First Wind details plans for planned third wind farm in Hancock County
Jim Cassida, First Wind’s permitting and compliance manager, gave a brief overview of the project and then invited audience members to speak with one of the dozen professionals lining the back wall of the room standing alongside an equal number of color charts, maps and photos.
The experts and the materials they brought with them addressed everything from the potential visual and aural impact of the project to what effect it would have on birds.
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Comment by Gary Campbell on December 10, 2014 at 2:44pm
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This is a common tactic. DEP requires First Wind to host a public information meeting (Oddly, DEP does not attend). First Wind does everything they can to avoid answering questions in a group. They much prefer to 'divide and conquer'. As this article describes, after making his brief pitch, Jim Casssida "invited audience members to speak with one of the dozen professionals lining the back wall of the room..." That is, he did not want to take questions from the audience preferring instead to adjourn to a 'science fair' format where questions and answers would be one-on-one. That way it's less likely to be recorded and it becomes his word against your word. In other words, they can tell you anything they like and probably not be held accountable.
At the informational meeting for the Bowers project First Wind did not even make a presentation. It was a free-form science fair situation. When I asked a FW employee, one on one, how Carroll Plt would fight a turbine fire he told me that was not a problem because FW is giving the Carroll Fire Dept $25,000 for a new truck. He would not have said that if he was speaking in front of a group. In fact, Carroll doesn't even have a fire department and he knew it!
If the public wants the facts, they MUST insist that the Q&A be held in a group setting!
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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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