A MESSAGE FROM DAN REMIAN AND THE CITIZENS INITIATIVE - FINAL PUSH FOR SIGNATURES

Dear Leaders and Friends of current and past wind resistance groups,
Please forward this final push to collect signatures on to your email lists. Maine’s quality of place hangs in the balance!
CITIZEN INITIATIVE TO AMEND THE WIND LAW
LET’S MAKE THE WIND LAW WORK FOR MAINE
Please use the November 3rd election as an opportunity to make a last, strong effort to collect signatures at your town’s polls. 
Even if we do not reach our goal of 62,000 signatures, the more signers we get, the more public support we demonstrate for amending the wind law. This is our only avenue for protecting Maine’s remaining scenic views, its rural citizens, the environment, and the wildlife. All attempts at legislation, except one, have failed.
Let your registrar of voters know well ahead of November 3rd that you need a table at your polling place, and then line up some other folks to help you. Only you can collect signatures on your petitions, but friends can sit with you to answer questions and provide support.
When collecting signatures at the polls, remember the KISS principle (keep it simple!) For example: “This amendment will provide greater public benefit for the people of Maine and better protections for our natural resources.”  
Dates to remember:
November 16, 2015. The deadline for submitting your petitions to municipal registrars. They have five days to verify that the people on your petitions are registered voters.
December 4, 2015. The deadline for getting your petitions with your “Certificate of Registration for Citizen Initiative Petition Circulator” to Dan Remian. Please call or email Dan to arrange transfer of materials: 207-354-0714 or N7CD@gwi.net.
December 11, 2015. Dan gets all the signatures to the Secretary of State.
Please get to the polls on November 3rd to vote and to collect signatures!
Why Your Signature Gathering is Critical
Sadly, 50% of Maine citizens now live within a 50 mile radius of Portland. Their lives are filled with theatre, restaurants, and shopping malls. They live in housing developments and busy neighborhoods filled with traffic and nighttime lights. Many of them like it. They are not bad people, but they don’t often leave their comfortable, urban environment to recreate in Maine’s wilderness areas, so they do not recognize how wind power impacts Maine’s scenic views, the rural population, the environment, and the wildlife.
Some of Maine’s citizens believe the green myth that wind power will save the planet from CO2. They find it difficult to comprehend the size of wind turbines or the effects of turbine noise, shadow flicker, or pulsing red lights. They are skeptical about facts concerning the low cost-benefit of wind power, or about the fact that fickle wind can never replace traditional sources of power.
It takes patience and perseverance to talk to people who believe wind power will save the planet. There is a well known psychological phenomenon called, “selection bias,” whereby people tend to overvalue information that reinforces their ideological beliefs and undervalue that which contradicts it. We are up against very stubborn “selection bias,” reinforced by the media, seductive green myths, and the wealthy and powerful wind companies.
However, a dwindling population of Mainers and many tourists “from away” still yearn for Maine’s last remaining wild places with beautiful mountains, diverse woodlands, wilderness-like lakes, abundant wildlife, and starlit nighttime skies that stretch forever. These Thoreau throw-backs want to get away from the intrusions of civilization to hike, hunt, fish, canoe, and camp in an environment filled with mountain sunsets, eagles perched in pine trees, lakes nestled under softly undulating hills, and large, connected, undeveloped lands. Some have moved to Maine specifically to be in this rustic and stunningly beautiful environment.
All of America’s last remaining “wild lands” east of the Mississippi will soon be gone if we do not amend Maine’s egregious wind law. We cannot give up this effort.

 

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Comment by alice mckay barnett on October 16, 2015 at 8:18pm

Citizen's Initiatives are the people voicing....ask why the governor will resort to CIs instead of legislative bodies...democracy trying to be.

Comment by K Campbell on October 16, 2015 at 2:07pm

Donna you should call Dan and ask him directly - his phone is: 354-0714. I just posted this message on the CI's facebook page. If any of you are on facebook please 'like' the page it is here: https://www.facebook.com/Citizen-Initiative-to-Amend-Maines-Wind-La...

Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on October 16, 2015 at 1:13pm

Dan- I leave the state tuesday but am registered here- how can I get my signature in? sorry I have not been more helpful- my email is amrita@mindspring.com sorry I am not here to help NOV 3- 

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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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