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Public advocate changes stance on wind deal
The Maine Public Advocate's Office has reversed its objection to a multimillion-dollar deal between First Wind and Emera Maine for wind turbines across the state.
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on May 7, 2014 at 3:46am
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As I read it, admitting that I am only part way, the headlines are hugely misleading - Public Advocate did not take much of a 'stance' in the brief, and more had to report the very broad implications of the LawCourt's decision. Basically, deregulation was to separate generation (divest) from utility (now transmission/distribution). The Advocate did choose a very nuanced stance about whether Emera would favor First Wind in their upgrades, and concludes that they cannot because it would violate federal law. Some of the arguement involves Iberdola and rests on the fact that Emera-First Wind is not the only incestuous, nefarious relationship.
Use what is there - what do we now know? Much of that claim is how FERC treats large-scale generators. You and I might think that wind generation is pitifull scale generation, but we need to be mindfull of what it is elsewhere. Say Texas, most installed wind, highest wind resource; highest coal import; end of any pipelines from Canada to distill and export; far down on list of energy efficiency or green/sustainable. Our US culture loves JR, living rich, and Bush invented RPS to suck neighboring states - the coke-addled son, not the Maine Bush I. Bush I- Saudi lover, Presidents or ex-CIA directors 'have a right' to the intell, and to the spotlight.
Please keep the focus where it belongs. Maine mountain, hill or coast - not the right place. The rest of northeast, off-coast mountain - not worth the resources in transmission, copper, waste generattion, even if it gets to 25 yr.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 6, 2014 at 10:30pm
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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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