LD 1810 Maine offshore wind bill. Final work session audio w/written summaries.
Part A have taken out most of the objectionable language, if not all. Integrated yesterdays amendments into two yellow documents - a markup of the bill and a
page of insertions to fit into the bill. Also a white handout: a Sec A10 Insert
Page 1 see insert one as amended by Representatives Wagner and Adams.
Page 2 Section A1 of the bill is removed entirely.
Page 3: the underlined lines of 9-24 removed
Page 4: replacement from Todd on lines 1-7 (rephrasing of the potential over time for renewable energy sources substituting for oil) .
Sec A-4 entirely deleted
Page 4. Small amendment to line 19 & 20 states "the policy of the state to encourage..." removed reference to political
subdivisions and agencies
Page 4 Subsection 3 removed with insert 3 encouraging Tidal and Wave (not just tidal).
Page 5 heating conversion program removed. moral obligation credit is out.
Part B A big section no new changes - the early part B amendments.
Page 14 an amendment insert in submerged land lease law about provision for avoidance and minimization of harm to public trust assets. Balance
consideration existing uses of marine environment.
Page 15 In pre application meeting the BPL holds re leases, DMR is included in meeting. Notice of windmill applications given to Marine
advisory council and any lobster zone council iwith three miles of the proposal energyproject. The director must consider such comments.
Page 17 insert language: sources of funds within renewable ocean energy trust - a list of funds that must be
transferred into the trust will include: 80% of submerged lands leasing payments for renewable and wind & tidal projects
that actually get general permits. Lease fees are turned into "rents".
Part C of the bill re tax treatment of wind projects is being replaced entirely by Insert 7, directing Maine revenue service to make recommendations to legislature on how wind wave and tidal machinery should be treated in tax laws
Part D. LURC statutes Page 20 a clarification of definition of community-based offshore wind: must be less than 3 megawatts
instead of projected production.
Page 20 LURCs review of applications insert 8 parallel language in two places in the bill. SPlits up what issues decided and reviewed by Bureau of Parks and Lands versus LURC vs DEP See page 12 of the bill
Lines 14-22 Submerged lands director must find the proposed lease will not unreasonably interfere with navigation etc.
Highlight Maine's distinctiveness with our offshore-only approach. "Ocean wind green standard offer" concept .Innovative. Would be offered by PUC. On the assumption Maine signs a contract for that offshore power. Offer this to Maine consumers - get some market branding. Maine's distinct, clean, view-friendly over-the-horizon deepwater offshore Ocean Wind Green Standard Offer.
Make University of Maine buy the expensive electricity product and the DeepCwind Consortium's member companies - if THEY start committing to buying Maine Clean Ocean Wind, that could give it some traction. Branded as part of a Green Standard Offer. Need to offer as a strategic initiative.
Rep Flaherty: Concern is making sure the Offer isn't ridiculously high.
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Comment
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Comment by Ron Huber on March 25, 2010 at 12:21pm
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I know what you mean. Let's push for 20 miles offshore. We've got a little lead time, and with the glut of offshore wind millery already moving ahead elsewhere on earth, it will become increasingly hard to justify any new flappers off uor coast.
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Comment by Long Islander on March 25, 2010 at 11:58am
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Habib - while I know you must have a terrific command of math related to composites, have you actually done a calculation that says a 6' human standing on the shore will not see a 400' tower 10 miles offshore? You know, factoring in the arc of the earth? What about if the 6' person is standing on a 50' bluff? What about if he is on top of the Camden Hills or Cadillac Mountain? What if one day the feds are stupid enough to give you even more of our hard earned money to subsidize 600' turbines? What ever happened to the initial talk about 20 miles offshore?
Please publish the math.
As for your out of bailiwick foray into economic and jobs prognostication, a crystal ball need be made of crystal, not composites. With all due respect professor.
By the way, glad to see you are on the team of the "Ocean Energy Institute", a "venture capital fund addressing the challenges of U.S. offshore renewable energy founded by Matthew R. Simmons of Simmons & Company International.
http://www.oceanenergy.org/about.asp
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Oh yes the Ocean Green standard. Over-the-horizon windpower. At a premium price because it's so much better scenically and more stakeholder-respectful than the "dirty electricity" from the scenery-abusing and community-abusjng mountaintop windfarms on land. Spin, spin spin
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Public Advocate is in Part 10
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The public advocate does show up... I will label the files better and list who is in them
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Comment by Joanne Moore on March 24, 2010 at 10:44pm
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I have many questions. I listened to all parts but I don't understand why, given the outrageous price, would Fletcher say the State of Maine government should select ocean wind
greedstandard, oops, green standard? Is he spending my money again? And what about the standard 3.5% per year raises to that price that the wind industry is asking? And, overbuilding to 4,000 megawatts, which is twice what we use now, what does that do to electric rates? And, I was hoping the Public Advocate was going to show, he never did? or did he?
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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