Maine Bureau of Parks & Lands: is secret roadbuilding in Camden Hills St Pk a precursor to windmillery there?

Just as the Bureau of Parks and Lands tried and failed  to enter the wind energy land leasing business offshore in Maine's submerged public lands, so it is presently almost certainly also seeking to open up the Camden Hills and other public lands under its jurisdiction to intensive windfarms. 


Can't do that in state parks or public reserved lands? Not a problem.  Just takes a  2/3 vote of the legislature to open any of Maine's  public lands... 

Chiefly, what mountain windtheft requires are ROADS to get the operation up there and maintained. (cont'd below)

According to this April 8, 2010 article in the Free Press the Bureau of Parks and Lands has been transforming key hiking trails of Camden Hills state park into graveled roads.  

Using the utterly preposterous claim that this land clearing, blasting, bulldozing,  grading and graveling  is simple "trail maintenance" and as such doesn'ted approval from Maine DEP or any other agency, the Bureau has just gone off on its own initiative using private money  to hire the contractors and prison labor for the grunt work.  Whether Maine DEP has truly been in the dark about this patently unlawful activity,or is feigning so, (see closing paragraphs of above article) the whole thing is highly susupect and needs to be publicly scrutinized. Probably litigated about.

BPL likes wind mills. They were  quite upfront to the legislature about wanting to earn money leasing the public domain to the commercial wind industry. Judging from the immense fees they wanted to charge, the bureau hopes to earn big bucks leasing public land for wind. 

Let's take a deeper look at BPLs "trail maintenance" projects around the state. I doubt Camden Hills state park is the only one doing this - let along the many non-park public lands that the Bureau of Parks and Lands administers.

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This is insane! And it's damned clear to me that this is just the first step towards windmills. Why widen the trail if not for that? For the destruction by ATVs? It's supposed to be for hikers! Who wants to hike and get run over by a bunch of louts on ATVs. Who donated this "private money"? Lots of questions for Mr. Elliot to answer in court!! I wanted to comment on this at the end of the article but they want your name, phone number email, etc. No way am I giving out all my ID to anyone.
Joanne why don't you put your comments together and post them here; then I or others will post addl comments on freepressonline that includes a link to your post here on the topic.

Joanne Moore said:
This is insane! And it's damned clear to me that this is just the first step towards windmills. Why widen the trail if not for that? For the destruction by ATVs? It's supposed to be for hikers! Who wants to hike and get run over by a bunch of louts on ATVs. Who donated this "private money"? Lots of questions for Mr. Elliot to answer in court!! I wanted to comment on this at the end of the article but they want your name, phone number email, etc. No way am I giving out all my ID to anyone.
Ron, You are welcome to link to my comment above. I don't have any other comment on this topic to post. At the end of the article I would have said exactly what I just said, minus the last two sentences. Do you want me to insert that comment here without those last two sentences?
Yes. Feel free to elaborate on the theme if you like.

Joanne Moore said:
Ron, You are welcome to link to my comment above. I don't have any other comment on this topic to post. At the end of the article I would have said exactly what I just said, minus the last two sentences. Do you want me to insert that comment here without those last two sentences?
This is insane! And it's damned clear to me that this is just the first step towards the construction of windmills. Why on earth widen the trail into a road if not for that reason? These trails are for hikers, not ATVs and certainly not for vehicles. Who would want to hike a trail just to get run over by a bunch of louts on ATVs or, for that matter, trucks and rigs needed to erect 400 foot tall windmills?
Who donated this "private" money? This is a state park and all records should be open to the public. What's the big secret behind this donation? Lots of questions for Mr. Elliot to answer in court!!
See: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/141097.html

Group criticizes enlarging of trail
Lincolnville path part of larger loop
Good, the pot gets stirred. Time for an overflight to see what scar has actually been cut in the poor Camden Hills by BPL. Any volunteers?

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