Ordinances = Ordnance
A reader left the following post with this article in the Bangor Daily News:
Portland, you've got it all wrong! Since you all favor wind power and jobs, and economic development, and being green, you need to create an ordinance that will allow Angus King or First Wind or Patriot Renewables to come to the city and do a major project. You can do a TIF to get them to stop putting these things up out in the hinterlands where there is no wind and put them up all over Portland to take advantage of the steadier, stronger coastal winds. Then Portland can brag about being the "Greenest" city this side of Boulder, Colorado!
Here's the deal: The most recent project upstate to be approved by LURC is for First Wind's Bull Hill project just across the bay from Acadia National Park. I say you get First Wind to change the location and bring that project to Portland---19 Vestas model 100 turbines. Imagine these 476 foot tall beauties gracing the Portland skyline! Since they are more than twice the height of Maine's tallest building, Franklin Towers, Portlanders would stop complaining that Franklin Towers is "too high" and "out of scale". Imagine the thrill of the out of stater tourists looking out from the "Top of the East" lounge and seeing these majestic kinetic sculptures in the vista toward Mt. Washington, across Back Cove, and on each end of the peninsula.
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/30/news/portland/portland-wants-...
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Comment by Brad Blake on November 30, 2011 at 11:54pm
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You are right, Jon Hinck! Wind industry lap dog Rep. Jon Hinck and his First Wind lawyer wife live in the toney West End of Portland and the restrictions being written into Portland's wind ordinance protect them from having even a tiny residential wind turbine anywhere near them. Too bad the victims in Mars Hill, Freedom, Vinalhaven, Lincoln, and Lee can't have the same protection.
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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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