March 2010 Blog Posts (58)

Passes Unanimously today LD 1786 (HP 1274) "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"

LD 1786 http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280035631 Representative HINCK for the Joint Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Public Law 2009, chapter 372, Part F, section 4, subsection 6 reports that the Bill be REFERRED to the Committee on UTILITIES AND ENERGY and printed pursuant to Joint Rule 218.

Report was READ and ACCEPTED.

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Added by Lyle on March 18, 2010 at 9:29pm — 2 Comments

Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.

Maine ocean windfarm bill LD 1810- Two hour five sided slugfest with no clear winner yet. Battle/worksession to be rejoined Tuesday 1pm before Utility and energy Committee. Incredible to hear the forces of Beauty & wild fish and wildlife giving the multibillion dollared industrial wind horde quite the walloping! Though the Wind empire is hammering back, hungry for… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 8:58pm — 4 Comments

Listen NOW to Maine legislature deciding on whether to allow nearshore windfarms

Listen to the Maine Legislature's Utility and Energy Committee deciding the fate of the Gulf of Maine. Will the legislators approve a bill that

would open nearly all of Maine State waters to absentee-owned

industrial marine windfarming? Or will they transform the bill LD1810,

into a resolve that is sent out to communities and stakeholders for a

year


Right now (5:10 pm) they…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 5:11pm — No Comments

BDN (Maineville edition): State legislators scrambling as furious fishermen fight plan to "close the commons".

Bangor Daily News 3/ 17/10
Maineville Edition…


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Added by Ron Huber on March 17, 2010 at 2:49pm — 4 Comments

Report on Stetson II

Yesterday we wen to our camp on the hill across the lake from Stetson II. It was a clear and very stil lday - there was very little wind. Only oneturbine was turning. A neithbor who lives nearby reported that he had not ever heard any noise from the turbines.

I heard from LURC - The protocol for noise testing on Stetson II is "in discussion" and nothing has been approved. Iwill get a copy of the protocol when it is approved. I will be looking especially for it to include dbC, as…

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Added by Harrison Roper on March 17, 2010 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Town of Woodstock, Selectmen get introduced to Moratorium Petition 3/16/10

I want to thank all of you out there that have supported me through this first step towards a moratorium. The people of Woodstock know of the dangers that these wind turbines have and realize that there should be at least a one mile distance from all abutting property,s. Once they realize that their building code that was revised March, 2009, to deal with wind turbines, is very dangerous for distance, they will want to have that corrected for the… Continue

Added by Leola R. Ballweber on March 16, 2010 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Angus and the 'tute see the light

Added by Ron Huber on March 16, 2010 at 3:04pm — 7 Comments

Carolyn Chute - Does this sound familiar?

If we are one thing, we are a diverse group - a federation of busy lives moving in every direction, but intersecting at a locus that repels those who would wish to take something away from us.

The following is from an article in the NY Times about author Carolyn Chute and her husband Michael. If someone knows Ms. Chute, please send out a call for help. The pen can beat back the turbine and help chase the interloping thieves off the land.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Jobs for U.S. workers?

China refines 95 percent of rare earth compounds that are used in making parts for wind turbines. That same rare earth is used in making the batteries for the Toyota Prius. China may soon put limits on the exporting of these compounds and Toyota may have to open a pit mine in California to obtain what they need.



This leads me to the question, how on earth do companies like Bath Iron Works (BIW) plan to make these turbines, plus pay union scale workers to build them and hope to compete… Continue

Added by Joanne Moore on March 16, 2010 at 12:22am — 5 Comments

560 WGAN Interview with J. Dwight

3/13/10

Below is the link to an archive of 560 WGAN's radio interview with J. Dwight on wind power on 3/13/10.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 14, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

After The Wind Rush

Will Maine become an electrical importer because of the “ wind rush ?”

Currently, Maine produces electricity using 50% reliable, renewable sources ( hydro-power and biomass ) and exports a surplus.

With 3 large natural gas plants built in the 1990’s, Maine will be able to meet electrical demand until 2017.

What will all the new generation wind facilities do for us ?

Experiences in California and Denmark may answer this question.

Denmark has reached the goal of producing… Continue

Added by Dan McKay on March 14, 2010 at 5:41am — 4 Comments

Wind Turbine Jargin

In Connecticut in the New Haven Harbor ONE company placed ONE 150 ft. turbine. It now is supplying this company with a good portion of their electricity, so they say. But what caught my ears was the interview with the company that constructed it. Word for word right out of their book on how to talk to people and how to sell the turbines. No matter how big or small they quoate the same stories. Green Energy, Fossil Fuel and Carbon Footprints. Not even an add lib, they are very good salesman I… Continue

Added by Michele Currivan on March 13, 2010 at 8:10am — 2 Comments

Land For Maine's Future?

Don't ask me why, but I Googled Land For Maine's Future and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust - Protecting the Character of Maine for Future Generations. Almost 500,000 acres of land have been bought up by the gov'mint. Lots of money was bonded, I remember 'cause I voted for these bonds. Is any of that land in danger of being industrialized by big windies? And, if Maine is supposed to be protecting the character of… Continue

Added by Joanne Moore on March 12, 2010 at 7:29pm — 6 Comments

Biostitute Alert: wind industry bird consultants set to spew guano in Camden March 18th

Camden Public Library on Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m.

Richard Podolsky, who has "a twenty year track record in helping “big box” developers, oil and gas, electric and renewable (especially wind), energy…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 12, 2010 at 4:30am — 28 Comments

The War of 1810 - Maine's fishermen move to repel Big Energy invaders from their home waters.

A good day for fishermen at Maine's State Legislature…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 11, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

LD 1786, An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development

Friends of Maine's Mountains (FMM) is having many communications with the legislature. Attached is a note sent to them yesterday regarding a crucial distinction they intend to make, largely in a vacuum.

Please review and contact legislators on the Utilities and Energy Committee at the following contact…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 11, 2010 at 11:47am — No Comments

R.I. Businesses Oppose Expensive Wind Power

Business group balks at cost of wind power



Alex Kuffner, Journal Staff Writer, The Providence Journal,



www.projo.com



10 March 2010…



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Added by Art Brigades on March 11, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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

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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