Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

HVDC Wind Turbine Cables Studies For Lobsters No Human Study?

Researchers have said: "Lobsters which hatch near subsea electricity cables risk developing life-limiting deformities-"

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) sub sea ocean wind turbine cables are used to transport power between locations and from/to near shore and offshore facilities. HVDC cables produce magnetic fields (B-fields) that could impact marine fish. If they could affect fish is there any question they could affect humans?

There are study reports of impacts of anthropogenic magnetic fields (B-fields) in the intensity range of those produced by high voltage direct current (DC) sub sea cables on larval fish behavior.

Researchers have said Lobsters which hatch near sub sea electricity cables risk developing life-limiting deformities.

HVDC sub sea cables generates a static magnetic field (B-field) in the proximity of the cable. Currently there are no experiments with humans but the risks are known to Lobster larvae

The main issue for residents living along these proposed underground onshore wind turbine cable routes is no U.S. federal standards or studies limiting general public or occupational exposure from HVDC, High Voltage Direct Current, transmission lines.

DC electricity produces static electric and magnetic fields, but these fields have very different properties from AC Electric Magnetic Fields. Health studies exist for AC, alternating current, lines in the US but no health studies exist for DC, direct current, in the United States as there is only a hand full of HVDC projects.

Offshore contractors contend international health organizations have health studies for HVDC cables that can be found online. On the other hand the public meetings held between the ocean contractors and the public fail to offer any medical opinions from licensed physicals qualified to speak about human health.

There are years of Childhood Leukemia-Magnetic Field research done in the United States.

One example of wind turbine major health failure was ignoring noise warnings from commercial wind turbines. The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts installed two land-based commercial megawatt wind turbines with wind contractors in 2010 and 2012. The turbines were demolished on September 26 and October 5 as the Massachusetts courts and Falmouth zoning board determined the turbines a health nuisance in 2015 and 2017. Around 67 households filed noise complaints with the Falmouth Board of Health.

There was a questionnaire sent by post and distributed by campaign groups in 1980 to people living near a 400,000-volt HVDC overhead power line in Minnesota, followed up by telephone calls. The survey was called the "Minnesota Landowner Health Perceptions Survey."

Up to 35% of the respondents said they had suffered adverse health effects that they attributed to the HDVC power line.

An epidemiological study was not conducted on the residents as there are so few high voltage direct current lines in the USA.

Many residents think they are helping to advance Green Energy by allowing offshore wind companies to place cables through their local towns. The simple fact is the land route saves ocean contractors millions of dollars by avoiding placing expensive submarine high-voltage direct XLPE cables underwater to the large cities.

These land routes through residential neighborhoods could all be avoided with the use of ocean submarine cables directly to the large city power destinations such as Boston.

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U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

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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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