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Our View: It behooves us to pay for wind energy
While question marks over cost abound, one thing is clear: We need to make this investment.
The Editorial Board
Is Maine willing to pay up for the good of the environment? We should be.
As we reported last week, talks are underway about how to price the financing, building and operation of offshore wind power. Numbers are being floated so that wind turbines will eventually be floated in the Gulf of Maine. The pricing and paying determination falls to state-level utility regulators; the public advocate, Bill Harwood; and the offshore wind developers.
A good deal is required for ratepayers – that’s not at issue (in fact, it’s a legal requirement). What might be up in the air, in spirit, is the degree to which we are willing to “buy in,” to recognize the long-term value of an investment that will pay handsome environmental and economic dividends.
According to the Maine Research Array, the offshore wind project, as envisaged – comprising 10 turbines about 40 miles offshore – would strip as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year as if we took more than 100,000 gas-powered cars off the road..............................
......................The environmental case alone is screamingly urgent..........................
“If this falls apart,” Jack Shapiro, climate and clean energy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine warned last week, “it will send a message that Maine is not the place you want to invest.”
It’s a message we can’t afford to send.
Please see the full piece at https://www.pressherald.com/2024/08/04/our-view-it-behooves-us-to-p...
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Comment
Whatever happened to common sense and critical thinking?
NRCM's Jack Shapiro
As jackasses like Shapiro send messages of climate doom, critical thinking people rightfully mock them as they are all as dumb as a rock.
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“If this falls apart,” Jack Shapiro, climate and clean energy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine warned last week, “it will send a message that Maine is not the place you want to invest.”
It’s a message we can’t afford to send."
"If this falls apart ....in fact Maine WOULD be a place you want to invest ! A place where the beauty of the environment is ACTUALLY respected !!!
U.S. Sen Angus King
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 - 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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