Maine Offshore Wind Rent Seekers Panicking Ahead of Possible Common Sense Decision at PUC

Here's the key sentence in this Press Herald article: "The immediate risk, advocates say, is $87 million in federal funding".

Of course the Press Herald headline, like every other piece it writes about wind, attempts to minimize the cost ramifications of this folly: "Effort to build offshore wind industry in Maine may hinge on 73 cents".

And as usual, the article makes us ask yet again, what is it about the words "public" and "advocate", that the so called Public Advocate doesn't seem to grasp? --- In the case, both Maine Aqua Ventus and the public advocate question the commission’s justification for and ability to reopen the terms under a state procedural law that gives the PUC broad authority to make changes in previous orders.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/04/01/effort-to-build-offshore-win...

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Comment by John F. Hussey on April 1, 2018 at 10:02pm

I used to know him...a pain in the a$$ then and a no nothing pain in the a$$ now!  Most lawyers will do anything for money!

Comment by Dan McKay on April 1, 2018 at 10:54am

I would humbly submit it is past due time that we now refer to appointed Barry Hobbins as the Public Fool.

Comment by Long Islander on April 1, 2018 at 10:51am

Reade Brower to own all Maine dailies except BDN

http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20180326/NEWS0101/180329957

Way too much of a monopoly and I would not be surprised if it's all a front for S. Donald Sussman, former owner of the PPH (and Mr. Chellie Pingree) who loved wind and gave First Wind's longtime owner DE Shaw its start.

Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on April 1, 2018 at 10:45am

Not sure why you need a 20 PPA to test two 6MW turbines - wouldn't 2 or 3 years be adequate? This has scam written all over it.  

 

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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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