Cowboy Fire sparked by wind turbine burning on 1,592 acres near Evanston Wy.
Cowboy Fire
sparked by wind turbine burning on
1,592 acres near Evanston Wy.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 13, 2017 at 6:39pm
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Maybe they skirted the "Building Height" since it was not classified as a building. Maybe the ordinance should be renamed as a "Structure Height" ordinance. This would include anything built, including transmission lines. (Or maybe payola got them past the Building Height ordinance?)
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Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 13, 2017 at 4:53pm
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Well here in Clifton, Pisgah Mountain LLC says if there's a problem in the nacelle they have a team that comes in from Cianbro to deal with it. The local fire department stands back and only deals with issues on the ground. But don't think there's any provision to bill Pisgah for that service. And I'm sure the emergency team from Cianbro isn't going to try to put out any fires in the nacelle or to patch a broken blade that's flown off.... It amazes me that the issues that would be prohibitive for most any other development asking for permitting are poo poo'ed when they come up relevant to wind turbines. Clifton has building height restrictions because the fire department has no means to fight a fire in a high rise, but a turbine fire, just let it burn and try to contain the windfire that's liable to smoulder in the slash from timber harvesting for weeks and rekindle. Last wildfire in that area went on for days and taxed all the resources of local and state response.
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Comment by Gary Campbell on September 12, 2017 at 5:28pm
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In the town where I live, I'm not allowed to have any kind of fire on windy days. Maybe wind turbines should not be allowed to operate on windy days. :-)
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Coming soon to the Maine woods. Who foots the bill for the firefighting and the property destruction? Nextera?
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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
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"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."
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