Portland Phoenix: "Wind Power Attacked" (BEP overturns DEP Decision)
More like citizens and their rights attacked.
Wind power attacked
http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/153591-wind-power-attacked/
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The following link is to an earlier article in the Phoenix by Ms. Fulton:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/88399-Why-wind-power-blows/
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Comment by Allen Barrette on April 13, 2013 at 10:20am
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Both King and Baldacci, are what you categorize as legal crooks. Even today they practice the same old trouble making roderick that made them both famous in the wind scamming business.
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Comment by MaineHiker on April 12, 2013 at 6:13pm
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I beg all wind warriors to never let go of Baldacci's n***.
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 11, 2013 at 9:40pm
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After the debacle over the Reddington /Nubble project which was denied twice by LURC on scenic grounds, it was clear to the wind industry that they needed a regulatory climate that would allow them to invade Maine's mountains with " business certainty".
So in 2007 Governor Baldacci obliged the industry and it would only take him one year to sign legislation that would transform and ultimately destroy Maine's landscape.
In June he put together a Task Force whose underlying mandate to its members was the unthinkable: remove the obstacles to wind power, remove scenic value as a consideration for permitting wind farms.
In December of 2007, after the Task Force had gathered six times and some had become understandably skeptical of the mandate to make Maine a leader in wind power. To advocate for the destruction of Maine's landscape with thousands of turbines is a hard thing to be responsible for. Baldacci became impatient and aggressive. He flexed his muscle in a letter to the Task Force members in December 2007 (see below). The letter could be seen as a veiled threat to many of its members who were Baldacci's appointees and worked "at his pleasure", and at any rate it had the desired result. In April 2008 he signed the Emergency Expedited Wind Energy Act .
The wind industry was happy. Baldacci 's friend and PUC chairman Kurt Adams resigned to become VP of transmission for First Wind and the second DEP permit for a wind farm was given to Angus King's Record Hill Wind project, Angus King who had started the process as governor by imposing RPS on the electric industry and later went on a wind power propaganda blitz to soften the state up for acceptance of the unthinkable.
All and all a very nice move for current and former politicians and wind developers alike .
Following is Baldacci's letter to the recalcitrant Task Force members, copied from the Task Force website:
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR 1 STATE HOUSE STATION AUGUSTA, MAINE 04333.0001
JOHN ELIAS BALDACCI, GOVERNOR
December 17, 2007
Dear Members of the Wind Power Task Force:
When this Task Force began its work this past summer you took on three major objectives:
To make Maine a leader in wind power development; To protect Maine's quality of place and natural resources; and To maximize the tangible benefits Maine people receive from wind power development.
I understand that you have been working extremely hard and have met at least 6 times along with having the opportunity to view wind turbines in the field. Your diligent efforts and dialogue are on the verge of a set of recommendations on these important goals. I am very grateful for your thoughtful deliberations to date.
You, along with the other members of the Task Force, were selected because of the different perspectives and expertise that each of you bring to this undertaking. These differences can make finding consensus challenging but also can bring about strong, effective solutions. I know firsthand that agreements on issues about which people feel most passionate are often hard to reach. They sometimes require that parties endorse an outcome that is not their top choice but a choice that is nonetheless acceptable.
As your work draws to a close, I urge you to redouble your efforts to forge a consensus among the Task Force. Consensus recommendations will provide my Administration, policy makers, wind power businesses and local citizens clear guidance and will carry great weight as we move forward in Maine. I remain confident that you can achieve consensus and I thank you once again for your commitment to this Task Force.
John Baldacci
Monique Aniel
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Comment by Hart Daley on April 11, 2013 at 8:46pm
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Richard Silkman: Wind Fraud Crook - NewPage fined 10 million / reduced to 3 million...thanks to Silkman's SCAM to overcharge ratepayers!!
"Visual, noise, birds — those problems are all, quite frankly, overblown," says economist and public-utilities expert Richard Silkman, co-founder of the nascent energy-service company GridSolar. The bigger question, he says, is, "How are we going to move the wind? I think the more significant impacts are the transmission-related impacts. . . . The transmission infrastructure necessary to move that power around the region in a reliable way is extraordinarily large." (Silkman is, admittedly, also promoting his own plan, GridSolar, which eliminates the need for huge transmission lines by setting up smaller solar installations in open fields around Maine.)
Read more: http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/88399-why-wind-power-blows/#ixzz2...
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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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