But Town Council Chair Ed Rankin believes current regulations shouldn't change because they meet state approved standards and cited two prior temporary wind bans as evidence. Rankin explained, "And our planning board has worked very hard, done all their homework and visited a lot of sites. They don't think we need anymore and I don't either."
https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local-news/7546-orland-residents-vot...
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Orland voters narrowly reject wind moratorium
ORLAND — Residents voted 282 to 277 against the moratorium, which would have temporarily prevented the town from accepting any proposals from a wind developer. In 2013, residents voted 439 to 258 in favor of Eolian’s concept.
Travis Bullard, Eolian’s project manager, was also in the town’s community center when the votes were tallied. He said the vote “affirmed the town’s support for wind energy....
http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/featured/orland-rejects-wind-morat...
Total number of Orland voters who cast their ballot today - 559
Total number of registered voters in Orland - 1635
Comment
This was a Moratorium, not an Ordinance, Correct?
What Ed doesn't mention is that very few of the Planning Board members were not part of the process of writing the ordinance. This is all brand new to them too. And how can a split vote "affirm the town's support?"
We are, of course, digging ourselves out of the ashes this morning and thinking of next steps. If anyone has any ideas of how we can move forward with this, the Dodge Hill community would be ever so grateful!
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34% of registered voters voted, with about 17% making the decision. If the Avg. family is 4 persons, about 8% of the population, created a majority. With a 15 vote difference, 7 voters made the decision in the end.
Roxbury 6 vote loss
Carthage 5 vote loss
Dixfield 5 vote loss
this is tearing these towns in two
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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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"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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