My Comments to SAM re: George Smith
Mr. Trahan & Mr. Dunlop,
George Smith freely stated that SAM has in the past and currently supports industrial wind companies who are destroying hundreds of miles and thousands of acres of wildlife habitat in our great State of Maine.
Is this the current position of SAM?
Do you and SAM support the unwanted and uneccessary proliferation of wind projects upon our beautiful ridgelines?
Are you aware that even if Maine allowed 300 wind projects to be built they would still be a non factor in reducing CO2 in the atmosphere?
Are you aware that Maine's tourism industry is a 12 billion dollar a year industry and is being threatened by the sprawl of wind industry in our most pristine and scenic areas of Maine?
Are you aware that any energy produced by wind projects is "surplus" energy that is shipped out of state?
Are you aware that these companies build their projects on grants funded by taxpayer subsidies and borrow loans funded by taxpayer subsidies when their projects do not produce their contractual amounts of energy?
Are you aware that none of the existing wind projects in the State of Maine produce the "boasted" 35% capacity factor?
Are you aware that due to the inefficiency of wind energy and it's unreliability that they purchase fossil fuel generated energy and then sell that same energy to their consumers under the falsehood that it is "green" energy?
Are you aware that wind energy is causing ratepayers in the State of Maine to experience higher electricity rates and that business will refuse to build in Maine due to these same high energy costs?
Are you supportive of our landscape being changed forever to benefit MA, RI and others?
Are you aware that the only jobs created by the wind industry are temporary during construction?
Are you aware that the majority of outdoorsmen firmly oppose the destruction of our state at the hands of industrial wind companies yet are being silenced by popular media?
George Smith is very quickly and very widely within the State of Maine becoming the NON voice of Maine Sportsmen. George Smith is a pawn and shill for the wind industry and his opinion and support of wind power are in direct contradiction to the majority of true sportsmen throughout Maine.
I hope and pray that SAM severs any relations with George Smith and does not share his fondness of First Wind and the wind industrialization of our state's natural beauty and qualify of place before support of your organization blows away in the wind as well.
Sincerely,
A life long sportsman.
Hart Daley
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Comment by Dan McKay on March 16, 2013 at 8:04am
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Well said, Hart. Hopefully, some real thought is given to what is happening as government uses taxpayer money to entice relationships of support for such a devastating, non-productive economic and environmental folly. George Smith is trying to create a sensation because he has no good answers for your questions.
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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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