Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Offshore Wind Attack On Cape Cod Residential Property Owners

Five years ago offshore wind researchers proposed offshore wind cable routes by using submarine cables directly in the ocean to large cities like Boston, Providence, Fall River, and Hartford.

Massachusetts politicians got involved and decided to hurry the projects and save offshore wind contractors money by running the cables through residential communities in Cape Cod to electric grid locations. Those same contractors who got the savings canceled their contracts and are rebidding them in January of 2024.

The onshore cables are high voltage direct current up to 345,000 volts and between 800 and 1200 megawatts.

There are very few high voltage direct current aerial or buried cables in the United States and no peer-reviewed health studies. Many residents feel they will become guinea pigs with the power buried outside their front door double a nuclear plant. The old Pilgrim Nuclear Plant had an output of 680 megawatts.

The Massachusetts land-based wind program was a disaster of health issues from noise and shadow flicker Those residents were told by politicians they had to break a few eggs to make an omelet. The Falmouth town turbines were removed by the courts in September 2022.

Multiple Cape Cod beaches such as Covell's Beach in Barnstable and Falmouth Heights Beach will receive the cables. In addition, Falmouth will receive a six-acre high-voltage direct current transfer station to switch to high-voltage alternating current with solid walls to stop noise issues and containment walls for electronic failures.

Hundreds of Barnstable residents recently met at the Barnstable High School opposed to the high voltage cables. At a June meeting in Falmouth, 87 percent of those spoke against the cable project.

Massachusetts allows wind turbine contractors to partner with towns which is another way of saying the wind company pays the town millions of dollars. The wind company also provides revenue for studies at colleges, universities, and research grants.

Whale deaths have followed the construction of offshore wind farms since 2016 Block Island, RI wind turbines to New Jersey and NewYork. They say a deaf whale from sonar and pounding in foundations is a dead whale.

Some scientists say the whale deaths have nothing to do with the offshore wind but all you have to do is follow the money.

Ask if the scientists or research groups receive state or federal funds or offshore wind research grants aka science for sale. .

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U.S. Sen Angus King

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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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