Coming up: Maine Wind Week
9-15th is official Maine Wind Power Week. There will be open houses, facility tours, and other public events to celebrate and educate by wind developer companies, universities, agencies.
May 10th thru 15th Delorme Open House: Come discover how mapping and GPS technology is used in the development of wind energy projects.
May 11th Ocean Energy Bill signing by the Governor! 11am to noon. Statehouse
May 11th Stetson Wind Farm Bus Tour: 11am to: 1:00pm
May 11th Northern Maine Community College, Wind Tech Ceremony 12noon to 1:30.
Edmunds Conference Center; 12:00 noon. lunch and internship signing ceremony Showcases the first and only wind power technology associate degree program in New England.
May 11th Kibby Expansion Wind Power Project LURC Hearing Public Session 6 to 8pm, King Pine Room, Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Resort
May 12m 2010 Regional Wind Power Forum, KVCC, Fairfield - 8:00am2:00pm
May 12th 9am to 3 pm Maine Wind Port Facility Tour Searsport. 9:00amTo: 3:00pm
May 12th Kibby Expansion Wind Power Project LURC Hearing Public Session, 6:00 PM, King Pine Room, Sugarloaf
May 13th Bus Tour of Kibby Wind Power Project: 9:00-1:00;
May 13th TRC Open House (Wind engineering consultants) 10am to 2pm 0pm
May 14th AEWC Advanced Materials Lab 10:30am to 12:45pm Advanced Structure and Composite Center (AEWC) Tours, 10:30 & 2:00
May 14th Future of Wind in Maine 6:00pm -7:00pm, Public Presentation by Cianbro. Freeport Public Library.
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Comment by Long Islander on May 3, 2010 at 12:10am
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Perhaps Delorme figures that if they can encourage the growth of sprawling industrial wind complexes, after all the blasting some contour lines will have to be redrawn and as a result they'll get to sell more Gazeteers and mapping software.
For a company whose flagship product is very much tied to the topography and wonderful natural features that are Maine, this is a most image killing move.
Maybe they need to add a mapping layer called The Money Trail showing all the nefarious wind pushing individuals, companies, non-profits and politicians.
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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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