Woodstock wind towers to be in place by fall
Woodstock wind towers to be in place by fall
WOODSTOCK — Andy Novey, from Patriot Renewables, told Woodstock Selectmen that his company is "aiming to start generating electricity by the end of November" at the Spruce Mountain wind turbine project.
Novey said a settlement was reached with the Friends of Spruce Mountain, a group that had filed an appeal of the project to the Maine Supreme Court. The non-public settlement was signed by the Court, and the appeal was withdrawn.
Patriot is closing on four properties and plans on starting construction in two weeks.
As a condition of the permit issued by the Department of Environmental Protection, Patriot Renewables will send Woodstock a one-time payment of $80,000, to be used for "conservation purposes." Additionally, it will pay $20,000 a year for "tangible benefits," as part of Maine's wind power licensing law, for the life of the project.
Novey said the total height of each of the 10 planned turbines and towers is 405 feet. It is estimated that the project will be assessed by the town at $40,000,000.
The towers and turbine blades will be brought to the site from the Concord Pond side of Spruce Mountain.
Central Maine Power is rebuilding the distribution power lines on Cushman Road. Workers will be starting in July and hope to be finished by October.
Selectman Stephen Bies said "I have snowshoed that ridgeline. The woods are beautiful up there. I will miss it."
The Planning Board granted building permits later that evening for the towers and operations building.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on June 12, 2011 at 8:49pm
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shit
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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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