Comment Submissions to DEP Needed on Yet Taller Turbines
BDN: First Wind Pushing for 600' Tall Turbine Allowances
Two thoughts:
1. That's about 10% higher than the Washington Monument
2. Our # 1 industry, tourism, relies on people fleeing the views of skyscrapers
The company wants to amend its Maine DEP permit for the Hancock Wind project so it has the option to erect 574-foot-tall turbines...on Spectacle Pond and Schoppe ridges in Township 22...another First Wind subsidiary, is looking at possible sites in Eastbrook, he said, and has approached the town about increasing its turbine height limit to 600 feet...
Two people who own property in the vicinity of the project site filed appeals against the Maine DEP, but those appeals were dismissed last December by the Board of Environmental Protection.
No one spoke for or against the proposed amendment at the hearing Thursday, but comments still can be submitted to Maine DEP via email athancockwindproject.dep@maine.gov, according to DEP project manager Maria Eggett. Comments also can be mailed to Maria Eggett, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, 106 Hogan Road, Suite 6, Bangor, Maine 04401.
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/09/26/news/hancock/taller-turbine-p...
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on October 4, 2014 at 10:04am
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When are comments due? Don't see it on site. It is not just the height, but the "bulk" of the rotor swept area - for scenic impact, flicker, avian impacts which staff have not even commented on yet and the v117 3 MW is the loudest turbine available for onshore (almost as loud as the Siemans 6 MW for far, far offshore 'where noise isn't a concern. It does not appear that the noise modelling used the adjustment factors that supposedly make predictions accurate for elevation and so it is difficult to believe. The project may still comply with Maine's regulations, but only because they are so lax and ill-suited for industrial wind's acoustic pollution in natural settings. The fact that the V117 is being considered is an admission that this is a poor wind resource and that the entire proposal should be re-examined, not just whether increasing height, rotor swept area and negative environmental impacts will be allowed.
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Comment by Darren Lord on September 28, 2014 at 7:13pm
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Sent my comments in today.
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The article says no one commented. Why would no one comment on this absurd proposal???
Maine as Third World Country:
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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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