You MUST READ this piece posted from Maineenvironews.com By responding to Connecticut's call for PPA proposals, First Wind has tipped it hand about its intentions. The 57 mile long transmission line from Oakfield to Mattawamkeag opens up ridge after ridge in the shadow of Mt. Katahdin for behemoth wind machines. Thoreau and Gov. Baxter must be spinning in their graves! We…
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Where is the Maine Department of Tourism on wind turbines???
The head of the department must be hiding under his desk.
Poor sole, doesn't know whether to speak his or her true feelings
for fear of losing their job.
Are they going to promote Maine's ugly wind turbines for tourism???
Perhaps they should tear down that sign that I love to see when
going back to Maine. The new one might read "Welcome To Maine Visit Our
Ugly Wind…
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-FIRST WIND WILLING TO TRASH MAINE-
BY JONATHAN CARTER , SUNJOURNAL
"First Wind of Boston is proposing the largest industrial wind project to date for Maine's western mountains. It will stretch more than 25 miles, from Bingham to Parkman. The 64 500-foot turbines First Wind plans for that remote stretch of the Maine Woods will be highly intrusive and visibl...
READ THE WHOLE COLUMN AT THE FOLLOWIG LINK …
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Be there or be square :)
And if it's been awhile since you have seen Katahdin, then there's even more reason to make this part of your plans.
This is very important - Island Falls needs our…
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Please see the attached document (PDF and Word copies) listing listing responding wind projects.
Connecticut%20DEEP%20Renewable%20Procurement.doc
CT%20Mandate%20Aims%20to%20Ruin%20ME%20Mountains.pdf
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And also please read:
In April 2012,…
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This afternoon DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho signed the final denial document for First Wind's planned Bowers Mountain Wind Project in Carroll Plt and Kossuth Twp.
I have not read the entire decision document but at a glance it appears very similar to the draft that was circulated last week. Of course First Wind has the right to appeal to BEP and…
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By Tux Turkel tturkel@mainetoday.com Staff Writer
After…
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The Great Wind Energy Bait and Switch is a scenario that should have been avoided.Continue
Ratepayers have been assured by the industry that wind energy is a reliable energy
source that would reduce electricity costs, and these promises were parroted by our
policy makers. Only after spending billions of public dollars on wind, we are being
informed by the beneficiaries of our largess,…
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7/29/13
Many were found to be completely non-functional, producing nothing but tax credits
Added by Whetstone_Willy on July 30, 2013 at 10:24am — 1 Comment
The law proposes to stop subsidies for new projects and goes in to effect from 2014. Read the rest at Bloomberg...
Meanwhile, check out this neat graphic from Germany...…
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The company says it would take just 1 percent of its total customers signing up to keep the program alive, but after two years, only 148 customers were enrolled, or about .04 percent.
Continue reading here:…
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Frary: Adventurous Investments
EXCERPT:
Confident predictions about our energy future may be foolish, but I will make one prediction with absolute certainty. If those thousands of wind-power projects end as rusting derelicts no politician or advocate who supported them will suffer for it; no one will be held accountable. Politically motivated investments are the most risk-free ventures known to…
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Bill Gates chairs a company called TerraPower that is keen on taking nuclear power technology into the 21st century. The company primarily focuses on a so-called fast reactor that would produce nuclear waste with relatively low toxicity and a much shorter lifetime. But it’s also making inroads on a type of nuclear power with…
Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on July 29, 2013 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment
Ever-changing reality shows that LePage right when it comes to energy
by John Frary
John Frary, of Farmington, is a retired professor.
Excerpts:
These are grounds enough for Gov. Paul LePage's criticisms of our…
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Another View: Adding more large-scale hydro would lower bills in Maine
The Press Herald's July 23 editorial, "Our View: Maine can have both hydro and wind power," criticizes the…
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It is interesting that after more than a century of damming our rivers for hydropower, we are now restoring these rivers. The removal of the Veazie dam is just one example of the efforts now being made so fish can once again swim upstream to spawn.
More than a century ago, when these dams were…
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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 - 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."
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