Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Offshore Wind Raising The Dead Falmouth Massachusetts

File photo internet: Katharine Lee Bates, Falmouth Massachusetts

Offshore wind contractors need electric cable routes through Cape Cod residential communities to save them money to avoid placing expensive submarine cables in large cities where the power will be used.

Offshore wind contractors anxious to build an electric converter substation and lay underground cables on October 23, 2023, negotiated with officials from the historic Oak Grove Cemetary in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The cemetery is the burial ground of the town's most famous citizens including those from the American Revolution and the War of 1812.

Katharine Lee Bates born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1859 wrote the poem that became the song "America the Beautiful."

“America the Beautiful” was well-established as a famous song by the time of Katharine's death in 1929. She is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery.

Many famous people are buried in Oak Grove including Sylvia Donaldson one of the first women to be elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives born in 1849 and passed in 1937.
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The results of the cemetery meeting or proposals have not been made public. Last year a proposal was made to place buried offshore wind high-voltage direct-current 800 megawatt cables to an electric substation on a six-acre site somewhere in Falmouth to transfer the power to high voltage alternating current stepping up to 345,000 volts to get the power offcape.

As far as environmental issues are concerned noise is a key consideration for high-voltage converter stations as well as the containment of caustic spills from capacitors, transformers, SF 6 gas, and fires caused by lightning.

The site more than likely requires massive high solid walls to act as sound barriers and concrete containment walls. The two town-owned Falmouth wind turbines were declared a noise nuisance by the courts and removed in 2022.

The term used "so loud it could raise the dead," which means to be extremely noisy and disruptive has no place near a historic cemetery.

Falmouth, Massachusetts is a famous residential beach vacation destination with a rich history.

Note # The six-acre high voltage electric transfer substation would be built within the Cape Cod Aquifer providing 100% of the Cape’s drinking water,

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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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