LePAGE ANSWERS TOWN MEETING QUESTION IN MEXICO - WILL SUPPORT A MORATORIUM AGAINST WIND

In response to a question from Selectman Hart Daley from Dixfield, LePage says he will support a moratorium  on wind projects!  Monique! Gather the troops!

http://news.mpbn.net/post/lepage-s-latest-town-hall-concerns-aired-...

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Comment by Penny Gray on March 26, 2016 at 7:11pm

Before this whole industrial wind debacle began, I was of the belief that our legislators looked out for our best interests.  This entire journey has been a very, very eye opening and painful experience.  I'll never forget the phone conversation I had with the Carthage first selectman who told me that he had to make these decisions on our behalf because, basically, he was smarter.  He knew what was best for us. And it went downhill from there.  So Paula Kelso, you are heroic for persuing the truth.  It's our government that should be apologizing.

Comment by Pineo Girl on March 26, 2016 at 1:45pm

Paula - I am told that  their is another news article that published a more complete version of LePage's statement and it added - Yes to a moratorium "if the legislature agrees". I cannot confirm as I have not seen the article - but no apologies necessary from you!  I can't help but think of other political leaders who have no qualms about moratoriums on anything!

Comment by Pineo Girl on March 25, 2016 at 1:04pm

Time to meet with Governor LePage and ask him to stand up to his statement!  We are now more vulnerable to more wind development than ever - Thanks to John Elias Baldacci!  No apologies necessary! We all hope for an honest accountable government that is not corrupt. Not what we are getting right now in Maine!

Comment by Paula D Kelso on March 25, 2016 at 12:49pm

Apologies everyone for my being so naïve, dumb, and gullible. Had some hope that Augusta hadn't sold out as totally as our town government did. Having perused some of the more global aspects lately, I guess we are just flotsam in the whirlpool going down the drain.

Comment by Long Islander on March 25, 2016 at 10:12am

Before things get to the legislature at large, we are always up against hand selected EUT puppets - case in point, former EUT pro-wind zealot despicable Diane Russell:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/maine-center-for-public...

Other examples of EUT members that have aided the wind industry by suffocating citizen led bills:

- EUT Co-chair Jon Hinck squelches citizen wind bills while his wife Juliet Browne is the wind industry's top attorney in Maine

- Alex Cornell du Houx squelches citizens' wind bills and it turns out he is an employee of the Truman Project's Operation Free which advocates for wind. Its logo feautures a wind turbine

- EUT Co-Chair Stacey Fitts kills 12 citizen-initiated wind bills by kicking the can down the road by calling for a study of wind. The study gets done and the EUT never looks at it. The citizens' bills are dead. This all happens in front of a snickering EUT committee where some of the members are contemptuous of citizens and spend half the meeting time texting. Meanwhile, we learn that Fitts' employer, part of the renewable energy industry in Maine, boasts on its website that Fitts is busy at work getting the right laws passed

Hinck, Du Houx and Fitts are all on the EUT at the same time. What are the statistical odds of that?

ANSWER: It happens by design, not accident. We are getting run over by our so called representatives.

Comment by Pineo Girl on March 24, 2016 at 7:07pm

Paula - Don't take my remarks to be partisan - It is simply a fact of life - John Baldacci and the Dem's create the Expedited Wind Law - They got the R's to go along by using fear of $5.00 a gallon for gas and heating oil! And even now there is a reason why Justin Alfond when he was Senate President. had 142 emails to and from the wind industry providing him with testimony and even amendment language for proposed legislation to change the wind act.  Even now Rep. Dion, Co-Chair, EUT Committee, doesn't make a move until he has the word from D Leadership AND Baldacci!

Comment by Pineo Girl on March 24, 2016 at 6:39pm

Governor can do an Executive Order for a moratorium. Dan had a petition for a referendum that would need to be voted on by Mainers. As long as Democrats are taking their marching orders from wind developers and now Avangrid they will never agree to curtailing any wind development.  John Baldacci has big plans for Iberdrola and wind!

Comment by Paula D Kelso on March 24, 2016 at 6:05pm

So, a petition needs 60,000 signatures to get on a state wide election ballot, right?

What would we need to get a moratorium passed by the legislature? Is that a technically possible thing?

If so, who could we get to sponsor such a bill. What are the numbers needed to pass? what state agencies might be willing to advocate for a moratorium? what purpose could be cited for the moratorium. Which state laws need to be added or amended and could be addressed during a moratorium? what rationale would appeal to the most legislators?    KISS       KISS

Keep It Simple Stupid or is that Keep It Short and Sweet? Maybe both?

Comment by Pineo Girl on March 24, 2016 at 3:09pm

Yes Dan did! And Bravo -- Maybe a moratorium would give us time to get the rest!

Comment by Penny Gray on March 24, 2016 at 2:55pm

Dan Remian worked his heart out last year trying to gather the signatures necessary to put this before the voters.  Single handedly he gathered over ten thousand signatures.  Fifty thousand more to go.

 

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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."

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