NRCM, Environment Maine, 350 Maine and Sierra fret about proposed Canadian oil pipeline’s impact

The pipeline could carry about 1.1 million barrels of oil per day over 2,860 miles to reach New Brunswick and, as it passes around Maine, could come within 20 miles of the border. “The proposed Energy East pipeline would still threaten to pollute our waters and air, and send our climate past its tipping point,” said Emmie Theberge, with NRCM. Glen Brand of the Sierra Club said increased tanker traffic to serve the pipeline in New Brunswick also stands to threaten habitats for right whales. TransCanada has proposed the pipeline as an alternative to the controversial Keystone XL line that would also start in Hardisty, Alberta, but would run through the middle of the United States down to Houston, Texas. 

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Comment by Kathy Sherman on October 30, 2014 at 8:58pm
I am glad that Sierra is worried about the right whales, the second most endangered mammal on the planet that depends on feeding off our coast, but I am concerned that there won't be any able to migrate through the vast swaths of offshore wind factories up and down the Atlantic coast, the impact of vessels constructing and servicing them and their communication being disrupted by the infrasound generated by 6-10 MW turbines let 'rip: out there where noise is "less of a concern".
It is not just Canada's problem and it is naive not to recognize that the Maritimes and New England consider themselves a "regional energy economy". Even to Quebec there are hopes of massive increases in wind capacity to export to the lucrative New England market, not to mention hydro. But with the drop in crude and the clamor for increase natural gas for home heating in Maine and electric generation, how does this pipeline make sense? It's age and refining at the end point are deterents in my view. But my maternal relatives brought me in proximity to the breathtaking refineries in northern New Jersey when I was young - maybe my viewpoint as warped.

In this case I think the Maine enviros might be right even though their knee-jerk reasons - climate change, climate change -- are weak. Better to just ship direct to Asia and be done with it. See how much that does to keep us from tipping.

Why don't they refine tar sands oil in Alberta anyhow?

 

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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."

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