Vermonters in full scale rebellion against planned wind turbines roll-out

Vermonters in Full-Scale Open Rebellion Against Planned Wind Turbine Roll-Out

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Vermont’s Verdant Vistas: what ‘green’ should be …

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Vermont is the place where dreams of peace and tranquility come true. Rolling waves of verdant hills, interspersed with fertile valleys and filled with a tenacious band that endure bitter winters and short bursts of what those in America’s North-East think passes for ‘Summer’: that’s Vermont.

But the element that’s brewed to the surface in the Green Mountain State– and that’s now reached boiling point – is unbridled anger.

Vermonters are set upon by the same cowardly, callous and criminal chancers found all around the Globe – that appear from nowhere – like flesh-craving zombies – slobbering at the thought of massive and (seemingly) endless subsidies.

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Comment by Penny Gray on January 30, 2016 at 5:01pm

How do we get the mainstream media to print this stuff?

Comment by Marshall Rosenthal on January 30, 2016 at 4:15pm

Long Islander, not only do go to the head of the class, you get to teach all of us how Maine got the way it is so that the wind power racketeers could plunder your beautiful state. The truth is made out of facts. As more people understand these facts, they become empowered

Comment by Long Islander on January 30, 2016 at 3:24pm

"What's it going to take to get Mainers to rebel?"

How about taking a step back and simply looking at how our government has crushed us. For example:

1. The Maine senate president Justin Alfond is caught red handed conspiring with the wind industry to pass the laws they want.

2. Former Governor (and now US Senator) Angus King gets a $102 million DOE loan guarantee enabling his project to go forward; he claims breakthrough technology to secure this gift even though it isn't; Congresswoman Chellie Pingree writes a letter recommending they give him the loan guarantee; his Record Hill wind project destroys the tranquility of Roxbury Pond and now an add on project is in the works.

3. Chellie Pingree is married to S. Donald Sussman, largest media owner in Maine whose media almost always fail to report on the cons of wind. It turns out we learn that all along, he had been the person who gave First Wind's longtime owner, hedge fund D.E. Shaw its start with a $28 million stake

4. Governor John Baldacci's PUC Chair Kurt Adams takes over $1 million in stock options from First Wind while still at the PUC and after interviewing at First Wind for months according to the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. He then jumps to First Wind to become their director of transmission. This as the PUC prepares to gift the wind industry with the $1.4 billion CMP upgrade - a ratepayer financed shipping system for the wind industry.

5. EUT member Stacey Fitts kills 12 citizen-initiated wind bills by kicking the can down the road by calling for a study of wind. The study gets done and the EUT never looks at it. The citizens' bills are dead. This all happens in front of a snickering EUT committee where some of the members are contemptuous of citizens and spend half the meeting time texting. Meanwhile, we learn that Fitts' employer, part of the renewable energy industry in Maine, boasts on its website that Fitts is busy at work getting the right laws passed

6. EUT Co-chair Jon Hinck squelches citizen wind bills while his wife Juliet Browne is the wind industry's top attorney in Maine

7. Alex Cornell Du Houx of the EUT also squelches citizens' wind bills and it turns out he is an employee of the Truman Project's Operation Free which advocates for wind. Its logo feautures a wind turbine

8. Attorney General Janet Mills conducts an investigation of the aforementioned Kurt Adams stock options and blesses it. Her sister, state CDC director Dora Mills says that there are no peer reviewed studies showing that wind could be dangerous to health, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.

9. Governor John Baldacci hand picks a wind task force consisting of virtually all pro-wind members and gives them marching orders to clear out any obstacles standing in the way of wind development. This results in sweeping legislation known as Governor Baldacci's expedited wind law which makes it all but impossible to stop wind projects. The scenic restriction that existed before, which make total sense in a state whose core essence is built on scenic beauty, are gone. The legislature rubber stamped his emergency bill. They never debated it. Most never read it.

10. In September 2009 Governor Baldacci returns from an Iberdrola-hosted trip to Europe to "study" wind. Upon his return he talks of a Maine law that prevents companies like Iberdrola from owning transmission (which they do) and owning wind projects (which they want to do). He talks about his needing to look into this law and getting it changed. This is covered in the press. Such a law is now under consideration in the legislature. (January 2016). In December 2016, former Governor John Baldacci became Vice Chairman of Iberdrola's wind division, Avangrid. This is not covered in the press.

Comment by Marshall Rosenthal on January 30, 2016 at 2:45pm

The truth, Penny. The truth.

Comment by Penny Gray on January 30, 2016 at 1:41pm

What's it going to take to get Mainers to rebel?

Comment by Whetstone_Willy on January 30, 2016 at 10:18am

Let's call a spade a spade -- also known as declaring the emperor's new clothes don't exist.

Vermonters and Mainers do not want 500' tall noisy flashing factories in their midst. We live in northern New England for the express reason of not being in the middle of a manmade mess.

The legislators pushing for this industry have betrayed us and undoubtedly, certain key legislators have been bribed. All this talk by wind companies about how much they are "investing" is crap. They are simply taking "free money" from U.S. taxpayers. Given the complete lack of permanent wind jobs, they leave behind virtually none of their "investment". It all flows to their piggy pockets in places like Boston, NY and foreign countries.

Comment by Marshall Rosenthal on January 30, 2016 at 9:52am

Monique, you have a great way with words. Those of us that live in the hilly, wild places, share those feelings that rural Vermonters hold sacred. We fight for the freedom of speech that the early militia men fought for at Lexington and Concord, pitting themselves against the most formidable military force of the 18th century. Now, it's the wind power creeps that are threatening the world, and stealing its very sanity. The "Save the Whales" environmentalists had better get their heads screwed on straight and realize that their precious off shore wind turbine arrays are killing hundreds of cetaceans, while the so-called cetacean experts are looking the other way. Disgusting!

Good on you, Monique! There are many people in the world who just won't have it anymore. They are in New Zealand, Australia, China, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, Scotland, England, Mexico, and even in the US, that is starting to wake up to this plague. If I have left anyone out it is because I'm getting old and my brain just can't hold it all :-)

Comment by Penny Gray on January 30, 2016 at 9:52am

If every member donated whatever they could to Annette Smith's legal fund, it would send a strong collective message to the wind industry and help out a very courageous woman.   

 

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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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