Revisit renewables

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

Saturday, September 18, 2010

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1282285

National Grid has testified that its contract with Cape Wind is the best way of meeting new state requirements that a portion of electricity come from renewable sources. Yet Cape Wind’s extravagant $2 billion…

For a look back (or listen back) please see the Vinalhaven video at:

Part 1…

Important UPDATE: September 9, 2010



State of Maine finds Fox Island Wind Turbines in violation of noise standard





After months of data collection and analysis, the State of Maine agrees with the neighbors of the turbine farm on Vinalhaven: Fox Island Wind is in violation of state noise standard…

For all the hype we hear about Denmark cited as a shining example of wind power, it is interesting to read that "Last month, unnoticed in the UK, Denmark's giant state-owned power company, Dong Energy, announced that it would abandon future onshore wind farms in the country. "Every time we were building onshore, the public reacts in a negative way and we had a lot of criticism from neighbours," said a spokesman for the company. "Now we are putting all our efforts into…

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…

NEWS from MFOIC…

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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We just hit the 100 day mark of the second year of the UMPI turbine and for these 100 days, only 8.89% of nameplate capacity has been achieved.

That's pretty far from the 100% nameplate figures and related stats that the wind industry constantly touts.

Since this is the only official state-sanctioned in-the-field active data providing experiment with a technology that could destroy much of Maine's core essence, perhaps it is time to investigate all electrical…

Governor Baldacci's Radio Address: The Power to Do the Right Thing

August 21, 2010…

Gee, why is it that the three turbines in Maine that don't hide their electricity production data, are all having major problems - Saco's, Kittery's and UMPI's?

De-greening: Saco to put wind turbine out to bid

The windmill in Saco,…

Here are two handy documents, each is in pdf and WORD format.

The District Locator is a guide to House…

Open access to paperless records

8/12/10

First Wind bigwig Kurt Adams saw no conflict in his UMS Board Seat Hearing before the Education Committee

CMP has told Mainers that the MPRP upgrade is needed because our power lines are 40 years old. But we know the real reason is so that spurting wind, however intermittent, require new lines to prevent thermal overload. Below it states that the benefit of this project is for interstate transport of electricity. What that means is that the ratepayer is being forced to pay for new transmission, without which, the already subsidized wind companies would not have a way to sell their…

What the AWEA wants is the government to make us buy their wind electricity -- at high prices. And make us pay for massively expensive, unsightly and otherwise wholly unnecessary new transmission lines so that Mainers and southern New Englanders can but this expensive electricity. Skyrocketing electricity prices coming from statewide industrial turbine and transmission blight that is…