JOIN OUR EUROPEAN ALLIES AND CALL FOR AN END TO SUBSIDIES FOR WIND POWER
It is time to join our friends in Europe (see below) and demand and end to the subsidies for wind power. The federal government is using stimulus funds, increasing the deficit, to finance wind projects. We are borrowing money from China to subsidize the destruction of Maine's landscape, and then using the money to pay wind developers so they can buy turbines from China or other foreign countries. Our children and grandchildren are on the hook for repayment of this debt.
Please write to Senators Snowe and Collins, and Representatives Pingree and Michaud and ask them to bring and end to the destruction of Maine's priceless scenic landscape for a high cost but low value source of electricity. Ask them to stop the use of cash grants, loan guarantees, production tax credits, hidden costs for transmission lines, etc for the benefit of the wind industry.
Their contact info follows.
Thanks,
Steve and Monique, co-chairs
CTFWP
Senator Olympia Snowe
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-0001
(202) 224-5344 or (800) 432-1599
Fax: (202) 224-1946
http://snowe.senate.gov
Email Senator Snowe
State Office phone numbers:
Augusta: (207) 622-8292
Bangor: (207) 945-0432
Biddeford: (207) 282-4144
Portland: (207) 874-0883
Presque Isle (207) 764-5124
Senator Susan Collins
413 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693
http://collins.senate.gov
Email Senator Collins
State Office phone numbers:
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417
Biddeford: (207) 283-1101
Caribou: (207) 493-7873
Lewiston: (207) 784-6969
Portland: (207) 780-3575
Representative Michael Michaud
1724 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6306
Fax: (202) 225-2943
http://michaud.house.gov
Email Representative Michaud
Representative Chellie Pingree
1037 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6116
Fax: (202) 225-5590
http://pingree.house.gov/
Email Representative Pingree
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From: EPAW
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM
Subject: Press release - Iberdrola speaks out
To: thurston.steve@gmail.com
For thurston.steve@gmail.com
Dear members of EPAW,
The launching pad of the windfarm invasion is a mountain of public funds. If you withdraw the subsidies, the wind industry will collapse.
If we want to go for the throat, we must denounce these subsidies. Now is the time to do it, because they are contributing in no small measure to the budget deficits of EU countries, to their sovereign debts, and to the crisis of the euro. This in turn causes governments to make drastic cuts in social benefits. If the public knew that windfarms are hurting their wallets this way, the wind monsters would be a lot less popular.
We have thus decided to denounce publicly the fact that Greece and Spain (implying Italy, Ireland, and Portugal as well), continue to increase their sovereign debts by financing with public funds economically inviable "green" energy projects. What this means is that the countries that collectively guarantee these sovereign debts, and who just paid billions of euros to save Greece, must tighten their own social belts to allow the profligate countries to continue spending money they don't have on windfarms and other expensive and inefficient projects.
To denounce this is to hit our enemy where it most hurts. It is therefore what we must do.
Here is a press release that we invite you to send to your contacts in the media:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 30, 2011
Someone has to pay for the “green fiesta”
Spanish electricity giant Iberdrola warns of another bubble
The president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, declared Thursday in Madrid that the brakes should be applied on the development of thermosolar energy in Spain, because it is "economically inefficient".He warned that this immature technology may create “a new bubble” similar to that of the photovoltaic, with a cost to the Spanish consumers of €2 billion annually (1).
"Someone has to pay for the green fiesta”, he warned at a conference attended by analysts. He added that the amount of public funds spent to support green technologies “makes the Spanish MWh the most costly in the whole of Europe”.
The European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) remarks that, like Greece, Spain continues to squander on uneconomic energy projects money it doesn’t have. The Iberian country has conveniently placed off-budget € 22 billion's worth of "deficit tarifario", or green energy deficit, which nevertheless needs to be financed by sovereign debt. EPAW has learned that the Saudis have been invited to finance it, but no details have been released regarding State guarantee or other security being offered.
“What's most worrying is the lack of transparency", says Mark Duchamp, EPAW’s CEO. What kind of deal is being offered to the Saudis, he asks? Like the Chinese, who are being asked to fund the European Financial Stability Facility, it is unlikely they will lend billions on an unsecured basis, or without important perks. They've seen the German and French banks bite the bullet on Greek debt, now worth to them 50 cents on the euro. "What is being offered that we don't know?" wonders Duchamp. "Having sold its furniture to pay for decades of public overspending, are the EU governments now mortgaging the European house to be able to continue wasting away money that we don't have on uneconomic renewable energies?"
EPAW has been provided with scientific proof that "the most mature" of the green technologies, wind farming, doesn't actually save on C02 and fossil fuel imports. "More on that next week", adds Duchamp.
The North American Platform Against Windpower (NA-PAW) comments along the same lines. Says her CEO, Sherri Lange: "The United States and Canada are following the European model. It would be wiser to watch and learn, instead of jumping on a bandwagon that's headed for the cliff."
Contacts:
Mark Duchamp
CEO, EPAW
www.epaw.org
Tel: 34 693 643 736 (Spain)
save.the.eagles@gmail.com
Sherri Lange
CEO, NA-PAW
www.na-paw.org
Tel: 1 416 567 5115 (Canada)
kodaisl@rogers.com
(1) References:
http://www.expansion.com/accesible/2011/10/27/empresasenergia/13197...
http://www.noticias.com/sanchez-galan-pide-cambiar-el-insostenible-...
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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