Bode's Remarks Do Not Bode Well For Wind Sprawl
What the AWEA wants is the government to make us buy their wind electricity -- at high prices. And make us pay for massively expensive, unsightly and otherwise wholly unnecessary new transmission lines so that Mainers and those in southern New England can but this expensive electricity. Skyrocketing electricity prices coming from statewide industrial turbine and transmission blight that is sprawling to undermine Maine's Quality of Place is the last thing that our elected officials should be making hard working struggling Mainers buy into.
The jig is up.
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Comment by Jill Cross on August 4, 2010 at 9:17am
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We as taxpayers must question these subsidy seeking thieves, which unfortunately includes our state leaders. Why shouldn't the public get the dollars to spend on residential renewable energy options? Oh, I know why. They want us all plugged into the great grid! Well "just say no to grid". What 'regulatory expertise' are they talking about? There seems to be little of either going on in Maine with the current leadership, term used loosely!
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Comment by Long Islander on July 29, 2010 at 7:02pm
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Why is it that Rep Stacey Fitts can be one of the biggest wind cheerleaders in the state, making decisions on wind and shaping legislation - all of which will benefit his employer, Kleinschmidt Associates. Look what they ran on their website up until recently. No shame whatsoever.
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Meanwhile, from today's NY Times: "Europe Slashes Low-Carbon Energy Subsidies as Budgets Shrink "
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/07/29/29climatewire-europe-slashe...
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Comment by Harrison Roper on July 29, 2010 at 4:19pm
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I live in Houlton, about 48 miles south of Presque Isle, and monitor the "Live Turbine Data" site daily. The past ten days there has been some wind (for a change) and here are the the results: 4222 kwh produced in tehndays, or an average of 422.2 kwh per dayfrom this 600kw inland turbine July 20-29. That's not much- a really good wind for 24 hours would produce about 24X 600, or 14,400 kwh per day, I would think.
I wonder who else is keeping track of this, and what figures are they getting? The highest kw ouptut I have noted was 333kw in a 15mph wind at 7:00 pm Monday July 26. Has anyone noted a higher output?
Does Ms. Bode dare to look at the facts?
Harrison Roper Houlton/Danforth
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Comment by Karen Bessey Pease on July 29, 2010 at 2:38pm
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Wonderful... I think I voted for Mr. Dole once, too...
Boy, oh boy... talk about a powerful opponent. They really bring in the big guns, don't they?
We need some of that...
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Two of the AWEA's lobbyists are Tom Daschle, former Senator from SD and former Senate Majority Leader and Bob Dole, former Senator from Kansas and former Senate Majority Leader - two states where large numbers of wind turbines are installed and extract tremendous subsidies from taxpayers, slowly bleeding us dry.
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The question is: Will the extreme pressure that the wind industry is putting on our congressional delegate cause them to vote in a Renewable Energy Standard, even knowing that it is too expensive for the tax payers of this state and country to pay for?? Let's hope common sense and fiscal responsibility can overcome strong-arm tactics, expensive advertisements and well-paid lobbyists.
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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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