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Rockland area newspaper on the Maine offshore wind bill

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Added by Ron Huber on March 26, 2010 at 2:06am — No Comments

Ocean Energy Task Force; "Not in My Front Yard" is Preventable

I came across an OETF presentation and was struck by the following slide that says "NIMFY IS PREVENTABLE". I believe the presentation is from early 2009.

http://www.ebcne.org/fileadmin/pres/Don_Perkins.pdf

NIMFY of course is the saltwater coastal version of its inland acronymn cousin, NIMBY. I'm sure the folks in places…

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Added by Long Islander on March 25, 2010 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments

LD 1810 Maine offshore wind bill. Final work session audio w/written summaries.

Short summaries of each audio section from Wednesday's final work session on LD 1810. Click on "Part" links for the audios themselves. All audios…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 24, 2010 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Legislator: LD 1810 nearshore wind bill "will be stripped down"

A legislator just emailed me saying:


"I have been talking to a number of committee members about 1810. What I hear is that the bill will be stripped down and at this…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 22, 2010 at 4:55pm — 9 Comments

Hey Maine Sierra Club - Time to Update Your Website?

Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club and Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association at the Green Inaugural Ball

The following is from the website of the Maine chapter of the Sierra Club:…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 21, 2010 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

Congratulations Maine - You Are the Saudia Arabia of Wind!

C'mon Governor and c'mon Angus, how can you look the people of Maine who trusted you straight in the eye and tell them that they are living in the Saudi Arabia of Wind, when you know that this same line is being told to residents of at least 14 other states?

Come on lines like this appeal to the greed in people in hopes that they drop their guard and suspend the use of common sense. You see the same thing in those emails from Nigeria that tell you they have found millions owed to you…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 21, 2010 at 12:31pm — 7 Comments

Herbicides Used by Industrial Wind - a warning for all

Stopping the ecological devastation of pristine wilderness, loss of habitat and death of many of our fellow creatures, and the anguish of those impacted in the shadows of these giant monoliths must take on a new urgency.



Much has been written about the blasting, the clearcutting, transmission lines, access roads and the destructive process needed to set up the massive turbines. What I would like to focus on are the herbicides used to prohibit new growth and kill off…
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Added by Joanne Moore on March 20, 2010 at 6:00pm — 15 Comments

Fort Kent Wind Group Denied Their Rights by their Town Council?

I'm not sure about this, but it sounds as though the town council in Fort Kent may not be looking out for its citizens who wanted an alternative wind ordinance on the ballot. The name of the citizens group is: Citizens for Responsible Wind Development, or CROWD

Rushing to the defense of the town council is Town Manger, Don Guimond.

A petition to place the alternative ordinance was presented to the Fort Kent Town Council by Councilor Joel Desjardins at its…

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Added by Long Islander on March 19, 2010 at 11:58pm — No Comments

Passes Unanimously today LD 1786 (HP 1274) "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"

LD 1786 http://www.mainelegislature.org/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280035631 Representative HINCK for the Joint Standing Committee on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Public Law 2009, chapter 372, Part F, section 4, subsection 6 reports that the Bill be REFERRED to the Committee on UTILITIES AND ENERGY and printed pursuant to Joint Rule 218.

Report was READ and ACCEPTED.

The… Continue

Added by Lyle on March 18, 2010 at 9:29pm — 2 Comments

Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.

Maine ocean windfarm bill LD 1810- Two hour five sided slugfest with no clear winner yet. Battle/worksession to be rejoined Tuesday 1pm before Utility and energy Committee. Incredible to hear the forces of Beauty & wild fish and wildlife giving the multibillion dollared industrial wind horde quite the walloping! Though the Wind empire is hammering back, hungry for… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 8:58pm — 4 Comments

Listen NOW to Maine legislature deciding on whether to allow nearshore windfarms

Listen to the Maine Legislature's Utility and Energy Committee deciding the fate of the Gulf of Maine. Will the legislators approve a bill that

would open nearly all of Maine State waters to absentee-owned

industrial marine windfarming? Or will they transform the bill LD1810,

into a resolve that is sent out to communities and stakeholders for a

year


Right now (5:10 pm) they…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 5:11pm — No Comments

BDN (Maineville edition): State legislators scrambling as furious fishermen fight plan to "close the commons".

Bangor Daily News 3/ 17/10
Maineville Edition…


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Added by Ron Huber on March 17, 2010 at 2:49pm — 4 Comments

Report on Stetson II

Yesterday we wen to our camp on the hill across the lake from Stetson II. It was a clear and very stil lday - there was very little wind. Only oneturbine was turning. A neithbor who lives nearby reported that he had not ever heard any noise from the turbines.

I heard from LURC - The protocol for noise testing on Stetson II is "in discussion" and nothing has been approved. Iwill get a copy of the protocol when it is approved. I will be looking especially for it to include dbC, as…

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Added by Harrison Roper on March 17, 2010 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Town of Woodstock, Selectmen get introduced to Moratorium Petition 3/16/10

I want to thank all of you out there that have supported me through this first step towards a moratorium. The people of Woodstock know of the dangers that these wind turbines have and realize that there should be at least a one mile distance from all abutting property,s. Once they realize that their building code that was revised March, 2009, to deal with wind turbines, is very dangerous for distance, they will want to have that corrected for the… Continue

Added by Leola R. Ballweber on March 16, 2010 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Angus and the 'tute see the light

Added by Ron Huber on March 16, 2010 at 3:04pm — 7 Comments

Carolyn Chute - Does this sound familiar?

If we are one thing, we are a diverse group - a federation of busy lives moving in every direction, but intersecting at a locus that repels those who would wish to take something away from us.

The following is from an article in the NY Times about author Carolyn Chute and her husband Michael. If someone knows Ms. Chute, please send out a call for help. The pen can beat back the turbine and help chase the interloping thieves off the land.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Jobs for U.S. workers?

China refines 95 percent of rare earth compounds that are used in making parts for wind turbines. That same rare earth is used in making the batteries for the Toyota Prius. China may soon put limits on the exporting of these compounds and Toyota may have to open a pit mine in California to obtain what they need.



This leads me to the question, how on earth do companies like Bath Iron Works (BIW) plan to make these turbines, plus pay union scale workers to build them and hope to compete… Continue

Added by Joanne Moore on March 16, 2010 at 12:22am — 5 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

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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 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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