Bangor Daily News - Largest and Most Expansive Wind Project in the State of Maine
Public meeting on proposed Bingham wind project scheduled for Wednesday
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/11/news/mid-maine/public-meeting...
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Comment by Sherwin Start on February 17, 2014 at 6:42pm
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Very Good Kathy! The Wind Development INDUSTRY Knows that ANY Propeller on ANYTHING Generates as MUCH as it Can depending on the Sopeed of Rotation! Have U Ever Stood Beside a Helicopter as it Start Up? Just Listen the Increase of the Sound from its Baldes The Faster it Goes ! I Have Worked at AIRPORTS all over the Country-There Is No Such Thing as a Plane that Produces NO Noise!! The Propeller of a Plane ARE IDENTICAL To those of a Wind Turbine!!
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on February 12, 2014 at 5:23am
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The peer-review of acoustic impacts assured Fairhaven MA that their turbine project would not have the adverse impacts that occurred in Falmouth because the would 'spill the wind gracefully', even though maximum sound power was the same as that of the turbines in Vinalhaven that Maine DEP's noise consultant predicted would exceed the 45 dB limit by 10-12 dB because of wind shear and vear. The proposed turbines are noisier than Mars Hill or Vinalhaven, the modelling does take into account some factors, but not the fact that sound power is provided only for clean, dry blades under specific limits of wind shear, turbulence and terrain -- see EWEA's 2012 conference on acoustics, that deviations limit the usefulness of any sound level guarantee; the wind shear in forested areas is going to impact; wind shear also affects wake behavior, acoustic dmissions are not just from the hypothetical point in from of the hub and the Europeans don't think that the sound propagation model for ground sources are valid now that turbines are 500 ft. Most troubling is that the peer-review notes that no 1/3rd octave band information is given so there is no way to compare to 'smaller' turbines and to see how much the air absorption may have been overestimated. I hope that all those many 'receptors evaluated for flicker are very far away, and not downwind. I also hope that Audubon will start taking noise impacts and disruption of diurnal rhythms on wildlife more seriously. Noise was not considered by NRC in 2007 - they took their info from BWEA circa '01. Conservation areas SHOULD be considered a 'receptor'.
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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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