Looking east across the Bigelow Range.7
This is a view of Bigelow Mt. showing Flagstaff Lake to the left (North) and Little Bigelow is just to the right of the main Mountain.The peak is Avery peak and the Appalachian trail follows this ridge and along the ridge of Little Bigelow. Just behind Little Bigelow is where the Hills of Highland Plantation are located and where Highland Mountain LLC wants to erect 38 wind turbines each 400 foot tall, with blinking lights, require billions in taxpayer subsidization and jack electricity rates to $23.40 per Megawatt while every other source costs around $1.00 per Megawatt.
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Comment by Long Islander on March 26, 2011 at 7:37am
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This amazing grandeur is being sacrificed to line the pockets of the biggest hypocrites Maine has ever known, destroying these vistas under the guise of saving the planet. They are elitists who have nothing but contempt for the little man.
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Comment by Brad Blake on March 25, 2011 at 10:48pm
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This makes me cry. What are we doing to our beautiful state for such a useless folly? One of the peaks in this photo of Bigelow is named for Myron Avery, the visionary who who led the way to extend the Appalachian Trail from Mt. Washington through to its present northern terminus, mighty Katahdin. Myron Avery and Gov. Percival Baxter, who gave Mt. Katahdin to Maine, would never approve of this travesty. Where are all the people who rallied to preserve Bigelow? Every person who has trod any part of the Appalachian Trail or drove to the viewpoint of Center Hill in Mt. Blue State Park or fished in the Downeast Grand Lakes or swam in the Lincoln Lakes or drove through our rural areas during fall foliage should vigorously oppose the proliferation of industrial wind sites in Maine.
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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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