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Comment by Long Islander on January 30, 2010 at 6:29am
Election Day 2010 is open season on elected officials.
Comment by Whetstone_Willy on January 17, 2010 at 11:21pm
Stacey Fitts cosponsored LD 199 (HP 164), "An Act To Facilitate Wind Power Siting".
http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/sponsors.asp?ID=280030625
As the Bangor Daily News wrote, "LD 199 would preclude local ordinances in many areas of Maine and give state regulators authority over siting and design of large wind farms."
Comment by Whetstone_Willy on January 17, 2010 at 10:59pm
Geez, how come if he works for Kleinschmidt Associates his official web page (paid for with our tax dollars) says that "Rep. Fitts is a self employed consultant"?
http://www.maine.gov/legis/house_gop/members/fitts.htm
Comment by Long Islander on December 29, 2009 at 3:17pm
"we have been very active in the development of state regulations in Maine, where one of Kleinschmidt's engineers is a member of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force".

- Kleinschmidt Associates, employer of Stacey Fitts

http://www.kassociates.com/MarineRenewable/default.htm
Comment by arthur qwenk on December 29, 2009 at 2:06pm
Please post Rep. Mcleod District 11 as another Wind Shill! Leases land for turbine to First Wind and undermines process in Lee

 

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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