Mr. King and Mr. Gardiner need more bailout money for Record Hill Wind
I wonder if Mr. Kerry’s statements has Mr. King and Mr. Gardiner, developers of the Record Hill Wind Project in Roxbury, a bit concerned. Mr. King attributed the one year delay to his project to the economic slowdown and the drop in natural gas prices.
What if the federal government does not renew the bailout programs ( 30% windpower construction grants due to expire in 2010; 2.1 cent per kilowatt production tax credit to the wind industry which has to be renewed. ) What if the scam of selling “renewable energy certificates” to electrical users doesn’t pan out ?
What if the penalties to the gas- fired plants is reduced or eliminated ?
The bailout programs and the “ RECs” alone bring about a 20 year return of 6 million dollars to the 2 million invested in a wind turbine.
Are the proponents putting the money up for Record Hill Wind rethinking their business model ? Is Mr. Kerry thinking the costs to the ratepayers should be top priority?
Whereas windpower is our country’s “ new movement” and likely to go out of favor to the next “ enlightened movement “, I do believe you will not see the old electrical generating standbys disappear, more likely it will be the wind mills.
This leads me to another thought relating to landowners and the selling of their property to wind companies. If the wind towers come down, and the roads and huge level areas where the turbines sat remain, wouldn’t the potential for the building some “ magnificent mountain homes “ be in place
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Comment by Blueyes1119 on December 9, 2009 at 7:14pm
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John Kerry, a consumate politician. He goes to the Rumford Rotary, knowing that the citizens are enacting a moratorium on wind and that sitting in Rumford's industrial park is a tremedously underutilized natural gas powered generating plant. So what does he focus on? Praising the use of plentiful natural gas! Well, for once the wind zealot Kerry is right for the few minutes he addressed the Rotary. It would be great if this generating asset could go from providing back up to being a baseline plant, humming along on Sable Island natural gas. It is a more sensible, reliable, cost effective option than all the wind turbines that could br strung along the ridges and mountaintops of Oxford County.
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Comment by Martha Thacker on December 9, 2009 at 6:55pm
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Welfare dads give me heart burn. Why are they treated with deference..receiving millions. The welfare mothers receiving hundreds treated with disdain. In an ideal world , there would be no welfare moms or dads. But welfare reform was enacted at the same time as NAFTA.
The Energy bill was passed in 2005 because of a black out. Reliability was the uppermost concern in this bill. Taking precedence over environment, cost and the public. That is how it is written. Well, wind is the most unreliable form of energy. No matter..not a problem.This was g bush 's policy.
Now we have the stimus bill to get this country moving. Jobs. Stetson II is being built with stimulus funds. Ilegally. The bill states that money can be given for wind farms already operating. Construction jobs are very very short term.
Seems to me both parties are more interested in corporations than people. Maybe it is time for a third party. The People's Party. Oops . bad connotation.Average people want fiscal responsibility. Jobs . and constitutional rights. Neither party is honoring our constitution or allowing US work at a living wage. ..We are getting taxation without representation. The last half of that phrase is,,, All else is treason.
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Comment by Long Islander on December 9, 2009 at 5:36pm
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"What if the federal government does not renew the bailout programs ( 30% windpower construction grants due to expire in 2010; 2.1 cent per kilowatt production tax credit to the wind industry which has to be renewed. ) What if the scam of selling “renewable energy certificates” to electrical users doesn’t pan out ?"
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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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