Maine DEP Marches Toward Rulemaking on its Wind Energy Standards Rule

Maine DEP

Marches Toward Rulemaking on its Wind Energy Standards Rule

Expecting to initiate a formal rulemaking in March of this year, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) invited final public comment on its pre-rulemaking draft Wind Energy Standards rule at a workshop held on January 27, 2017 in Farmington. The Wind Energy Standards rule will address certain standards in the Wind Energy Act that are not addressed in current DEP rules. DEP held a similar workshop and received written comments during the summer of 2016 on the initial draft rule, a description of which may be found here. The slightly revised rule reflects comments received on the initial rule, and is available here. DEP expects to publish a final version of the proposed rule after considering comments received at the January 27 workshop, as well as any written comments submitted before February 17, 2017. . .. ... Continue reading - Pierce Atwood point of view

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Comment by Paula D Kelso on February 10, 2017 at 4:52pm

Hey, we outside of the expedited area need some protection too!! Please.

Comment by Dan McKay on February 9, 2017 at 3:32pm

Thanks, Art. Under which committee will this bill be considered ?

Comment by Art Brigades on February 9, 2017 at 3:30pm

Dan - Representative Nathan Wadsworth is sponsoring that bill this year.  His bill proposes to remove from the expedited area all Maine land within 15 miles of a SRSNS.

Comment by Dan McKay on February 9, 2017 at 8:06am
  The scenic impact criteria as conceived within the wind energy act has been a thorn in the side of the DEP.
   A bill or an amendment to a bill in Augusta to ban industrial turbines within a setback radius from scenic resources of significant state or national significance would stop this back and forth and create predictability for developers. See Mohegan Island bill.
Comment by Eskutassis on February 8, 2017 at 7:48pm

It is my humble opinion that all this pushing by Juliet Brown et al is a fact that she is looking at the end of the tunnel and it is blocked, or will be by the end of this year.  The recent whistleblower reports at NOAA have now been on national TV and written up in several publications.  This is a FIRST and should not be minimized.  I believe the lid is going to blow off the whole "renewable" energy industry and once the new President gets through the garbage being thrown at him the first few weeks, he will get down to the nitty gritty of saving some money and REC's and subsidies for scams are a good point to start.  He has already pulled out of the Paris Accord and pulled the funding for IPCC and was told he could not get back in for five years!  That, as far as I am concerned, is a BONUS! We just have to make this last for a little while, because even if they are able to site new projects, no one will build them if the money dries up.  It will become a moot point and Juliet can go home. 

Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on February 8, 2017 at 4:55pm

I have received a letter to DEP from the wind industry's favorite snowplow, Juliet Brown outlining a number of onerous changes she is proposing in the current round of wind energy rulemaking. If she gets her way, any thoughts of improving the playing conditions surrounding permitting projects coming out of this process will be drowned. The smack down she experienced during the Bowers denials has caused her to come back with both barrels. Her input would further slant the permitting towards the developers and leave any resistance with little room (if any ) to navigate. She is particularly focused on making the scenic impact criteria impossible to challenge along with a significant tightening of acceptable user surveys and how one gauges user experiences. If she succeeds, the ability to challenge permits in highly sensitive areas of the state would be next to impossible.     

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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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