Response to Maine Audubon study condemning Maine to be a Turbine Plantation

I wrote this and posted it in response to a letter to the editor from a known wind power shill:

I was at the Maine Audubon meeting where this sham study was presented and I have read it.  It is so poorly researched that it never should have been published.  Other than saying, in order to appease the AMC, that elevations above 2700 feet are not good sites for wind power development, the reports essentially sacrifices the entire rest of the the great state of Maine's  "expedited wind permitting" zone to wind power development. 
No matter how many millions of cubic yards of Maine's uplands are blasted away, leveled, and scalped to put up ugly noisy machines as tall as Boston skyscrapers. 
No matter how many bears dens, crucial wetlands, deer yards, or other wildlife habitat get destroyed and fragmented.  No matter that raptors and other birds and bats are slaughtered by wind turbines. 
No matter that wildlife and their habitat are an integral part of what makes up Maine's vaunted "Quality of Place" cited by the Brookings Institute in 2007 as Maine's greatest asset. 
No matter that the NREL designation of Maine's wind potential as being poor to moderate is borne out by the actual performance documented by reports to FERC that for the full year of 2012 the capacity factor of Maine's industrial wind sites was a miserable 24.27%. 
Maine has made itself an easy target for the wind scam and instead of accepting money from these thieves and helping them with a sham study, Maine Audubon and all the other environmental groups should be leading the way to protect the most unique and beautiful place in the eastern USA

Views: 251

Comment

You need to be a member of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine to add comments!

Join Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Comment by Sherwin Start on December 24, 2013 at 1:02pm

THat   Sums it Very Well BRAD-Well Done -Let me ADD My "WEIGHT" Behind U on This MISUSE ANS ABUSE  Of the Beautifull State of Maione FOREVER DESPOILED!! U know What I say- The BIGGER They are(WIND TURBINE TOWERS) the Harder they Fall !! Wait Until We Have have a FULL Sized f-5 Tornado or Hurricane-They All will be So much Piles of Junk in a Heap on the Ground!

Comment by Mike DiCenso on December 23, 2013 at 9:31pm

Good post Brad. Happy Holidays to all wind warriors!!

Comment by Penny Gray on December 23, 2013 at 2:09pm

Thank you, Brad. An excellent rebuttal.

Comment by Sherwin Start on December 22, 2013 at 10:17pm

FERC uses The DATA SUPPLIED to Them By The "PRODUCERS" of the POwer that Own the Wind Turbines-So What Do u Think The Report is going to Look Like-Dont we!!??

Comment by Sherwin Start on December 22, 2013 at 10:14pm

MAINE AUDUBON Is Being MANIPULATED By the NATIONAL Organization Which in TURN has Directed ALL Of the STATE OPrganizations to NOT Pose any THREATS to Alternative Forms of Energy Development,Research, Production and Transmission,. The National Organization has Turned a "BLIND EYE" to the KILLING of EAGLES or Any other Type of Wildlife by Wind Turbines! The WIND Poer Generation Industry Have VERY Influential POLITICAL "FRIENDS" In Both Augusta and Washington,D.C.!! 

Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on December 22, 2013 at 2:59pm

Brad: Thank you for doing this. We can't allow the pro-wind flacks to keep spinning its fraudulent case and promoting the destruction of Maine.  R. McDonald - FMM  

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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/

Not yet a member?

Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?

We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi 

Task Force membership is free. Please sign up today!

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/

© 2024   Created by Webmaster.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service