Environmental groups appeal judge’s approval of construction for controversial power corridor
Several groups claim that federal agencies didn't thoroughly evaluate the New England Clean Energy Connect project's environmental impact.
Portland Press Herald
Environmental groups are appealing a federal judge’s decision to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Energy to continue construction of the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor — a controversial 145-mile electricity transmission line through western Maine.
Chief U.S. District Judge Lance Walker ruled in favor of the federal agencies last month after the groups sued them for not thoroughly assessing the environmental impacts of the transmission line, which will span 53 miles of forest to bring power from hydroelectric dams in Quebec through Lewiston.
The project will bring 1,200 megawatts to the New England electrical grid, and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.....................................
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Comment by Willem Post on Saturday
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That line would serve only one purpose, as a subsidy for Owners of wind and solar systems so they can profit from delivering highly subsidized, expensive, environmentally destructive, intermittent/variable, unreliable wind and solar electricity to southern New England states where the rich investors are and where the electricity is used
The ugliness of wind and solar systems would be in Maine, the benefit would be in dysfunctional Massachusetts, where crazy, inane, woke nutcases have taken over, as in Harvard, who use the foghorn of Corporate/Government-controlled Media to brainwash the over-regulated, over-taxed people.
CO2 is a wonderful gas.
We need more CO2 ppm to increase greening of the earth to support abundant fauna, and to increase crop yields to feed 8 billion people
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Comment by Dan McKay on Friday
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Trump should recover all government legal expenses from these loser, environmental groups and make them open their books revealing who donated to them and who they have made donations to.
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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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