Windpower plans off Maine could wreck midcoast lobster fishery

Industrial Wind investors are now turning on the Gulf of Maine. Recent research, however, bodes ill for Maine's lobster fishery if floating windmills are set athwart the eastern Maine Coastal Current. Studies from Europe's ocean windfarms show that the continuous interception and diversion of millions of watts of energy away from the ocean surface at these fixed geographic locations creates enormous upwellings of cold, denser seafloor water to the surface; these interfere with currents that bump into them. Lobster fishery of Penobscot bay and midcoast maine is dependent on lobster larvae transported there on the coastal current. Bad windmill siting could send them offshore instead of inshore. Layout by Tristan G S T.

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Comment by Ron Huber on January 29, 2011 at 10:05pm

More links about this issue.  Starting with the 2008 study  that got this issue going about ocean windpower extraction's upwelling impacts on the  water column in the 'energy footprint' of each turbine

https://wiki.met.no/_media/windfarms/brostrom_jms_2008.pdf

On the influence of large wind farms on the upper ocean circulation
Goran Brostrom Norwegian Meteorological Institute, OSLO, Norway
http://tinyurl.com/brostrom-wind

Influence of large-scale wind power on global climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2004 http://tinyurl.com/windyclimate

Global potential for wind-generated electricity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 See last few paragraphs. http://tinyurl.com/windclimate

On the climate impact of surface roughness anomalies. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (2008) http://tinyurl.com/windrough
In the article, ocean windmills are a form of "surface roughness" when operating on the sea surface

News Commentators discuss the issue
http://tinyurl.com/windweather

* Discovery news:""Extracting energy from wind changes regional air currents, which can in turn affect how the nearby ocean circulates, according to Goran Brostrom of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo." 

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/12/wind-farm-oceans.html

Comment by Mary Beth Nolette on January 29, 2011 at 9:01am

This is an excellent point. We need to fully understand the impact of offshsore wind turbine siting on lobster. Maine lobster is our brand. It is possible that improper siting could send lobster larvae to offshore sites. It is also possible that they could bypass our local coastline and be sent straight to Cape Cod or Long Island, NY. If these are not sited correctly, electricity may not be the only thing that we will be sending down to Massachusetts.

It could mean the end of the Maine economy as we know it.

 

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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

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"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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