September 2010 Blog Posts (34)

Rumford Ordinance Proposes 40 Decibel Limit

Why isn’t the mathematical modeling of sound derived for wind turbines working for the Maine DEP ? Has something been left out of the equations used by the computers to generate the colorful graphs showing us how sound travels ? Anyone familiar with computers sooner or later realizes the output is only as good as the input. Make a mistake with your input, your output will never be right., which can be as simple as a mistype.

Recently, in Rumford, at a wind ordinance workshop, we heard Mr.… Continue

Added by Dan McKay on September 11, 2010 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Civil, but not Silent



When I began to research the topic of industrial wind on the mountaintops of Maine, it was with one purpose. Last…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on September 10, 2010 at 3:05pm — 2 Comments

Bummer? Yes, but spelled BOEMRE. On Sept 14th in Belfast, fed/state ocean power task force holds first meeting

On September 14th at the Hutchinson…

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Added by Ron Huber on September 10, 2010 at 12:56pm — No Comments

UMPI Wind Turbine Site Now Reporting CO2 Emissions - Incongruity Revealed?

Has anyone noticed that the UMPI site now reports CO2 along with wind turbine KWH production? Although the site provides no reference to time period in its reporting, one can only presume that the CO2 reported is for the same time period as the KWH reported - presumably project to date, with the project start date of 5/14/9 as reported in May 2009 by the Bangor Daily News.

The new CO2 reporting seems to reveal an incongruity.

When the project was started the…

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Added by Long Islander on September 10, 2010 at 10:42am — No Comments

Are windpower researchers "welfare queens in white coats?"

Over at the The Oil Drum a new take on that old question asked decades ago about subsidizing wind,solar, hydro and lunar energy…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 7, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

LURC Champlain Rulemaking

BCC’D TO CHAMPLAIN WIND INTERESTED PERSONS:…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on September 7, 2010 at 2:29pm — No Comments

Maine Freedom of Information Coalition is challenging all candidates

NEWS from MFOIC…

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Added by Long Islander on September 7, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Mafia seek to capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy

Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts - especially in Sicily

An ill wind is blowing over Italy's green revolution, as the Mafia seek to capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy.

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on September 5, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Steve Thurston: True impacts obscured

True impacts obscured

By Steve Thurston



Published:

Friday, September 3, 2010 2:12 PM EDT

I am writing in response to Karin Tilberg’s letter-to-the-editor, in which she defends the “Wind Law” and the task force that led to its implementation “Articles were unfair,” Aug. 27).

She criticizes Naomi Schalit for unfairly characterizing the process, but the incriminating words in Schalit’s three-part series came not from Schalit, but…

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Added by Long Islander on September 3, 2010 at 4:11pm — 3 Comments

Windthieves continue counterattack against Naomi Schalit's investigative series

The wind industry continues its proxy counterattack against Naomi Schalit's investigation of the doings of the Governor's Windpower Task Force. The appearance of editorials by the industry's partisans is a sign of how accurate the three part series by Maine Center for Investigative Journalism really…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 3, 2010 at 2:39am — 1 Comment

public notice Lurc and Champlain wind



Public notice regarding Champlain Wind's Kossuth Petition

Dear Interested Persons:

The following public hearing notice is being published by the Secretary of State on September 1st. It contains information, including the schedule, for the September 22nd rulemaking hearing regarding Champlain Wind’s request to designate a portion of Kossuth Township as within…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on September 2, 2010 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Confirmed again, and again,The Big Liars at First Wind

Oakfield Left Blowing in the Wind

An unprecedented number of articles recently published in newspapers across this state, and beyond,

expose the lesser known side of the wind energy industry. Political connections, questionable business

practices, and general disregard for the well being of those in proximity to their wind developments

have become consistent criticisms leveled against what had previously been a public relations success

story.

This creates an… Continue

Added by arthur qwenk on September 1, 2010 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Archived Documents - latest document added 9/1/10

This is a place to find and download archived documents on this website. Please add documents to this repository as desired. Adding a file is very easy to do. This is accomplished by adding a comment to this post (entitled "Archived Documents") - when doing so, you simply click on the icon above the comment box that looks like a piece of paper, browse your hard drive for a file, add the file and click "Add Comment". A link to the file now exists as the comment and anyone can now…

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Added by Long Islander on September 1, 2010 at 12:00pm — 46 Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

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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