Hillside Homes
No doubt about it, hillside development is taking place. Land values are elevating with elevation. There are buyers out there seeking vacation homes in the Western Maine Mountains. If one was to look up where new dwellings in this region are being built, you will find homes being built this year are at higher elevations than last year and this is a growing trend.
What effect will industrial wind have on this growing trend ?
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Comment by Dan McKay on July 18, 2010 at 6:01pm
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If Carthage had a comprehensive plan, I'm sure the Webb River and Saddleback Mountain would be described as community assets and as such, the assessor would place an increased value to property with proximity of these assets.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on July 18, 2010 at 9:45am
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do you think carthage could raise money on view taxes to fix roads and that old building?
steve is so right.
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Is there anyone with a computer program who could replace the turbine images on Mars Hill with images of condos or private homes ? Could be interesting to see.
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Comment by Steve Thurston on July 17, 2010 at 9:19pm
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The roads being built to the tops of the mountains for wind turbines will work very well as access roads to mountain top residential and commercial development (condos, gambling casinos, etc) when the turbine fad comes to and end. The only way the turbines will be removed is if a new developer is allowed to make use of the infrastructure for new types of development. Not only will turbines ruin the landscape for present generations, they will guarantee the development of commercial and residential property on the same mountains in a few years. If 400' tall turbines are acceptable, what other types of development could reasonably be denied?
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Comment by Lisa Lindsay on July 16, 2010 at 7:19pm
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Interesting, Dan.
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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."
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