Stetson turbines at Hot Brook Pond
These Stetson II turbines as seen from the public boat landing on Upper Hot Brook Pond are what will become the scene all over the uplands of Maine, from the Grand Lakes of Downeast Maine to Lincoln Lakes to the western mountains of Maine. This is what will attract tourists to our beautiful state?
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Comment by Hart Daley on April 4, 2012 at 9:16pm
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I truly feel like the native american with a tear in my eye! Horrible.
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Comment by Lisa Lindsay on July 31, 2010 at 7:39pm
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Wow. Thanks for posting this, Brad. Good to have that perspective. I noted the tiny fishing boat relative to the turbines. They sure dominate over everything around them.
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Comment by Brad Blake on July 31, 2010 at 3:06pm
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Note also, they crammed in turbines well below the ridgeline. It proves that industrial wind is not about electricity, its about sticking up as many as possible to gain the most subsidies from taxpayers! Stetson II wouldn't even exist, if it weren't for the misguided largess of the Obama administration when they gave an outright grant of $115 million to First Wind to keep it from going bankrupt in Sept. 2009. Stetson II had been mothballed---nothing happening---until $40.4 million of your taxpayer dollars went into its construction. Now these turbines are there, not producing electricity because there is no capacity on Bangor Hydro line 61, but they are all paid for and the REC's sold for millions. First Wind rescued, but Jimmey Mt. and Owl Mt. and Upper & Lower Hot Brook ponds "Quality of Place" ruined forever! What a scam!
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Comment by Long Islander on July 31, 2010 at 12:03pm
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And the incremental massive transmission lines that they will require due to thermal overloading all the way to Kittery are even uglier. Once Maine looks like NJ, why will tourists come here?
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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."
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