CALL TO ACTION TO SAVE BOWERS MOUNTAIN AND THE GRAND LAKES
Folks, this is important!
The DEP followed the letter of the Expedited Wind Law and DENIED First Wind's application to put turbines on Bowers Mountain overlooking eight ponds designated by the state as "scenic resources of state or national significance". First Wind (and the landowner) have appealed that denial to the Board of Environmental Protection.
Please take a few minutes to write letters to BEP by the deadline of 5pm next Thursday Oct 10th. These letters must be razor focused on the Scenic Impact the Bowers wind project will have on the eight Scenic Resource Lakes: Pleasant, Scraggly, Junior, Duck, Bottle, Keg and Shaw, both individually and as one big connected lake system. The two appeals can be found here: http://www.ppdlw.org/ . If you read them you will get a sense of the disdain the wind industry has for Maine's most important scenic resources.
Please express your support for the DEP's denial and tell the BEP that you believe the Bowers Wind project would have an unreasonably adverse scenic impact, and would negatively affect your enjoyment and use of these lakes.
The address & email are:
Robert A. Foley, Chair Board of Environmental Protection c/o Ruth Ann Burke #17 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333-0017
Thank you in advance for your commitment to protect Maine!
Monique Aniel
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on October 7, 2013 at 9:05am
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Alice McKay Barnett
Robert A. Foley, Chair Board of Environmental Protection c/o Ruth Ann Burke #17 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333-0017
Bowers Mountain WIND Project comment.
I have commented on the visual impacts of Grid scale Wind on this project before.
There is a cumulative visual impact of every Grid scale Wind project. Each hill you drive over you see these monsters grow taller and taller. Tourists that drive from Southern New England to Grand Lake Stream will be greeted by industrialism NOT Scenic By Ways.
Thank You,
Alice McKay Barnett
P.O.Box 588
Carthage, Maine 04224
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thank You Lenny..please hurry..time is of the essence here in Maine.
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Comment by Lenny Murphy on October 6, 2013 at 8:14pm
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Thanks for your interest in the overall cost of bringing forward commercial wind generators and the cost to put the big toys away after 20 short years! I am compiling a all inclusive list of cost both financial and to the environment! As far as I can tell there will be well over 500 cost tied into the enormous projects! The list is endless because once you start braking down the cost of the bulldozers alone and the fuel needed and oil and grease and repairs and transportation to and from the site and the police escort, etc.! Then there is the fuel for the police escort and the expence to the environment, pollution from the vehicles, etc.! Then there is the fuel the bulldozer operator uses in his truck going back and worth to work, etc.! That is the very short list of just one type of machine! Also in a different direction that no one talks about, if we paid down the national debt with the subsidy money we would pay less interest on the debt, millions thrown away, a huge cost to our people! Think of the real jobs that could be made if the moneys were used to build homes after natural disasters, etc.! I think the list will end up being 5,000 strong and maybe 3 to 1 because they have many generators now in Maine that use electric power at times and still can not transfer any power out of state because of the bottleneck in Orrington, Maine!! Will continue compiling the list of expenses as the year and my thoughts move forward! Truly yours, Lenny Murphy 746-9212
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Lenny, Can you prove it costs two units for every one unit of energy they produce?
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Monique, thanks again for the updates! I will email The BEP soon with several things for them to consider! As we all know taxation without representation is against the law, so we need to convince The BEP that they are braking the law if they approve the subsidized generators! We know that Washington can't tell the difference between taxation with or without representation so we in The States need to send them a message, no more commercial wind powered generators at our expense, it cost the people and the environment two units of energy for every unit of energy they produce, nothing clean about that, except free clean cash for a few big powerful hands! Lenny Murphy
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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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