FIRST WIND & Emera - MPUC Special Deliberations scheduled for March 8, 2012
STATE OF MAINE
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Docket No. 2011-170
February 22, 2012
BANGOR HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMPANY BENCH
and MAINE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY MEMORANDUM
Request for Exemptions and for
Reorganization Approvals
Please be advised that the Intervenor’s Motion to Dismiss and the Examiner’s Report along with the Exceptions thereto, will be on the agenda at a Special Deliberations scheduled for March 8, 2012 to allow the Commissioners full discretion to determine the pending matters with which they may decide to proceed.
Dated this 22nd day of February 2012
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Charles Cohen
Hearing Examiner
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Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on February 23, 2012 at 10:58pm
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thank you ART.,.does this mean the PUC may still not approve of the $ for FW? sure hope so..
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Comment by Art Brigades on February 23, 2012 at 10:15pm
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"Please be advised that the Intervenor’s Motion to Dismiss and the Examiner’s Report along with the Exceptions thereto, will be on the agenda at a Special Deliberations scheduled for March 8, 2012 to allow the Commissioners full discretion to determine the pending matters with which they may decide to proceed."
This is the correspondence from Chuck Cohen, the Hearing Examiner. He's the Staff Attorney at PUC who has conducted the proceeding to date, herding the hooligans at First Wind as well as he can. This note simply informs the parties that on 3/8 the Commissioners will deliberate the case. To date, the case has been conducted by the hearing examiner. The three Commissioners are essentially judges, and they will use the Examiner's Report, Motion to Dismiss, and all other items in the (considerable) record as the basis for their deliberations. On their agenda will be the Motion to dismiss (that's the salty document that got everyone so excited a month ago, signed by Eric Bryant, Alan Stone, Charlie Soltan, and Tony Buxton (the intervenors). The "exceptions" are the replies by the applicant. All of these are easily viewable on the PUC Casefile link listed above. Just enter in Casefile Number 2011170 and the documents are listed chronologically.
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on February 23, 2012 at 9:20pm
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Ditto!!!
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can someone translate what this means for me?? thank YOU
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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
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"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."
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