Hanky Panky On LD 1810 Is This Public Service Or Caving To Lobbyists ?
LD 1810 (HP 1255)
"An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Expedited Permitting for Wind Energy Development"
Last House Action LD 1810
2/6/2018 - Speaker laid before the House
On motion of Representative HERBIG of Belfast, the Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY.
Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
Last Senate Action LD 1810
2/27/2018 - Taken from the table by the President
Subsequently On motion by Senator SAVIELLO of Franklin The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES In NON-CONCURRENCE
Sent down for concurrence
Email from: Rep. Richard “Dick” Pickett Proudly Serving District 116 :
"When a bill gets referred to two different committees the bill dies between the bodies unless one of the two legislative bodies, the House or the Senate recedes and concurs to have the bill referred to one body. Right now it looks as though the bill is more than likely going to die between the bodies. "
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Comment
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Comment by Art Brigades on March 6, 2018 at 3:06pm
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Today the Senate backed off and the bill was sent to the Utilities Committee. We will see how long it takes for a public hearing, as the legislature is trying to wrap up its business.
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Comment by Long Islander on March 1, 2018 at 4:34pm
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Comment by Dan McKay on March 1, 2018 at 12:10pm
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Seth Berry was a member on the 123th legislature when the Baldacci Wind Act passed thru the EUT on it's way to enactment.
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Seth Berry served four consecutive terms in the Maine Legislature, starting in 2007 and ending as House Majority Leader in 2015. While Majority Leader he also co-chaired the Joint Select Committee on Maine’s Workforce and Economic Future, the signature bipartisan effort of the 126th Legislature. He also served as the ranking minority member on the Taxation Committee in the 125th Legislature where he advocated forcefully for equitable and fair tax policies, as Assistant Majority Leader during the 124th Legislature, and as a member of the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee in the 123rd.
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The House voted 79-62 to "adhere" to its reference to EUT. The Senate now has a chance to recede & concur or insist upon ENR, which would kill the bill in non-concurrence. Likely to happen Tuesday. The can gets kicked for another week...
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 1, 2018 at 11:54am
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Great example of Hanky Panky in the Maine legislature right here:
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/naomi-schalit-wind-indu...
Do we reelect these people for their maneuvering skills?
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Do we still allow our public servants in the legislature to incessantly text their wind industry friends for instructions on what to do and say during hearings? Texting and driving has been banned. Someone introduce a bill outlawing texting and legislating.
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Thanks, Art
My guts tell me the bill hasn't a chance in the EUT committee as Chairman Berry is very conniving with the way he conducts meetings to get the outcomes he desires.
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From one month ago:
"Virtually Unprecedented: No referral to committee" for Governor's Wind Bill
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/an-act-to-amend-the-law...
The roll call in Excel is here:
LD%201810%20-%20House%20Roll%20Call.xlsx
All R's voted on our side except six whom were absent:
HAGGAN of Hampden HAWKE of Boothbay Harbor LOCKMAN of Amherst MALABY of Hancock ORDWAY of Standish PIERCE of Dresden All D's voted against us except four whom were absent:
HERBIG of Belfast McLEAN of Gorham RILEY of Jay SPEAR of South Thomaston All Independents voted on our side except for Grohman of Biddeford.
The Independents who sided with us were:
BATTLE of South Portland CASÁS of Rockport HARLOW of Portland HIGGINS of Dover-Foxcroft The one "Common Sense Independent", Ackley of Monmouth, voted against us.
The one Green Independent, Chapman of Brooksville, voted with us.
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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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