January 2011 Blog Posts (28)

Seven Judges, decisions to make

Rufus brown did an excellent representation to the court. He was able to combined both the Oakfield and Roxbury cases as one. Noise is the major issue and the fact that the DEP will not give an open hearing concerning the projects and sound. If there was a hearing, then Rufus would be able to ask the "wind specialist" to prove their conclusions and to explain how they made there findings on the issues involved.

One justice even asked why the DEP didn't use this opportunity to allow a…

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Added by Leola R. Ballweber on January 12, 2011 at 9:45pm — No Comments

State Planning OFFICE 'hides' ? Reports documenting the potential of HYDROPOWER to deliver power for UNDERONE cent/KwH.

I spent yesterday afternoon in the State House researching out hydropower. With the help of a legislative reference librarian I got 18 pp. of energy related bills and two critical documents inventorying small hydropower sites in Maine.

In 1982, the State planning office prepared the MAINE COMPREHENSIVE HYDRO PLAN; it was updated in 1992; but 'apparently' not in 2002.  The report identified a total of 700.734 MW of capacity---unlike…

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on January 6, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those 'Global Warming' documents

Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those 'Global Warming' documents

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on January 6, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

Party Hat

Added by Whetstone_Willy on January 5, 2011 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments

bureau of Parks and Land last minutes talks of Freemont Tibbetts

http://www.maine.gov/doc/parks/programs/planning/northern/documents/WMtnsPublicMtgMinutes.pdf

Freeman Tibbetts spoke about wind power proposals in the Western Mountains of Maine and

shared with Bureau staff CDs of aerial photography he took on a flight over the mountains.…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on January 3, 2011 at 1:11pm — No Comments

Mainers cooling to oil heat

I read this article in today's Portland Press-Herald and had to laugh that after years of Governor Baldacci and NRCM telling us that wind power will "help get Maine off of foreign oil", there is nary a mention of wind or electricity in an article about reduced oil usage. Of course the reason for this is that wind won't displace a drop of oil and the only things wind will succeed at is driving Maine's already high non-competitive electricity costs through the roof, despoiling our quality of…

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Added by Long Islander on January 3, 2011 at 9:37am — No Comments

Save the Parks and Public Reserved Lands from Turbines

The Bangor Daily News recently ran an editorial where out-going Dept of Conservation Commissioner was expressing concern about the incoming Governor cutting parks budget.  This is my response:

 

Save the Parks and Public Reserved Lands from Turbines

 

When did Eliza Townsend ever speak up to Baldacci about the greatest single threat to…

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Added by Brad Blake on January 2, 2011 at 5:12pm — No Comments

UMPI turbine's output for 10 days average, including a blizzard and a shutdown

The UMPI turbines' website reports average power output of 3,379.7 kWh per day for 12/22 - 12/31. This from a turbine which has "installed capacity" of 14,200 kWh per day.  So, the turbine achieved 23.8 % of its installed capacity forthe period. 

  The best day in the 10-day period was December 22, when it produced 5784 kWh. This is 40.7 % of installed capacity, and is unusually high for a wind turbine.   Still, this was the result of the equivalent of ten hours of "good" wind .... I…

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Added by Harrison Roper on January 1, 2011 at 3:07pm — No Comments

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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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