Defiling Maine: Wind turbine parts are now being trucked through Hancock County
July 8, 2024
by Bill Trotter
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For the Down East wind project, the turbine sections are being trucked from the terminal via Trundy Road in Searsport to Route 1 and then east through Bucksport to Ellsworth, according to Merrill.
In Ellsworth, the shipments will roll through downtown on Main Street and then onto Washington Junction Road, steering clear of the busy High Street corridor. The trucks will turn back onto Route 1 in Hancock and will stay on it to Station Road in Columbia, where they will turn north toward the project site, he said.
The early-morning shipments, escorted by Maine State Police, will occur five days a week into October, according to Hancock County emergency management officials. Some inconveniences to commuters are inevitable, officials said.
The turbine sections are headed toward the Downeast Wind project site north of Harrington. The wind power developer, Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy, plans to erect 30 turbines spread out among various locations in the town of Columbia and in townships 18 and 24 in the state’s Unorganized Territory.
When assembled, each of the turbines will have a maximum height of 656 feet, more than double the height of the Statue of Liberty and almost 200 feet taller than many wind turbines in the U.S. The entire project is expected to have a production capacity of 126 megawatts.
When completed, the $188 million wind project is expected to generate enough to power 37,000 typical houses for a year. The company hopes to connect the turbines to the grid in early 2025.
The full article can be read at: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/07/08/hancock/hancock-business...
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Comment by Dan McKay on July 11, 2024 at 8:41am
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Another weight to hang on Maine peoples' energy bills. Sheer madness now has taken over government. Either the elected Democrats must be booted out of office or Maine withers into oblivion.
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Comment by Stephen Littlefield on July 9, 2024 at 8:23pm
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Just another blight on the scenery that was the pristine Maine. Something else to ruin tourism and the businesses of tourism. How much are you getting paid Mills? How much are the democrat cretins of politics selling out Mainers for their sack of silver? King is pushing electric cars even though the grid can't handle it, odds on favorite he's got stock in all this garbage that destroys the life that Mainer's love and want!
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I left a comment on the BDN site. Surreal that this green energy scam is still destroying our precious state.
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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
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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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