First Wind Provides Some "Details" as to Location of Molunkus Katahdin Area Project
1/28/15 PM
Proposed Wind Turbine Placement Near Molunkus Lake
He emphasized that this is just a first draft and there could be significant changes when the MET data comes in and that the layout could change over time. Following are the conclusions.........
Continue at: https://molunkuswind.wordpress.com/
I guess the folks in the area are in the cross hairs of First Wind - all facilitated of course when the company has former Senate president Justin Alfond submitting its wind bills without changing a word.
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1/28/15 AM
Molunkus Katahdin Area First Wind Project - Additional Information
As reported yesterday at https://molunkuswind.wordpress.com/ the First Wind Molunkus project is back on. First Wind originally let the cat out of the bag on Molunkus on July 31, 2013 when they responded to an RFP for a Connecticut power purchase agreement. You can find a redacted PDF of what First Wind submitted to Connecticut's DEP at the following link.
http://www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DEEPEnergy.nsf/c6c6d525f7cdd1168525797d...
From page 5:
The Molunkus Wind project is located near the Town of Medway, Maine, and the Project area
spans both Aroostook and Penobscot Counties. The Project will be comprised of fifty-three
Vestas V110 (2 MW) and twelve Vestas V117 (3.3 MW) wind turbines, associated collection
systems, and a facility substation and step-up transformer. The Project will interconnect to ISO
New England at Bangor Hydro’s Keene Road substation, utilizing a newly constructed 20-mile
115 kV generator lead located within the existing Maine GenLead corridor.
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1/27/15
KATAHDIN ALERT - First Wind is reviving its plans at Molunkus, just east of Katahdin
Utter, perhaps ultimate disrespect is shown to Maine and Mainers by the slippery Boston developers/Wall Street derivatives yieldco crowd as they attempt to close in on what the Penobscots named "Greatest Mountain".
First Wind is apparently reviving its plans at Molunkus, just east of Katahdin.
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Comment by Whetstone_Willy on January 27, 2015 at 10:50pm
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Do the people down in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island know how much their states' renewable mandates and PPA's are harming their neighbors to the north in Maine? Do they realize how they are getting nailed on their electric bills due to all of this fraud - now and in the future? Do they realize that new transmission lines that could tear through their neighborhoods have everything to do with the same fraud? Why has the media not put out the facts? Why do the environmental groups shill for this industry? Why do certain legislators cater to these thieves? How many people are getting paid off? It is hard to think of any other explanation given all that we have seen.
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on January 27, 2015 at 10:26pm
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I wonder if LePage can stop this by some sort of executive order?
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Comment by Long Islander on January 27, 2015 at 9:37pm
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Also keep your eye on First Wind's "King Pine, LLC". If you connect the dots, it is clear that the scoundrels at First Wind are eyeing the entire Route 11 corridor to the east of Katahdin. Not only would 500' tall wind turbines be seen from Katahdin, but the Rout 11 scenic corridor has breathtaking views of Katahdin. Befouling this area with this useless industrialization built on taxpayer scam needs to be stopped.
http://www.maineenvironews.com/Home/tabid/97/mid/628/newsid628/1595...
More on "King Pine" is here:
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/09/22/news/aroostook/first-wind-app...
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Some timely reading from four years ago:
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 27, 2015 at 6:32pm
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Starting Map https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4KW-VmaJQhZbFY0dVpaRzktUXc/edit
Click Map, then terrain or Satallite for different views. No markings on the Map yet other than town lines.
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Comment by Brad Blake on January 27, 2015 at 5:57pm
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Penny, Alan & Molly Straub are the lead people fighting Molunkus. This was posted yesterday on the Molunkus Lakers Face Book page: " Molunkus Wind Power project back on. We got a call from First Wind today informing us of their construction of 5 meteorological test towers. Stay tuned. This is obviously not a good thing for those who love the lake."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/249612127372/permalink/101525408139...
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Eric,
First Wind originally let the cat out of the bag on Molunkus on July 31, 2013 when they responded to an RFP for a Connecticut power purchase agreement. You can find a redacted PDF of what First Wind submitted to Connecticut's DEP at the following link.
http://www.dpuc.state.ct.us/DEEPEnergy.nsf/c6c6d525f7cdd1168525797d...
From page 5:
The Molunkus Wind project is located near the Town of Medway, Maine, and the Project area
spans both Aroostook and Penobscot Counties. The Project will be comprised of fifty-three
Vestas V110 (2 MW) and twelve Vestas V117 (3.3 MW) wind turbines, associated collection
systems, and a facility substation and step-up transformer. The Project will interconnect to ISO
New England at Bangor Hydro’s Keene Road substation, utilizing a newly constructed 20-mile
115 kV generator lead located within the existing Maine GenLead corridor.
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Thanks for the Map. I will have to see what info I can find, and start Google Earth map with impact zones of 5 & 8 and neighboring communities. I will look for the highest points of possibilities.
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