The Good, Bad and Ugly on Maine Energy
"The Good, Bad and Ugly on Maine Energy"
Through my service on the Energy, Utilities and Technology (EUT) Committee in Maine, I have ascertained that the reason for Maine’s high energy costs stem from the actions, and in some cases inactions, of the work from that committee as well as the well-paid suits that have frequented it for decades.
There were some good things we accomplished in the 127th. You, gentle reader, will have clean water to drink and the “Dig Safe” law is there making sure nothing leaks or explodes when companies lay pipes and wire! Those were easy choices with common-sense solutions, and it was a pleasure to work on them. ....
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Comment by Penny Gray on April 26, 2016 at 7:07pm
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I tried to post this comment but couldn't: Thank you, Beth O'Connor. As a business owner with an electricity bill exceeding ten thousand dollars a month, I appreciate your insite and your looking out for the rate payers in Maine, large and small. I am also a solar power proponent, having lived off grid for over thirty years on a very small system I cobbled together on my own dime. I agree with your perspective on that as well. I would never ask my neighbor to help pay for my energy system.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on April 26, 2016 at 6:12pm
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The current solar bill does NOT protect the people, when it leaves the barn door open for an eventual corporate domination and manipulation of the statute if passed, to exclude individuals in favor of the corporate solar farm. One that will undoubtedly, like wind, receive some sort of credit or incentive from the tax and rate payers of Maine. The exclusion process has already begun with the attacks on Net Metering. Just a matter of time. So without that prohibition of corporate farms either through direct ownership and new land occupation or forced occupation of rooftops for profit through leasing of equipment, I would NOT support this bill. I believe the few committee members that have had solar and are disappointed in its performance as marginal, did the right thing with the ONTP even though the full legislature may pass it. Though there are currently approximately 650 jobs at stake, a corporate invasion will promise a greater jobs number and this current bill leaves that barn door open. Maybe, just Maybe they can get it correct on the next attempt should this not pass a veto override. Maybe we will not have a Solar burn, like we are getting a Wind burn.
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She does make a lot of sense.Wish she had illustrated more about the push for this solar bill,and how bogus their claims are. I am beyond aggravated by the smarmy ads they are now running on the radio to push this bill.
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Am I too pooped from spring cleaning or does this woman make more sense than most Maine legislators? At least I could identify with what she was saying and understand her reasoning and she shared her thought processes and learning curve. Don't we need more like her? Somebody correct me if I'm off kilter.
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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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