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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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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…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on September 1, 2010 at 12:00pm — 46 Comments
100 Days of the UMPI Turbine in Year 2 - 8.89% of nameplate capacity achieved
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…
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Pronounced Pinocchio Proboscis Protrusion: Governor Bashes Wind Critics
Added by Long Islander on August 21, 2010 at 11:00am — 4 Comments
De-greening: Saco to put wind turbine out to bid
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
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| The windmill in Saco,… |
Added by Long Islander on August 18, 2010 at 3:21pm — No Comments
Contact Information for State Legislators
Here are two handy documents, each is in pdf and WORD format.
The District Locator is a guide to House…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on August 15, 2010 at 9:43pm — No Comments
The Times Record: Open access to paperless records
Open access to paperless records
Maine’s Freedom of Access Act is based on the principle that government best serves the public when it operates in the most open manner possible. Without open meetings and access to public records citizens won’t know what their government is up to — and…
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Added by Long Islander on August 13, 2010 at 9:39pm — No Comments
Monique Aniel, M.D. - State clears the way for wind power profiteers
Added by Long Islander on August 12, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments
Kurt Adams' UMS Board Seat
8/12/10
First Wind bigwig Kurt Adams saw no conflict in his UMS Board Seat Hearing before the Education Committee
- Adams was questioned about any potential conflict that might happen if he is confirmed to the board of trustees while continuing as an executive of First Wind. The University of Maine is involved in building a pilot wind power project off the Maine coast.
- Adams said he does not see a conflict because First Wind is “a…
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Added by Long Islander on August 12, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments
Task force had mandate to promote wind power, not study it
Part two of a three-part series
Task force had mandate to promote wind power, not study it…
Added by Long Islander on August 10, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Drops Second Bomb on Maine's Wind Industry
Added by Long Islander on August 9, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments
CMP Upgrade for Massachusetts, Not Maine
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…
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The Jig is Up
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…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on July 29, 2010 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments
CMP Bulking Up For Baldacci's Wind Sprawl Scam
When this project was sold in, it was largely about 40 year old power lines. Wind was very downplayed. Now they are telling the truth, almost as if to create the impression this is the reason that had been given all along, when in fact, the primary reason they gave was the lie about 40 year old power lines.
It's high time Mainers learned about this $1.4 billion "hidden" extra cost to wind power. We are BROKE.…
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Added by Long Islander on July 27, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments
T. Boone Pickens Just Dropkicked The American Wind Industry
Added by Long Islander on July 25, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments
The wind industry is not responding well to the latest news from the U.S. Senate
American Wind Energy CEO Denise Bode
Renewable Energy Industry Chafed About Senate Energy Bill
by Timothy B. Hurst on July 22, 2010
The wind industry is not responding well to today's news that the Senate is abandoning a comprehensive energy and climate bill and that the proposed plan…
Added by Long Islander on July 23, 2010 at 3:30pm — 6 Comments
UMPI Quietly Revises Its Wind Turbine Goal
If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes. And if you don't like your oft stated annual wind turbine goal of over 1,000,000 KWH, just change it to 700,000, which is exactly what UMPI has done on its website very quietly. In fact, the UMPI website has been WIPED CLEAN of any mention of the long stated primary goal of producing 1,000,000 KWH per year, which previously had been prominent on the site. Perhaps this simply reflects the reality that in Year One, ended 5/14/10, only…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on July 20, 2010 at 1:30pm — 8 Comments
Tick, tock, tick, tock - why is the state ignoring the state university's findings? (Updated July 11)
Tick, tock, tick tock. The sad performance of the $2 million (and counting) UMPI industrial wind turbine continues.
Yesterday at 7:02 AM UMPI had achieved 690,542 KWH after 422 days. At 10:17 AM, 27 hours later, achievement stood at 690,588, a gain of only 46 KWH. At the same time, yesterday was a sweltering day and air conditioners drew plenty of power to keep us cool.
The capacity factor is a miserable…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on July 11, 2010 at 10:30am — 8 Comments
Hey Angus, hey shell company Bayroot, hey Yale, hey Harvard - did you know Harvard and Yale have better wind than Maine?
Source: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/avgwind.html
And you have the gall to call the people in Maine NIMBY's.
Download more at the link below.
HistoricalAverageWindSpeeds.xls…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on June 27, 2010 at 9:38am — 3 Comments
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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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