Eight Republican Reps: "Running water is not a renewable"
The following eight Republicans went against their party's leader, Governor LePage and agreed with the wind industry that running water is not renewable. By effectively banning large inexpensive Canadian hydro power as a renewable, they have granted yet one more subsidy in kind to the parasitic wind industry that is harming Maine and Mainers.
| BURNS of Whiting |
| CROCKETT of Bethel |
| KNAPP of Gorham |
| MOULTON of York |
| RICHARDSON of Carmel |
| STRANG BURGESS of Cumberland |
| TILTON of Harrington |
| WILLETTE of Mapleton |
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on April 21, 2012 at 7:45am
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thank you all for writing..so many disappointments and misunderstandings around wind..I agree with Mainehiker, the PUC really let the people down..and all the back information on producing and transporting these awful turbines NEVER gets addressed..I have googled wind turbines and toxicity and it is not pretty, the industrial mass production and transport of these awful things,.thanks to all..I wrote the 8 Repubs and one answered with the same excuse about the biomass plant and Mike may be right,,.,no one making decisions is long sighted on this thing, it all seems so short sighted..our towns, already struggling, will in the long run be worse off after TIL or whatever bribe $ has been finished and all used up, like our natural resources.
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on April 21, 2012 at 6:41am
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Larry ...thanks for your efforts. I am emailing the dems and asking why they support windsprawl so zealously. I doubt there is info we are not aware of, but I want to hear their reasons for ruining the landscape. I emailed the 8 reps. first as they were the most likely to be swayed , but it didn't work. The biomass plants could be shut down to make room on the lines for wind power, so their fears may happen anyway.
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Ms. Davidge .... The insanity is not limited to energy. I believe it is rampant in most of the "departments" of our government .. local, state, and federal..
I believe that the government does in fact belong to the people... but if we choose to relenquish control, we end up getting what we currently have. I'm a bit new to the whole political field, so I don't understand the inside info... but this government is MINE.. and I wil continue to make every effort to represent those who elected me, and for those who choose not to run .. KEEP THE PRESSURE ON. Everyone serving was elected by votes .... so USE the power that you have MAKE YOUR VOTES COUNT!!!
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insane..how do we define renewable? newly ripping off the people?
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Comment by Long Islander on April 20, 2012 at 11:22am
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Contact information for our representatives is here:
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- Rep. Dunphy is a good man: he has said this same line to me in person as well,and I paraphrase, "you voted for them, you get what you voted for, corruption has always been there."
Yes , corruption has always been there, but I also expect voter representation and representative ethics, even in this corrupt state of Maine (sorry, my opinion and many others).- I also expect using the concept of recusal, when self-serving interests are evident, either openly or knowingly by the "representative". If they don't know the meaning of that word, it must be taught, or legislatively required in the oath of office.
Mr. Dunphy is one of those I still respect in the house, and has ethics.
I am sure he will continue to work with us, and spread that philosophy as well.
As a general statement to those that are in elected office I say ,represent us, oppose us, but don't lie to us or self-serve on the public teat!
If you are running for office to be involved in financial aggrandizement like Angus King, get out!
I am personally sick of the level of scamming and lying that has been uncovered in this wind scamming state.
We citizens must continue to expose wind corruption and knock all their collective heads together with factual hammers. It is our duty as citizens, or we to are part of the corrupting philosophy too prevalent in today's politics.
If we do not expose the truth, no one will.
That is the way it has always been in this representative democracy, and why the word “Citizen” is the highest honor we can bestow on any “representative” of “We The People”.
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I wanted to share the response I received from my Representative (Crockett):
Thank you for writing me on this important topic. The fact is I agree with you, but the bill also negativeley effected biomass plants which is also a renewable resource. I tried to get biomass out of the equation by working with the Governor's staff but ultimately that wasn't possible. This bill, if passed, might have caused the closing of the Stratton biomass plant in the near future. This would have caused over 40 families in Stratton/Eustis to lose their means of making a living and I will not do that to the people I represent. I'm sorry if you are disappointed with me and please know if the Governor comes back with a bill that favors hydro over wind but does not hurt biomass I will gladly vote for it. That being said I hope you understand why I voted the way I did.
