LD-1329 is a solution to the problem, or the state's motto will become:
"MAINE, A GREAT STATE TO LEAVE"
If the wind rush in Maine is not stopped and its resultant build out for peak power transmission lines not halted by Mainers and the PUC, the state's new motto will indeed become the above.
It will become cost-prohibitive for business to live there, and for many residents to pay their electric bills.
Building more buried non-visible natural gas lines in pre-existing public right of ways IS the solution, and a less costly and environmentally damaging one than building costly visible electrical transmission lines everywhere for a non-dispatchable feckless source of intermittent electrons created by wind.
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Comment by Penny Gray on May 7, 2015 at 8:20am
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Being "politically correct" could destroy this state's biggest industry, tourism, in a very short amount of time. Once these projects are built out, the damage is done. The next ice age will remove the scars but that's about the only thing that will.
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I have emailed them a couple times. i don't think they want to rock the boat. It reminds me of the Downeast Mag. mindset. If they refuse to acknowledge the problem, maybe it will go away?
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A friend of mine called me while en route across the US to a business meeting. He was standing beside the road on a flat plain that was covered with wind turbines. He said some were turning, most weren't. Then he said, "If you can just keep these things out of Maine you'll have the biggest tourism draw of all time." Somehow we have to engage the tourism industry, get them to pay attention to what's happening.
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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