A different kind of fire was applied to Terra-Gen corporation 12.17.19 by the Board of Supervisors of tiny (140,000 people) Humboldt County.
Four to One against a project offering forty-seven 600 foot high monsters on top of seismically active ridges in the Cape Mendocino Bird Flyway - truly what's "not to like" about that - and a company which drops money left and right to change people's minds and even offered the Wiyot people one million dollars (1/10th of the total tax revenue for a 30 year project) to sell out. Cheryl Seidner - speaking for the Wiyot - told them "We do not sell our Mother."
Thank you everyone who has helped, signed petitions, written letters - you are amazing and every action brought us to this point today. Tsakiyuwit is safe; come visit and let your soul soar.
12.17.19 NCJ: Why the Supes Denied Terra-Gen's Wind Project, Despite a Series of 11th Hour Concessions from the Company https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2019/12/17/why-...
12.17.19 Times-Standard: After marathon meetings, supervisors vote 4-1 to deny Terra-Gen’s wind energy project: Hundreds spoke over two days, many in opposition to plan
https://www.times-standard.com/2019/12/17/supervisors-deny-terra-ge...
12.17.19 LoCO: Board of Supes Sinks Terra-Gen Wind Farm on 4-1 Vote, Following Days of Hearings
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/dec/17/terra-gen-day-two/
12.17.19 Times-Standard: Second day of Terra-Gen hearing draws mostly opponents ‘You can’t achieve climate justice through injustice against indigenous people.’
https://www.times-standard.com/2019/12/17/second-day-of-terra-gen-h...
12.16.19 LoCO: Terra-Gen’s First Day of Hearings at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/dec/16/terra-gen-hearing/
12.16.19 Times-Standard: Terra-Gen leans on climate, unions as critics skewer wind energy pitch
https://www.times-standard.com/2019/12/16/terra-gen-leans-on-climat...
U.S. Sen Angus King
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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 - 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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