Maine Wind law is unconstitutional
4/18/08 Governor signed Ch. 661 into law, effective immediately instead of 90 days after Legislative adjournment because it was an emergency bill.
This is a violation of our Constitution
Under
Article IV.
Part Third.
Legislative Power.
Section 16. Acts become effective in 90 days after recess; exception; emergency bill defined. No Act or joint resolution of the Legislature, except such orders or resolutions as pertain solely to facilitating the performance of the business of the Legislature, of either branch, or of any committee or officer thereof, or appropriate money therefor or for the payment of salaries fixed by law, shall take effect until 90 days after the recess of the session of the Legislature in which it was passed, unless in case of emergency, which with the facts constituting the emergency shall be expressed in the preamble of the Act, the Legislature shall, by a vote of 2/3 of all the members elected to each House, otherwise direct. An emergency bill shall include only such measures as are immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety; and shall not include (1) an infringement of the right of home rule for municipalities, (2) a franchise or a license to a corporation or an individual to extend longer than one year, or (3) provision for the sale or purchase or renting for more than 5 years of real estate.
Did you get that part about
An emergency bill shall include only such measures as are immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety; !!!!!
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Comment by Norman Mitchell on April 12, 2013 at 8:01am
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I presented this to Maine legislature on April 8 2013 1d1147 hearing did they listen doubt it
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http://www.sunjournal.com/river-valley/story/1092384
Tom Carol in the sun
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85 percent of Maine’s air pollution come from elsewhere , keeping this in mind we only control 15% of our air quality and what small % of pollution is from electric generation ? Remember this was the reason smog controls were not placed on autos in Maine as pollution is from out of state !
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I have sent others to this site for info this is the reason I removed the comments !
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Wind law was created under many false hoods if you look at our in state pollution facts you will see we can do nothing within our boarders to control air pollution in Maine when 85% comes from out of state ! Maine has reduced its air toxics emissions over 251% since 1988. and reduced co2 86% since 1990 yet we still suffer from out of state pollution if you want to help fight the pollution in Maine it must be done at the federal level . So what was the premise of the wind law ? as we were and are below the goals set in the wind law !
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The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
Cutting Pollution Coming into Maine
To protect states afflicted by air pollution from outside their borders, EPA finalized the Cross-State
Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to reduce harmful emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides
(NOx) from power plants in the eastern half of the U.S. These clean air protections are called for
under the ―Good Neighbor‖ provision of the Clean Air Act – a provision ensuring that air pollution
discharged by power plants in an upwind state do not contribute to unhealthy pollution levels in
downwind states. These protections will help downwind states suffering from this harmful pollution
restore healthy air for their citizens and maintain compliance with the health-based national ambient
air quality standards.Under this rule, harmful pollution will be significantly reduced: SO2 emissions from power plants in
the eastern half of the U.S. would be reduced 73% and NOx emissions would be reduced 54%.
Nationally, this rule will save up to 34,000 lives, prevent 400,000 asthma attacks, and avoid 1.8
million lost work or sick days each year once in place. The economic value of these benefits is
estimated at $120–280 billion each year. These benefits don’t even account for the value of increased
agricultural crop and commercial forest yields, improvements to visibility, and reduced nitrogen and
acid deposition.Mainers will reap vital health benefits from this rule.
Maine has no emissions reductions requirements of its own under the CSAPR, but
will see substantial health and environmental benefits due to pollution reductions
from upwind states. Outside pollution is currently impairing Maine’s air quality. Reducingpollution from out of state sources will save lives and will prevent 37 heart attacks, 11
hospitalizations, and 13 ER visits in Maine every year. Air quality improvement from this rule could
benefit the over 270,000 children at risk for asthma in Maine.1 These reductions will also prevent
2,631 lost work days due to these illnesses and will provide about $490 million 2 in benefits to Maine
each year. These benefits are just those related to avoided mortality, but there are other important
health and environmental benefits not quantified here. Under these clean air protections, the quantified
health benefits for Maine are about what the state spent on health in 20093—in other words, this nearly
half a billion in dollars in health benefits is very good news for Mainers.
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http://www.epa.gov/air/sect812/whereyoulive/me.html EPA
Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in Maine
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So what was the emergancy ?? Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
EPA maintains a program for reporting releases and transfers of toxic chemicals to the environment known as the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). The TRI is a database of information about releases of more than 650 toxic chemicals from manufacturing facilities throughout the US. TRI data from affected Maine facilities using, manufacturing, treating or releasing any of the listed toxic chemicals are reported to EPA on an annual basis. Although the TRI database represents only a subset of total toxic emissions, the information can be used to identify trends in the release of air toxics emissions on an annual basis. Based upon reported TRI data, Maine has reduced its air toxics emissions over 251% since 1988.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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