The following is excerpted from Downeast Magazine at http://www.downeast.com/magazine/2011/march/education-green-living

"And then there’s the three-hundred-foot-tall, six hundred-kilowatt wind turbine that looms over the athletic fields at the…

The following is borrowed from the website http://realwindinfoforme.com/blog/see-you-saturday/

See You Saturday

Last Updated: February 4, 2011

PENDING DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATON DP 4886

On January 31, 2011 the Commission has received a Development Permit Application from Blue Sky East, L.L.C., an affiliate of First Wind of Boston, MA, for a 34.2 megawatt (MW) grid scale…

Wind farm opponents to host Freeport summit

FREEPORT — The Harraseeket Inn will sponsor a Mountaintop Industrial Wind Legislative Summit on Saturday, Feb. 12.

The summit will start at 8 a.m. and run until 4 p.m.

Individuals and members of activist groups from across Maine will convene to coordinate their efforts and develop strategies for supporting the many protective…

Please be on the lookout for conflicts of interest. The following is worth a quick read. If the citizens aren't vigilant, than who?

Situations Involving Conflict of Interest

(1 M.R.S.A. § 1014(1))

A Legislator engages in a violation of legislative ethics if that Legislator votes on a question in connection with a conflict of interest in committee or in either body of the Legislature or attempts to influence the outcome…

This is a copy of a post I wrote for my personal blog a few days ago. Thought I'd repost it here.

Do you have a special place? That place you've…

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_17306528

 My self-imposed task of monitoring of the UMPI turbine website continues. The latest ten-day net power production for this 600 kW turbine averaged 935.7 kWh per day.  That's 6.6% of "rated capacity"! 

My casual log of rotor windspeeds shows the following  momentary data:  (Rotor-level wind speed in mph)  4.3; 2.5; calm; 7.8; 3.8; calm;14.5; 13.9; 7.4; 9.6; 5.1; calm, calm, calm, 3.1; 5.4; 3.4; 13.2; 10.5; 15.2; (one day I skipped; the next day, 2/08, the site reported all zeroes),…

www.kassociates.com_MarineRenewable_default.htm.pdf

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK which up until recently appeared on the website of Kleinschmidt Associates.

http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/980299

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Energy group funded via state agency hired mostly Dem lawmakers, activists

One month ago, on January 1, 2011, the UMPI website had gone blooey, showing no data, so as a surrogate for 1/1/11, we'll use the KWH recorded on 12/29/10 - 1,029,982. To see the 12/29/10 production, please look at the Excel screenshot dated 12/29/10 at

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/umpi-wind-turbine-2011

Today, project to date KWH's stand at…

Now, here is the DEP response to the fact that the turbines in Mars Hill have exceeded rule limits :

This 2 dBA exceedance is within what is an imperceptible change in noise level to the average person.  These findings above the 50 dBA limit are a minor deviation from the compliance standard

We heard from the same DEP at the Woodstock appeal that sound modeling included an additional 3dBa to model calculations. One commissioner asked how to quantify this and was told 3dBa was…

On January 3, 2011,  the US Dept of Energy published a notice on a plan to add twenty new categorical exclusions to review of development projects as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Windpower is, alas, part of that plan.  Deadline to add your input is February 17,…

http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Wind-machines-are-out-of-place-in-the-forest-.html

‘Wind machines are out of place in the forest’

One of the groups opposing Industrial Wind’s intrusion on inland Maine (Friends Of The Highland Mountains)…

Maine%20Smart%20Grid%20Center%20-%20msg-whitepaper.pdf

The attached can be downloaded by clicking the file above or clicking the following link:

http://www.eece.maine.edu/grid/msg-whitepaper.pdf

The BEP will hear Rufus Brown argue in appeal of the proposed Woodstock Maine industrial wind development this Thursday, February 3. The BEP staff will start the meeting at 10 AM rather than 8 AM because of the weather. In the event that State Offices are delayed beyond the 10:00 o’clock timeframe the Board meeting will also be delayed to that new time.

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