Where is the truth here? Why would it be a mistake for Maine not to do this? The power won't be staying in Maine according to words out of U Maine's Jake Ward's mouth - The power is going right to the Emera's Atlantic link, a new underwater transmission line from New Brunswick to Plymouth, Mass. It would be helpful for Mainers to have all the facts - including the cost of this project and the cost of the energy as well as where the power will go so we- and the Maine legislature - can make an informed decision about the merits of this project! I say - represent the people of Maine - For starters - move the damned thing!
https://bangordailynews.com/2017/05/05/opinion/editorials/maine-can...
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To understand where you are headed with these "wind" projects, I invite readers to contemplate this picture, of an older wind farm:
Note the busted propellor blades and rusting, abandoned towers. This is what happens when the subsidy money runs out and these little projects have to actually stand on their own feet. And notice that nobody is going to spend the coin to dismantle the junk.
Today, there are thousandes of cargo containers floating about in the oceans, bobbing along for years just at or below the surface, filled with who knows what, having been washed overboard from some freighter during a storm. Nobody is spending the money to go fish them out. They hover there, and along comes some sailboat, which keel smashes into it, and bye-bye sailers and boat, another victim to abandoned industrial junk.
You want to be very careful about getting involved with projects that only work where there are these outside payments. That wind operation merely leases the land; when they fold up that LLC, the landowner is stuck with the junk, which has no value. As far as offshore towers go, I predicut that, soon enough, for the ones put on buoyant platfoms, you will have these floating phantoms on the high seas, the ghost detritus aimlessly roaming after being abandoned as useless.
U.S. Sen Angus King
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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 - 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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