NOT A PENNY FOR THIS MESS. REVOTE NOW!

Maine needs a lot of energy. Cold winters,  longer commutes to work  and short summers. 

Maine also needs to overhaul the current legislature, the enemy of energy.
With skyrocketing electric, heating oil and gasoline prices hammering household budgets, our legislature unanimously voted to approve a $1.8 billion-dollar electric transmission line and upgrades from Aroostook County to the New Hampshire border. 
Apparently, it was more important for our people we sent to Augusta to slide out of town, tossing their duties aside. Not one member asked for debate or even a recorded vote on an "Act To Require Prompt and Effective Use of the Renewable Energy Resources of Northern Maine"
 
How does your legislator explain this silence? Are they even willing to explain? Do they think Maine people want to pay $1.8 billion dollars to move land-corrupting solar and wind power south of the Maine border? A ruinous mix of ultra-expensive energy that creates chaos within the Maine grid on its path to our neighbors south of us.
 
NOT A PENNY FOR THIS MESS.
APPENDIX A: ISO-NE SAYS "you can't get there from here" 
"Interconnection Studies performed by the ISO have identified that requests to add significant new interconnections north of the Orrington South interface are not feasible because of multiple system performance limitations in that part of the system."
APPENDIX B: A Reliable Generator Questions the Motives of Our Legislators
The Act suggests that the Commission should not allow reliability standards to get in the way of developing a transmission path into New England from potential renewable generation resources in northern Maine: 
“The commission, the Office of the Public Advocate and the Office of the Attorney General may, separately or in combination, obtain any technical or legal assistance necessary to ensure regional and federal interconnection and grid reliability standards are not employed directly or indirectly to discourage the development of the renewable energy resources in northern Maine under the program.”
APPENDIX C: NRCM Comments, Note there is no consideration of the ratepayers of Maine
As a backdrop to this procurement, NRCM urges the Commission to consider the broader context of the transmission investments that will be needed to develop Maine’s endowment of high-quality wind resources both on- and off-shore to help meet our climate goals.
Northern Maine has much to offer thstate, the region, and the country in the transition to clean energy, and as the Maine Utility/Regulatory Reform and Decarbonization Initiative (MURRDI) recommended, the Commission should proactively provide solutions to sustainably develop the transmission needed to access those resources.
This can be a boon for Maine so long as it is built in a way that preserves other commercial, ecological, recreational, and cultural assets of the state. The Commission is in a position to help ensure that transmission is built as thoughtfully as possible.
APPENDIX D: The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said the emissions reduction surpassed the state’s goal of cutting emissions 10% from 1990. 

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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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