Aroostook Wind - Will they actually be able to build this travesty and the transmission travesty it would need?
A huge wind farm is coming to northern Maine. How will it impact bills?
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Ethan Horton
Staff Writer
Maine regulators recently gave the green light for a massive new wind farm in Aroostook County, a project they are touting as a win for the environment and consumers.
The 800-megawatt wind farm — which would be the largest renewable energy project in state history — and an associated 111-mile transmission line is still subject to a potentially hostile federal review, but it could end up saving consumers in Maine hundreds of millions of dollars over the decades long life of the project.
Some of the energy will go to the rest of New England, but three-quarters will stay in Maine.
“Developing new energy resources and transmission in Northern Maine can help deliver more affordable and reliable power, strengthen our grid, reduce Maine’s exposure to energy cost volatility, and create thousands of jobs and new economic opportunities in rural communities,” Gov. Janet Mills said in a statement on the project last month. “This is a historic opportunity to put Maine’s energy resources to work for ratepayers while supporting investment and economic development in Northern Maine.”...............................
President Donald Trump and his administration have been particularly hostile to wind farm projects. Trump has attempted to kill several offshore wind projects, and he told Doug Burgum, his Interior Secretary, in March that he hopes no windmills are built during his second term.
He’s said emission-free windmills are “bad environmentally,” and that they kill birds at high rates. Outdoor cats kill about 6,000 times more birds annually than windmills do, studies show.
The Department of Energy, which oversees the agency that regulates wind farm projects, did not immediately respond to a request for comment...........................................
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Comment by Penny Gray on Sunday
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Crossing the St Lawrence river last week I saw another huge wind installation being built on the Gaspe, which is one of the most beautiful peninsulas on the planet. It was very discouraging, and makes me wonder when we're going to revert to powering all the cargo ships by sail, rather than fossil fuels, and why airplanes are still allowed to fly. All this insane "green energy" push proves is that intermittent and unreliable wind and solar are boutique and very expensive add-ons to the grid, built solely to satisfy the brainwashed greenies and pad the pockets of politicians, lobbyists and developers.
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on September 3, 2026 at 3:19pm
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When will these stupid tragic manipulative destructive scams stop? Greed greed greed
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Comment by Dan McKay on September 3, 2026 at 7:16am
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FERC would have to be blind not to see how ridiculous this proposal is. Move intermittent wind power across the entire length of New England at a cost of several billions of dollars. Only someone as dumb as Troy Jackson could think up such a stupid proposal.
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Comment by Long Islander on September 2, 2026 at 1:10pm
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Note the headline makes this an inevitable thing. "Resistance is futile....give up".
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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