More natural gas pipelines unnecessary, says Massachusetts attorney general


More natural gas pipelines unnecessary,
says Massachusetts attorney general

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But the company that wants to bring a pipeline into New England

deems Maura Healey's conclusion "seriously flawed"

“This study demonstrates that we do not need increased gas capacity to meet electric reliability needs, and that electric ratepayers shouldn’t foot the bill for additional pipelines,” Healey said in a statement, adding that a more cost-efficient solution was to “embrace energy efficiency and demand response programs that protect ratepayers and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

And LePage wishes to bring some of this Gas into Maine under the guise of home heating. While the fact remains that only about 16% of Maine's current gas market is consumed by business and homes with the remaining going to electrical generation or possibly some transportation.

Will such competition of gas generated electricity detract from the profitability of current Maine generating sources, and serve to have our current utilities cry for more rate increases ? When the market pricing should dictate lower prices, due to the Power Purchase Agreements already in place that are commitments we see the MPUC often Yield.

Maine is quickly becoming an Electrical generation farm, for Southern New England, with our lands destroyed replacing forests with spinning trees of steel, next we may be displaced from our homes, for the blackened arrays of Solar... Maine's new crop requiring minimal jobs.

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Comment by Kathy Sherman on November 20, 2015 at 8:13am
It is ironic that another link to Portland Press Herald was advocating more natural gas pipelines as a "bridge fuel" in the editorial dissing LePage. This particular pipeline may be through a large block of conservation land headed for Connecticut, so western Massachusetts feels the same way as northern New England does about turbines and high voltage transmission lines. It is the Attorney General's role to intervene with FERC to protect the ratepayers - in this case, I don't know which ones. If anyone remembers the scandal of ISO-NE fining a company, I think a mill in Maine, for collecting demand response money but just running their diesel generator instead of closing, please let me know. I do remember that at about the same time a big firm that pooled demand response customers closed abruptly. I am just wondering whether the AG's consultants factored in the costs of "smart meters" etc. The Boston mass transit system sucks an incredible amount of juice, so maybe the AG can shut it down during summer peak load (when the winds are weak even offshore).

 

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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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