Yale invests in controversial wind farm
.http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/mar/24/yale-invests-in-controversial-wind-farm/

The clear cut is just another short cut by the Yale Endowment. They thought Bernie Madoff made money by being smart too.

What other parts of Maine is Yale University plundering?

"According to tax transfer documents, Bayroot paid $26,428,000 for land in Lexington Township, $41,877,500 for parcels in nine townships, $20,674,048 for Little W Township, $34,646,500 for tracts in seven western townships and the townships of Madrid, Salem and Freeman, and $4,898,000 for land in Herseytown and T2R5 WELS. All of the transactions closed on Dec. 2. Wagner will be re-selling some of the Mead lands for the Bayroot investors to recoup some of the purchase costs. About 125,000 acres of woodlots may be available soon to interested parties". (From
Continuing Land Sales in Maine's North Woods Lead to Conservation, Fragmentation -- By Phyllis Austin, Maine Environmental News (www.meepi.org). 6/9/04)

http://www.meepi.org/files04/pa060804.htm

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Comment by Brad Blake on April 7, 2011 at 11:07pm
I notice on the lisy below that Bayroot has no certification whatsoever.  Not even included on the list were 2 huge timberland owners in the northeastern part of Maine:  HC Haynes and WT Gardiner & Sons.  Neither of them are certified, either.  HC Haynes has the dubious distinction of being the most heavily fined timber company in the history of the state, that's how bad their forestry practices are.  Haynes and Gandiner have found a new source of revenue from their over-cut, raped woodlands.  They are the leading lessors of land to First Wind at Stetson, Rollins, and the proposed Bowers projects.  As someone testified in Lincoln at a Planning Board meeting, "might as well put wind turbines up on Rollins Mt.  Haynes has stripped the forest so bad up there."  Still not a good reason to destroy Rollins Mt.  No matter how badly strip cut a forest is or how badly the skidders and mechanical harvesters gouge the forest floor, it heals and grows back.  You can't put a mountain back together after it has been blasted away, leveled, and thousands of tons of concrete and steel rebar poured into it.  Those scars are forever.
Comment by Whetstone_Willy on April 7, 2011 at 12:11pm

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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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