e-mail addresses for Record Hill DOE comments
Joe Marhamati
DOE Loan Programs Office
Environmental Compliance Division
202-586-8198
Matthew McMillen
Director, Environmental Compliance
202-586-7248
Please send to both Marhamati and McMillen and there is a "dot" after their first name. They generally answer the phone if you want to call them and enter verbal comments as well. Sending anything by surface mail is a guaranteed delay due to anthrax screening. Papers can be faxed without a problem also.
People need to be aware that it is "HQ" not "HG" for the e-mail address.
You don't have to be worried about how detailed the information really is. We need many comments and many commenters.....if you know the Carthage, Dixfield or Woodstock project and can say some of what was said in Dixfield and make it relevant to the Roxbury project, then you are greatly needed!
We want to tell them about environmental issues and health, tourism, and cumulative impacts on water bodies, wildlife, scenic views. Our goal is to get them to do their own Federal Environmental Impact Studies and not just take those done for the developer by companies that were paid by the developer. Also, since LD 2283 (the Expedited Wind Law) allows for wind projects to be exempt from the traditional in-depth studies that other developers would be required to submit, the DEP is issuing permits without adequate consideration of the overall impacts.
If you need more information, please let me know. If you don't have the actual DOE Application that was filed by Record Hill Wind, I can e-mail the attachment for that as well. Thanks, Cathy
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on March 31, 2011 at 7:08am
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deadline friday, april fools day thank you. as stated; does not need to be detailed. just express concerns. Who knows. maybe DOE will study environment for another year.
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Comment by Denise Hall on March 31, 2011 at 6:59am
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Is the deadline tomorrow?
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Tell them you know Bald Eagles live in Roxbury Pond Basin.
Will do and perhaps a statement of ongoing work to alleviate phosphorous intake to the pond, much which has been attributable to runoff from roads around the pond. Surely drainage from mountain roads will be detrimental to reducing such contaminates as well as other hazardous fluids incorporated within turbines ( hydraulic oil, cooling oils, herbicide applications ) . Further runoff studies need to be addressed for the future of Roxbury Pond.....Dan
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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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