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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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My introduction to wind energy on industrial/utility scale was 8 years ago. Traveling in Devon, England, coming to the top of a hill in the moors, before me lay an incredible sight. Hundreds of utility scale wind turbines. My initial impression was “Wow”! “Awesome”! I thought, isn’t it neat they are getting “free” energy from the wind. Shortly thereafter, we had lunch at a local pub and I asked the local people about the wind turbines. Nobody there had anything good to say about them.
Back home, my curiosity led me to investigate industrial scale wind. My experience was like peeling an onion. What I perceived on the outside was far different than what was beneath. The more I peeled layers, the more was revealed. The more I learned about industrial scale wind, the more I saw an incredibly slick lobbying, marketing, and misinformation campaign positioning wind as the panacea for issues relating to energy and climate change. Like peeling an onion: more layers, more tears.
My experience with the Rollins project in Lincoln Lakes has been profound in two ways. Studying the impact of one medium sized project, then projecting it out to derive the impact of actually meeting the state's goal of 2700 MW land-based capacity by 2020 is mind boggling. It became the basis for our oft -repeated claim of 350 or so miles of ridgelines blasted and 50,000+ acreas of clearcuts. The other profound experience is how we citizens have been sold out by our own state and local governments in this push to expedite wind sites. Its very sad and extremely frustrating!
Mike, I am glad to have you join us!