St. George town officials vote to oppose Maine Aqua Ventus


St. George

Town officials vote to oppose Maine

Aqua Ventus

The St. George Select Board voted Monday to oppose the Maine Aqua Ventus offshore wind project, but the consortium seeking to erect two offshore wind turbines off Monhegan Island said it will continue to work with local fishermen to address their concerns about the project's transmission cable.

The Bangor Daily News reported that the vote by the elected members of the select board heralded agreement with local fishermen who have said the project and its transmission cable would harm their livelihoods.

"I think it's a good idea we sever ourselves from [Maine Aqua Ventus] and that we support the fishermen in any way we can," Select Board member Randy Elwell said, according to the BDN.

Maine Aqua Ventus proposes using an existing charted cableway for an underwater cable to transport energy ashore from two 6 megawatt floating wind turbines off Monhegan Island to Port Clyde, at the end of the St. George peninsula. The Department of Marine Resources prohibits fishermen from using mobile gear within charted cableways. But the cable currently in the existing cableway has been inactive for decades, so fishing restrictions haven't been enforced. ... .. .

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Comment by Long Islander on December 16, 2017 at 5:01pm

St. George Select Board votes against planned wind turbine project

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/st-george-select-board-votes-against...

Comment by Ron Huber on December 16, 2017 at 1:43am

Read what the fishermen and others of Saint George themselves think about Maine Aqua Ventus' offshore wind plan. (1) Public Comments 12/4/17 https://tinyurl.com/stgeo-120417-public-mav and (2) Presentation10/23/17 by "Preserve Our Remarkable Town" (PORT) https://tinyurl.com/stgeo-antiwind-talk-102317 and (3) PORT's website https://www.portstgeorgeme.com/

 

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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

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"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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