Long Islander's Blog – April 2011 Archive (20)
Steve Bennett: Freedom provides wind power lesson (Village Soup - Capital Weekly)
Apr 28, 2011
Freedom provides wind power lesson
Small towns in the less affluent sections of Maine are being pounced upon by wind developers who know better than to try to place turbines in places like Cape Elizabeth. First Mars Hill, then Freedom, now other places like Winn, Oakfield, Roxbury and many other small and tax-starved towns, all confronted with the promise of big money in…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 29, 2011 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments
Is it time to rename UMPI's wind turbine film?
The name of the film is Wind 101. With the turbine's capacity factor headed towards a miserable but not unexpected 10%, should it be renamed Wind 10.1?
http://www.umpi.edu/wind/wind-101
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ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 29, 2011 at 7:48am — No Comments
Sumner Lipman: Do we want to be green? (Village Soup/Capital Weekly)
Added by Long Islander on April 27, 2011 at 6:38pm — No Comments
Maine OEIS new report: Tracking Progress Toward Meeting Maine’s Wind Energy Goals, April 2011
Added by Long Islander on April 26, 2011 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments
Bureau of Parks and Lands to Wind Developers: MAINE NOT FOR SALE
On December 28, 2010, Rob Gardiner, partner in Highland Wind with Angus King, on behalf of Highland Wind offered $787,000 to Maine government in a letter to LURC Chair Gwen Hilton and LURC Director Catherine Caroll. Nothing like making a massive offer of cash to the government agency that will determine the fate of one's 39 turbine industrial wind project, a veritable license to feast at the public trough on Joe Taxpayer's hard earned money.
This offer and a link to the…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 23, 2011 at 10:00pm — 4 Comments
Governor LePage's weekly radio address: Enough is enough
Added by Long Islander on April 23, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments
The False Promise of Green Energy
The False Promise of Green Energy (new Cato book packs a punch)
By Andrew P. Morriss, William T. Bogart, Roger E. Meiners, Andrew D. Dorchak
“This new work [289 pages] offers an outstanding, nearly unprecedented evaluation of claims by green energy and green jobs proponents that we can…
Added by Long Islander on April 21, 2011 at 11:57pm — No Comments
Hold the accolades on China’s ‘green leap forward’ (Washington Post)
Added by Long Islander on April 21, 2011 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments
New research: Maine poorly classified for environmentally sound wind power development
While many of us may not agree with considerable portions of the following newly published research article, it is nevertheless recommended reading. Despite the fact that some of the wind snake oil salesmen have told us that Maine is "the Saudi Arabia of wind", this article classifies Maine as a state where a 20% wind target cannot be reached by confining wind complexes to already "disturbed" lands, a development approach examined by the authors.
Publication date:…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 19, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments
U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud: The strength of our economy depends on renewable energy
Representative Mike Michaud declared that the strength of our economy depends on investments in renewable energy almost two years ago. The exact date was May 14, 2009 and the exact occasion was a statement he released congratulating the University of Maine on "a job well done" in constructing and commissioning its industrial size wind turbine.
A copy of Rep. Michaud's statement is available by clicking on the green link below.
In less than one month, on May…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 18, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments
Save these dates - April 25 & 26
April 25 & 26
If there ever was a chance to tell our stories in Augusta it will be these two days, when several of our bills will have their public hearings.
Added by Long Islander on April 15, 2011 at 10:07pm — No Comments
Smart Meter Safety Coalition, seeks to inform and educate residents about CMP's smart meters
The following is excerpted from the website of the Smart Meter Safety Coalition, a group of fellow citizens in Maine battling many of the same things we are battling including large corporations who are usurping our rights and using taxpayer money to do this, along with politicians in their pocket.
This website, a production of the Smart Meter Safety Coalition, seeks to inform and educate residents about Central…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 15, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments
Industrial Wind Action Group: Meeting AWEA's spin head-on
From Lisa Linowes' Industrial Wind Action Group.
WindAction Editorial
Meeting AWEA's spin head-on
(Posted April 10, 2011)The American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) newly released…
Added by Long Islander on April 11, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Maine’s mountains focus of essay contest
Great contest!
Please note that the Patten area, shown in the photo, as well as the nearby towns of Oakfield, Island Falls, Sherman, Stacyville, Herseytown and Benedicta have been targeted by the wind industry. The arrogant subsidy chasers are now on Katahdin's doorstep. When will this madness stop?
Maine’s mountains focus of essay contest…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 7, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments
John Muir Trust Report Questions Wind Power’s Ability to Deliver Electricity When Most Needed
Full Report: John%20Muir%20Trust%20_%20FULL_wind-report.pdf
Wednesday 6th April, 2011
Report Questions Wind Power’s Ability to Deliver Electricity When Most Needed
Stuart Young Consulting, with support from the John Muir Trust, has released a report studying the ability of wind power to make a significant contribution to the UK's energy supply. It concludes…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 7, 2011 at 2:52pm — No Comments
Angus Angry
HIGHLAND PLANTATION
Wind project critics cheer decision
Tougher standards will be used to judge proposal
By Erin Rhoda erhoda@mainetoday.com
Staff…
Added by Long Islander on April 7, 2011 at 9:49am — 2 Comments
Letter in Yale Daily News: Cut out the clear-cutting
Letter: Cut out the clear-cutting
Monday, April 4, 2011
Added by Long Islander on April 5, 2011 at 6:14pm — 1 Comment
Caution: Public Education Likely Lethal To Maine's Current Wind Policy
4/2/11
Letter to the Editor - Bangor Daily News
I would like to thank Professor Mark Anderson for his common-sense comments on America’s questionable and probably foolhardy gamble on wind power (“Dangers of rushing into the next clean energy fad,” BDN OpEd, March 29). Our elected officials should heed his words and work quickly to rescue Maine from its misguided wind policy before more of our state’s unique value is sacrificed for so little…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 3, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments
Wind turbines will kill about 60,000 bats each year in the mid-Atlantic states alone.
Added by Long Islander on April 1, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments
Opinion: "Doing Wind Right” Forum (from Maine Environmental News)
Added by Long Islander on April 1, 2011 at 6:51pm — 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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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