Comments - Hydro-Quebec says it has plenty of capacity for New England - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T12:40:16Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A152297&xn_auth=noWell look at this!!! https:/…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-12-12:4401701:Comment:1529302018-12-12T02:31:56.192ZJohn F. Husseyhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JohnFHussey
<p>Well look at this!!! <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/06/news/construction-major-electricity-line-quebec-new-york-city-start-2020?fbclid=IwAR11DwsMhVSA8VR7XbddEGycj-UTyBLlCuKYi3vdnXaVQUn9SDWVm7_oi9w" target="_blank">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/06/news/construction-major-electricity-line-quebec-new-york-city-start-2020?fbclid=IwAR11DwsMhVSA8VR7XbddEGycj-UTyBLlCuKYi3vdnXaVQUn9SDWVm7_oi9w</a> …</p>
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<p>Well look at this!!! <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/06/news/construction-major-electricity-line-quebec-new-york-city-start-2020?fbclid=IwAR11DwsMhVSA8VR7XbddEGycj-UTyBLlCuKYi3vdnXaVQUn9SDWVm7_oi9w" target="_blank">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/06/news/construction-major-electricity-line-quebec-new-york-city-start-2020?fbclid=IwAR11DwsMhVSA8VR7XbddEGycj-UTyBLlCuKYi3vdnXaVQUn9SDWVm7_oi9w</a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.33rem; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'nimbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The developers of a long-delayed project to deliver hydroelectric power from Quebec to New York City say that construction will start in 2020.</p>
<p style="margin: 1.33rem 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'nimbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">First unveiled in 2008, the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) is a proposed 536-kilometre underground high-voltage line to supply customers in New York City with hydroelectricity generated in Quebec dams by provincial utility provider Hydro-Québec.</p>
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<p style="margin: 1.33rem 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'nimbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Despite approvals by the New York Public Service Commission in 2013 and key federal permits in late 2014 and early 2015, construction on the transmission line by Albany-based Transmission Developers Inc. (TDI), remains behind its original schedule....</p>
<p style="margin: 1.33rem 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'nimbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">So, they could just as well run a second set of cables right next to this set and give the Mass-Holes the power they want! SCREW CMP!</p>
<p style="margin: 1.33rem 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: proximanova, 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'nimbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"></p> Willem and Dan, we all know t…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-12-09:4401701:Comment:1524782018-12-09T04:59:04.051ZBrad Blakehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/BradBlake
<p>Willem and Dan, we all know that Voorhees is a paid shill of the wind industry. It is in his job description to perpetrate the lies of the wind industry. It is not sheer coincidence that NRCM. which once had a stellar reputation for advocating for protection of Maine's natural resources, suddenly hired a "Clean Energy Director" just after the heinous "Wind Energy Act" was created. Mr. Voorhees works in complete tandem with Maine Renewable Energy Association director Jeremy Payne, actively…</p>
<p>Willem and Dan, we all know that Voorhees is a paid shill of the wind industry. It is in his job description to perpetrate the lies of the wind industry. It is not sheer coincidence that NRCM. which once had a stellar reputation for advocating for protection of Maine's natural resources, suddenly hired a "Clean Energy Director" just after the heinous "Wind Energy Act" was created. Mr. Voorhees works in complete tandem with Maine Renewable Energy Association director Jeremy Payne, actively promoting the destruction of Maine's natural and scenic resources for the sake of the wind power scam.</p>
<p>If NRCM had any corporate integrity, they would disclose the funding they receive from the wind industry and their cronies. Pigs will fly over Katahdin before that will ever happen.</p> I don't know why Voorhees is…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-12-07:4401701:Comment:1525862018-12-07T23:08:04.575ZDan McKayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DanMcKay
<p><span>I don't know why Voorhees is exclaiming false and uninformed statements about the generation from this project. He never provides evidence, He has no facts. People need to be concerned about his hidden motives. The way the democrats and the chairs of the EUT swoon over him like a messiah is sickening, I am certain when people who struggle to pay the electric bills discover his disdain for their plight, his worthless, lying mission will come to an end.</span></p>
<p><span>I don't know why Voorhees is exclaiming false and uninformed statements about the generation from this project. He never provides evidence, He has no facts. People need to be concerned about his hidden motives. The way the democrats and the chairs of the EUT swoon over him like a messiah is sickening, I am certain when people who struggle to pay the electric bills discover his disdain for their plight, his worthless, lying mission will come to an end.</span></p> Voorhees is a total idiot and…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-12-07:4401701:Comment:1525612018-12-07T22:01:48.023ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Voorhees is a total idiot and fear monger.</p>
<p>He obviously is not an engineer and displays near zero knowledge of power grids</p>
<p>The HQ power mix is about 98% hydro, which has a generation cost of about 2.5 c/kWh, per HQ 2017 annual report.</p>
<p>Any generator connected to the HQ grid will affect the mix in just a tiny way.</p>
<p>HQ has been and would be sending the MIX to its Canadian users and to users in the US.</p>
<p>It is utterly inane HQ would send us coal energy, or…</p>
<p>Voorhees is a total idiot and fear monger.</p>
<p>He obviously is not an engineer and displays near zero knowledge of power grids</p>
<p>The HQ power mix is about 98% hydro, which has a generation cost of about 2.5 c/kWh, per HQ 2017 annual report.</p>
<p>Any generator connected to the HQ grid will affect the mix in just a tiny way.</p>
<p>HQ has been and would be sending the MIX to its Canadian users and to users in the US.</p>
<p>It is utterly inane HQ would send us coal energy, or whatever </p> https://www.hydroquebec.com/s…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-12-07:4401701:Comment:1523632018-12-07T18:25:37.048ZEric A. Tuttlehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/EricATuttle
<p><a href="https://www.hydroquebec.com/search-results/?addsearch=Map+of+Dams" target="_blank">https://www.hydroquebec.com/search-results/?addsearch=Map+of+Dams</a></p>
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<p><span>Their Hydro fleet also includes 26 large reservoirs with a combined storage capacity </span><em>of</em><span> 175 TWh, as well as 656 </span><em>dams</em><span> and 97 control structures.</span></p>
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<p><span>Look at the destruction they have done by covering their province with water. As a First Use,…</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.hydroquebec.com/search-results/?addsearch=Map+of+Dams" target="_blank">https://www.hydroquebec.com/search-results/?addsearch=Map+of+Dams</a></p>
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<p><span>Their Hydro fleet also includes 26 large reservoirs with a combined storage capacity </span><em>of</em><span> 175 TWh, as well as 656 </span><em>dams</em><span> and 97 control structures.</span></p>
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<p><span>Look at the destruction they have done by covering their province with water. As a First Use, rather than a last resort.</span></p>
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