Statoil Speaks: 6 interviews from deepwater floating ind meeting in Rockland June 16, 2012

At the Hywind Maine meeting at Rockland library on Tuesday,  I was the only visible critic of deepwater floating ocean windpower among the attendees.  I  interviewed 3 Statoil officials, one consultant, a representative of the DeepCwind Consortium and a Seagrant staffer. The recordings  have background crowd sounds

Kari Hege Mork,Stakeholder manager  5 minutes 30 seconds

Jennifer DanielsTetratech  8 minutes 45 seconds* Krisin Aamodt, Statoil Project Manager  8 minutes 49 seconds
Peter Marcus K Greve, Statoil Environmental Assessment mgr, 7 minutes 14 seconds
Jake Ward  educator, U Maine  DeepCwind Consortium
Sherman Hoyt  Seagrant  7 minutes 20 seconds

They were mingling with attendeees at a public information meeting  held June 26th  by Statoil at the Rockland Library's meeting hall, to describe its Hywind Maine Project to deploy 4 turbines between 12 to 15 miles offshore of Brunswick, Maine. The Seagrant staffer  said  zero members

 of the Maine fishing industry attended this event
 

Earlier Statoil Hywind events audio

 * 5/23/12, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a 20 minute public  teleconference (mp3)  after concluding its closed session meeting about Statoil's proposal

* 3/12/12 Statoil at 2012 Maine Fishermens Forum

 

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Comment by Penobscot Bay Watch on June 28, 2012 at 9:50pm

Read a sobering reply to/clarification of the above article  by  commenter "Redstart", who wrote:

"Clearly, the BDN reporter did not talk to the more than half dozen wildlife professionals who attended last night's reception sponsored by Statoil Hydro in Rockland.  These people, who are actively working in the Gulf of Maine marine environment, expressed many concerns about the project and the fact that there is so little science going into assessing the appropriateness of this project. 

It was disturbing to find out that the company knows so little about the potential direct and indirect impacts that the construction, deployment, and maintenance activities may have on primary productivity, fish and fishing activities, marine mammals and turtles, seabirds and migratory landbirds. 

Most people I talked to felt that the environmental monitoring proposed for this project is incredibly inadequate, and that no science-based funding agency would agree to fund the assessment project as currently designed.  The 'studies' would not stand up to the rigors of peer-review. The people of Maine who depend on the Gulf for their livelihood deserve better. 

I found no one from Statoil able to converse on how the project's activities may interact with the current stochastic nature of the ecosystem, its threats from climate change, and the potential impacts to the fishing community.  Can the system withstand the proposed loss of over 300 square miles of fishing area that the ultimate 5 GW of ocean energy planned for the Gulf would require? 

As I listened to a conversation between a Statoil consultant and a marine biologist, I was amazed to learn that the consultant knew so little about Right whales, a major consideration with deepwater wind energy development. 

End of comments to BDN aretrical by Redstart ( I broke them up into several paragraphs for ease of reading)

 

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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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