LD553
- An Act To Reduce Maine's Dependence on Oil CONCEPT DRAFT SUMMARY
- This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208.
- This bill proposes that the Efficiency Maine Trust, with input from stakeholders, develop a plan to reduce Maine’s dependence on oil. The plan must include targets for reducing Maine’s total oil consumption that equal the maximum economically achievable oil savings. The targets may not provide less than a 30% overall reduction in oil consumption from 2009 levels by 2030 and a 50% overall reduction from 2009 levels by 2050. In establishing these targets, the Efficiency Maine Trust and stakeholders shall consider:
1. The future oil and gasoline costs to the drivers, homeowners, industries and businesses in Maine, as well as the environmental and national security effects of Maine’s oil dependence and the local economic development opportunities, including job creation potential, of improving energy efficiency and moving to clean, renewable, made-in-Maine energy sources; and
2. The potential of oil savings from the following strategies to improve energy efficiency and move to clean, renewable energy:
A. Shifting freight transported in Maine from trucks to other transportation modes, including rail and marine transportation;
B. The rapid deployment of electric vehicles, through a combination of policies that include comprehensive planning with utilities, investments in electric vehicle infrastructure, consumer tax incentives and targeted deployment communities;
C. Establishing rebates or other consumer incentives for retiring older, inefficient vehicles;
D. Coordinating land use and transportation planning to encourage growth in areas accessible by walking, biking and public transportation;
E. Expanding and investing in public transportation, including bus transit and light rail, and offering incentives for commuters to use public transportation where available;
F. Transitioning to renewable energy for heating, including energy from off-shore wind, solar, geothermal, tidal and sustainable biomass;
G. Achieving home and commercial weatherization and efficiency improvements including and in addition to those included in the Efficiency Maine Trust’s triennial plan;
H. Establishing additional policies and incentives for industrial efficiency improvements, including replacements of industrial boilers and other steps to reduce petroleum consumption; and
I. Adopting other strategies that can help enable Maine to achieve the oil-reduction targets.
The Efficiency Maine Trust shall report to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology by February 2012 with recommendations for shortterm and midterm policies needed to achieve the overall reductions in oil use, including recommendations for specific legislative actions. The recommendations must require that, by January 15, 2014 and by January 15th every 5 years thereafter, the Governor's Office of Energy Independence and Security shall evaluate the State’s progress toward meeting the oil-reduction goals and make additional recommendations to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over energy, utilities and technology matters as necessary to ensure that the State can meet the reduction goals.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on March 21, 2011 at 5:10pm
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rain and snow makes mud right now. but I smile for spring
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Comment by Long Islander on March 16, 2011 at 12:01pm
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Totally agree with Frank Heller on hydro - indigenous and Canadian.
Baldacci said it wasn't a renewable.
But when we have hydro lowering our electric bills substantially - to the point where one actually can feel the relief they are getting from the oppressive energy policies of Baldacci, Adams, King, Fitts, Bartlett, etc., every time it rains or snows we will all have something to smile about.
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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 16, 2011 at 11:39am
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Just remember, the legislature passed similar bill making hydropower the #1 energy source for Maine...uh, whatever happened to that???
The bill would force hundreds of thousands of Mainers to take out gas powered heating systems; and switch to a nearly non-existant electric truck or car; and ride nearly non-existant public transportation.
Silly bill; I can see why liberal socialists like de Houx and friends have co-sponsored it....I wonder what he'd do if the bill were amended to make the Maine National Guard and the public school bus fleets 'go first' and then other fleets like DOT, Fish & Game, DHHS 'go next'.
I really dislike 'feel good' utopian legislation that flies in the fact of reality; i.e. Natural gas lines going everywhere, and slow but real acceptance of wood pellet stoves
...all that water and not a drop to use!
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do you think our own poll should be taken?????? presented beside Angus when bill presented?
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How nice, a bill transitioning us to offshore wind when bill sponsor Stacey Fitts' employer is into, drum roll.... Offshore Wind.
Stacey Fitts' employer, Kleinschmidt Associates, BOASTS on its website how "we have been very active in the development of state regulations in Maine, where one of Kleinschmidt's engineers is a member of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force" . Read the lower right hand section at the following Kleinschmidt link, if you want to see a new standard for BRASS --- http://www.kleinschmidtusa.com/Benchmark/BenchmarkJune.pdf
Bill SponsorsPresented by Representative FITTS of Pittsfield.
Cosponsored by Senator BARTLETT of Cumberland and
Senators GOODALL of Sagadahoc, KATZ of Kennebec, RECTOR of Knox, Representatives CORNELL DU HOUX of Brunswick, HINCK of Portland, KNAPP of Gorham, MCCLELLAN of Raymond.http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?paper=HP...
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no mention of Maine fire wood directly replacing oil.
LD553 is a scam
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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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