April 2012 Blog Posts (44)

Strife in Ontario - The IWT Resistance - Sunday April 15th, 7pm ET

Rural Ontario is being plundered by the McGuinty government and his wind developer allies.  The citizens are actively resisting the onslaught. We will talk to some of the leaders of the resistance.

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Annie Cool has graciously accepted co-host duties again for this week's…

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Added by WWR on April 15, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

PLEASE LISTEN TO DONNA DAVIDGE SUPERB INTERVIEW WITH PHIL HARRIMAN

ATTENTION ONE AND ALL!

Today Donna did a superb job ON  THE OAKFIELD FIRST  WIND PROJECT  with her interview on WGAN with PHIL Harriman. You can listen to her live on this web site:

www.560WGAN.COM .

MONIQUE

Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 14, 2012 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Data basing Environmental impact of wind farm 'footprint'...site, access roads, transmission line ROW

As some of you know, I've raised the issue before the PUC and DEP of considering the environmental impact on CO2 and air pollution reduction from clear cutting forests and other bio-mass from these sites using iTREE software.

The iTREE program was specifically designed by the US Forest Service and several other organizations like the DAVEY FOUNDATION to 'measure' the tree and other bio-mass cover, on a tree-by-tree basis and then it's impact on converting CO2 into sequestered…

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on April 14, 2012 at 10:06am — 2 Comments

Maine Senate passes large hydroelectric as renewable power bill

Maine Senate passes renewable power bill

Posted April 12, 2012, at 6:18 p.m


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Added by Long Islander on April 13, 2012 at 6:00am — 6 Comments

Monique Aniel BDN Opinion Piece: Baldacci, not LePage, rushed important law

Baldacci, not LePage, rushed important law

Posted April 12, 2012, at 3:57 p.m.…

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Added by Long Islander on April 12, 2012 at 5:24pm — 1 Comment

Predictions?? PUC Tom Welch

I predict Tom Welch; current Chairman of the PUC will be employed by First Wind before 2013. Any takers? (READ BELOW)

 

The three members of the Public Utilities Commission gave the verbal go-ahead yesterday for a couple of Canadian utility companies, Emera of Nova…

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Added by Hart Daley on April 12, 2012 at 4:11pm — 1 Comment

Political Corruption in Dixfield regarding Citizen's Initiated Wind Ordinance - Attorney review

We had a selectmen's meeting in Dixfield Monday evening. The wind ordinance we had submitted to the town was sent to the town's attorney for review and interpretation by Town Manager Eugene Skibitsky. The town's attorney is Lee Bragg of Bernstein Shur and he found all kinds of fault with the ordinance which prompted the TM to offer another ordinance authored by Norinne Clark and Steve Donahue.

What should be looked…

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Added by Hart Daley on April 11, 2012 at 7:49pm — 2 Comments

Maine regulators OK First Wind deal against advice of staff (Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting)

Maine regulators OK wind deal against advice of staff

By Naomi Schalit and John Christie / Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting…



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Added by Long Islander on April 11, 2012 at 7:13am — 12 Comments

UMPI website reports a miniscule Capacity Factor for past 140 days

  The UMPI turbine website is reporting power production the past 140 days:  290,516 kWh "since mid-November" until April 6.  I calculate: 140 days at 600 Kw capacity and 24 hours per day comes to "installed capacity" of 20,160,000 kWh for that period; 290,516 kWh actual power production divided by the installed capacity gives a MINISCULE .014 Capacity Factor.  This compares very poorly to most Maine wind farms' CF, which range from .24 to .41 CF for the same period.

The site…

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Added by Harrison Roper on April 10, 2012 at 12:35pm — 1 Comment

Reference to Angus King's Wind Loan Guarantee in Washington Post and Bangor Daily News

Former Maine governor seeks Senate seat as independent, is critical of GOP policies

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Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2012 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Verrill Dana and First Wind Walloped by PPDLW and Maine guides

LURC decision leaves First Wind facing first defeat in Maine

Posted April 06, 2012, at 6:21 p.m.…


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Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2012 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Mad World Video

Mad World of Wind Turbines, video 3:26

 

3 minutes 26 seconds totally worth it.

 

Thank you to Dan Tubbs for the share.

Added by Ellin Beltz on April 9, 2012 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Alert to email Morgan Wright at DOE

1703 funding solicitation from DOE. Click on sent letters link found in 2nd paragraph of article, then click on the pdf.

See 4. Additionality. 4th paragraph.
Morgan Wright electronically at Morgan.Wright@hq.doe.gov.

Please take a few minutes to email him before April 27, 2012.

Added by Penny Melko on April 9, 2012 at 4:08am — 1 Comment

OAKFIELD APPEAL IS THIS WEDNESDAY - PLEASE ATTEND AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

Folks,

The fight moves from the Downeast Lakes to Oakfield and Island Falls,  where First Wind has been granted a permit to destroy the view from two Class 1 lakes - Mattawamkeag Lake and Pleasant Lake with 50 turbines each nearly 500 feet tall.   Lynne Williams has submitted a well written appeal,  which will be heard by the BEP on Wednesday April 11 at the State Planning Office, Room 110, 19 Union Street, Augusta.  The meeting begins at 9 am.  

The appeal brief and the staff…

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Added by Steve Thurston on April 7, 2012 at 10:08am — 7 Comments

FIRST WIND DENIED THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOWERS MOUNTAIN PROJECT!

 

MAY THIS WONDERFUL STORY GIVE  HOPE AND INSPIRATION TO ALL  WIND  WARRIORS!

THANK  YOU PPDLW:

  

PRESS RELEASE FROM PPDLW:

 

CONTACT: Kevin Gurall                                               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

           Email:  kevin@ppdlw.org

   CONTACT:  Gary Campbell

           Email: …

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 6, 2012 at 4:30pm — 12 Comments

FERC 1st quarter '12 spreadsheets are posted

FERC has posted some speadsheets of data on generators' power sales for the 1st quarter of 2012.  Ths list is short and will grow as more data reports come in. In a quick scan, I did not spot any Maine wind facilities' data. The quarterly summaries will be posted in a couple of weeks.

Harrison Roper  Houlton/Danforth, ME 

Added by Harrison Roper on April 6, 2012 at 1:55pm — No Comments

Leading Bird Conservation Group Formally Petitions Feds to Regulate Wind Industry

Petition presents a viable alternative to inadequate, unenforceable voluntary guidelines drafted by the government... (Washington, D.C., December 14, 2011) American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, today formally petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior to protect millions of birds from the negative impacts of wind energy by developing regulations that will safeguard wildlife and reward responsible wind energy…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on April 5, 2012 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Vinalhaven energy price

I wold like to know what Vinalhaven's  energy price per kwh was  before the turbines, and what it is now.

Thank you - Harry Roper   Houlton/Danforth

207-532-3797

Added by Harrison Roper on April 4, 2012 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

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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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