Mainebiz Wind Article Completely Ignores the Countless Negatives of Wind Power

Paul Williamson, a Portland-based development manager with Apex Clean Energy, of Charlottesville, Va., has similar frustrations. "The biggest issue with permitting is that there's a fair amount of subjectivity in the process. That makes it difficult for the developer."....................."When we talk about support from the state government, we're not looking for subsidies or financial support," Williamson says. "We're specifically looking for that ability to permit projects and solve problems in a constructive way rather than running against barriers we can't overcome."

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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on June 28, 2017 at 8:43am

Want to permit a small residential hydropower system?

Here's the fee structure for starters:

 

Land Resources – Dams and Hydropower

Code

Description

Processing Fee

Licensing Fee

32

FERC water quality certification for storage

$1,623

-

33

FERC water quality certification, no increase in capacity

$4871

$801

34

MWDCA maintenance/repair only

$227

$80

35

MWDCA new construction/expanded generating capacity

$7301

$801

36

water level petitions

$1,027

$1,027

37

dams, abandonment

$1,027

-

3D

dams, release of impoundment

$1,027

-

3E

non-hydropower dams

$227

$80

3A

FERC hydropower licensing, first consultation

$1,588

-

3B

FERC hydropower licensing, second consultation

$1,588

-

 

Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on June 28, 2017 at 8:40am

Until the legislature or the governor amends the wind siting legislation to require detailed environmental impact statements that includes everything from bees to noises; DEP will ignore all the damage they have done and can do to the environment.

So who is going to draft one for the next legislature? I'll be glad to volunteer for a committee to hash out a draft and help pick out sponsors.

Comment by Brad Blake on June 26, 2017 at 10:43pm

Williamson has unfounded arrogance to complain against a law that hands the wind thieves easy permits for the ruination of our beautiful state's natural and scenic resources.  Subjective?  We citizens have never been able to prevail on our perspective of scenic impact with the exception of Bowers Mt. impacting on so many high quality lakes that a blind man would have denied the permit.  Whiner Williamson thinks the heinous "Wind Law" is daunting for the industry?  That law was written by the industry, for the industry, and promotes the feckless unduly subsidized industry.  And the Democrat Party has protected the law from a scintilla of tweaking on the wind industry's behalf.  What is this guy's problem?

Comment by Paula D Kelso on June 26, 2017 at 8:11pm

"When we talk about support from the state government, we're not looking for subsidies or financial support," Williamson says. "We're specifically looking for that ability to permit projects and solve problems in a constructive way rather than running against barriers we can't overcome."

And there's a complaint that the permitting is "subjective". Well gee, isn't the purpose of regulations and laws to set benchmarks? Those can certainly become barriers. Isn't that the whole purpose of standards and procedures, to devise and enforce limits on development? Sometimes we all would like to say, no thanks, no reg's, cause that's imposing my subjective opinion of what's "right" and what "does no harm". But as a democratic (small d) society, we've recognized an obligation to protect ourselves and our values by setting "barriers", and they will be "subjective" cause none of us has the ability to devise laws and regulations that don't take various points of view and vested interests into account. Views and interests aren't right or wrong, good or bad, necessarily. Everything gets weighed in the scale and hopefully balances out to reflect due process and consideration of all available facts and opinions. And hopefully that is what is happening now, Maine people are weighing the pro's and con's and weeding out the facts from the hype and seeing that they've been led down the garden path by the wind developers and their political cronies.

My 13-year-old granddaughter started crying when she heard that our President had pulled the U.S. out of the Paris agreement. That is how far the fear of climate change has pervaded our society and how far the notion that anyone who questions the conclusions and dictates of that group of omniscient human beings is an evil threat to the planet.

 

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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