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NRCM, Environment Maine & other ocean windrush boosters should look before leaping offshore.

Rockland.

The announcement of a federal decision to fast-track the siting of ocean windmills off the US Atlantic coast, risks leaving many environmental impacts,including some potentially harming Maine's lobster and scallop fisheries, unexplored until after the windmills are in place. See… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on December 1, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Stetson and Mars Hill real power output

I have some figures on efficiency for the Stetson and Mars Hill "wind farms" for the second quarter of 2010: Stetson produced 17 % of its rated capacity; for the same period, Mars Hill produced 28% of its rated capacity. Mars Hill, in Aroostook county, is higher and more exposed than the Stetson I & II site,which is about 50 miles to the south in Washington County.

Both of these industrial wind installations were promoted and built by First Wind. Some information on generators'…

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Added by Harrison Roper on November 29, 2010 at 5:01pm — 2 Comments

LePage Admin's choice: exploit the Gulf of Maine for ocean wind power for Boston? Or for lobsters, scallops & haddock for Maine?

As far as the Gulf of Maine goes, Governor Paul LePage must begin by either

(1) supporting the rough and tumble economy of Maine's existing small ocean businesses - lobstering and other commercial & recreational fisheries offshore and onshore of Maine, and their supporting landbased economic partners. Or…
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Added by Ron Huber on November 21, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

The lemmings hit the surf at Fed/state ocean wind meeting in Augusta 11/16/10. Notes & audio.

Listen to your government officials speaking November 16, 2010 at the second fed-state ocean energy task force meeting at the Statehouse, Augusta. click here for recordings or scroll down this page. For recordings of first task force meeting on September 14, 2010, Belfast, Click… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on November 17, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

DeepCwindies meet in Northport - news coverage & podcast of keynote

TV news about the ocean windturbines issue - I floated my "this could harm the lobster larvae" factoid out there. Listen to Dr Dagher's 1hr keynote speech…
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Added by Ron Huber on October 20, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

From the September 29th issue of the IRREGULAR (www.theirregular.com) : KINGFIELD — At Tranten’s Family Market recently, seven mechanical engineering students from the University of Maine and their…

From the September 29th issue of the IRREGULAR

(www.theirregular.com) :

KINGFIELD — At Tranten’s Family Market recently, seven mechanical engineering students from the University of Maine and…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on September 30, 2010 at 10:39am — 5 Comments

Are windpower researchers "welfare queens in white coats?"

Over at the The Oil Drum a new take on that old question asked decades ago about subsidizing wind,solar, hydro and lunar energy…
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Added by Ron Huber on September 7, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

UMPI turbine output website is working again - with a dismal average

UMPPI's wind turbine website is working again, reporting (finally) net output in "kwh" instead of the meaningless "kw" that prevailed for so long. You must understand that, on this website, "kwh" really means: "net kwh produced since commissioning May 19, 2009". I am hoping someone will make these distinctions clear to them; I have done my best.

In the 18 days from 5/19 to 6/05 (2010) the UMPI windmill produced (net) 24948 kwh, or an average 1386 kwh per day. It was a pretty quiet…

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Added by Harrison Roper on June 5, 2010 at 4:51pm — 1 Comment

Save the Highland Mountains of Maine

Many of the members of the Citizens’ Task Force on Wind know of the existence of the Friends of the Highland Mountains. We formed as a group in November of 2009, after Angus King and Rob Gardiner came to Highland with their plan to place industrial wind turbines along each of Highland’s five mountains.…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on April 26, 2010 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

Wind at the university - hearts and minds at stake

We mustn't cede the universities to the wind thieves. Winning hearts and minds is the thing. We must occupy the moral high ground, as industry occupy the economic high ground. To do this, we need to think of "University" in a larger context. Such talkers as George Baker the scholar speaking at UM Fort Kent will draw from the engineering and business administration students, appealing to them with predictions of vast wealth and gigantic power devices spawning limitless clean electrical…
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Added by Ron Huber on April 21, 2010 at 4:58pm — No Comments

"Sound" testing protocol for Stetson II received today (April 8)

Hello. - Today (April 8, 2010, I just received from Marcia Spencer-Famous, LURC staff, the protocol for sound testing at Stetson II.I presume it is a public document, The protocol does indeed include dBC.

Harriison Roper

Added by Harrison Roper on April 8, 2010 at 5:09pm — 2 Comments

IT ISN'T FARMING. IT'S AN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY.

The thing about Wind Farming: IT ISN'T FARMING.…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 28, 2010 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Here it is - LD 1810 Bill to open Maine state waters to unbridled wind farming



Can people please take a look at this legislation by clicking on the link above and see what the industry is trying to pull? This is going to fast track..unless it gets bumped. I'll be reviewing it…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 4, 2010 at 5:36pm — 1 Comment

Fishy Business: Wind industry plans heavy duty dog & pony show at ME Fishermen's Forum

If you love your Maine ocean, come to Rockport Saturday afternoon and speak for it! From 2:45 pm- 4:30 at the Maine Fishermen's Forum http://www.mainefishermensforum.org Samoset Resort, Rockport Room, Rockport, Maine:
The seminar What Does Ocean Energy and Wind Power Mean for Maine’s Fishermen? will take place, featuring this panel:…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 3, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Energy Co-chair Hinck and Wind Industry Lawyer wife Browne not a CONFLICT OF INTEREST - Who is the Maine Ethics Commission?

2/25/10

In a unanimous vote today, the six person Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices said Rep. Jon Hinck, D-Portland, co-chairman of the legislative committee that deals with energy issues, does not have a conflict of interest in voting on legislation regarding wind power by virtue of the fact his wife, Juliet Browne, represents several wind power developers at the Verrill Dana law firm in Portland.

Here is information about…

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Added by Long Islander on February 25, 2010 at 9:35pm — 5 Comments

U Maine may drop offshore wind R&D site near Monhegan

"If everybody says that it totally makes no sense,…

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Added by Ron Huber on February 23, 2010 at 12:09am — 1 Comment

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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."

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