Augusta - The Board of Environmental Protection voted to lower the sound level standards of industrial wind turbines. The move is being called a good compromise by a Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson Samantha Depoy-Warren.
After hearing public testimony in Augusta for much of the…
September 2011 Blog Posts (43)
Cashman, Do you view us in Maine with our heads in the sand, too ?
Former Mass. House Speaker Sal DiMasi found guilty
Guilty of conspiracy, extortion and fraud
What can this mean to you ? READ ON
Apr 25, 2011
BOSTON — An amendment that critics say would open Buzzards Bay to…
Added by Dan McKay on September 19, 2011 at 8:24pm — 1 Comment
Jimmy Carter: Natural Gas Key to U.S. Energy Security
Sept. 19, 2011, 1:54 p.m. EDT
Natural Gas Key to U.S. Energy Security, Jimmy Carter Tells Platts Energy Week
Former President & Father of U.S. Dept. of Energy on Energy Policy -- Then and Now…
Added by Long Islander on September 19, 2011 at 3:26pm — No Comments
UMPI - full statement on windmill problems
Here is the full statement on the turbine's condition from the UMPI wind turbine website, posted about 9/17:
"The general contractor conducted diagnostic and repair work on the wind turbine in mid-September and determined there is a broken shaft in the nacelle. Most of the shaft has been removed for furthur diagnostic work and the contractor is securing the appropriate replacement parts. They hope to have the repairs completed in time for the approaching wind season."
Harry…
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UMPI windmill has broken shaft - first mention of "wind season"
UMPI reports that there appears to be a "broken shaft" on their iconic wind turbine. They hope to have a new one installed in time for the "approaching wind season". This is the first time I have seen a "wind season" mentioned.
The site has not reported any new data for about five months. First it was a "radius rod"; now the trouble
is a broken shaft. Also, the data reporting software has been down, and no power production figures have been posted since March. The monthly…
ContinueAdded by Harrison Roper on September 17, 2011 at 9:28pm — 2 Comments
WABI TV 5 : BEP votes to lower allowable wind turbine noise levels
Added by Steve Thurston on September 17, 2011 at 8:43pm — No Comments
My Back Yard,
I still can't figure out how something like this can happen, I know i live in Andover. But where i live i'm going to be looking at the whole thing. Already can see the ones that are put together, And stubs of the other ones being built.
I'm not sure what i can do to help this group. But i am concerned i think they should place these wind turbines around the capitol buildings and the white house. they would get so much wind from those places to run…
ContinueAdded by matt elliot on September 17, 2011 at 7:30am — 3 Comments
PRESS RELEASE ON TODAY'S BEP LANDMARK DECISION ON WIND TURBINE NOISE REGULATIONS
PRESS RELEASE - CTFWP ON TODAY'S LANDMARK BEP TURBINE NOISE DECISION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today the state Board of Environmental Protection voted 5-4 to provisionally adopt a new section to the state's noise regulations dealing strictly with noise impacts from large scale industrial wind turbines. The board's action was the culmination of a process begun over a year ago by the Citizen's Task Force on Wind Power, in response to numerous…
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Friends of Maine's Mountains applauds New Rule on Noise Emissions
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Added by Long Islander on September 15, 2011 at 6:00pm — 4 Comments
Market Risks Are Seen in Energy Innovations
Market Risks Are Seen in Energy Innovations
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: September 15, 2011…
Added by Long Islander on September 15, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting - Investigative Reporting on Wind in Maine
With so many new citizens becoming engaged in protecting Maine from the onslaught of industrial wind proliferation, I'm taking the liberty of posting the links to the investigative reporting on wind that was done last year by the Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting.
Please bookmark this page for future reference. There's some pretty powerful information here.
*** A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE'S WIND ACT (August…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on September 15, 2011 at 1:00am — 1 Comment
Deer Isle Planning Board will discuss wind ordinance on September 15
Originally published in Island Ad-Vantages, September 8, 2011
Deer Isle Planning Board approves permits, hears comment on wind turbines
by Jonathan Thomas
The Deer Isle Planning Board approved…
Added by Long Islander on September 9, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING WORKSHOP: Promise of green jobs falls short for many
Added by Long Islander on September 9, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments
Jennifer Rubin: Why did it take so long to uncover the green jobs racket?
Why did it take so long to uncover the green jobs racket?
It seems like just a week or so ago when “green jobs” were still the rage. But in the wake of the …
Added by Long Islander on September 9, 2011 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
FERC power sales for some Maine wind farms
The FERC Quarterly reports have just been posted for the 2nd quarter of 2011.
Stetson I sold 32,000 MWH of power. With its capacity of 26MW, that is .251 of capacity.
Stetson II sold 13,000 MWH of power. With its capacity of 26 MW, that is .224 of capacity.
Mars Hill sold 30,000 MWH of power. With its capacity of 44 MW, that is .308 of capacity.
That's the facts -
Harry Roper Houlton/Danforth
Added by Harrison Roper on September 7, 2011 at 6:19pm — 2 Comments
Robert Bryce: Solyndra's Bankruptcy Shows the Failure of the "Green" Jobs Agenda
Added by Long Islander on September 7, 2011 at 4:39pm — No Comments
UMPI website down - some dates and details
I just took the time to check the frustrating UMPI turbine website - the pink rectangle stating the turbine is down and mentioning the "pitch rod" difficulty appears at the top of each and every webpage! Yet there is no mention of the shutdown (apparently for the past 140 days) in the Timeline! The Timeline consists mostly of publicity events, conferences, etc., and the latest bar chart of power production is for March!
Considering the promised and publicized "full disclosure" of…
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Jennifer Rubin: Enough with the green jobs (Washington Post)
Enough with the green jobs
President Obama arguably spurred the development of the Tea Party, helped hand the Republicans the House majority and, best of all, put an end, we hope, to the green-jobs fetish.…
Added by Long Islander on September 6, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments
Obama’s green dream hurting U.S. taxpayers
Obama’s green dream hurting U.S. taxpayers
By Linda Chavez September 2, 2011 8:08PM
Updated: September 4, 2011 2:23AM
The biggest star in the Obama firmament of green-jobs companies has just…
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UMPI Wind Turbine: 2011 Performance Log - Update 0n 9/4/11
September 4, 2011
We are stuck where we were two months ago - the data reporting is still broken.
The only thing new is that THE WIND TURBINE ITSELF IS BROKEN YET AGAIN.
July 3,…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on September 4, 2011 at 11:00am — 18 Comments
Blustering rhetoric doesn’t advance wind power debate
The comments from readers are better than what NRCM and Maine Audubon have to say. When wind-warrior environmentalists have to fight so called environmental groups to save Maine from these grotesque installations and their required transmission, the world is truly upside down.
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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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