Wind Power - Driving Maine Batless, by torture or instilled fear?


Maine's
"Natural Services Sector"
may come under attack!

-AMHERST Massachusetts-

...The project is funded by a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy and a $62,500 grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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It seems Nothing has the "right to live" in Maine.

Who will our Legislators and Governors have left to Tax?

Corporations? Ha!

 

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Comment by Kathy Sherman on July 25, 2015 at 2:44am
I am pretty sure that this absurd study is only remotely addressing bats that would be coming to shore on Martha's Vineyard or maybe parts of Cape Cod, MA, through an offshore federal lease in the RI/MA interest zone. And I thank you heartily for pointing out how MA ratepayer money is being spent to foster expensive offshore wind. I do suspect that the facilities developed down here could threaten your whales and birds and fish migrating through.

When I checked about 4 years ago there was very little info on migrating bats in the northeast from 2004. Is Maine DEP monitoring??

This announcement fails to recognize that an expert on bat and turbine interactions is at another Massachusetts university; that bats are NOT hibernating offshore and are unlikely to roost there or go there to feed. Seems rather basic to the definition of migrating. It also ignores that the wind industry or researchers have devoted some effort to 'mitigation' of bat kill, chiefly increased cut-in speed when wind shear is high on summer evenings. The main thing that the UMass approach seems to ignore is that bat kill involves barotrauma, rupture of fragile mammalian lungs in the turbine wake which can occur pretty far from the turbine blades. So at first blush, it sounds like the goal is to add further noise pollution without much chance of effect. Maybe understanding the bat larynx would be neat, but it shouldn't be at electric ratepayer and taxpayer expense.

I would think that bats would be particularly important for ag around No. 9 Mountain, but I plead ignorance about them on Maine ridgelines.

 

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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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