38pm

From nearby Mt. Abram ski area in December 2010:

Mt. Abram wants to build a 1-acre field of solar panels it estimates could generate about 400,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. Mt. Abram owner Matt Hancock has submitted applications to the Greenwood Planning Board and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Hancock said that despite strong winds on the mountain, wind turbines are not an option. “Wind power just creates so much contention,” Hancock said.

http://www.sunjournal.com/mt-abram-wants-build-1-acre-solar-panel-a...


Comment by Long Islander on January 28, 2018 at 1:53pm

Love snowmobiles but they can't hear the turbine noise when their engines are on. Another reason the wind industry makes deals with them is they threaten access to the snowmobile trails. You want money or you do you want to lose your trails? 

Comment by Dan McKay on January 28, 2018 at 1:48pm

That project entered a bid to the 83C MCE RFP. It has also entered into agreement with the local snowmobile club to give them $10,000 per year for 20 years of operation. Timely meeting.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 28, 2018 at 1:35pm

 

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."

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