Tune in Alert RIGHT NOW - Wind Bills at ENR Committee Public Hearing
Please tune in at the following Web link to listen to the public hearing on the two wind bills below. Note that if one of the media players does not work, they offer alternative media players.
It will be dead air until they start.
http://www.maine.gov/legis/audio/natural_res_cmte.html
LD 1147 An Act to Protect Maine's Scenic Character
This bill was written by the Maine Appalachian Trail Club. While it is not "anti-wind" per se, it recognizes that Maine's 280 miles of Appalachian Trail is among Maine's most treasured natural resources. As a Scenic Resource of State or National Significance, it could be irreparably harmed by wind development. Acadia, Baxter, and the Allagash are also named in the bill. People travel the world to reach these signature Maine destinations. In the case of the AT, its through-hikers walk all summer for 2000 miles in anticipation of the AT's Crown Jewel: Maine. The bill follows the 2012 Energy Office Wind Assessment recommendations on visual impact and cumulative impact. The bill extends to 15 miles the distance wherein a visual impact assessment is necessary for the permitting process. It also improves decommissioning requirements to protect against mountain blight. It adds the ability for municipalities to designate "Scenic Resources of Local Significance." Last, the bill orders the DEP to update of its outdated and incomplete "Finest Lakes" studies, which have been important factors in wind project permitting.
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Comment
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Comment by Long Islander on April 8, 2013 at 1:13pm
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Terry DeWan - visual impact assessments (sure doesn't sound like a testifier who is not for or against)
wind farms
- Record Hill Wind Power, Roxbury, ME
- Stetson Wind Farm, Washington County, ME
- Stetson II Wind Project, Washington County, ME
- Pinnacle Wind Farm at New Page, Keyser, WV
- Redington Wind Farm, Maine Mountain Power, Redington Mountain, ME
- Cape Wind Peer Review, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Hyannis, MA
- New England Wind Energy Station, Boundary Mountains, Western Maine
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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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