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Mr. TIMBITS it is DuNphy .. not DuMphy ( I think we have had this e-conversation in the past)
I feel Mr. Tibbetts, you missed my point. You should be doing more NOW than a small blog-rant. Have you called your Sen and Reps ?? If we don't get feedback ... we make up our own. This is an election year .. CALL THOSE RUNNING, AND TELL THEM WHERE YOU STAND. Tell them every chance you get that if they continue to support subsidies, wind, capping hydro etc,etc ... you will organize, and VOTE THEM OUT! My point was that the government, it's employees, and YOUR elected officials WORK FOR YOU!! The ONLY reason we are involved is to SERVE THE VALID WANTS AND NEEDS OF OUR CONSTITUENTS..
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Comment by MaineHiker on April 19, 2012 at 7:31pm
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Maine Government Must Not Support Puc Big Wind-Power Investments.
The PUC made the wrong call.
The Public Utilities Commission said yes to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new investment in an industry that is falsely claimed to be clean. This is no cause for celebration. People have been told that there are two major complaints about wind power and that they can be overcome. The first is that industrial turbines are an eyesore on pristine rural ridge tops. The second is that they produce power that is more expensive than other sources of power. These two arguments can be easily overcome by not installing industrial turbines at all, however there are many more reasons for not investing in industrial wind turbines, e.g:
Devastation of tourism,
Millions of birds and bats slaughtered each year,
Dealing with "bird taking" permits, their oversight and monitoring,
Strife in communities and in meeting a community's needs,
Unbridled corruption in industry, state politics (PUC) and town politics,
Corruption among Financial, Auduborn and other institutions,
Devastation of Wilderness, Mountains, and wildlife,
Personal economics ruined, destroyed property values,
Foreign control of our resources,
Exporting electricity when we already have more than we need,
Higher taxes and electricity rates,
Remote wilderness and mountaintop Fire danger,
Management, oversight and decommissioning,
Noise, flicker. lights and their effects on health, human and otherwise,
(Click on the picture to enlarge it))
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=b6147304a619be64#cid=B6147304A619BE6...
The PUC made the wrong call.
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The PUC made the wrong call.
CO2 production in strip mining the precious metals needed in the manufacturing and thousands of miles of freighter transportation and then the installation of industrial wind turbines is enormous. The special roads must be wide enough, and are prepared by digging down to the subgrade soil level, filling with up to 17 inches of 4-8 inch crushed rock and then the surface 1-2 inch crushed rock. Thousands of miles of these special, heavy load handling, access roads, compartmentalize small and fragile wildlife, their habitat and natural activity.
And many more issues like the fuel needed to produce an even flow of electricity for the grid. They do not produce oxygen as did the trees that were clear-cut to make space for them. But in every step of the mining, manufacturing, transportation and installation of each turbine many megatons of CO2 are produced. That's before one even begins to spin. Then many gallons of lubricant oil and machinery fuels must be used for their maintenance and emergency handling (They do catch fire and fall.)
The long-term impact of climate change caused by human activity is already causing more severe environmental disasters but industrial windmills are irrelevant to that. Some say that the sight of some towers and rotating blades in what have been undeveloped areas is a small price to pay.... But For What? And, it's not just some, but thousands of turbines, posing forest fire risks on remote mountaintops. All for an unreliable trickle of energy to be sent out of state on new and incredibly expensive transmission lines we must pay for. From an environmental perspective, there are no benefits to expanding wind generation.(Click on the picture to enlarge it))
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=b6147304a619be64#cid=B6147304A619BE6...
The PUC made the wrong call.
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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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