Hey Maine Sierra Club - Time to Update Your Website?
Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club and Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association at the Green Inaugural Ball
The following is from the website of the Maine chapter of the Sierra Club:
"Since 2004 the Maine Chapter has called for the state to update a comprehensive plan for siting all energy facilities, including (Liquified Natural Gas) LNG, wind, biomass, and fossil fuel electric generation. We are encouraged by Governor Baldacci’s executive order establishing a task force on wind power development and will closely follow its progress. " http://maine.sierraclub.org/energy_-_wind.htm
Well, guess what Sierra Club, Baldacci wants 1,800 turbines on land covering 360 miles of mountain and ridgetops. That's a lot of fragmented wildlife habitat, erosion, siltation in streams and noise that scares the bejesus out of wildlife. The turbines turn at over 200 mph at the tips, sometimes up near 300 mph and they explode bats' lungs (one of our best mosquito control squads) and dice up birds, particularly raptors. The ornithologist hired by the wind companies (that's your former exec director standing next to the wind industry's high priestess in the photo) finds 210 birds in the same place where the USF&WS recommended radar method finds over 120,000 birds.
Oh, and all this for virtually no carbon reductions.
Although the species Homo Sapiens may not be of interest to you, they are a tad angry and rumor has it they are spreading the word about the great job you've been doing.
How was that $$$$ GREEN Inaugural Ball anyway?
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Comment by Joanne Moore on March 22, 2010 at 1:53pm
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You can put lipstick on a pig. you can dress it up in a bow tie and cummerbund. You can drench it with all the perfumes in Arabia. You still got pig.
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Comment by Whetstone_Willy on March 21, 2010 at 7:17pm
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"More than 50 percent of the 8,000 component parts of wind turbines used in the United States are manufactured in the United States, up from 25 percent a few years ago." - Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association.
Denise, your number includes several thousand nuts, bolts and rivets, right?
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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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