Maine Office of Tourism Industry Input Session - Portland on October 23
Have you benefited from the growth of tourism in Maine in the past five years?
As the Maine Office of Tourism develops our next Five-Year Strategic Plan, input from our industry partners is important to help shape our goals for the next 5 years.
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From the Brookings Institute right before the wind madness in Maine exploded.
Charting Maine’s Future: An Action Plan for Promoting Sustainable Prosperity and Quality Places
"As the search for quality places grows in importance, Maine possesses a globally known“brand” built on images of livable communities, stunning scenery, and great recreational opportunities."
https://www.brookings.edu/research/charting-maines-future-an-action...
ALSO
Groups seek feedback for reshaping conservation after LePage leaves office
On Tuesday in Portland, the Task Force to Shape the Next Generation of Maine Land Conservation held the first of two public “listening sessions,” with the second slated for Thursday in Bangor. Several dozen people representing land trusts, environmental organizations and farmers shared feedback on the successes and challenges of the past 30-plus years as well as ways to improve conservation efforts.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/17/groups-seek-feedback-for-res...
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 17, 2018 at 1:23pm
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The mainstream "environmental" group "elitists", many whom have never been north of Bangor, are paid very significant amounts of money to push wind and solar, which includes fighting competitors such as low cost big hydro, Maine commoners be damned. They are also given huge grants and the strings attached to those grants call for advocating for a "clean energy future" and the fight against non-existent manmade global warming. The groups funding their global warming efforts use climate change as a principle around which to organize globally enforced mandates and eventually global government. Gases don't know international borders, so it's an ingenious device to attack national sovereignty and borders. "Take America's standard of living down a few notches" is the mantra. We are the fly in the ointment for them.
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Comment by Penny Gray on October 17, 2018 at 12:33pm
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Be interesting to know if the Maine Office of Tourism touches on the CMP/Quebec transmission corridor and its impact on the western Maine region. This proposal has a lot of people up in arms, where the wind industry has been able to ride rough shod over our mountains with the encouragement of many who oppose the transmission corridor. Why is that? The arguments are basically the same with the exception of the sources of renewable energy. Wind is weak and intermittent and hydro is powerful and 24/7. Both are all about serving southern New England's renewable energy mandates.
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
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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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