Letter: King Pine Aroostook County - Reduce light pollution from wind turbines
Better still - how about this wind "farm" be blocked altogether given it is bad for the environment, tourism, taxpayers and ratepayers.
March 2, 2023
Letter: Reduce light pollution from wind turbines
Many people are aware of the King Pine wind farm that will be built in Aroostook County. This project could have an adverse impact on the wonderful night skies in the area.
The aircraft warning lights in these towers can be quite bothersome, and it will make the entire area look like an industrial zone. However, we now have the technology, especially in these large turbines, to mitigate the nighttime light pollution. There are systems now that can turn off the lights at night if no aircraft are detected.
Clear night skies are a contributing factor for many of the tourists who travel there, and much appreciated by residents. This is a common-sense requirement for the project, and the cost to install the equipment in each tower is not burdensome.
While systems that turn off the lights on wind turbines are relatively “new,” the technology does exist and should be applied to all wind turbines in the state. Washington state and Kansas have already attempted to require wind turbines in their states to reduce light pollution, and Maine should follow their example.
Donald McNelly
Island Falls
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Comment by Penny Gray on March 4, 2023 at 7:47pm
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How about "Eliminate intermittent and unreliable wind turbines and solar panels, and embrace nuclear power!" If we'd done that 30 years ago, we'd be light years ahead of where we are now. Instead, we're planning to return to the days of sailing ships and kerosene lamps. Oh wait! We can't use kerosene because that's a fossil fuel. So, whale oil lamps, then. So sorry, whales, but you'll be forced to the brink of extinction anyway if they build all those off shore turbines they're so anxious to plant in your oceans.
We must ask the Amish how they live without electricity and learn from them, because in short order, we'll all be living just like them, or dying like the dinosaurs. We live in interesting times.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 4, 2023 at 4:31pm
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Do we elect Dem majorities in Maine or are they being installed, aka, election fraud, right under our noses? Given all we have seen, when it comes to politicians, innocent before proven guilty may be naive.
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Another burden on the ratepayers as these wind turbines will cost more than other suppliers, everytime they put more of these wind turbines and solar farms on line it costs Mainers more on their rates because democrats passed laws forcing CMP to purchase wind and solar electricity at a much higher rate! Mainers are being played!
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Comment by Steve Thurston on March 4, 2023 at 3:32pm
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For 15 years this insane push to destroy Maine's landscape has been going on because "THE PLANET IS DYING". When will people realize the planet could give a rat's ass about anything we do and will just keep on having volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, temperature swings, changing sea levels, glaciers and then no glaciers, and an occasional meteor that really is the "Great Reset".
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Years ago, when the original Wind Rush started (2008), the people knew there was much wrong with the Global Warming Narrative as espoused by the elites like Angus "The Windmill" King and Governor Baldacci's Expeditied Wind Law ,rushed through by an emergency declaration to prohibit debate in the last hours of that legislative session.
Pl-661 was an allowed outrage to Mainers who were hit hard and fast by it.
Maine is now paying the price for this false global warming narrative.
How Long Will Mainers Allow the False lying Narrative to be Funded by Their Money?
Is it Stupid is as Stupid Does and can Maine's legislature still fool most of the people ?
Over time, facts and lies are exposed, as they are right now.
The Wind Scam lies are there in open session now, will Mainers follow the facts, and not the lying narrative this time, and reject the lies inherent in this massive waste called wind?
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Comment by Dan McKay on March 4, 2023 at 12:50pm
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This wind project and the offshore wind project have been selected to advance by the PUC and contracts to purchase the output of these two projects are pending. We the people who underwrite these projects with our electric bills and taxes paid are not allowed to know the price offers from King Pine or Aqua Ventus.
Big government and unelected officials are gaslighting the people of Maine.
The worst part is impending collapse of the Maine grid as Southern New England states and our own legislators overwhelm our grid with intermittent wind and solar as reliable energy sources are forced to retire.
Making Maine intermittent hundreds and thousands of megawatts at a time.
BTW, Massachusetts leans on Connecticut natural gas power plants which allows them to keep making Maine an intermittent state while making their state fossil fueless and claiming "GREEN"
Get out of ISO-NE as fast as possible.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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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