NH Spruce Ridge: Portuguese firm's wind-speed tower request creates concern
Portuguese firm's wind-speed tower request creates concern
ALEXANDRIA — Opponents are crying foul as a Portuguese company seeks to build a tower to measure wind speeds for its proposed Spruce Ridge Wind Farm in four towns near Newfound Lake and Mount Cardigan.
If Spruce Ridge is built on the northern and eastern edges of Newfound lake, and the Wild Meadows wind farm — proposed by a Spanish developer — is built near the south and eastern end, one of the state’s most beautiful lakes will become a “wind farm sandwich” with noisy, 500-foot lighted towers, opponents say.
“It’s a continuation of the march of the turbines,” said Jennifer Tuthill of Alexandria, a member of New Hampshire Wind Watch.
EDP Renewables of Portugal, which says it has developed more than 4,000 megawatts of wind power in the United States and has built wind power plants in Maine, met with Alexandria selectmen Feb. 25 to share information needed for the town to permit an 80-meter meteorological tower, said Derek B. Rieman, a project manager with EDP Renewables.
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Comment by Sherwin Start on March 11, 2014 at 10:50pm
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THEY DO NOT CARE WHAT they are going to DESTROY-AS Long as they Get PAID by Someone-ANY-One to the Tune of MILLONS Of Dollars!
They Do not Care that that ALL The Taxpayers across this Nation are paying for this FOLLY-WIND POWER SCENARIO!! They Care ;less about How Power is Produced or where it is going or how much it costs-AS LONG as they can become MILLIONAIRES off it!! THATS the ONLY Bottom Line that ANY Of them are interested in!!
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on March 11, 2014 at 5:36pm
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Ignorant developers seem to be at pandemic levels. All it takes is greed and an uncaring attitude toward nature coupled with FORMER env. groups who have been bribed and politicians who have been bought off to allow the scourge to spread. It needs to stop in all of New England.
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SO Now They they Are Putting Up a METEROLOGICAL /Wiind Speed/Direction Station AFTER they have Gotten Approval for DESTROYING another 10,000 acres of Of Maines Country Side..
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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