CHANNEL 7 WIND SEGMENT
The following link will take you to the first segment of the channel 7 series on wind.
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on March 1, 2016 at 1:32pm
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Yes, someone tell Laura they are industrial wind turbines.
Kathy, not sure of the context for your question on the homestead exemption. But, what it is is a property tax credit applied to your tax bill if, and only if, the bill is for your primary year-round residence. It currently is $14,000 or so that is subtracted from your property valuation and then the tax is computed on that reduced valuation. Only one exemption per homeowner and per property. You have to live there a year and can not claim two places in the same year. So no seasonal camps qualify, no multi-family housing, no commercial buildings, no undeveloped land. So, say your town's tax rate is $15 per thousand, your tax would be $210 less (14 x $15) than it would be without the homestead exemption. And if I'm remembering it correctly the state reimburses the town for the exemptions so the town gets the same tax revenue as it would have otherwise.
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You are right on, Kathy. They are not wind mills and should not be referred to as such. They are industrial sized wind turbines that are anything but cute and are ruining this beautiful state of Maine that we call home.
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"Windmills" indeed. Please send Laura the photo of Oakfield turbines casting shadow across the entire breadth of pond.
And whereas Woodcock does frame the question before Maine, the whole community benefit concept needs a lot of tweaking. I was just reviewing what Oakfield hopes to get out of it, but I guess Island Falls, seasonal residents, et al get next to nada. If someone could fill me in on the "homestead exemption" in Maine, I would appreciate it.
For me the value of the story was the Mars Hill vet. It certainly was not the tiny turbines on lattice towers on cleared hillside that looked to be vintage 70s California desert, not 117 m (384 ft.) diameter rotors of Oakfield.
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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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