AGAIN! ACTION ALERT:WORK SESSION ON LD 1513 SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 18 TH 1:00 PM, YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO ACT!

Everyone, please heed Monique Thurston's recent plea and write a quick letter or email to your legislator. It can be as simple as the three sentences below from Monique. You can copy and paste these or preferably, put into your own words. Add anything you wish, such as comments on the bills before the EUT this week. Or add nothing. But take the five minutes to do this and please get a fellow wind-aggrieved party to do the same.

Also, please send to each member of the EUT. Their contact information is simple to access. See below.

Please include your name and address. If you want more information on what the legislature advises is the best way to write, please see their  "A Letter Writer's Guide".

As suggested by Monique:

JOHN BALDACCI'S HORRENDOUS WIND LAW IS UNLEASHING A FURY OF DESTRUCTION OF THE MAINE LANDSCAPE AS HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.

THIS IS TO DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON THIS LAW AND STOP THIS INVASION.

I REQUEST THIS ON THE BASIS THAT CUMULATIVE SCENIC EFFECTS WERE A PROBLEM RECOGNIZED BY THE OEIS REPORT IN 2012, YET THAT REALITY HAS NEVER BEEN ADDRESSED. 

 This is a re=post of Long Islanders Post of 2/2/2016

How to find your representatives in the legislature:  

http://legislature.maine.gov/house/townlist.htm

Click on the legislator's name to get the contact information.

EUT Contact Information: http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/eut-contact-information

EUT Members' Regular Email Addresses - all in one place

dcwoodsome@gmail.com
garrettpaulmason@gmail.com
dawnhill@maine.rr.com
mndion@msn.com
rbbeavers@comcast.net
babbidge@roadrunner.com
rykersonforkittery@gmail.com
jdechant@me.com
martin.j.grohman@gmail.com
NATHANWADSWORTH@HOTMAIL.COM
LIBERTYMOM1@MSN.COM
NORMEHIGGINS@GMAIL.COM
SKIME2@ROADRUNNER.COM

EUT Members' Legislature Email Addresses - all in one place

david.woodsome@legislature.maine.gov
garrett.mason@legislature.maine.gov
dawn.hill@legislature.maine.gov
Mark.Dion@legislature.maine.gov
Bobbi.Beavers@legislature.maine.gov
Chris.Babbidge@legislature.maine.gov
Deane.Rykerson@legislature.maine.gov
Jennifer.DeChant@legislature.maine.gov
Martin.Grohman@legislature.maine.gov
Nathan.Wadsworth@legislature.maine.gov
Beth.O'Connor@legislature.maine.gov
Norman.Higgins@legislature.maine.gov

Larry.Dunphy@legislature.maine.gov

http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=1513&...

http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=0&s...

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Comment by Pineo Girl on February 17, 2016 at 10:36pm

Eric your arguments are sound plus - Back when the executives of CMP stood to make a bunch of money  - and they did - selling their production assets!  Now they stand a chance to get back into the game again in a different way. But mind you - None of this is for the ratepayer - This is all about screwing the ratepayer again!!  And now we have - again - Complicit Democrats!!

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on February 17, 2016 at 10:14pm

Alice,

Nothing specific at this time, however the main arguments would be the reason why Generation and Transmission were separated years back. It restricted new generation and required new generators to pay an unfair rate to use the existing transmission lines probably inclusive of those that NET METERED from their homes.

I am sure there is sufficient history and reason to keep the same argument alive today given they again want to end Net Metering and given that Sun Ed is on the rocks. With new projects of renewable on the New England docket, mostly for Maine, as the person in the video stated, they are building out....... Building out includes key substations and lines for something to come in the future. The Northern route proposed by CMP to a point north of Coburn Gore goes through a lot of potential wind sites as my google earth map revealed. It is also in part nearly one of the proposed routes for the East west Utility Transportation Corrdior proposed by Cianbro the same company that owns a lot of land holdings.  Little pieces, yes. But the outcome could sneak up on us.

I will be trying to tie some of this together at tomorrows STEWC working session of the Steering Committee. At which time some action may be taken if they can see what I feel may be happening.  

Comment by alice mckay barnett on February 17, 2016 at 9:30pm

Eric,

What outline do you have to argue this bill?

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on February 17, 2016 at 7:32pm

Just got this from the EUT clerk at 4:10 pm

LD 1513 will remain tabled and not be taken up tomorrow. There are still some details to be worked out with the amendment that will require more time. It is likely this will be taken up some time next week.

Comment by Kathy Sherman on February 11, 2016 at 4:52am
Having read those letter writing tips, I suggest that it would be more effective to concentrate on point number three- cumulative impacts- especially as pertains to "climate change resilience'. In other words, protecting any ecosystem that is anticipated to be particularly hard hit by climate change, such as the forest of the ridge tops in Maine, although the Oakfield turbines seem to be scattered across the whole forest.

Cumulative impacts - avian, non-urban people/culture/history, and the later has a great economic value to the state. But from the tips- urge rather than demand, and give the wind energy siting Act name rather than "badass Balducchi's horrendous bill".

I am not disagreeing with the message, just how it can be delivered effectively.

Moratorium justified until economic and natural resource impacts identified and resolved - heck, even former Commissioner Aho testified about them and the need to correct the law. And that was about the cumulative scenic impact issue, but what went to the Maine Supreme Court is only one of the many cumulative impacts.
Your message is more simply put- more than "enough already". Non-urban America is tired of being sacrificed to waste energy in the urban sector.
Identify what was wrong with the bill in terms of designation of areas for wind energy development and "expedited permitting", and bring forward the fact that in the recent past, the areas/communities targeted for wind enery development did not NEED to have zoning. strategic plans etc. There was an equitable status quo. What is it? I suspect that it varies.
But we need to get beyond Oakfield got a needed fire truck. What else? How about Bingham? How about Number Nine Mountain area?

Signed: southeast MA ratepayer who knows and cares
Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on February 10, 2016 at 4:26pm
Comment by arthur qwenk on February 10, 2016 at 2:38pm

This bill is an outrage and should be actively opposed by the governor and the people of Maine.

It is the making of a monopoly to the detriment of the peoples pocket book and  legal process in the state.

Comment by Pineo Girl on February 10, 2016 at 1:57pm

Amendment to LD 1513 that just came from the EUT Committee

http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=0&s...

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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