March 2013 Blog Posts (49)
Maine DEP Concerned By State Board's Overturning of Passadumkeag Wind Project Denial
Maine DEP Concerned By State Board's Overturning of Department Wind Power Project Denial
March 21, 2013
CONTACT:
Contact: Samantha Warren, Maine DEP Director of Communications, (207) 287-5842
-Maine’s leading environmental agency had rejected the 14-turbine wind farm atop Passadumkeag Ridge because of its unreasonable visual impact but a state appeals board overturned that today-
AUGUSTA – Officials with the Maine Department of Environmental…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on March 21, 2013 at 3:29pm — 10 Comments
Maine DEP To Hold First of Two Public Meetings On Proposed 18-Turbine Hancock Wind Project
Maine DEP To Hold First of Two Public Meetings On Proposed 18-Turbine Hancock Wind Project
March 21, 2013
Environmental Protection
Samantha Warren, Maine DEP Director of Communications, (207) 287-5842
-The meeting is one of two DEP is hosting to inform the public and invite comment on an 18-turbine wind farm being proposed in Hancock County by FirstWind-
AURORA – The Maine Department of Environmental Protection will host a public meeting on…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on March 21, 2013 at 3:14pm — 1 Comment
Chris Jackson in BDN: No wind development on Passadumkeag Mountain
No wind development on Passadumkeag Mountain
On Thursday, March 21, the Board of Environmental Protection will consider whether to uphold a 2012 Department of Environmental Protection denial of an industrial-scale wind development on top of scenic Passadumkeag Mountain. The…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on March 20, 2013 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
Meeting tonight: Bingham Wind Project Expedited Permitting
Bingham Wind Project Expedited Permitting Update Public Information Meeting
Full story: bangordailynews.com…
Added by Long Islander on March 20, 2013 at 11:00am — No Comments
Grid chief warns of New England power issues
Grid chief warns of New England power issuesThe region's growing dependence on natural gas – combined with supply constraints – "is unsustainable," Gordon van Welie says.… |
Added by Long Islander on March 20, 2013 at 10:36am — No Comments
Construction CEO Advocates Wrecking Mainers' Vacation and Year Round Paradise to Line His Pockets
Let wind turbines stand on Passadumkeag Mountain
Added by Long Islander on March 19, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments
Energy
Stetson Wind and Evergreen .
Please explain?
Added by Jane s Roy on March 17, 2013 at 11:16pm — 1 Comment
Maine Wind Sites Production for entire year 2012
We have final figures for the major industrial wind sites in Maine for the entire year 2012. We continue to track what is miserably poor production, with the exception of Mars Hill, the only project in Maine that comes near the output touted by the wind industry. Wondering why Spruce Mountain Wind in Woodstock does not appear? We finally have the answer: projects of 20 MW rating or less are not required to report…
ContinueAdded by Brad Blake on March 16, 2013 at 11:00pm — 17 Comments
Advice to other towns from Clifton: "Slam the door on these wind projects"
Added by Long Islander on March 16, 2013 at 8:27pm — 2 Comments
Esteemed Maine Writer George Smith Gets Written Up Himself by Columbia Journalism Review
04:00 PM - March 13, 2013
Windmills, tourism, and transparency
Maine blogger’s ongoing conflict-of-interest problems spark concern
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on March 16, 2013 at 7:00am — 5 Comments
My Comments to SAM re: George Smith
Mr. Trahan & Mr. Dunlop,
George Smith freely stated that SAM has in the past and currently supports industrial wind companies who are destroying hundreds of miles and thousands of acres of wildlife habitat in our great State of Maine.
Is this the current position of SAM?
Do you and SAM support the unwanted and uneccessary…
ContinueAdded by Hart Daley on March 15, 2013 at 7:48pm — 1 Comment
I knew these pictures on a pro-wind website looked familiar...
Added by Brian McAuliffe on March 15, 2013 at 10:45am — No Comments
DEP FIRST IN MAINE WIND DENIAL APPEALED TO BEP: WAYS YOU CAN HELP
On Thursday, March 21, Commissioners of the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) will hear the landowner's and developer's appeals of DEP's November 2012 denial of a permit for industrial-scale wind on Passadumkeag Mountain in Grand Falls Plantation, in eastern Penobscot County near the town of Burlington.
If you have time and inclination, Passadumkeag…
ContinueAdded by Elizabeth Johns on March 14, 2013 at 10:00am — 3 Comments
State lawmakers debate whether state policy should play favorites when it comes to renewable energy
Does anyone else find it odd when business people demand "certainty"? I thought the mark of a good business person was to figure out how to succeed in conditions of uncertainty. I guess there's business and there's Rent-Seeking.
AUGUSTA — State lawmakers Tuesday…
Added by Long Islander on March 13, 2013 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
BDN - Biofuels development in Maine: Using trees to oil the wheels of sustainability
Biofuels development in Maine: Using trees to oil the wheels of sustainability
Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2013 at 9:59pm — 1 Comment
Today at 1pm Maine legislature EUT Committee hears bill to remove 100MW cap from acceptable renewable energy providers.
WIND INDUSTRY SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR FRAUD
http://bangordailynews.com/community/wind-industry-should-be-prosecuted-for-fraud/
Wind Industry Should be Prosecuted for Fraud…
ContinueAdded by Tony Elliott on March 11, 2013 at 9:56pm — 1 Comment
Readers Let George Smith Have It
Wind Power Column Draws Fire
The author characterizes those who are trying to stop these 500' tall wildlife habitat fracturing structures from hurting Mainers' health, happiness, natural environment and pocketbooks as "nasty and bullish".
You can see this with your own eyes right here:…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on March 11, 2013 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments
Doctor, the patient has been flat-lining all along.
The famous global warming graph... the notorious Hockey Stick... well, um...
Take a look at the new temperature graph
"Yet it was on that modest rise in the 1980s and 1990s that the whole of the greatest and most expensive scare in history was launched on its way, with all the terrifying political and…
ContinueAdded by Ellin Beltz on March 10, 2013 at 12:30am — No Comments
Legal fees for wind farm battle part of upcoming Clifton annual town meeting
Legal fees for wind farm battle part of upcoming Clifton annual town meeting
Added by Long Islander on March 9, 2013 at 11:57pm — No Comments
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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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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