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 March 29, 2013 at 10:17am
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Wind law goal was 10% below 1990 level by 2020
Electrical Generators
Maine’s electric generating facilities consume energy to produce energy for other
consumers. Maine’s electric utility generators emitted 2.88 MMTCO2 in 2009
(Appendix B). CO2 emissions from petroleum combustion at electric generating facilities
declined 86% since 1990 while their energy consumption only declined 7%. Nuclear
power and petroleum have been largely replaced with natural gas, biomass, and waste as
energy sources (Appendix E.1). Natural gas combustion accounts for 78% of the CO2
emissions from this sector. Renewable resources (biomass, hydropower and wind)
provided 54% of the energy consumed by these facilities in 2009. Additional information
regarding CO2 emissions from these facilities, as it relates to the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative, will be provided by the Efficiency Maine Trust in their annual report for
that program.
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Electric generation below 1990 levels before bill was singed in 2008 violation of Maine constution no emergency !!
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Look at co2 2020 levels met before
law was even signed
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Accoreding to report goals have been met stop wind power not needed
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:6K4wXS9ZID8J:www.mai...
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Maine Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 3-A > § 576 - Reduction Goals
Current as of: 2010The State's goals for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions within the State are as follows: [ 2003, c. 237, §1 (NEW) .]
1. Reduction by 2010. In the short term, reduction to 1990 levels by January 1, 2010; [ 2003, c. 237, §1 (NEW) .] 2. Reduction by 2020. In the medium term, reduction to 10% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2020; and [ 2003, c. 237, §1 (NEW) .] 3. Long-term reduction. In the long term, reduction sufficient to eliminate any dangerous threat to the climate. To accomplish this goal, reduction to 75% to 80% below 2003 levels may be required. [ 2003, c. 237, §1 (NEW) .] SECTION HISTORY 2003, c. 237, §1 (NEW) .
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Wind energy is an economically feasible, large-scale energy resource that does not rely on fossil fuel combustion or nuclear fission, thereby displacing electrical energy provided by these other sources and avoiding air pollution, waste disposal problems and hazards to human health from emissions, waste and by-products; consequently, wind energy development may address energy needs while making a significant contribution to achievement of the State's renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction objectives, including those in Title 38, section 576; 1st we have no nuclear power plants in Maine so that fails 2nd fossil fuel combustion is not a health risk in Maine and also wind energy may be used to displace electrical power that is generated from fossil fuel combustion, wind energy displaced nothing in 4 years there fore law is unconstitutional
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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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