Senator Collins and former Governor Baldacci both related UMPI wind turbine to reducing dependence on OIL
Seriously Senator? Seriously Governor?
Your letters lauding UMPI's wind turbine would seem to indicate you simply don't know what you are talking about and should not be allowed to influence energy decisions. Got any new statements on the university's wind turbine debacle as it is soon to begin its 10th year of operation?
Here's some information on this subject:
1. Oil is used to make gasoline for driving. We do not drive with electricity. So wind is not getting us off gasoline. If we were ever to go to electric driving, we would not go with such an expensive source as wind, especially with its mammoth transmission costs.
2. Oil is used for heating. Heating homes with electricity in Maine is beyond price prohibitive. If we were ever to go to electric heating, we would not go with such an expensive source as wind, especially with its mammoth transmission costs.
3. Oil accounts for almost none of Maine's (or the nation's) electricity generation. So there's essentially no oil-generated electricity production for wind to supplant.
4. The closing down of baseload plants in New England because of the dunderheaded and crooked infatuation with wind power coupled with Massachusetts' blockade of Maine in terms of not allowing desperately needed natural gas pipelines to go through Mass to Maine imperils Maine's electric power supply. In fact, it CAUSES us to burn oil when demand is high, such as when it's especially freezing outside.
See the full letters here:
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From then UMPI president Donald Zillman on the Kool-aid soaked UMS board:
(From Donald Zillman's "More Than Tilting at Windmills" published in the Washburn Law Journal)
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Comment by Long Islander on January 6, 2018 at 5:15pm
Maine as Third World Country:
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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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