Maine offshore wind history:2010 DeepCWind Consortium withdraws from Monhegan litigation.
For immediate release February 10, 2010
Contact Ron Huber 207-691-7485
DeepCwind Consortium drops intervention request in lawsuit over Maine offshore wind plan
The DeepCwind Consortium has withdrawn its request to intervene in a legal battle over a state decision to designate waters near Monhegan Island as a windpower R&D center.
Attorney Jeff Thaler of Burnstein Shur, representing the consortium of investors, wind energy companies, engineering firms and ex-politicians, sent a letter to Maine Superior Court withdrawing his February 4, 2010 motion to represent both DeepCwind Consortium and the University of Maine System before Maine Superior Court in Rockland. Thaler's new motion seeks intervenor status only for the University of Maine. Read Thaler's new motion Read the previous (2/4/10 ) motion including DeepcWind in the request.
The removal of DeepCwind from the case was negotiated by email between conservation activist Ron Huber and Thaler, who represented both DeepCWind and the University of Maine, but will now only represent the University.
Huber said, "I believe that through its many departments, the University of Maine can illuminate for the Court the ecological, scenic and societal assets at stake on and around Monhegan, and the consequences of operating a floating wind energy research and development facility there."
"The DeepCwind Consortium, on the other hand, has nothing to add to the Court's review of the Bureau of Parks and Lands decision." Huber said. "It is not a legally incorporated entity. It has no set membership; participants may vary from day to day. A shadowy, legally nonexistent entity with no set membership is not "a person" even under the recent US Supreme Court ruling and should not be permitted to intervene in a civil action like this one.
DeepCWind's departure from the case is a welcome recognition of that fact."
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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."
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