BDN - Habib Dagher carefully orchestrates a boat ride
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Dagher stressed that UMaine is still in the running for a significantly larger federal award. If more funding becomes available * through the budgeting process or another recipient fails to meet the terms of their agreement with the Department of Energy, the department could dole out that money to any candidates that didn’t receive the full amount, according to Danielson.
Friday’s event drew Rep. Mike Michaud and Sen. Susan Collins, who were credited for their efforts on a federal level to advance the project. The University of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy, Cianbro Corp. and others also were represented.
http://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/mission-accomplished-umaine-wi...
* Pssssst - $17.6 trillion national debt?
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on September 6, 2014 at 5:40pm
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What a horribly ill-chosen phrase "mission accomplished" is, although it may be apt for orchestrated PR events on ships where the hemorrhage of money is just beginning. I also found it troublesome that the D.O.E. rep said that D.O.E.'s interest in the project can be measured by their sending him 'all the way from D.C. to Maine' for the event (paraphrasing). Incredible, but I guess that it is easier to succumb to the influence of the politicians that go to D.C. and just wire the money! The BDN story did not discuss the point on the minds of in-state ratepayers from Maine, Massachusetts (Cape Wind now, plenty in pipeline of federal leases), Rhode Island (Deepwater Block Island, again a 'demo' for massive industrialization of coastal waters), and New Jersey (Fisherman's) - the burden on ratepayers. A new poll out on 'attitudes'/support for wind energy from the Midwest, finds that support in strongest in Iowa (where they do have the wind resource and lots of land already used for INDUSTRIAL agriculture) and the press release quotes Barnard as contrasting the attitude in the Midwest with New England, which he blames on the silly Yankee notion that locals should have a say. Since DOE is also funding yet another New England-targetted 'education' project, this time including offshore, to get the right spin to 'stakeholders' and 'decision-makers' that is being rolled out this week, and seems to have little input from Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire, once again I ask that we unite our local concerns into an effective regional effort. Part of that needs to be a dramatic redefinition of 'stakeholders'. The Midwest poll did find that support for 'clean' renewables could be measured as willingness to pay up to $1/month more on the electric bill. Do we know what we are already paying with New England states aggressive RPSs and RGGI, let alone new transmission and pipelines to get natural gas supply that will be in increasing demand the more variable generation is added?
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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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