Watch "Windfall" in Waterville next Week - Maine International Film Festival
Two screenings of the critically acclaimed "Windfall" are currently planned for the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville. The first is next Friday at 6:30PM.
Please make it a point to see this long awaited film, tell all your friends and perhaps ask your legislators if they'd like to go to the movies with you.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at:
http://www.miff.org/tickets/film.php?id=496&page=1?id=496&p...
| Windfall | ||
| Current Showings: | ||
| Friday 07/15/2011 06:30 PM RR1 | ||
| Tuesday 07/19/2011 03:30 PM RR1 | ||
Here’s a fascinating and galvanizing film about an issue that hits literally close to home for us here in Maine, where wind power controversy has begun to make headlines. In Windfall, when a multi–national corporation offers to revitalize a rural New York farm town’s failing economy with a “green” new industry, residents believe they have found the solution to their economic problems. But the townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discover that the reality of the enormous wind towers the company seeks to erect will devastate their very way of life. Hauntingly filmed and truly unforgettable. Windfall delves viscerally into a complex, multi-sided issue.
http://www.miff.org/tickets/film.php?id=496&page=1?id=496&p...
From the film's website:
We are currently releasing the film for community screenings by special request and hope to inspire broader interest for mainstream distribution and broadcast. We are also close to announcing a theatrical release, which will open up many opportunities for the film as well as the issue.
We are not selling the DVD or streaming the film until after the theatrical release. If you'd like to be informed of the DVD or VOD release, please sign up HERE. Please contact us if you'd like to discuss setting up a screening in your community: For the US, please contact Casey@windfallmovie.com For film festivals and other public screenings as well as university, college and classroom use, please contact info@windfallmovie.com WINDFALL is 83 minutes in length, and will be available on 35mm film by summer 2011.
http://windfallthemovie.com/index_1.html
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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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