A Failed Representative State Government
The House acted on LD 1810 during the 2/6/18 session and referred it to the EUT Committee.
The Senate acted on LD 1810 during the 2/27/18 session and referred it to the ENR Committee, even after fully knowing the House had already referred it to EUT. Referred by Senator Saviello.
This set-up today's session in the House where a concurrence to the Senate action would have moved the bill on to the ENR Committee
Rep. Fredette explained the voting options and results each vote would incur, TWICE, during the session. He had smelled out the rats.
The following House voting as detailed by Rep. Pickett :
This morning in the House session LD 810 was placed before us as a motion to recede & concur which would have meant that the bill would have been sent back to the Senate in concurrence with their decision to refer it to the Environment & Natural Resources Committee for a public hearing. Rep. Chapmen immediately moved to Recede. A roll call vote was taken on that motion and it was defeated 58-83 ( I voted no) if this motion had passed the bill would have effectively died. The Recede & Concur motion was then voted on and it failed 63-78 ( I voted yes) Had this motion passed the bill would have gone back to the Senate and then referred to the Environment & Natural Resources Committee for a public hearing. A motion was then made by Rep. Chapman to Adhere. A vote was taken and that motion passed 79-62 (I voted no) as the passage of this motion assured that the bill will die in non-concurrence between the two bodies (House & Senate). This was what the democrats wanted to happen from the beginning when they originally tabled the bill several days ago. They have the votes and used those votes to kill this piece of legislation.
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Comment by Deborah Andrew on March 2, 2018 at 2:56pm
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This is but one example of the discrepancy between what most people believe: that our form of democracy serves the common good, and the reality: our form of democracy is deeply deeply flawed. This is but one example. There are many. The task we have to undertake is to review and reform. At the federal level, I suggest: ban all riders on bills, no one may serve in Congress who earns more than $75,000/yr or has more than $400,000 in assets before or during their intended period of service.
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Comment by arthur qwenk on March 2, 2018 at 10:36am
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To state and openly show the incestuousness of Maine politicians and corporate enviro-groups to the Wind Lobby in Maine, (the interrelationships and and illegalities that have taken place since 2008 ) would take the left wing party of Maine down.
The papers , the FAKE MEDIA of Maine , are complicit as well.
Maine is a WIND STATE.
Maine Energy policy is Owned and operated for the benefit of Corporate Wind's metastatic political complex, Unless its citizenry " Make Maine Great Again"!
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Comment by Art Brigades on March 2, 2018 at 6:56am
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The bill is not dead yet. If the Senate (Tuesday) reverses its previous reference and refers the bill to the Utilities Committee instead of the Environment Committee, that's where it will go.
But it's classic rope-a-dope.
Let's agree that the bill as written would throw northern Maine under the bus, could don Baxter State Park with a massive hat of turbines, would incentivize expensive transmission for low-performing wind far away from load centers, and is frankly not going to pass this legislature.
But the bill could initiate a meaningful policy discussion about the wind law, identifying at least a few changes that could be accomplished. It could result in the legislature saying that after ten years of contention and failure, maybe it's time to form a NEW task force on wind energy that can take a fresh look at the record since the original task force rammed through an untested secretly drafted report, and enacted without debate the most radical land use law in Maine history, a law that has unconscionably for a decade been treated, unlike any other law, as sacrosanct.
Maybe the ongoing work of a new task force could inform the debates in the concurrent 2018 elections (for all 186 legislative seats, and for governor).
But listen to the clock ticking...
By the time a public hearing is scheduled and given notice for two weekends, it will be mid-March at the earliest. By the time the committee schedules and conducts one, two, three or more work sessions on the bill, we will be well into April, when the legislature is required to adjourn for the session and hit the campaign trail.
Committees are being pressured by leadership now to finish up their work and "report out" their bills.
Citizens will be patted on the head as leadership mutters this platitude to the bill's sponsor: "Gee, Representative Stetkis, you clearly have an issue worth examining here, and we'd really like to devote the time it would require to give your bill (which we got back in January) the consideration it deserves. But it's such a complex policy matter, and look at the calendar...we simply have run out of time. Besides, think of the jobs, and rising sea level, and our Maine Conservation Voters environmental voting score..."
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Comment by Long Islander on March 2, 2018 at 12:59am
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On Roll call 502, "ADHERE", the same reps absent for 501 were absent.
Herbig was absent, but all other Dems voted against us.
All Republicans not absent voted with us on Roll Call 502 except for two:
HERRICK of Paris PIERCE of Dresden Independents voted as follows:
Source:
http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/rollcall.asp?ID=2800676...
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On Roll Call 501 "Recede & Concur", the following representatives were "Absent". WHY WERE ALL THESE R's ABSENT?
On Roll Call 501 "Recede & Concur", all other Democrats voted "No" (against us) except for two who voted with us:
MARTIN of Eagle Lake STANLEY of Medway On Roll Call 501 "Recede & Concur", all other Republicans voted "Yes" (with us) except for two who voted against us. WHY DID PETER A. LYFORD and JEFFREY PIERCE VOTE AGAINST US?
LYFORD of Eddington PIERCE of Dresden On Roll Call 501 "Recede & Concur", Independents, Common Sense Independents and Green Independents voted as follows:
Source:
http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/rollcall.asp?ID=2800676...
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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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