PPH ATTACKS GOVERNOR LEPAGE ON WIND
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/governor-is-driving-away-statoil...
A bill that was sold as a way to help UMaine is really a plan to hurt offshore wind development.
We all know what Gov. LePage thinks about wind power. He hates it.
Statoil had planned to install floating wind turbines off Boothbay Harbor that would resemble this test turbine, now producing power off Norway. The firm is suspending its work in Maine until it’s sure it has a deal to sell power here.
Trude Refsahl/Statoil
The governor has blamed wind power for Maine's high electricity rates, even though the cost of natural gas is the biggest reason electricity prices go up and down.
He says wind power has cost the state jobs and scared off investment, even though the nascent wind power industry has invested $1 billion in the state since 2004 and created hundreds of high-paying jobs during the depths of the Great Recession.
He's even claimed that wind power is a fraud, saying that the University of Maine at Presque Isle's windmill is turned by "a little electric motor" and not wind, a statement that even he later admitted was laughably false.
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Comment by clyde macdonald on July 5, 2013 at 9:48am
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- as far as I can deterfmine, no one in Maine, noth the PUC or any other entity has released any information concerning the operations of Statoil"s North Sea deep water turbines that have been in operation since 2009. How much did it cost? How much power has produced? How much does it charge per kWh Our incompetent PUC has granted a multi-million dollar project without much, or any public data having been available except that the PUC thinks Statoil's promised 27 cent per kWh electricity is acceptable as Maine ratepayers can easily afford the debt and electric rates that will be 7 times more expensive than today's power rates. Bring on Canadian hydro and natural gas.
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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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