BDN - Praising Angus King as "environmental hero" Peter Mills & Sharon Tisher advocate for wind

"However, Maine does have huge untapped potential for offshore wind, tidal power, biofuels, and solar energy. Expanding the use of these alternatives will make Maine more economically independent and generate good jobs here".

"Maine’s national and state leaders — Muskie, Mitchell, Bill Cohen, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Angus King, Harry Richardson, Joe Brennan, Horace Hildreth, Ken Curtis, Jon Lund, and Jock McKernan, among others — distinctively dug in and mastered the facts of the environmental issues they tackled". How fitting that our successful political leaders should become environmental heroes.

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/12/23/opinion/contributors/bruce-po...

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Comment by Mike DiCenso on December 23, 2014 at 10:42pm

Mills and Tisher have tunnel vision and are not credible. Poliquin can make an env. mark if he can stop the wind folly before Maine is inundated with thousands of turbines. In 2000 New England had 40% of its power from coal and oil. In 2013 that number had fallen to below7%. Where is the emergency to foist expensive wind power on the state of Maine?

Comment by Long Islander on December 23, 2014 at 2:54pm

Note that John Baldacci is left off the list? WHY" This man brought us the planet-saving, Al Queda fighting Expedited Wind Law.

By the way, last year Mills/Tisher wrote:

"Republican Teddy Roosevelt, America’s “conservation president,” was one of the strongest environmental advocates in our nation’s history"

I wonder whether Mills/Tisher care or even know that the First Wind/D.E. Shaw Wall Street hustlers are destroying Mattawamkeag Lake and Pleasant Lake in Island Falls which Teddy Roosevelt visited three times in his youth, helping shape his commitment to conservation. I wonder if they know that Mattawamkeag's shoreline had been preserved with taxpayer money - Land for Maine's Future, and now the lake is being assaulted by monster noisy wind turbines that produce nothing but green for the scamming insiders, angst for Mainers, harm to wildlife, higher electricity rates and greater national debt.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/12/24/opinion/maine-should-lead-was...

 

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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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