First Wind celebrates Oakfield windpower project groundbreaking
Please see the comments below for latest Brad Blake email to BDN Reporter Jen Lynds on First Wind.
Yet another incursion in Katahdin country.
First Wind celebrates Oakfield windpower project groundbreaking
The power that will be generated by the project is contracted to be sold to four Massachusetts utilities
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/09/24/business/oakfield-celebrates-...
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Comment by Penny Gray on September 25, 2014 at 11:49am
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We need to repeal the expedited wind law. The "emergency" that fast tracked this disastrous legislation was to provide REC's to Massachusetts???
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Comment by Brad Blake on September 24, 2014 at 11:48pm
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The complicity with the Maine media in promoting the scourge of industrial wind in our beautiful state continues with yet another biased story by the Bangor Daily News about the groundbreaking ceremony for the Oakfield Wind project today. I wrote an email to the reporter objecting, with copies to the editor and the publisher and here it is:
Ms. Lynds, have you no integrity whatsoever in your puff piece reporting on the First Wind Oakfield "groundbreaking" ceremony today? There has been a lot of opposition to wind power projects and this one has a particular controversy attached to it--the enormous expansion of the project from its original license without going through the application process. As a reporter, you should be aware of the local people who were in opposition, as well as Chris O'Neill, spokesman for Friends of Maine's Mountains and myself, the chairman of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power. Nobody who opposes this project or is critical of the proliferation of utility scale wind power in Maine was contacted. I can go through your piece written on behalf of Firat Wind and tear it apart and refute it sentence by "wind-power-talking-point" sentence.
I find this unprofessional and biased. The way this story was written, you might as well join First Wind's PR staff. Further, I wrote the following email to your colleague, Nick Sambides, so it appears that people at the BDN don't care to get any of the facts aside from the tripe that is fed to you from First Wind. Last night I wrote to Nick: "Nick, if you are covering First Wind's "Groundbreaking" event, I would like an opportunity to comment. If you are not, but know a BDN reporter who is covering it, please pass this email on to that reporter. I will be at work from 10 AM to 6 PM on Wednesday. My direct line number is 207-XXXXX. Thank you." Nick knows me and knows I would have wanted the opportunity to comment, so I am baffled that he would not have forwarded my email to you.
Now, how about doing a story about the 5th anniversary of the much ballyhooed UMPI wind turbine that is a lemon that has produced only 12% capacity factor? Or how about BDN doing a multi-part in depth investigative series about the wind industry and what it is really about and the true impacts on Maine? Oops! I am slipping into fantasy land on that suggestion because, sadly, there is ABSOLUTELY NO investigative reporting in any Maine media which is why First Wind gets away with its raping of Maine.
Brad Blake, chairman
Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power
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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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