Mr. Angus King Attempts to Marginalize Wind Critics in the Maine Sunday Telegram

You can read the whole Angus King opinion piece that was in today's Maine Sunday Telegram here:

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/wind-power-myths-blow-away_2010-...

In the piece, Mr. King names four "myths" and proceeds to debunk them. What is truly scary is that he presumably has people who could have helped him with this, yet his debunking is frankly an embarrassment.

Just think how bad it would be if he didn't have help. He also of course, in hand-picking his four debunking targets, conveniently leaves out a multitude of other reasons that make wind such a raw deal for the people of Maine.

But here are what I thought were some of the choicest parts:

a). Mr. King somehow faults the use of the word "industrial" to describe the complexes that consist of dozens of 389' steel towers. In other words, we are supposed to simply call them "farms", a wind industry euphemism.

b). Mr. King tries to downplay the footprint of these industrial wind installations and of course avoids subjects such as erosion, siltation impacting trout streams, wildlife habitat fragmentation caused by hundreds of miles of turbines, game that has disappeared, herbicide, the distances travelled by the turbine access roads and the absolutely gargantuan new transmission lines throughout the state that will be required by this sorry sputtering source of electricity. Just to name a few.

c). Mr. King characterizes the law in Maine as "pretty restrictive". Is he also growing something up behind those no trespassing signs?

d). Mr. King says that the whole process of wind in Maine has been in the sunlight. God help us.

e). Mr. King says it's just myth that turbines make people sick. Isn't that what the tobacco industry said about cigarettes?

f). Mr. King again implies that wind will get us off foreign oil. Mr. King, did it ever occur to you that maybe it's time for you to hang it up if you can't come up with any more material than that? You have the brass to lecture others about repeating things? We will take you down with the facts and we will repeat them as long as is necessary.

And as for your claim about getting Maine off oil, it's patently untrue. We use oil to heat and drive in Maine, neither of which wind can do. And we get our electricity primarily from abundant and relatively very clean Canadian natural gas and hydro - not from oil. So I guess one has to ask, how can you in good conscience keep repeating what you know not to be true?

g). Mr. King once again talks about the need to take action on climate change when in fact he knows wind turbines won't do a thing in this regard, other than make him money - I guess so he can gas up that 40' RV he may still have.

IMPORTANT: Please see the following link to read a Yale student's investigative report on a shell company that is desecrating Vermont mountains and may be the Yale Endowment. Yale fancies itself as a world class environmental steward. That reputation isn't worth risking if their shell might get blown open. Angus King is backed by the mysterious BAYROOT shell corporation, which uses the same fronting company as does the alleged Yale shell company in the following:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/magazine/magazine-cover/2010/02/17/hil...

It is time to contact all the press on this as well Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR)!

See: http://acir.yale.edu/members.html

Members of the Committee

Jonathan Macey (Chair)
jonathan.macey@yale.edu
Julia Knight
julia.knight@yale.edu
Carrie Capezzone
carrie.capezzone@yale.edu
Osman Haneef
osman.haneef@yale.edu
Harry Stout
harry.stout@yale.edu
Miles Lasater
mlasater@higherone.com
Stephen Murphy
stephen.murphy@yale.edu


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Comment by Scarlett on February 21, 2010 at 3:12pm
...how 'pastoral' is a bunch of dead birds and bats at the base of these turbines? While some idiots continue to cite the 2002 paper in which they calculate the # of documented strikes per turbine as 1-2 birds/year, it shows how ignorant they are...that was when there were much fewer turbines and they were placed more conservatively than they are now. The Virginia and Pennsylvania folks can show you that several THOUSAND bats have been killed in the first year at some of the wind farms in the Appalachian Ridge areas. Another site in New York has documented hundreds of strikes per year. It depends on where you put them. Also, you have to consider those harder-to-measure immediate impacts but also the indirect impacts - like deterring wildlife from where they need to feed and such, and the fact that a lot of animals rely on sound to mate. who is looking in to that? If I was a hunter I'd be concerned...
Comment by Whetstone_Willy on February 21, 2010 at 3:07pm
Angus and the Governor can't stop repeating that wind will get us off foreign oil.

Comment by Whetstone_Willy on February 21, 2010 at 2:58pm
Rumor has it Ben & Jerry's will be coming out with a new promotional ice cream flavor to commemorate Earth Day this year, "Ill Wind". Turbines, grazing cows and bucolic beauty on the outside packaging. B&M beans and chunks of White Castle hamburgers on the inside.
Comment by Art Brigades on February 21, 2010 at 2:49pm
I presume he's talking about a photo of "industrial" wind turbines in a "pastoral" farm field. Cows make dung. Dung attracts rodents. Rodents attract raptors. Raptors get swatted like flies by turbine blades. King asserts that his Cuisinarts aren't bad for mountains. Has he ever seen that pic of Mars Hill under construction...the one that looks like President Lincoln's skull after the show? He talked about turbine platforms being the size of a small cellar-foundation, yet the the turbine in the pic next to his op-ed is in a clearing the size of a WalMart. Did anyone ever tell him about the 900 foot landslide at Kibby? Remember his TV ads when he first ran for governor? Time to "turn off" Angus King like a TV.
Comment by Lisa Lindsay on February 21, 2010 at 2:15pm
Thank you for posting your thoughts on this. Spot on. Please, may I add a response to this fascinating "fact"? "If you want to see how terrifying windmills are to animals, go to Google images for ''wind turbines cows." ~Angus King

Often, animals like cows and sheep just stand there and watch when their cow and sheep friends get attacked by predators. This is not how *wild*life behaves in the *wild*. Good God. He makes our job easier.

 

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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."

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