Following that hearing, expected to last about an hour, Bethel will hold public hearings on proposed amendments to the town’s commercial wind ordinance and a request for authorization for selectmen to dispose of the former West Bethel Children’s Center building. The wind proposal will be voted on at a special town meeting Nov. 13.
http://www.sunjournal.com/bethel-to-hold-back-to-back-public-hearings/
Western Maine Mountains Action Group:
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Write or attend ordinance committee meetings. List of how to get involved:
Town of Bethel
Selectman/ordinance review committee @ 19 Main Street / PO Box 1660 Bethel, ME 04217, 207-824-2669 / fax 207-824-3355 or email TMbethelmaine.org
Bethelmaine.org for information and meeting information
Bethel Chamber of Commerce @ 8 Station Pl. (PO Box 1247) Bethel, ME 04217 or email info@bethelmaine.com
Town of Greenwood
Selectman/ordinance committee @ 593 Gore Rd, Greenwood, ME 04255, 207-875-2773 Fax: 875-2420 or email kimsparks@roadrunner.com
Greenwoodmaine.org for information and meeting information
Letters to the Editor Bethel Citizen
19 Main St Bethel, ME 04217 or email news@bethelmaine.com
Oxford County Commissioners
26 Western Ave # 2, South Paris, ME 04281, 207-743-6359, fax 207-743-1545 or email scole@oxfordcounty.org
Local State Representatives
Fran Head, PO Box 61, West Bethel, ME 04286, 207- 650-1351, fax 207-824-2448 or email Frances.Head@legislature.maine.gov
Lisa Keim, 1505 Main St., Dixfield, ME 04224, 207-562-6023 or email Lisa.Keim@legislature.maine.gov
Governor Lepage
Office of the Governor, #1 State House Station, August, ME 04333-0010, 207-287-3531, fax 207-287-1034 or email at http://www.maine.gov/…/citizen_serv…/ideas-suggestions.shtml
Pages or Websites
Friends of Maine's Mountains -FB
Western Maine Mountains Action Group -FB
Moosehead Region Futures Committee –FB
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Thank you Eric. Wider distribution is always great and much appreciated!
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U.S. Sen Angus King
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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 - 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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