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Today Maine faces an environmental catastrophe:
Hundreds of thousands of Maine acres will be dynamited, clear-cut, paved, sprayed with herbicides, and covered with thousands of huge 55-story wind turbine towers and networks of transmission lines. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, whose residents don’t want wind turbines there, plan to build thousands of turbine towers in Maine, even though Maine residents oppose industrial wind projects.
Who’s to blame?
The Maine Legislature, out-of-state and foreign wind developers, investment banks,and even organizations like Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) and Maine Audubon – who created Maine’s Expedited Wind Law, which prohibits full environmental, social and financial impact analysis of industrial wind projects, and abolishes the rights of Maine communities to fight back.
http://www.change.org/petitions/maine-governor-and-state-legislatur...
Comment
It seems the height of arrogance for other states to site their wind factories in Maine, a beautiful state which needs to stay that way. Tourism and the local populace will be negatively affected if all the wind projects proposed are built. This state needs to be respected for its natural beauty. Hands off Maine!
I worked at Baxter State Park 1996-1998, Seasonal Campground Attendant at Katahdin Stream. I wonder what Percival Baxter's views on wind mills would be? There should be some respected, educated people running for office who will attempt to put an end to other states and businesses taking advantage of Maine's relaxed laws on Wind Mills. Besides scenic value which is difficult to prove, economic efficiencies should be emphasized by people who run for office. For example, Maines Wind Law prohibiting all aspects in impact studies, I would like to read and hear more definitions. Prohibited studies is stated 3rd paragraph from the bottom, but no definition.
U.S. Sen Angus King
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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 - 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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