Conflict of Interest - Maine State Legislature
Title 1 MRSA §1014 lists several activities constituting a conflict of interest to help define ethical standards and to identify areas of real or apparent impropriety that are to be avoided. These are examples and should not be considered an exhaustive list. The…
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Lake Township in Michigan recently voted 2 to 1 against changing their zoning laws to allow wind turbine development. Now the town board is considering giving 40% of their township to the neighboring township which has very lenient zoning standards. If property owners don’t agree with the town’s vote – should they be allowed secede? Is the Confederacy alive and well in Michigan? WWR will be talking with Kevon Martis, a spokesperson from Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition about these…
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"I think we were blinded by the money. I never thought once what my neighbor across the road would think.
There were salesmen from several wind developers. They were sneaking around all of Delaware County for two years.
I drove down among them for the very first time, turned off the engine, rolled down the windows and I really listened and I was horrified.
It was the idea that the noise would be forever. It would be that way for the next 25-28…
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10 questions were asked of each aspirant including "What should the country’s energy policy look like?", (which is spotlighted below). All 10 questions can be found here.
June 02, 2012
Taxes,…
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In a visit on Thursday to Iowa—the country’s second-largest wind-producing state after Texas—President Obama will urge Congress to extend a key production tax credit for wind and a clean-energy manufacturing credit. Congress is unlikely to consider these tax credits until year’s end when lawmakers take up the annual “tax-extenders” package. Whether congressional supporters of the tax credits, including senior Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, can muster enough support…
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In a new development related to the wind turbine controversy on Vinalhaven (ME), Superior Court Judge Michaela Murphy dismissed a motion for reconsideration filed by the state’s DEP (Department of Environmental Protection), and ruled in favor of Vinalhaven neighbors seeking relief from excessive noise. The Maine DEP and Fox Islands Wind, LLC, the industrial wind turbine operator,…
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PRESS RELEASE
May 30, 2012, 8:35 a.m. EDT
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Looking for a Father's Day Gift for the Dad who has everything?
Consider buying a copy of Windfall.
http://windfallthemovie.com/index_1.html
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The UMPI wind turbine has a capacity of 600 kw, or 14,400 kwH per day in perfect wind. Today the website reports 345,400 kwH "since mid-November". That's 190 days, and the power that was produced averaged 1818 kwH per day. Divide 1818 by 14,400 and you get a 12.6 % Capacity Factor. For this turbine in this location, 12.6% Capacity Factor is about average. On the 14th of this month, the turbine's third anniversary, I calculated a Capacity Factor of 8.9%, including a 210-day period of…
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5/26/12
By CHRIS O'NEIL
EXCERPTS:
Fernald is a relevant policy that ought to be remembered a hundred years later as our mountain resources are exploited for the export of…
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Please do not sip coffee before clicking this link...
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WWR will interview Chris Braithwaite about wind energy development enveloping the ridges of Vermont and the confrontations it has provoked.Chris has just published …
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By Don Hopey / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 16, 2012 3:49 pm
Two big wind development projects on Appalachian ridges in Bedford Counties on Dunning and Evitts mountains (24 turbines) and the Clover Run project in Clearfield counties (40 turbines) have been canceled. Fewer new turbines will be spinning across the nation next year due to the possible end of a federal tax credit program that has driven development.…
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I Like the story at http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/letters/portland-says-cannon-is-the-citys_2012-05-25.html
Imagine one of those on the lawns of people in towns being attacked by big-wind. I wouldn't need to be real to make the message.
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This was of course before Redington-Nubble and Mars Hill, etc.
As part the approval, Kenetech must release data immediately on possible bird impacts, include in its final plan information on power contracts with buyers of electricity, submit details of soil studies and erosion control plans, and show how it might minimise road construction at the sute. Commissioners, however, rejected a proposal to have Kenetech build the…
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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
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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 - 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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