The Wind Game-Modus Operandi for Public Presentations by Wind Mafia , Maine
1.Never ever present your case unless you control the playing field.
2.Limit public partcipation by:
a. Presenting before or during holidays.
b. Giving short notice whenever possible ..
c. Presenting early in the day and never when at all convenient for the public .
3.Always convince the ruling body to have more time in your presentation than given the opposition.
4.Always restrict or inhibit recordings and access.
5.Always pack the room with paid pro wind bodies.
6.Attempt to reschedule if any of the above conditions may not be present.
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Comment by Penny Gray on January 1, 2018 at 9:58am
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Be sure to emphasize to the press that wind power dissenters are a "small vocal minority". Have them use that description in all their subjective media coverage of wind development within every rural community.
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Comment by Dan McKay on December 31, 2017 at 10:52am
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* Trivialize, minimize, tranquilize, miniaturize, pauperize and delegitimize all opponents, especially the forgotten, paying stakeholders.
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Comment by Long Islander on December 31, 2017 at 10:38am
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Pick your task force to "study" wind:
There were 16 members on the task force: several members of the Baldacci administration; a wind power attorney; two staff from state environmental groups (with a third acting as an alternate); Democratic and Republican lawmakers; a union member and a representative of the Independent Energy Producers of Maine. The chairman was Alec Giffen, director of the Maine Forest Service.
All members of the task force favored wind power development....................
http://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/
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Comment by Eskutassis on December 31, 2017 at 9:20am
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Here are a few more:
1. Lie, distort, omit, and manipulate the data from only the sources you have paid off to do it for you.
2. Never reveal the real output, income and cost data as any other company would have to do when dealing with the government or public.
3. Offer jobs to politicians for when they term limit out at extremely high incomes.
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Comment by Gary Campbell on December 30, 2017 at 3:45pm
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Even though the EUT Committee Room has a sign on the door that clearly says "No Electronic Devices Allowed", allow the AWEA lobbyist, and other pro-wind people to text back & forth with committee members during the meeting, feeding them questions, answers and comments.
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We saw two new tactics used when EUT Committee held a "public" meeting on the proposed Aqua Ventus project off Monhegan Island.
- Schedule the meeting around the ferry schedule so that any islanders who want to attend must either arrive the night before, or stay over the following night.
- Arrange for a public school class to visit the Cross Bldg that same day and invite them to sit in on the EUT meeting. But only tell the pro-project people about it so they can be sure to get into the room first. Then let the school children in and close the door so very few of the project opponents can attend.
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* Explain that you have spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to ensure that the project is a safe, healthy and profitable addition to their warm and friendly community and the tax dollars and community benefit monetary gifts will truly enrich the community and everyone of its members.
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* Limit public participation by inhibiting media notice and coverage of the event.
* Enlist friends to sit in the audience and video record the opposition and not the proponents.
* Ensure that you have big wig attorneys sitting with you and laugh and chat with them profusely.
* Be on a first name basis with the committee members and be sure to inquire into the health of their parents, spouses and offspring.
* Personally plant flowers along the walkways outside the building and effusively greet the decision-makers as they arrive.
* Bring along all your children and parents and grandparents to exhibit that you're just a likeable family and are part of the community.
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And then make the impending lawmaking committee room a feed-in trough. Yesterday's meeting served as an appetizer and planning session for the main feast to come.
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Comment by Deborah Andrew on December 30, 2017 at 11:29am
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Isn't this the game rules applied by all who hold the power? Great summary!
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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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