Bingham Project -♦- And Then they Turn....
Commissioning of the Bingham Project ?
First they tested the Warning lights, a few, then possibly nearly all, the week of September 19th - 24th. As far away as Unity Maine these can bee seen in the night sky. Then on the 25th (maybe before) they unleashed the blades, to start the Killing of Maine and its Birds & Bats. (maybe a corporate plane someday)
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 26, 2016 at 9:42pm
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The area use to be my childhood stomping grounds too Karen, using just a Topo map without a compass I walked on foot from Parkman to Kingsbury pond. Little Otter pond was once a camp location for my Wife's family, now overshadowed by a Turbine. I remember the Great Mayfield fire and now see its destruction again by the corporate world and those that leach from their pockets as they can not see the value of what they rob from the land.
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Comment by Jim Wiegand on September 26, 2016 at 9:38pm
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There is nothing noble, messianic, clean, green or the least bit comforting about wind turbines. In fact normal, non-sociopathic, educated, and ethical people should see these turbines as a national disgrace.
Wind turbines are a highly profitable corporate product being sold to Americans under fraudulent pretenses. Adding to the wind energy fraud is the fact that America exports enough cheap energy each year, in the form of fossil fuel and coal, to produce more than twice the amount of energy claimed to be produced in the wind industry’s embellished energy reports. Ironically these exports have skyrocketed since our misinformed and lost President Obama took office.
It is a corporate myth that these turbines can do a thing about climate change but ignorant people believe it thanks to fraudulent research and a rigged media. The primary reasons are that they produce far too little power and their sprawling blight takes up far too much space. The media and industry always keep the narrative about wind energy in relation to the grid, yet off the grid energy consumption from transportation, heating and manufacturing is the most important makes up most of the energy used by society.
Another problem is that even 100 billion wind turbines could never offset the climate impacts from the soil warming deforestation or desertification taking place across the world. Maybe with the next great corporate lie we will be hearing this from our politicians …………….. “We need to cut down our remaining forests for wind energy in order to save mankind from melting ice caps, rising oceans, and climate change because wind turbines can offset far more CO2 than these trees...........This logic is just as stupid as the selling points now being used to sell turbines to Americans.
Then one must always keep in mind that the figures released on the EIA website are completely bogus so no matter how good you think these wind turbines are, what you think you know is just a fantasy. In this new age of corruption, wind projects not only do not have to account for their wildlife slaughter, they do not have to account for the energy flowing off the grid into wind projects. Production Tax Credits are given to an industry from fraudulent numbers.
My primary problem with wind energy, even though it is foolish, expensive, fragments ecosystems and is completely fraud based, is the slaughter to our highly protected species. We have unleashed an industrial killer that will bring extinction to many species from a pretty much worthless capitalistic product. Money fleeced from taxpayers can be replaced, our extinct species are gone forever.
Does the public know how many condors, whooping cranes and eagles have really been killed by wind turbines?
Does the public know that hundreds of endangered species have been chopped up by a measly 200 MW of installed wind energy capacity in Hawaii since 2007?
The public will never know these answers for the same reasons the public knows nothing about the origin of more than 33,000 eagle carcasses secretly shipped to the Denver Eagle Repository since 1997.........Inside rigging is hiding this wildlife genocide. Golden Eagles are disappearing from large areas around wind farms, yet bogus population studies sponsored by our government are overestimating populations by more than ten times to hide this impact.
At one level we have an industry using fraudulent research saying these turbines are safe and then we have our "In God we Trust" government agencies hiding their carcasses, and I can tell you from reading over the industry’s rigged research, the death toll to highly protected species is easily in the many millions each year.
Recently people have been waking up to this industry’s fraud and in response the industry is filing lawsuits to keep "their" bird mortality data a secret. This is taking place even though they are killing off some of the world's rarest and supposedly most protected species. If people got organized and wanted to know the exact amount of energy these turbines are really producing, the industry would also file lawsuits to stop this supposedly “proprietary” information from getting out.
When you, me or anyone normal steps back and thinks about how perverted all this is, it should be obvious to all that we have a leadership crisis that will eventually bury America.
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Comment by Karen Bessey Pease on September 26, 2016 at 9:18pm
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I simply couldn't watch the whole video. :( This region is my "homeland". The area encompassing the Bingham project has been called (for decades and decades) "The Big Woods" by my family. The environmental and scenic destruction is bad enough....but knowing the corruption and collusion that went on prior to this project's approval makes the whole business just that much more sickening and depressing. Not only have we lost a beautiful landscape and sound-scape....but we have to recognize that our government is bought and paid-for by special interests and big business. A double whammy,,, and a (another!) sad day for rural Maine. :(.
