May 2011 Blog Posts (38)

Mike DiCenso: Time for a UMPI wind reality check

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Time for wind reality check

Posted May 17, 2011, at 8:39 p.m.…
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Added by Long Islander on May 17, 2011 at 9:07pm — 2 Comments

LePage Administration Proposes Maine Energy Policy Overhaul

 

Below, Jeremy Payne of the wind industry decries unpredictability as an enemy of his business. I say that a good business person will figure out a way to make money in the face of unpredictability -- these are not business people, rather these are rent seekers expecting guaranteed gargantuan gains on the backs of the little person, Joe Ratepayer and Jane Taxpayer.

 

Also, Phil…

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Added by Long Islander on May 17, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Educational supper Friday May 20, 2011 3-7 pm Dixfield High School FREE Mike Rogers speaks 4-5

Free Educational supper.  Firday May 20, 2011 3-7 pm   Dixfield High School

Mike Rogers (Maine Taxation) speaks 4-5 pm. 

Send information you want to share.  We will print out and place on tables.

Utility sized turbines and alternatives.

 

Will be fun.

Added by alice mckay barnett on May 17, 2011 at 10:40am — No Comments

sent today to the Energy ,Utility and Technology committee .

Honorable Chairman Thibodeau and Fitts and members of the EUT committee,
 
Tomorrow you will be  called  upon to vote on Rep Fitts amendment to LD 1366 .  I urge you to vote the  amendment down as  it will not solve any of the problems brought to you at the  public  hearings.  I attended two days of public hearings and  three working sessions.  …
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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 16, 2011 at 7:34pm — No Comments

Two letters: Rent-seeking wind firms / Mount Waldo — is wind worth it? (Bangor Daily News)

 

Rent-seeking wind firms

In recent years politicians have spent billions on subsidies and grants to encourage the development of wind power. The result is that rent-seeking entrepreneurs have jumped on the wind power bandwagon to cash in the subsidies. One such firm is Eolian Renewable Energy.
Eolian’s business strategy: Find a small rural community with some terrain suitable for industrial wind…
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Added by Long Islander on May 15, 2011 at 8:18pm — No Comments

IMPACTS Carbon Emissions The coal (coke) and oil required to mine, refine, manufacture, transport, install and maintain an industrial wind-turbine pollutes the atmosphere with more CO2 than that ind…

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Carbon Emissions

The coal (coke) and oil required to mine, refine, manufacture, transport, install and maintain an industrial wind-turbine pollutes the atmosphere with more CO2 than that industrial turbine can ever come close to displacing. It can't happen. Wherever CO2 is produced it diffuses to everywhere in the atmosphere.

No industrial wind-turbine can lessen our dependence on oil one iota. It is too expensive to heat our homes and run our vehicles. But the lie… Continue

Added by MaineHiker on May 15, 2011 at 7:40pm — No Comments

North of Ordinary, South of Openly

 

 

The two candles on this cake produce more power than the UMPI wind turbine has produced much of the time.

 

Today is the two year anniversary of the University of Maine's $2million wind turbine…

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Added by Long Islander on May 14, 2011 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

A Letter to the Legislature - Putting Maine's wind potential in proper perspective

The following letter went to every Maine legislator today - along with the following Excel file.

 

KW%20per%20Sq%20Mile.xls

 

*** Copies addressed to all Maine legislators via Multiple Emails ***

 
A lot of "biomass" got thrown around during the Baldacci era with…
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Added by Long Islander on May 13, 2011 at 8:15pm — 1 Comment

Logging Ain't What It Use To Be

On Monday night, I took my last college class and was able to draw a sigh of relief. It was so good to get it finished and concentrate on our Supreme Court Appeal for Spruce Mountain in Woodstock, Maine. For those who are not aware, here in Woodstock we have been working hard to get safe distance and sound concerns dealt with by the DEP and BEP. Both departments have disappointed us by allowing no hearings so that we could counter the projects estimations on their reports on sound, ect.…

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Added by Leola R. Ballweber on May 13, 2011 at 9:08am — No Comments

UMPI Wind Turbine Update News Clip - WAGM-TV 8

 

Watch the video: http://www.wagmtv.com/newssource8/story/2011-05-09-umpi-windmill-update

 

"After a strong first…

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Added by Long Islander on May 12, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Vinalhaven the Final Haven for Eagles

National agency questions how many birds die near Vinalhaven turbines

Posted May 11, 2011, at 8:10 p.m.
VINALHAVEN, Maine —…
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Added by Long Islander on May 11, 2011 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Responses from Patriot renewables to DEP 's questions on the Saddleback [project

http://maine.gov/dep/blwq/docstand/sitelaw/Selected%20developments/2010/saddleback_ridge_wind/patriot_response_groundwater_fire_visual_04_27_2011.pdf

you can  laugh or cry or being enraged at the  absurdity of the  answers or  you can  call Mark Margerum at the DEP with your comments .

Monique

Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 10, 2011 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Educational Supper Friday May 20 2011 3-7 pm Dixfield High School

Utility size wind turbines and the alternatives.

Home cooked, home raised and home rules.

Find your springs.

Added by alice mckay barnett on May 10, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments

The Wind Experience

The Wind Experience

According to the Global Wind Energy Council, the world now has 197 gigawatts of installed wind capacity with the largest amount in China (45 gigawatts), followed by the United States (40 gigawatts). Europe, led by Germany (27 gigawatts), has the…

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Added by Long Islander on May 10, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

composite toxics

i heard china makes turbines because carbon composites are toxic.

What is toxic in carbon composites?

Plastic world fights mother earth.

Added by alice mckay barnett on May 10, 2011 at 10:09am — No Comments

Something is Missing - from the conversation about energy

 

 

 

Idaho Power: What happens when the wind doesn't blow
May  7, 2011 by Idaho Power…
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Added by Long Islander on May 7, 2011 at 9:51am — 3 Comments

Rollins Project Photos

On Sunday, May 1, I spent the day in Lincoln photographing the Rollins Project of First Wind.  All 40 turbines are completed.  They are now doing electrical work in preparation for testing and smoothing over the scars on the land.  There is no smoothing over the fact that extensive blasting and leveling of the mostly brittle shale ridges…
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Added by Brad Blake on May 4, 2011 at 10:27pm — 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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