http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/18/business/first-wind-partners-...

First Wind partners with environmental coalition to form $700,000 land conservation fund

Posted Feb. 18, 2014, at 6:37 p.m.

PORTLAND, Maine — Industrial wind developer First Wind announced Tuesday that it has partnered with a coalition of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to preserving the Appalachian Trail to create a $700,000 land conservation fund.

The conservation fund will protect the Appalachian National Scenic Trail viewshed lands in Maine.

First Wind operates five wind farms in Maine. It has also proposed the Bingham Wind project, a 62-turbine wind farm located in Bingham, Kingsbury Plantation, Mayfield Township, Parkman and Abbott. The Bingham Wind project would be near the Appalachian Trail, a fact that concerned the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club and Appalachian Trail Conservancy, according to a news release. The Appalachian Trail covers more than 2,180 miles from Maine to Georgia.

John Lamontagne, a spokesman for First Wind, called the new conservation fund “a significant and positive development” for the company’s proposed Bingham Wind project.

“This agreement reflects the importance that there be clean sources of renewable energy in Maine balanced with protecting important viewsheds,” he wrote in an email to the Bangor Daily News

orm-700000-land-conservation-fund/?ref=regionstate

Please read  on ;

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/18/business/first-wind-partners-...

Views: 210

Comment

You need to be a member of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine to add comments!

Join Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Comment by Sherwin Start on February 23, 2014 at 1:42pm

All First WIND has to Do is to BUild their WIND Turbines where they CANNOT Be Seen from The AT-HOW hard is that??!!I belong to the ATC and we are SHOCKED and dissappointed that the Maine DEP and the Legislature are literally destroying the Scenic Beauty of Maine!! THere is Even Talk of ENDING the AT in N.H. Now!! HOW much RECREATIONAL REVENUE Is the State Going to loose if that Happens!! It Will COST THE TAXPAYERS tens of MILLONS of Dollars!!  

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 18, 2014 at 9:21pm
Whores by a different color.
 

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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/

Not yet a member?

Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?

We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi 

Task Force membership is free. Please sign up today!

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/

© 2024   Created by Webmaster.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service