Massachusetts 2 New Commissions To Clear Wind Contracts Year End

Massachusetts creating two new commissions to clear wind contracts by year-end. 
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The first commission to review clean energy siting and permitting. 
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The second commission is made up of an interagency council focused on offshore wind development. 
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The new commission will consider communities’ input on the siting and permitting of clean energy infrastructure. 
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State agencies, local municipalities, utility companies, environmental justice communities, and clean energy developers along with real estate interest will be represented on the commission.
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One major issue for the creation of new commissions is the East Boston electric substation that took eight years to permit over local residents' objections over environmental issues. Falmouth faces a new substation and many more.
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Falmouth a residential and famous vacation destination with a large retirement community is facing having buried offshore wind cables through parks, and ball fields with ratings higher than the old Pilgrim nuke plan at 680 megawatts. Wind developers also want to place a six-acre electric substation in the vicinity of the town aquifer. A majority of residents are against the project over environmental issues.
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The Massachusetts offshore wind company put its project on hold at the Massachusetts Energy Facility Siting Board.  
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Portsmouth, Rhode Island residents have been completely kept in the dark over cable landings from a Massachusetts offshore wind company trying to get power to Fall River. The cable route is from offshore through Portsmouth RI to Fall River, Massachusetts.No questions have been answered to Rhode Island local residents.
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The same Massachusetts offshore wind company put this project on hold at the Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board. 
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The Portsmouth residents have been demanding information from their Town Council and refuse to put them on the agenda to ask questions according to recent news stories in the national headlines.
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Both Falmouth Ma. and Portsmouth RI. have had major land-based wind turbine failures in the past.  
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One major wind company now wants to back out of a contract approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and another is finding it much harder to finance.
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The Massachusetts Commission will be instructed to make recommendations on administrative, regulatory, and legislative changes to existing permitting and siting procedures before the end of the year. 

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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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