More on Canadian Hydropower
This article is from ISO NE about how we should beware of the boost in Canadian Power. They cite the fact that transmission lines would have to be run to bring it down from the North. I think I would rather have continuous, cheap, reliable power run over new transmission lines than towering spinning blades and flashing lights. ISO NE is completely in the bag for wind. And our prices will be going up, driving any hope for new business and jobs. Wind kills jobs, not makes them.
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/03/canada-has-growing-hydropower...
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on August 4, 2015 at 2:05am
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Thanks as always. I am going through EarxhJustice comments and ranking of states - partly as comment on PTC maybe? Like Iowa is poster child wind but most heavily dependent on coal whereas Idaho is near very low in emissions because it has huge hydro. And they criticize Maine because of your biomass as renewable. I am still wanting that bigger picture that doesn't really put a ton of money into transmission and utilities unnecessarily. They criticized Maine but you had a huge drop in electricity-related emissions already, and I believe that the facts will show that it is NOT because of ridgeline destruction for wind turbine placement.
Maybe it is time to ask how it did happen that the New England states cut emissions so vastly that it was decided to reset Regional Greenhouse goals. Secondly, it is time to ask why the other states in RGGI to the south are not doing much at all to reduce their emissions and are part of a grid tied to a great deal of coal. For PTC rejection, I would note that the state of Texas is the largest coal importer.
The EPA dictates of 'leaving it to the states' sucks because we have done our part and we have already paid for it through the nose and teeth in the last decade or since '97 depending on where you live. It is up to those Kansas and Iowa etc. coal burning states to bring their emissions to the level of ours.
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Comment by Brad Blake on August 3, 2015 at 10:30pm
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The Churchill Falls, Labrador hydro project will be the world's second largest hydro generating site when finished. It isn't being built for the sparsely populated Maritime provinces. The intended market is the USA. Maine would be smart to participate in such a way that we benefit from being the host to bring this power to market. I expected Gov. LePage to vigorously push deal making here, but see no signs of it. Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership have their heads so far up the asses of wind power developers that they would oppose anything even if it meant tremendous revenues to the state (which it should!). What a pathetic lack of leadership and meanwhile, mile after mile of Maine's ridges are blasted away to put up the worst possible source of electricity, pushing the region's electricity costs ever higher and undermining our grid.
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We could bring all the electricity we need to supply the southern New England demand from Canada via existing power lines' rights of way or lay a d/c conduit right down the I-95 conduit. What is lacking is the political will to shunt wind & solar aside and deliver a readily available, dis-patchable renewable source of electricity. All of the criticisms of importing Canadian power are red herrings mostly to protect wind power developers that couldn't possibly compete on a level playing field. Things like Maine's 100 MW cap on large hydro or other states' RPS saying hydro is not "renewable" are utter bullshit.
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show the pictures of Maine's lost mountains and Number Nine Mtn. This is a PR battle that is unfortunately more us against us. When I look at ISO-NE express, except today we have cheaper imports from New Brunswick and Highgate, and an export to Long Island to look at. How about using transmission that we have already?
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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