Repeal The Maine Wind Energy Act, Already

To any self-respecting Republicans left to represent us in Augusta, would you consider a bill to repeal the Wind Energy Act,

1. Whereas Maine generates 75% clean electricity now, and 
2. Whereas the federal taxpaying PTC expires in 2019, and
3.  Whereas recent comments sent to the Maine Wind Energy Advisory Commission were 80% against wind projects and  
4. Whereas the remnants of the now Defunct First Wind Company are still lurking around Maine proposing more projects to out of state interests and 
5. Whereas, New England and Maine is in dire need for reliable 364/7/24 electricity to replace retiring or fuel deficient operating plants. 

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Comment by Long Islander on December 5, 2018 at 10:30am

Heavily funded PR machine to make Americans think wind power doesn't impact property values

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/heavily-funded-pr-machi...

Comment by Long Islander on December 5, 2018 at 10:15am

Wind power proponents and Ontario’s municipal assessment agency have maintained that there is no appreciable property value loss, but an energy commentator wrote in Forbes magazine in 2015 that “there’s a heavily funded public relations machine to make Americans think that wind power doesn’t impact property values.”

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2018/12/05/wind-concerns-ontario-st...

Comment by Penny Gray on December 4, 2018 at 5:17pm

It'll take another ice age to clean the junk off our mountains after the "environmentalists" are finished desecrating them.  Meanwhile, these same "environmentalists" protest loudly against the Quebec Hydro transmission corridor, using all the same arguments we rural residents used against the wind projects, the only difference being the wind projects are next to useless for producing reliable, dispatchable energy for southern New Englanders to feel good about.  What's happening in France right now is a real eye opener.  Push the fast forward button, and it could happen here.

Comment by arthur qwenk on December 4, 2018 at 1:56pm

You are asking some ethical republican legislators to initiate an action that should have been initiated years ago, and that outgoing Paul Lepage should have done years ago.

Note the words "ethical" and "initiate". Do you believe that one party or the other is above the graft, corruption, lies and deception that has been present in Maine since the wind scammers came to town?

Cynical as this may sound, it is for all concerned Maine citizens as it relates to this issue to unify and force all political hands to expunge PL-661. It is for all those knowledgeable concerning  this issue over the last decade to lay their individual egos  and mistrust of other anti-wind individuals and groups aside and unify to change the law. As long as PL-661 breaths, Maine will be desecrated.

Look back at the past decade. The situation  now in the Maine legislature and governorship is ripe for massive devastation from wind, and they know it and are acting quickly.

Concerned Mainer's, Unify and Act, or indeed Maine will die by death from thousands of  wind turbines.

 

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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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