Oppressing Dylan Vorhee's environmental hypocrisy and untruths
Tapping into the proposed energy corridor is, as I understand it, a negotiable item---which I strongly support.
Dylan raises other issues, several based on nonfactual assumptions:
"Dylan:
NRCM has long supported wind farms in Maine, all of which resulted in clear cutting thousands of acres of mature forest and, in turn, violating the Copenhagen recommendation to reforest the earth and convert CO2 into oxygen, water, and stored carbon. Wind Farm transmission line corridors did exactly the opposite, and to add further insult, are sprayed with herbicide annually.
Are you changing your policy regarding wind farm transmission lines as well?
Then you go on to say that importing hydropower will increase emissions….but leave open how this would happen; and in comparison, the need for natural gas fired power plants to replace lost power due to wind fluctuations does add to emissions locally.
Furthermore, you claim that using an existing R.O.W. will negatively affect wildlife, forests and clean water. Is this claim based on the harm the footprints of wind farms have had because of lost forest, a major habitat for birds and small mammals, and the effect losing a tree’s root system has on cleansing and preserving rainwater flowing into an aquifer?
Over 5,000 climate scientists endorsed reforestation, why haven’t you? Perhaps you should learn how some conservation organizations are earning carbon credits for reforesting newly acquired lands or why people are initiating tree plantings in their town or on their lands?
FJHeller, K.E.W. & Ocean Gardens
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From: Dylan Voorhees, NRCM Climate and Clean Energy Project Director
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:29 AM
To: Frank Heller
Subject: Petition: Oppose CMP's 145-mile transmission line
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 20, 2020 at 5:20pm
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I sometimes think these environmental groups are somehow allied with America's enemies.
Can someone please explain why the National Wildlife Federation has a partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Isn't NRCM the NWF affiliate in Maine?
http://english.whiov.cas.cn/International_Cooperation2016/Partnersh...
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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