PLEASE... attend the Bowers hearing April 30th & May 1st

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Champlain Wind, LLC (First Wind)
BOWERS WIND PROJECT

Tuesday, April 30th &
Wednesday, May 1st

Lee Academy    26 Winn Road     Lee, Maine
(about 12 miles east of Lincoln on Rte 6)

PLEASE help us out by attending at least one of the evening sessions. We expect lots of contractors' employees to attend. Many of the seasonal people will not be back in time so your attendance is especially important.

The daytime sessions (9am - 5pm) will be devoted to receiving testimony in accordance with procedural orders issued by the Department and specifically from the applicant (Champlain Wind, LLC) and the intervenors: David Corrigan; Partnership for Preservation of Downeast Lakes Watershed; Conservation Law Foundation and Maine Renewable Energy Association.

6:00 PM - ? ?

The evening sessions will begin at 6:00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving testimony from members of the general public.

Testimony on the application may be given orally at the hearing. A signup sheet will be available and the public will be invited to speak in the order on the signup sheet.  Get there early!!!  DEP will also accept written comments at the hearing. Written comments may also be mailed to: Department of Environmental Protection, Attn: Jessica M. Damon, 106 Hogan Road, Bangor, Maine 04401 or by email at BowersWindProject.DEP@maine.gov .

Please be respectful. This is the first time DEP has granted a public hearing for a wind project.

Thank you,

PPDLW

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Comment by Long Islander on April 24, 2013 at 3:42pm

This should be done when the seasonal people have a reasonable opportunity to be heard.

 

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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."

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