Net Energy Billing, a sawmill business describes it as Net Enterprise Killing
A sawmill, utilizing Maine's natural resource is not pleased with NEB.
"The sawmill industry is actually the perfect case study for how these policies are affecting investment. It is a mature industry, that competes on a global scale, and has traditionally been power and labor intensive. The movement from the Pacific Northwest, BC and basically every where else to the South highlights that money goes where it is wanted. Companies can outsource call centers etc. to lower cost areas, but Maine's sawmill industry cannot move the Trees. We are the ones who will continue to slowly lose ground as we are continually made to be less competitive in our commodity focused industries. Maine cannot consume the lumber that is grown and made in this State every year, it has to be transported to Larger markets, most of which are closer to the South, where we already lose when it comes to fiber costs, transportation costs, power costs, and labor costs. In the end however, the industry will continue to consolidate as more mills shut down in this State, (look at the trend over the past 20 years) Loggers and Landowners will have fewer options of where to put the logs, until the export market becomes an even bigger factor than it is now, and the sawmill industry will go the way of the shoe industry, the textile industry, the canning industry, the paper mills and all of the other proud Maine based industries that have mostly gone away due to economics. It is sad that in this case it is being hastened by the same people that we elect to help us. We will truly become Vacation Land at that point, as the work will be done elsewhere. I believe Solar power has a place in the state's power profile, but its investment should not be carried on the backs of the large manufacturers who provide foundational jobs to residents and keep so much our money in this state. We request Intervention." Respectfully Submitted, Alden Robbins, Robbins Lumber Inc.
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Comment by Stephen Littlefield on January 1, 2025 at 6:38pm
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Well written. What I would add is that no one in the state carry the cost of these wind and solar developments that are being foisted on the state destroying the beauty of our once rustic wooded mountainous state. Now mountain tops have been destroyed access roads and giant windmills, Now driving up the turnpike many exits are filled with chinese solar panels, many farms have been turned into ugly solar farms, and even some small businesses have been turned into solar farms. Every solar farm causes the cost of electricity to rise because of the democrat bill that past net billing which has caused our electric rates to sky rocket which has forced many good Mainers to leave state when the flatlanders come here and throw money around. More and more we lose our identity as the democrats rule and pass laws that are for out of staters and work against real Mainers and Maine businesses.
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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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