Wind company to pay $2.75M, limit future projects to advance state’s largest farm

Posted Sept. 25, 2015, at 11:22 a.m.
Last modified Sept. 26, 2015, at 6:23 a.m.

PORTLAND, Maine — Wind power developer SunEdison announced it agreed to give $2.75 million to conservation efforts and limit where it pursues wind farms to advance the state’s largest wind project to date in Bingham.

SunEdison said Friday the conservation fund is one part of an agreement between it and the group Friends of Maine Mountains, which in March withdrew an appeal of the Bingham project before the Board of Environmental Protection.

Please check the following link for the rest of this sFMM tory

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/25/business/anti-wind-group-got-...

HERE IS THE PPH LINK;

http://www.pressherald.com/2015/09/25/friends-of-maines-mountains-d...

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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on September 29, 2015 at 6:31pm
Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on September 28, 2015 at 6:46pm

I was speechless when I read the details of this disastrous deal in the BDN. Who gave FMM permission to make this decision on everyone's behalf? Their level of arrogance and foolish grandstanding in an effort to polish their tarnished image is unconscionable. They have emboldened SW/FW and given them a PR coup of immense and immediate value to this struggling enterprise. The only thing they didn't do was supply us all with Vaseline. Maybe they didn't get paid enough by Patriot? 

Comment by John Gates on September 27, 2015 at 5:10pm

Brutal indeed.

Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 27, 2015 at 4:37pm

Please know I'm not making excuses for FMM's actions. Just trying to find a path out of this mess we're in. I don't see how a state-wide vote over a year from now to revise the expedited wind law can solve much of our problem when a lot of days this summer I had to pull over to give right-of-way to  a turbine section headed north. Those turbines won't go away with changing the law.  Possibly a more effective way to halt the devastation and destruction is by taking the battle to our town halls. Petition for meetings, petition for ordinance changes. It seems to me more people are getting the message and the truth about this green energy scam with every local skirmish. That's where we can make a difference, one Fort Fairfield or Dixmont at a time. Sure we seem to have lost the fight here in Clifton but none of those turbine parts have gone by my house yet. Pisgah got another green light from the PUC this past week, but the PUC order is full of censored redacted sections. Who knows what lies may be being told. Or what fairy tales may be being spun. Wasn't it President Lincoln who said, "So you're the little lady who started this war" when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Mainer. Words have the ability to motivate and they haven't taken away our freedom of expression yet. We need speakers and podiums. We need real people's stories being told and retold.

Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 27, 2015 at 4:03pm

(Let's try this again. The comment box was hiding last time.)

Boy it really is hard to know how to take the 'agreement'. Sell out or compromise settlement to get something beneficial that wouldn't have otherwise happened? Obviously, both sides have learned this is an expensive war to be fought, with no guarantees as to regulatory and judicial decisions. It looks like FMM capitulated, but so have many people in Maine when they had no more resources to expend and no hope for justice or protection. When you're beaten, you give up and go away. When you're worn down, you leave the field and live to fight another day. Sure clear and firm victories are preferably to compromise solutions. We can be realistic and admit that the 'people' want green energy and many of them are not going to take the time and focus to find the facts and make an objective analysis of the pluses and minuses. Mostly only when a person has a personal stake are they going to be motivated to spend hours and hours investigating the issues and the personnel involved. We don't want to trust our officials to protect our interests because too many people have been burned too many times to follow that path. But the alternative is a heavy burden to pick up and carry. Most of the time, most of the people are hoping they can trust their regulatory agencies. By the time events lead to a judicial venue, all bets are off. Who's got the most money and the best lawyers. Not because the judicial is anywhere near as untrustworthy as the administrative and legislative. Not because it is as arbitrary either. But because it deals with the issues as they are presented and can be proven. Not conducive to an impassioned plea for fairness and empathy. So how to view FMM's agreement? I'd want to see the whole agreement and to talk to the people whose interests FMM purports to represent. So far there have been far more losers than winners on the side of protecting the health and rights of neighbors of industrial wind and the natural and cultural heritage of our State. How does this agreement fit into a greater strategy of protecting the people and property we are concerned with? For me, for now, I can't answer that question.

Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on September 27, 2015 at 3:51pm

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-legislature-puc-and...

Their  grand plan is working, please see blog above and BTW  the link I mentioned in my blog is no longer available  

Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on September 27, 2015 at 3:48pm

Brutal. 

Comment by Pineo Girl on September 27, 2015 at 3:10pm

FMM with their "settlement" just threw anyone who is working against wind in Maine under the bus.  The counties Sun Edison has stated they will limit their activity to are the counties they have always limited their activity.  All this has done is embolden Sun Edison ti move forward post haste on their projects.  Just take a look at Curt Adams article in the BDN lauding FMM - at our expense!

Comment by Paula D Kelso on September 27, 2015 at 10:36am

 

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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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