UN ruling puts future of UK wind farms in jeopardy !!!
THIS RULING FROM THE UN IS A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION FOR ALL WIND WARRIORS :
HERE IN MAINE ,WE HAVE FOR YEARS NOW TRIED TO EXPRESS THAT PL661 ( THE EXPEDITED WIND LAW ) HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND IMPOSED IN 2008 ON MAINE CITIZENS IN THE MOST DICTATORIAL FASHION.
FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS WE HAVE TRIED TO EXPRESS THE FLAWS AND INJUSTICES BOTH ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL OF THAT LAW .
AT THE END OF THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND AFTER YET ANOTHER REJECTION OF ALL THE BILLS PROPOSED TO AMEND THE INFAMOUS EXPEDITED WIND LAW THAT WERE PRESENTED TO THE ENERGY , UTILITY AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE , A NEW SERIES OF PUBLIC MEETINGS OR PRESENTATIONS WILL BE MADE TO FURTHER " RE -EDUCATE " THE COMMITTEE ON THE MATTERS OF WIND POWER IN SEPTEMBER AS A COMPROMISE TO ALL BILLS PRESENTED AND KILLED IN COMMITTEE.
AS IT APPEARS NOW THE PUBLIC WILL NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THE MATTER.
YOU MAY RECALL THAT THE EUT COMMITTEE HAS RECEIVED THE FULL REPORT CALLED: " WIND ASSESSMENT 2012 FROM THE OEIS" LAST MAY. A REPORT THAT CONTAINS 25 RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE WIND PERMITTING PROCESS AS WELL AS ITS MANY FLAWS.
THIS REPORT HAS BEEN CONVENIENTLY IGNORED BY THE COMMITTEE.
WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED OF THE FORMAT OF THOSE EDUCATIVE SESSIONS , IF INDEED PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS NOT ALLOWED WE MAY HAVE A STRONG CASE OF BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE PROCESS OF DECISION MAKING IN WIND FARM PERMITTING AS EXPRESSED IN THE UN RULING .
THE EUT COMMITTEE IS ESSENTIAL IN RULING ON ALL ATTEMPTS TO CORRECT THE UNDEMOCRATIC WIND LAW AND IF IT PERSISTS IN REJECTING THE INPUT OF CITIZENS IN FAVOR OF THE WIND INDUSTRY , IT DE FACTO PARALYZES THE REGULATORY AGENCIES LIKE DEP AND EVEN THE LAW COURTS DECISIONS ON THE PERMITTING OF PROJECTS.
IT IS THUS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE FOR THAT COMMITTEE TO LISTEN TO CITIZENS INTHE UPCOMING SEPTEMBER SESSIONS .
MONIQUE
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-un-ruling-p...
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Comment by Martha thacker on August 31, 2013 at 7:44am
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I have heard that the movie Promised Land, co written by Matt Dameon , was originally intended to showcase wind farm crimes. Matt is from Boston, and could very well be aware of First Wind's illegal business practices. Mass. was the original destination for ME wind energy. It is hard to fathom the stupidity, but it is what it is.He changed his mind because most people do not understand wind energy and it's devastation to the environment/people. He used fracking instead. But I saw the movie and recognized the same nefarious business practices in the fracking push as wind energy. Bribery in many forms is the key.
Sherwin, surely you have seen how bribery works. After you have been bribed, you have no interest in the truth. I have still not understood who receives the benefits of renewable energy credits. Best I can understand, it is the corporations. The bribes are pennies on the dollar for the big benefits.
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Comment by Sherwin Start on August 29, 2013 at 7:19pm
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UNtil The Population of This STATE RISE UP And realize that they being "HOODWINKED" by both the The Wind Power LOBBY and The STATE Legislature AND the US Congress-Nothing is going to Change! What REALLY Need is ALL New People in The state Legislature-That Can Tell The TRUTH from FICTION!!
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on August 29, 2013 at 6:24pm
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Indeed the US is not a signatory of the Aarhus convention , however the inherent meaning of this decision will have consequences worldwide shedding light on the undemocratic and unethical concept on which wind farms permitting has been designed worldwide .
The wind industry playbook is the same internationally and the deconstruction of its inequity is an inexorable process.
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U could Stick the Info Right in Front of EVERY Member of the State Legislature and All they Would Do is Throw in the Waste Basket..THEY DO NOt CARE! How Do u Suppose that PL661 Got Thru the Legislature?? Unfortunately it Also Garnnered a Lot of SUPPORT from Some of the LARGEST "Conservation" Organizations in the State As well-Why I will NEVER be able to Comprehend!
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Pat Swords, an Irish power systems engineer, spent about 4 years getting the Aarhus people in Denmark to listen to him about Ireland not following the Aarhus Convention. Finally he won. pat.swords.chemeng@gmail.com
It will have major consequences. The US is NOT a signatory to the Aarhus convention.
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This article needs to be forwarded to all members of the legislature, especially members of the EUT and BEP. It wouldn't hurt if the Maine press gave it some air time, too, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Great news.
It will be much harder for calling out "NIMBY" and passing gifts around to affect law. That goes for the Maine legislature and Bangor Daily News as well.
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the wind power industry and its political allies have always preferred that deliberations be made in secret as public exposure means exposing them. ClydeMacDonald, hampden
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This is a huge victory for a very brave, determined and clever woman, her supporters and those whose plight inspired her to take action. Although the challenge was to the UK's National Renewable Energy Plan, it likely will apply to EU-wide policies and mandates including all signatories to the Aarhus Convention. Unfortunately, the U.S., indeed no North, Centrsl or South American country is. However, it is the principle of the convention granting citizen rights to EFFECTIVE participation and to the facts -- evidence of claimed CO2 reduction and
of risks and harms (environmental including human health and economic). One can only hope that the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand who governments and wind energy promoters will take heed. They have all borrowed heavily from UK policies, tactics (including taking away local control and ignoring competing mandates to protect the rural countryside, heritage and scenic/landscape values, as well as habitat and species) and they borrow heavily from the U.K. WT noise working group and BWEA such misconceptions as "quiet as a whisper', and that wind-induced increases in background noise will mask increasing acoustic emissions at higher wind speed. Use of L90 for the measure of operational noise, method of correction for deviation in actual wind shear are among the bad practices adopted. So even though we are not signatory, what govt. or corporate proponent of wind, or environmental group backing them will stand up and say a Mainer or Oregonian, a Falmouth, Kingston, Fairhaven, Scituate, Florida or Monroe in Massachusetts, any American citizen has less right to environmental protection and human rights, rights to transparency and factual information and to participation in decision-making than the citizen of Azerbaijan or the U.K. whose govt. did sign? And the Convention applies to all levels of govt. from national to local.
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Comment by Sherwin Start on August 29, 2013 at 2:14pm
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IT only Proves that "GOVERNMENT" Will What They Want ,Where they Want and how they want DESPITE What The The MAJORITY Of the People Want!
Is This What DEMOCRACY Has Develpoed into??
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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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