Review of Bingham wind project to resume this month

Review of Bingham wind project to resume this month

The state is considering a proposed 62-turbine project that was put on hold because of concern about threatened bat populations.

By Rachel Ohm rohm@centralmaine.com
Staff Writer

http://www.kjonline.com/news/Review_of_Bingham_wind_project_to_resu...

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Comment by Mike DiCenso on February 3, 2014 at 10:38am

This registered Democrat progressive liberal couldn't agree more, Martha. Is there a record of what the turbines use for power? That would be interesting.

Comment by Martha Thacker on February 2, 2014 at 9:16am

Chris Christie's bridgegate can't hold a candle to Baldaci's windgate.To pull it off, the state legislature had to pass a bill which would give people in UT no voice in the siting of wind farms. MPUC knew there was no room on the grid for  a new power source. There was a hearing between the US govt and FERC saying that there was a bottleneck in Orrington, the grid was at capacity and no power could pass through it. First Wind and all of the above knew that the power from the Mars Hill wind farm would go to Canada..the people in Mars Hill didn't know it however. So now, after two power plants were closed due to ISO New England not paying agreed upon price for power , wind farms USING more power than EMMC and the mills, a 19% hike to ME rate payers...there is still no place for the power to go. The turbines are getting older and older and USING power , not producing it.This is mainly a Democratic party scandal, and the truth will come out.

 

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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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