Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Western Maine Foothills Block: POINTS TO PONDER

As I look at all the mountains that the proposed turbines will grace in the western foothills of Maine, I can't help but focus on the flight paths of all our migratory birds. Well they say for each site that is a proposed site, that it will be monitored in the spring for 30 days as well as the fall for 30 days to monitor the flight paths. I can honestly tell you for the 20 years I have lived on Rt. #2 in Dixfield, flocks of Canadian Geese have landed in our fields and surrounding fields in inclement weather only to resume their flight in the wee morning hours. I have seen them, watched them and their sounds at night are unmistakeable. Now how can a one time, thirty day monitor be used as a viable source of information to lead the public into believeing that steps were taken and that no flight path was established? To tell you the truth if you look at all the proposed sites for wind turbines just in Oxford county, its a circle. Where in the heck is the flight path? On Rt.#2, Canadian Geese land, on the Common Road fields they have landed, and in the fields off the Canton Point road in Conants fields they land. People see them all the time! Can they honestly say that there isn't a flight path in our immediate area? If our Western Foothills are to be graced with these turbines, I guess we have no flight path. I guess we are just a small town that sees nothing and hears nothing. Seems to me if there is a BIG PUSH to get so many wind turbines in place by such and such a date, that reliable sources of information can be altered to to fit into any BIG PLANS. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT INFORMATION FROM EVEN A 30 day MONITOR CAN ALTER YOUR WAY OF LIFE FOR Y-E-A-R-S TO COME.

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Comment by freemont tibbetts on February 2, 2010 at 5:54pm: Janice, We are Winning and will Win to save the Mountain Range"s of Maine and Dixfield. It don"t do any good to talk the Big gov. of Maine any more , but the small gov. of Dixfield has the opportunity to have the frist debate on Wind Power to be held in the State of Maine at Dixfield High School Feb. 4 , After this debate if our small gov. in Dixfield dose not see the reason way thay should be fighting to save our Mountain"s that are jewel"s of Dixfield . WE
WILL VOTE THEM OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Janice keep writing yore common sense . WE WILL WIN BY THE VOTE!!!!!!!! Freemont .

Comment by Joanne Moore on February 2, 2010 at 3:54pm: See, this is the thing that really pisses me off -- these cretins who push their wonkish, pie-in-the-sky fantasies about how wind power will save the world from total collapse do not have the slightest care in the world for the birds or animals they will be killing. These so-called "experts" and Big Wind are not connected to the planet we all cherish. Their view is that if there is no profit to be made from something, it is valueless. They can never see the intrinsic values in nature because they have been removed from it. They have their laptops and their lattes and sneer at anyone who questions them and what they are doing.
It makes me sick in my soul to know my grandchildren will have to live in their vision of the world. A world devoid of all of the beauty that no one can put a price tag on.

Comment by Long Islander on February 2, 2010 at 11:01am: The wind industry is both against the birds and for the birds.

The wind industry is fond of the parrrots in the media that essentially copy & paste their press releases. They also are quite partial to all the shovelers in government and of course their mercenary PR firms. They also favor the dodo's, extinct everywhere, except within various levels of government. They themselves are often turkeys but even more often chickens or yellowbellied subsidy suckers. Very often they are vultures.

Here in Maine we are looking forward to Governor Baldacci's swan song. If he ever has to make a living "in the wild" where he can't feed off subsidies or favors, his goose will be cooked.

Their corporate PR handbook teaches them to label those whose lives have been devastated by the massive turbines and requisite power lines as NIMBY's. But such folks are simply the canaries in the coal mines - the first to be affected by this scam, which one day will as widely known as Ponzi's. And the Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power will be their albatross for as long as it takes.

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U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

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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."

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