MAINE AG JANET MILLS SIGNS UP TO DEFEND EPA'S CLEAN ENERGY PLAN
Think hard about this! Maine is 3rd in carbon capture in the nation and we are 7th in carbon emissions. 48% of our emissions comes from the transportation sector, 14% from electrical sector, and 14% from the residential sector. We have no coal fired production facilities and only one oil fired electrical plant on Cousins Island that gets paid $4 million a year just to be at the ready when intermittent energy sources like wind fail. We have lost 3 of our former larger industrial polluters - paper mills - in the last couple of years! Does Maine really need stricter standards? Is this really a good use of our AG's time? - How else can the EPA beat up on us?
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Comment by Penny Gray on November 6, 2015 at 5:04pm
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Pretty soon it will be mandated that we all hold our breaths. End of story.
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Comment by Pineo Girl on November 6, 2015 at 3:45pm
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Hey! To me its on the right track to tax wind somehow - I remember when the natural gas pipeline was being built from the Sable Island through Maine - Angus King was Governor and he said " I wish I could figure out how to tax the thing". Well - I wish we could figure out how to tax the HELL out of all of those transmission lines being built for the benefit for the privately held energy and wind development companies and being sold as built for the people of Maine!
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Yeah, just kidding. Was trying to think like one of the scheming scammers. You know trying to figure ways to take money out of other people's pocket without giving them either goods or services or me breaking a sweat. And we all feel just so darn warm and fuzzy and noble and righteous.
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Yes - We did raise the speed limit creating more auto emissions - and nearly 1000 semis a day cross the Canadian border to travel through Maine to other pars of the Northeast! And sadly, its the wind companies who get to sell the renewable energy credits - Not the State of Maine - For nearly as much as they sell the energy for!
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Hey, maybe Maine can sell clean energy credits and become rich!
(I've never liked the woman.)
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Comment by Long Islander on November 6, 2015 at 1:07pm
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We raise the speed limit which assures more emissions. Yet at the same time we have the expedited wind law destroying Maine and denying citizens their rights all in the name of "climate change scarecrows" as Robert Bryce calls them, i.e., wind turbines.
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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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