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 26, 2016 at 7:46pm
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Link to Clifton meeting video's:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKC8nCz5v71g8tha0-HG1QQ?feature=watch
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@ Richard, they can be viewed from many places in Maine, and at 11 or so miles into Guilford the lights are possibly a traffic hazard. I was asked by the DEP's Earl Townsend to get some images at night and video if possible. I told him I was not sure if my camera could focus in the darkness, so he said that he may possibly send his wife with some special (taxpayer paid) camera if needed.
I can imagine that they light the surrounding forest tree tops as bright as those things need to be.
Imagine coming over the top of the hill from Bingham heading East and seeing a Night Glow of read as you approach. Then as you crest and come down the other side, the view of about 6 miles of flashing red lights in the blackened skies of an Icy winter road.
Road Traffic Hazards have never been considered....... so images where they may pose a problem are wanted by the DEP. This may go to siting location. (or another appeasement of an ill compromise)
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The red warning lights on the towers are not what FirstWind had told the residents of the Mayfield / Kingsbury area. My lodge (camp) on the west side of Foss Mountain faces the western mountains of Maine. We now see turbines with red blinking lights in the front of the western mountains that view some of the most beautiful sunsets in Maine . They all blink together at once and are really bright! It's like Christmas year round, bright enough to block the night stars.
Also, the daytime views that at one time was a magnificent view of Maines western mountains, are now blocked by these monstrous wind turbines.
With all the power going out of the state, why did our state government allow this to happen?
It's not over yet.
Wake up MAINE!
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Comment by Pineo Girl on September 26, 2016 at 7:15pm
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Sad Sad Day!! Destroying our heritage!
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Do you have any of the links for those Paula ? As sometimes the owner of the account can Unlist them which means they are still available, or set to private which means only the owner can access them.
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checked youtube, I guess the many meeting video's we posted from 2010 thru 2012 are no longer available, will check some more on that. The Planning board chairman's father-in-law sat by the Board and video recorded us video taping the Board. cute, huh? Mature and classy. He took pictures of our houses and gave them to the Select Board which voted to send the CEO out to see if we all had any town violations. To his credit, I don't think the CEO followed up on that order.
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Well, Eric, I set up that Planning Board website when I was Planning Assistant. It was my first attempt so it isn't state of the art but could provide information. The youtube video's were most if not all posted by our Clifton Task Force. The Town did not routinely videotape or audiotape or keep meticulous paper records. After I left there was hardly anything more posted on the website. The Town's website was only set up last year and last I checked did not routinely post agendas and minutes. DON'T GO THERE. Last time I tried my McAfee went ballistic warning me off. On the PB site, it does have a record of the id's of viewer's by their ?? number and location. I used to have a password for accessing that information but I told them to change their password when I left. About the only thing the Board did after I left was post the revised 2014 version of the LUO.
Expense cut at the cost of safety, could be. The road work was being done by Pomroy Logging that used to own the Pisgah site. Still owns the land surrounding on the East side. Kind of a sweetheart deal. I'll give you the land but I get to cut off the timber and you hire me to build your access road. There was an existing logging road to just about everywhere needed for the turbines, but they were supposed to upgrade it and remake a section of the Springy Pond road to eliminate a too sharp corner. To tell you the truth, we have all here tried to ignore what's going on there. We're so used to flim flam we take it for granted that it's still going on. Bing sat maps show the site pretty well. There's the access road in a 3 sided rectangle. To the west of the turbines are boy scout Camp Roosevelt and the Bangor Water District land (which gave a sound easement and setback easement). To the south Dedham has wind turbine prohibitive ordinance and the Spring Pond Otis residents weren't happy but the Clifton officials could have cared less. The Clifton Springy Pond landowners (for the most part) are happy that Pisgah will maintain their camp road and lower their shoreland taxes. The view model that Pisgah presented from Springy was a real farce. When the PB realized that Pisgah might move turbines farther east, they made sure the setback was enough to prevent that happening but didn't mind what happened on Rebel Hill Road. Not so much tax money comes from there don't you know.
Cianbro is the main contractor so I'm assuming it's being down right once the pieces get there. But at one point, Pisgah was claiming Cinabro was financing the contracting so another deal making. Reed and Reed had already sued Pisgah for breach of contract but settled in an out-of-court secret deal. Their sound contractor wasn't happy so I'm guessing he didn't get paid his money promptly and fully. He submitted a negative comment to the PUC.
Whoever Earthling commenter on the BDN was, got it right when he (or she) said Pisgah escaped scrutiny. Because the Town has stricter reg's then the DEP, the Town is totally responsible for monitoring and enforcement. Earthling says Pisgah is "probably going to be the worst in the state". Well I hope not but that's my impression as well.
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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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