BDN - Bristol to vote on whether UMaine offshore wind project can connect to regional power grid in town
Nauseating how the photo shamelessly wraps this taxpayer scam in the flag in an attempt to convey patriotism when in fact it is traitorous treasury draining fraud.
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/09/24/news/midcoast/bristol-to-vote...
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on September 25, 2014 at 7:25am
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Looking at Deepwater Block Island as precedent, the impacts on the community where landfall will occur are very important from noise to important shore environment impacts. It seems that Naragansett RI where connection to the mainland grid would occur had much more influence than the island to have the five huge (i.e., 6 MW) turbines in state waters. And the cabling does have great environmental and 'stakeholder' impact- not just what human economic activities are lost, but fish fry anyone? So I encourage Bristol and surround to enact maximum control until ALL specifics are known including when cable will be laid, exact point of landfall, etc. Yarmouth MA as the connection point for the much larger offshore Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound should be another precedent but any deals occurred so prematurely that local control is totally lost. That should not happen as a result of general reaction to Wind Energy - against or for it. It is time to demand that all the financing and permitting is done based on no concrete information, thus minimizing costs to 'investors' who then have no reason to properly evaluating risk and cost.
The PR on this, flag and 'mission accomplished' IS obscene, but then PR and grabbing the 'hearts and minds' of those unaffected (not at risk) seems to be the only thing that Windies excel at, and they are very good at it from little things like their portrayal of the minimum visual impact two turbines 12 miles away will have on the ocean panorama in Bristol (emphasizing ugly forground that the human eye would never see looking at vista) to their math on birds and bats. In voting, I hope that Bristol citizens will remember that " this is only a 'test'' and envision the endgame multiplied by 100. One simple question is whether the cable and interconnect can handle the 100 or will all have to be redone?
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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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