1 MILLION ACRES REMOVED FROM EXPEDITED WIND ZONE
During remarks at the Milton substantive review hearing, Nick Livesay of LUPC stated to date, 1 million acres of land have been removed from the Expedited Wind Zone. 27 Unorganized Territories have been removed with Milton and Carroll Plantation awaiting substantive review decisions, and 13 more UT removals pending. Details can be found on the LUPC web site. Great work by everyone involved!
http://www.maine.gov/dacf/lupc/projects/wind_expedited_area/wind_ex...
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 20, 2016 at 1:31pm
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One million acres off the expedited zones and we as sheople are supposed to rejoice. It's a start, but as Eric points out it is not off the hit list. Also, Maine has about 20 million acres meaning one million is not much at all. Considering there should never have been ANY expedited area and "expedited" area is surely a term first devised in a conference room at a wind developer, there is no reason to be happy until there is no expedited area in the state and the state government begins doing their job and protects Maine and its people from these confidence men. The bribery must be stopped and those who have taken bribes should be given extremely long prison sentences. That includes certain legislators, some of those on the EUT in the past/present, "regulators" and the criminals at the environmental groups and media.
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Comment by Pineo Girl on August 20, 2016 at 12:32pm
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That is a great point! The fight never ends!
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on August 20, 2016 at 12:08pm
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Remember, just because it (a location) is not in the expedited zones, it is not off the Hit Lists. Work is needed now to insure a more permanent protection or at least with the voice of the people in control, not imposed by corporations or the state. More importantly, they are NOT green, just a source of displaced CO² and a permanent destructive force that can not be remediated to that which nature provided us.
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Comment by Penny Gray on August 20, 2016 at 11:21am
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Wow, thanks for posting. Made my day! The newspapers should print this story!
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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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