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560 WGAN Interview with J. Dwight

3/13/10

Below is the link to an archive of 560 WGAN's radio interview with J. Dwight on wind power on 3/13/10.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 14, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

After The Wind Rush

Will Maine become an electrical importer because of the “ wind rush ?”

Currently, Maine produces electricity using 50% reliable, renewable sources ( hydro-power and biomass ) and exports a surplus.

With 3 large natural gas plants built in the 1990’s, Maine will be able to meet electrical demand until 2017.

What will all the new generation wind facilities do for us ?

Experiences in California and Denmark may answer this question.

Denmark has reached the goal of producing… Continue

Added by Dan McKay on March 14, 2010 at 5:41am — 4 Comments

Wind Turbine Jargin

In Connecticut in the New Haven Harbor ONE company placed ONE 150 ft. turbine. It now is supplying this company with a good portion of their electricity, so they say. But what caught my ears was the interview with the company that constructed it. Word for word right out of their book on how to talk to people and how to sell the turbines. No matter how big or small they quoate the same stories. Green Energy, Fossil Fuel and Carbon Footprints. Not even an add lib, they are very good salesman I… Continue

Added by Michele Currivan on March 13, 2010 at 8:10am — 2 Comments

Land For Maine's Future?

Don't ask me why, but I Googled Land For Maine's Future and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust - Protecting the Character of Maine for Future Generations. Almost 500,000 acres of land have been bought up by the gov'mint. Lots of money was bonded, I remember 'cause I voted for these bonds. Is any of that land in danger of being industrialized by big windies? And, if Maine is supposed to be protecting the character of… Continue

Added by Joanne Moore on March 12, 2010 at 7:29pm — 6 Comments

Biostitute Alert: wind industry bird consultants set to spew guano in Camden March 18th

Camden Public Library on Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m.

Richard Podolsky, who has "a twenty year track record in helping “big box” developers, oil and gas, electric and renewable (especially wind), energy…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 12, 2010 at 4:30am — 28 Comments

The War of 1810 - Maine's fishermen move to repel Big Energy invaders from their home waters.

A good day for fishermen at Maine's State Legislature…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 11, 2010 at 10:44pm — 1 Comment

LD 1786, An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development

Friends of Maine's Mountains (FMM) is having many communications with the legislature. Attached is a note sent to them yesterday regarding a crucial distinction they intend to make, largely in a vacuum.

Please review and contact legislators on the Utilities and Energy Committee at the following contact…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 11, 2010 at 11:47am — No Comments

R.I. Businesses Oppose Expensive Wind Power

Business group balks at cost of wind power



Alex Kuffner, Journal Staff Writer, The Providence Journal,



www.projo.com



10 March 2010…



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Added by Art Brigades on March 11, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments

Maine faces new 'Closing of the Commons." State's fishery agency "caught with its pants down."

Maine faces new 'Closing of the Commons'. State's fishery agency "caught with its pants down."…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 10, 2010 at 6:30pm — 23 Comments

Reforestation and Carbon Sequestration

As the initiator of a reforestation effort in the Mid-coast region of Maine, I have researched out the benefits of using living plants to remove various air pollutants, including CO2, and sequester them for as long as 100 years in wood and permanently in peat and coal.


The benefits of reforestation go way beyond CO2 removal; but the addition of oxygen into our air; the improvement of habitat for rare birds, small mammals, and the insects they feed upon; the stabilization of…
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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 10, 2010 at 9:09am — 6 Comments

Congressman Eric Massa Went Up Against Some Very Powerful People

With all the news on Congressman Eric Massa's resignation, I started googling and came across the letter below.

Massa has said on the news in the last 24 hours that some powerful forces in Washington, D.C. set him up and pushed him out.

From our vantage point, we know that he was a true thorn in the side of First Wind. First Wind is essentially half owned by hedge fund D.E. Shaw which paid National Economic Director Larry Summers $5.2 million…

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Added by Long Islander on March 9, 2010 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

Nearshore Wind Rush: What you can do to stop it



IF YOU WANT MAINE FISHERMEN TO KEEP FISHING, AND WINDJAMMERS TO KEEP SAILING, tell your legislators to vote NO on …

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Added by Ron Huber on March 8, 2010 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Peaks Island Slated for Misguided Self-Inflicted Wind Turbine Problems?

I just came across the website for Wind Power on Peaks Island.

http://www.greenerpeaks.org/windpower

It looks as though some well intentioned folks are at the point in the painful learning curve where wind power can do no wrong. At the same time, we also know that the Community Wind grifters are sniffing everywhere they can in this state to rape the land for subsidies…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 7, 2010 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood

Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood

“[Movie] sound engineers deliberately include loud noises well below the lowest frequencies that can be detected by our hearing system (20 Hertz) because, although we cannot hear such sounds directly, our body actually feels them. Studios apparently insist that theaters playing big-bang films be equipped with Dolby-type sub-woofers that can generate frequencies well below 20 Hz.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 7, 2010 at 5:14pm — 2 Comments

Weld Rejects Six Month Moratorium on Wind Power

For some reason, this article does not allow comments. In any event, I think this was a mistake on the part of Weld's voters, but when there is not a wind proposal on the table, it's my sense that moratoriums are harder to get.

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/809451

WELD — Voters rejected establishing a six-month moratorium on wind development facilities on Saturday. However, they decided informally to set up a…

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Added by Lisa Lindsay on March 7, 2010 at 11:48am — No Comments

Nearshore wind wannabes at Maine Fishermen's Forum face grimly silent lobstermen, scallopers, shrimpers

At the Maine Fishermen's Forum in Rockport Maine on Saturday March 6, 2010,a group of industry reps, academics and ENGOs rolled out a new bill LD 1810 that would open up all of Maine's fishing grounds to windfarms. A skeptical crowd of fishermen listened silently, grimly, as the speakers made their pitches for leasing off Maine's state waters… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on March 6, 2010 at 9:30pm — 10 Comments

UMO bird scientists show danger of wind farms in Maine!

The Penobscot Valley Chapter of Maine Audubon hosted a really cool talk

on birds and wind power last week in Bangor given by some scientists at

UMO. They showed how tons of birds could be affected by wind farms in

different ways at different places around the state. You should get

them to talk to your local groups about this.....contact the biology

department - I think the head scientist was a Dr. Holberton

(spelling?). It was a good talk and will make the wind… Continue

Added by Scarlett on March 6, 2010 at 8:41am — 6 Comments

Friends of the Highlands: What's at stake in Western Maine?

Great piece by Alan Michka in our local paper, the Times Record http://www.timesrecord.com/
I'm having trouble linking to the piece but if you click on opinion and go to the 8th down, there it is. No chance to comment but it can be rated.

Added by Joanne Moore on March 5, 2010 at 4:33pm — 5 Comments

William Tucker Analyzes Renewable Energy

The following website will surely enlighten you to what is going to happen with the energy plan undertake by Obama. http://spectator.org/people/william-tucker/all

Added by Dan McKay on March 5, 2010 at 4:19am — No 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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