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UMPI's wind website has been partially updated

The University of Maine at Presque Isle is very proud of its windmill, and has been long on promises to share what has been learned from it…

Started by Harrison Roper

2 Mar 13, 2010
Reply by Charlie

Maybe A Strange Way To Attract The Public Eye But See The Response

I had no idea this video was going to hit the huge papers. I asked for answers and I had got none. Beaver Ridge didn't know really how to r…

Started by MaineBeauty

3 Feb 27, 2010
Reply by MaineBeauty

For a laugh, Google "Saudi Arabia of Wind"

I was curious who might have first uttered that tired phrase. Try it. The results are hilarious (see them below). Pretty much every state a…

Started by Art Brigades

3 Feb 21, 2010
Reply by Art Brigades

Webinar Invitation: Wind Turbine Syndrome - Myths and Facts, Thurs. Feb. 11 at 11am EST

What's below is sponsored by a pro-wind government sponsored "working group" here in Michigan.  Be sure it will be a hatchet job.  May be i…

Started by Charlie

2 Feb 15, 2010
Reply by Charlie

Citizens' Initiative

Maybe all of our groups should get together and put together a Citizens' Petition for a Satewide MORATORIUM on these Wind Turbine Developme…

Started by Stacey Scotia

6 Jan 25, 2010
Reply by Karen Bessey Pease

Two Anti-NIMBY Consultants Talk About Manipulation

Attached at the very bottom of my post is a PDF. It is a sales brochure used by a Boston PR Firm which infiltrates our towns long before we…

Started by Art Brigades

0 Jan 23, 2010

Wind turbine siting ordinances & criteria

I've been involved in 'teaching' Maine planners about correct siting of wind turbines--horizontal and vertical, i.e. AVCOG planners last No…

Started by Frank J. Heller, MPA

8 Jan 7, 2010
Reply by Art Brigades

The Mars Hill Experience

Dr. Michael A. Nissenbaum, a radiologist at the Northern Maine Medical Center, conducted interviews with fifteen people living near the win…

Started by Webmaster

2 Jan 4, 2010
Reply by Leola R. Ballweber

Welcome to the new website for Citizen's Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

This is an interactive, community based site, designed to make sharing ideas and information easy for everyone involved in the effort. This…

Started by Webmaster

1 Dec 21, 2009
Reply by Leola R. Ballweber

Foreign Oil Dependence

Does Industrial Wind Power reduce our use of oil or dependence on foreign oil?

Started by Webmaster

0 Nov 4, 2009

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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

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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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