Industrial wind and transparency

When LD 2283 came blowing through the legislative signature pad in 2008, everyone thought that the objective behind this push was to implement something green to help with energy. This became an easy sale when the price increase in gas and everything hit the working class in the wallet. When repercussions started occurring, an interest group formed to ask viability questions such as, “why so big and why the big rush, and hey guys, looks…

Rare Earth Elements like will explain

Rare Earth Elements like will explain

The wind mills on Canton Mt will be built on the site of the Canton Cemetery this needs to be stopped its hallowed ground!!!! see web site Canton Maine  it will show the location of the cemetery the first settler of Jay and Canton Maine lived on Canton MT his name was Simon Coolidge  he came here in 1784 and I have never found his grave I think he is buried here and I don't care if they can…

"Recent studies from Altamont proved that the new larger turbines being installed there are killing more of the indigenous species per MW in the habitats where they are installed. These studies conducted in the semi desert grasslands of the Buena Vista section of Altamont showed that 11 bird species and 2 bat species were being killed at a higher rate per MW. This included more dead eagles, more dead prairie falcons, and more dead horned larks. This was…

Now let's stop them at Mattawamkeag and Pleasant Lakes in Oakfield-Island Falls.

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I'll bet they wish their former half owner Larry "D.E. Shaw" Summers and Rahm "I love their other half owner Madison Dearborn" Emanuel were still in Washington giving them handouts with our money. Or that Kurt Adams was still in Augusta "helping out". 

LURC set to hand First Wind its first, biggest defeat…

Humboldt Herald blog reports that a Smith’s longspur was spotted by an accomplished ornithologist during the annual Godwit Days field trip to Bear River Ridge which has been proposed as the site for…

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

TOWN OF  SUMNER

The Sumner Industrial Wind Ordinance Committee will hold two  public hearings on the Town of Sumner, Maine, Industrial Wind Energy  Facility Ordinance.

The hearings will be held in the Sumner Volunteer  Fire barn at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 18, and on Wednesday, May  2.

The Ordinance may be viewed online…

Can anyone provide me with language included in a moratorium against industrial wind projects on the basis of legal review of a wind ordinance?

Thank you in advance to anyone who can provide me with this information on behalf of the Town of Dixfield.

Hart Daley

Rural Ontario is being plundered by the McGuinty government and his wind developer allies.  The citizens are actively resisting the onslaught. We will talk to some of the leaders of the resistance.

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Annie Cool has graciously accepted co-host duties again for this week's…

ATTENTION ONE AND ALL!

Today Donna did a superb job ON  THE OAKFIELD FIRST  WIND PROJECT  with her interview on WGAN with PHIL Harriman. You can listen to her live on this web site:

www.560WGAN.COM .

MONIQUE

As some of you know, I've raised the issue before the PUC and DEP of considering the environmental impact on CO2 and air pollution reduction from clear cutting forests and other bio-mass from these sites using iTREE software.

The iTREE program was specifically designed by the US Forest Service and several other organizations like the DAVEY FOUNDATION to 'measure' the tree and other bio-mass cover, on a tree-by-tree basis and then it's impact on converting CO2 into sequestered…

Maine Senate passes renewable power bill

Baldacci, not LePage, rushed important law

I predict Tom Welch; current Chairman of the PUC will be employed by First Wind before 2013. Any takers? (READ BELOW)

The three members of the Public Utilities Commission gave the verbal go-ahead yesterday for a couple of Canadian utility companies, Emera of Nova…

We had a selectmen's meeting in Dixfield Monday evening. The wind ordinance we had submitted to the town was sent to the town's attorney for review and interpretation by Town Manager Eugene Skibitsky. The town's attorney is Lee Bragg of Bernstein Shur and he found all kinds of fault with the ordinance which prompted the TM to offer another ordinance authored by Norinne Clark and Steve Donahue.

What should be looked…

Maine regulators OK wind deal against advice of staff

By Naomi Schalit and John Christie / Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting…

  The UMPI turbine website is reporting power production the past 140 days:  290,516 kWh "since mid-November" until April 6.  I calculate: 140 days at 600 Kw capacity and 24 hours per day comes to "installed capacity" of 20,160,000 kWh for that period; 290,516 kWh actual power production divided by the installed capacity gives a MINISCULE .014 Capacity Factor.  This compares very poorly to most Maine wind farms' CF, which range from .24 to .41 CF for the same period.

The site…