READ IT AND WEEP
I originally thought this was written by Kurt Adams - It was written by Jeremy Payne who has now been completely emboldened by the FMM announcement. And as far as Charlie Colgan's 4,200 jobs created by the wind industry, I can assure you Charlie was paid handsomely for his study = I am just not sure if they gave him cash or a lifetime supply of glazed donuts and Little Debbie's! In any event - read it and weep!
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/27/opinion/contributors/maines-w...
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 28, 2015 at 10:12am
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Year 2060, News report, Industrial statistics: Power production in Maine fell another .001% for the third month in a row. An overall loss of 30% since 2050. However our tourism is up 50% with a total of 15 new summer tourists crossing both the Canadian and New Hampshire border, with one coming by way of ship in Portland. Though their stay thought to be temporary as they wind their way through our great industrial sector heading northward to upper Quebec.
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Relay of a Comment by Mary Kay Barton who is being delayed by BDN for some reason
At the top.
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Posted your comment to BDN as it appears here Mary Kay
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It's government-inflicted MADNESS! It is government Assassination, through their stupidity and greed, of our resources, our land, our quality of life, our sustainability as people depending on Nature for a Sustenance Lifestyle. They have sufficient monies to Buy their needs of food, shuttle off to places of vacations to their liking such as the Nasty cities of Europe, probably own second homes seldom visited, and if no longer suitable sell them for profit to some other unsuspecting rich person. (jokes on them). If we could price our resources, camping spots, food, by ability to pay verified by a 1040? filing, vs the remaining availability of each, would it stop? Probably not, as they can not buy intelligence, or compassion that would create the kind of results needed. Money and its ability to buy cheap, theft by bribe, is their limited knowledge. Not all that are wealthy feel the same as they do, as they (some at least) worked long and hard. With those having done the most physical labor holding a greater appreciation. Holding onto a piece of Nature's Gift is going to be hard work. But if successful, very rewarding.
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Comment by John Gates on September 27, 2015 at 5:11pm
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Read it and wept.
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Comment by Mary Kay Barton on September 27, 2015 at 4:51pm
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I posted a comment, but it's still "Under Reeview" by the BDN. Sharing the reality of what we've got going on here in NY.
COMMENT (yet to be posted at 4:35 9/27/15):
No kidding! That's the same line of BS the wind industry lays on wherever they go.
We've got 308 industrial wind turbines strewn across miles & miles of once-beautiful rolling hills here. It spreads throughout FIVE towns in Wyoming County, NY. These giant albatrosses haven't spun in weeks, and there are few - if any meaningful permanent jobs that were created here. Zippo - nada.
The things we have reaped out of the raping & pillaging of western New York State countryside however is pitiful. Including, but not limited to: declining tax base as many properties are selling for well below assessed values near the wind factories; Wyoming County tax rate has risen every year over the past 13 years in direct correlation with the installation of the wind factories here - another 9.68% this year; while population simultaneously continues to decline.
And there's our "skyrocketing" electricity rates. According to EIA numbers released by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research & Development Authority), the average residential electricity rate was 13.3 cents per kwh in 1999, up to an average now of 19.8 cents per kwh. That's nearly a 50% increase - again, in direct correlation with the installation of wind factories (& solar ) across the state. Cuomo's 'Green NY" agenda has left New York State with one of the highest electricity rates in the nation.
So to recap - NO Jobs; declining property values; increasing tax rates; sprawling bird-slaughtering industrialization (that hasn't been spinning for weeks); increasing electricity rates; complete & utter civil discord in the area as lawsuits persist; businesses and people leaving New York State in droves; massive Habitat Fragmentation in miles & miles of devastated countrysides, etc, etc, etc.........
It's government-inflicted MADNESS! You folks in Maine can expect to see the same result there, if corrupt politicians manage to pimp out your beautiful state for the absolute FRAUD of industrial wind energy.
Created in the U.S. by ENRON as a tax shelter generator, today's wind industry is ENRON on steroids. As Warren Buffett candidly admitted in regard to the hefty federal corporate welfare handouts they get (ie: the Wind PTC - Pork-To-Cronies), "We get tax credits if we build 'wind farms.' That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credits."
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So Jer, it is 4:20 PM Sun Sept. 27th and wind is contributing 172.4 MW of the 12770.8 MW demand reported on ISO-NE; solar PV 11.5 MW. By far, the contribution of wood and refuse is much greater to our "renewable" portfolio, consistently!!! It was not just one day, Sept. 8th, it is all summer. For the term sheets you are bragging on you compare price to retail, not wholesale - that's peaches to bananas! And those term sheets don't count the environmental attributes claimed that can be sold to utilities in southern New England states and you don't include the production tax credits. You don't count the costs of transmission upgrades, or the loss of eco-services in the forests fragmented by 120 plus meter rotors. I have to say that your case is not very convincing, other than the statement about the complexity of all New England's energy future.
And, by the way, your buds at Conservation Law Foundation use the situation on a single day, probably a much shorter time, in their argument against HydroQuebec imports. They add the aesthetic impact on pristine New Hampshire and costs of transmission.
One point of the editorial you objected to is that oil and coal combustion have actually gone up lately, and that has also been frequent this summer. It was 127.7 MW earlier. I check on coal vs wind later when we get to today's peak.
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Posted to the Article Comments....
Even though LePage made a comment to the fact that there is not a 100% return on investment for Wind, and the fact he is pro Gas (or exhausting it) there is supporting research to his statement. There are nations seeing this after having made the leap of faith toward these goals, thinking it was the ultimate answer. Meanwhile we are forced to adhere to the same mistakes, in the name of Green Energy. It is Green, but only in $$$ for those that conceived yet another fraud. So much so that even the NREL places disclaimers on many of their documents and admitting their usage of figures from the industry seeking to benefit. The following can be said for many organizations........ For years people will say "I heard AMC took a $700,000 payoff to support Bingham…" And for years to come they will still be looking for those jobs from those promises. The forests having been excessively raped for many years time and time again has lead to the loss of these jobs and consuming corporations of those resources. Careful management and selective harvesting in a gradual manner would have sustained those jobs. In those Years into our future they will look back and wonder if Maine was a destitute state and wonder what conditions existed that allowed these destructions. Though it was never a consensus of Maine's people, or an option of closeness, hopefully there will be a record of permanent standing that will show some objected, but took little action when allowed. A record that shows Money was the voice, also inclusive of ALL the names of the Actors and participants in this resulting Maine, once vacationland, now wasteland.
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Whoohooo! My ban from BDN comments has been lifted..... Now lets see if I can stir the pot a bit more. :) http://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/27/opinion/contributors/maines-w...
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Well certainly those Hostess Twinkies that will endure into the next thousand years will tie him over.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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