First Wind Provides Some "Details" as to Location of Molunkus Katahdin Area Project
1/28/15 PM
Proposed Wind Turbine Placement Near Molunkus Lake
He emphasized that this is just a first draft and there could be significant changes when the MET data comes in and that the layout could change over time. Following are the conclusions.........
Continue at: https://molunkuswind.wordpress.com/
I guess the folks in the area are in the cross hairs of First Wind - all facilitated of course when the company has former Senate president Justin Alfond submitting its wind bills without changing a word.
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1/28/15 AM
Molunkus Katahdin Area First Wind Project - Additional Information
As reported yesterday at https://molunkuswind.wordpress.com/ the First Wind Molunkus project is back on. First Wind originally let the cat out of the bag on Molunkus on July 31, 2013 when they responded to an RFP for a Connecticut power purchase agreement. You can find a redacted PDF of what First Wind submitted to Connecticut's DEP at the following link.
http://www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DEEPEnergy.nsf/c6c6d525f7cdd1168525797d...
From page 5:
The Molunkus Wind project is located near the Town of Medway, Maine, and the Project area
spans both Aroostook and Penobscot Counties. The Project will be comprised of fifty-three
Vestas V110 (2 MW) and twelve Vestas V117 (3.3 MW) wind turbines, associated collection
systems, and a facility substation and step-up transformer. The Project will interconnect to ISO
New England at Bangor Hydro’s Keene Road substation, utilizing a newly constructed 20-mile
115 kV generator lead located within the existing Maine GenLead corridor.
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1/27/15
KATAHDIN ALERT - First Wind is reviving its plans at Molunkus, just east of Katahdin
Utter, perhaps ultimate disrespect is shown to Maine and Mainers by the slippery Boston developers/Wall Street derivatives yieldco crowd as they attempt to close in on what the Penobscots named "Greatest Mountain".
First Wind is apparently reviving its plans at Molunkus, just east of Katahdin.
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Comment by Penny Gray on January 27, 2015 at 5:13pm
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How do we know First Wind is gearing up to attack Molunkus? Have they put up a MET tower?
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Comment by Long Islander on January 27, 2015 at 3:22pm
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Eric - here are two maps that will help show the Quimby lands in relation to Molunkus, keeping in mind, until such time an application is filed, we do not know the exact proposed area for the Molunkus wind factory. The map on the top was created with Google (Directions) and there are some towns shown as points of reference. The map on the bottom shows the Quimby parcels.
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Comment by Brad Blake on January 27, 2015 at 2:47pm
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Eric, no. The proposed North Woods park and recreation area is due east of Baxter State Park. This Molunkus location is just to the south of I-95 when heading north after crossing the Penobscot River in Medway. If you recall the vista turnout on I'95 with the view across Salmon Stream Lake to Katahdin, that is the proximity.
The East Branch of the Penobscot and the small mountains east of Baxter that Roxanne Quimby is offering for a park and recreation area (the recreation area would allow hunting, snowmobiling & ATVs) is well worth preserving, but that is a whole other issue aside from the threat of encircling Baxter State Park with industrial wind turbines. Since you mentioned it, here is a photo from a trip I took in Sept. 2013 that is similar to the vista of Katahdin one gets from Deasey Mt., in the Quimby parcel offered for the park.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 27, 2015 at 2:09pm
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Is this site in the location the NRCM wants to create a National Park?
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The heinous bastards! :) They could care less about Mt. Katahdin or any other beautiful place in Maine that we all cherish. I wish they'd build just one of these 500' turbines where people in southern Maine would be visually assaulted, then things would change. This battle is still all about changing people's perspective (through PR and educational efforts) in those parts of Maine with the largest population base.
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If you recall, Worst Wind named Molunkus as a project when they made the bid for Power Purchase Agreement to help satisfy CT's RPS mandate last year. Their bid was turned down so they didn't proceed. The area they are targeting is about 15 air miles from the boundary of Baxter State Park. They were proposing turbines that would be 510 ft tall. This is a full assault on sacred ground, everyone. It becomes more crucial than ever to rally the hiking community and those who love Katahdin to stop this ruination of our state's natural and scenic resources by this scourge of Industrial wind power!
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