Sumner passes wind ordinance by 2-1 margin
Sumner passes wind ordinance by 2-1 margin
A standing-room-only crowd of 239 voters and visitors were in the Sumner Fire Station on Wednesday night to pass an Industrial Wind Power Ordinance.
SUMNER — Voters passed the Industrial Wind Power Ordinance on Wednesday night by a 2-1 ratio at a standing-room-only special town meeting in the fire barn.
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Comment by Brad Blake on May 17, 2012 at 2:57pm
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Congratulations to Sumner for taking the time to thoroughly consider the issue of wind power development in your town, going through a painstaking drafting process, and finally voting strongly in favor of protecting the interests of all residents. How sad that there are parts of Sumner near Shagg Pond that are affected by the turbines that went in on Spruce Mt. in Woodstock. Which brings me to my point. The River Valley region is under intense pressure, especially by predatory Patriot Renewables, to place gigantic wind machines on every possible ridge. The same is true for the Oxford Hills and all the foothill ridges in northern Oxford, Franklin, and Somerset counties. Sumner joins a growing number of communities that have taken the time to examine the array of issues regarding wind power development. In every case, the community decides more appropriate standards than the sadly lacking state model ordinance. The other towns need to do the same.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on May 17, 2012 at 1:23pm
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I am so proud of these people protecting the mountains of Maine.
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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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