Hey Wind Industry - Where's The Beef?
The chart below shows how useless is all the scarring of Maine and torment to Mainers resulting from the force feeding by government mandate of wind industrialization so that a small handful of insiders can rob us blind.
So much for wind making an appreciable contribution. So much for the so called environmental groups' claims that wind will get us off oil. Note that oil is already less than 1% of electricity, the power which wind provides.
Since natural gas contains much less carbon than other fossil fuels, it should be noted that the move to natural gas is avoiding infinitely more CO2 emissions than all of the misguided scarring of Maine's core natural essence by 500' tall wind turbines and the hideous mega new transmission lines they require. It can also be noted that lowered Maine energy prices from natural gas will make us more competitive and lead to job creation, as opposed to the opposite effect from costly wind power.
Why is it that the temporary tiny handful of construction jobs created by defacing Maqine with wind plants always gets publicized, but there's not a peep here about the jobs that natural gas will bring, either in the construction or post construction phase?
As natural gas brings down electricity and heating costs, Maine can’t get enough
That’s where the natural gas is.
With Maine increasingly reliant on natural gas for lower electricity rates, and with a growing number of homes hooking up to the heating alternative, how and whether to get more natural gas from there to here is a sizable challenge — but a growing number of people are contemplating it.
The nonprofit that runs the New England power grid is exploring incentives to encourage gas-fired power plants to commit to long-term contracts, which could in turn finance more pipelines. The Governor’s Energy Office is looking at ways to facilitate capital investment. The Maine House minority leader has a “bold proposal” — but he’s not sharing it just yet.
“I think we’re at a historic opportunity in Maine right now in terms of the issue of diversification,” said Rep. Ken Fredette, R-Newport, sponsor of “An Act to Facilitate Energy Cost Reduction.”
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Comment by Dan Tubbs, Jr. on February 3, 2013 at 7:32pm
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It was the low cost of natural gas combined with the difficulty in accessing the site that stopped construction of wind turbines in the beautiful mountains behind our town. It is hard to justify the high cost of wind energy when clean burning natural gas is in such great supply. I hope this helps to stop the destruction of the beautiful mountains of Maine.
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Comment by Barbara Durkin on February 3, 2013 at 10:23am
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Correction on my last post-Taxpayer and Consumer Right's Heller's letter is dated June of 2004-
this link works to the Heller Letter to then FERC Chairman Patrick Wood III-now First Wind Director:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/node/9121
Wood's failure to address the US most notorious case of corporate fraud by ENRON as FERC Chair prompted a response from the Executive Director, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Douglas Heller by June 16, 2004 Letter to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III.
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Our energy markets have been restructured in New England to mandate wind energy by a group of fellows UPC, First Wind, Kahuku, Cohocton, IVPC, in revolving doors. MA Governor Deval Patrick's appointed green policy Advisor is UPC First Wind Paul Gaynor. Interestingly, Second Wind (Patrick appointed Advisor) First Wind Paul Gaynor's Vice President Michael Jacobs worked as a sales manager at Second Wind, Inc., and held the position of utility analyst for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. First Wind Paul Gaynor is Board of Managers of DeepWater Wind.
UPC First Wind, Goldwind, TPI Composites, Sun Power, DeepWater Wind have in common First Wind execs in revolving doors ala Kurt Adams ME PUC Chair, and MA DPU utility analyst Jacobs.
Look at the history of this process involving the UPC First Wind execs. to determine the risks going forward, and realized, the damage done.
Enron was under the purview of the now Director of First Wind as FERC Chair charged to confront energy market manipulation during the CA Energy Crisis.
Addressing current First Wind Director Patrick Wood III as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was Senator Carl Levin US Senate Government Affairs on November 12, 2002:
"ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH: FERC'S OVERSIGHT OF ENRON CORPORATION--VOL. I"
107th Congress transcript states-
Senator Levin: “The Enron scandal began by exposing dishonest accounting at a number of major U.S. companies that, unbeknownst to most, had begun to eat away at the reliability of their financial statements. It has since exposed the conflicts of interest that have made investors distrust investment reports issued by leading U.S. financial firms. It has exposed how those firms have become unwilling participants in shell companies, phony trade deals, and complex financial transactions used to inflate earnings, hide debt, and increase stock prices..”
Levin: “corporate executives have walked away from corporate disasters with millions in their pockets, often from exercising stock options, while pension funds, investors, employees and creditors have lost everything.”
[cut]. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-107shrg83483/html/CHRG-107shrg834...
Wood's failure to address the US most notorious case of corporate fraud by ENRON as FERC Chair prompted a response from the Executive Director, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Douglas Heller by June 16, 2011 Letter to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III, excerpt:
California ratepayers remain at least $7 billion short of what they are due in refunds in large measure because the FERC, under your leadership, has failed to protect consumers from the illegal profiteering of energy companies and has refused to enforce the law so Californians can recover billions of dollars stolen from the state.
It is, of course, not just the outstanding refunds that you have withheld, but your unwillingness to bring energy companies to the table for contract renegotiation that is so offensive. The market manipulation began at least as early as June 2000, according to a Department of Justice indictment of Reliant. It continued - as evidenced by Enron's "Fat Boy/Death Star" memo, the conversations about manipulation involving AES and Williams traders as well as the new Enron tapes and a host of other indisputable proof -- through the 2001 blackouts and price spikes. This should provide you with incontrovertible evidence that the contracts must be abrogated or renegotiated.
Although you do not attempt to defend these indefensible tapes, your effort to deflect their relevance in this manner demonstrates your continued allegiance to your long-time promoter Ken Lay. But more importantly, your letter shows that you do not grasp the heinousness of this massive larceny.[cut] continue reading: http://cwd.grassroots.com/energy/fs/?postId=3360&pageTitle=FTCR...
To whom do we entrust our most precious natural resources and energy security?
Thanks for your important activism and excellent coverage of events sWINDle in ME!
Barbara Durkin
Massachusetts
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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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