WHO ARE THE AUGUSTA LEGISLATORS WORKING FOR?
Senator Jackson sponsors a bill seeking legislative approval for the Boston-based wind developer project and the New York based transmission developer project in Aroostook County.
As is his usual tactic, he waited to the last minute to amend his bill, so no one got to study the bill's shortcomings and, as usual, the bobblehead colleagues, including legislators, enviro-freaks, and the typical piggies with their hands stretched into the pockets of ratepayers came to exclaim their admiration of the totalitarian move.
We, the people, underwriting this fiasco are not even allowed to know the terms of sale for the sputtering south bound energy from this Northernmost area of Maine.
The buzzword throughout the so-called public hearing on this biased written bill was "benefits" "benefits" "benefits."
What benefits and to who?
There are a lot of unknowns hidden with this project, the path of the transmission along with the environmental destruction, why did Massachusetts get involved, what is the price breakdown to the ratepayers, what effects will this sputtering wind power have on the grid as it moves south.
How can legislators vote for something when they don't know where it is being built, how it is being built or by whom it will be built?
And how can legislators vote for this when the pricing of the energy from the wind project is unknown?
And how can legislators vote for this without hearing what the DEP, the Army Corps of Engineers, FERC, ISO-NE, the Maine PUC and the many concerned citizens and ratepayers will have to say as the regulatory agencies conducts public hearings?
Does Jackson control the legislators or do the people they vowed to represent control them? This vote will tell us what's what in Augusta.
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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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