Waiting on wind project sound testing

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

Link to Article:  https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/06/03/waiting-on-wind-project-sound-testing/

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DEP takes wrong side in Fairhaven

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

Link to Article:  https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/06/03/dep-takes-wrong-side-in-fairhaven/

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Second Resubmission of Proposed Industrial Wind Turbine Regulations

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

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Testimony to Vt. Senate Committee for Health and Welfare

Posted on April 30, 2013 by
Luann Therrien, Sheffield: “Before the turbines were built, we felt we did not know enough about Industrial Wind to have an informed opinion. We did not oppose them being built. We did not oppose the many inconveniences during construction that comes with a project this size. We did not oppose the project, not until it was up and running and creating noise. Creating noise that – unlike what the wind developers will try and make you believe – IS distinguishable above natural sounds. I have never heard anything in nature make a repetitive whoosh whoosh whoosh sound for up to five days straight. And the only thing I have heard sound like a jet flying overhead, except for these wind turbines, is a jet flying overhead. This has now been going on for over a year.�…
“My husband has been feeling so bad that he is currently unable to work, his doctor has pulled him from his job. It’s impossible to work when you cannot concentrate due to lack of sleep, a constant pulsing in your head like a painless migraine and have the constant feeling of a head rush no matter what you are doing. Steve wakes up startled during the night in a panic state and can not go back to sleep. He has dry heaves almost every morning and has thrown up a few times. Being pulled from his job being unfit to work means he cannot collect unemployment. We have been living very frugally off of our income tax return. This money will run out, not sure what we will do then. Continue reading →
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“Never reported by the Maine media: Maine’s wind potential is 89% below the national average” on Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power – Maine

Posted on April 15, 2013 by
We’re taking a moment here to correct this Saudi Arabia moniker by putting Maine’s wind potential into proper perspective using data from the NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab). Hopefully one day the Maine media will pick up on facts like this. And hopefully, if and when they do, they will not employ the oft used “Anti-wind activists say that wind industry claims are false”, but rather use a more accurate headline such as “NREL data proves wind industry claims in Maine are false”.
A copy of our simple Excel analysis can be downloaded here: KW%20per%20Sq%20Mile.xls
It took all of about 45 minutes to complete this simple analysis. These figures have been there all along, had anyone spent any time doing a little bit of research. The media have been repeating wind industry propaganda for years and have not once scratched below the surface of slick wind industry propaganda to report on exactly how poor Maine’s onshore wind “resource” is.
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Weekly Message: Mainers Need Affordable Electricity Now

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

The following is the weekly message from Governor Paul R. LePage. To listen to the audio visit the Governor’s website.

Hello. This is Governor Paul LePage.

My fellow Mainers, I do not like being the bearer of disturbing news. But someone has to have the courage to tell the truth. Mainers are paying considerably more than you should for electricity.

Maine’s energy costs are 10th highest in the nation, and our electric bills are 34 percent higher than the national average. But it does not have to be this way. Affordable energy is available right here in Maine and just across our northern border.

I traveled recently to Canada to meet with officials from Hydro Quebec, which has plenty of hydro power to sell at very affordable prices. They told me that selling power to Maine is not worth it. And it’s all because Maine has a limit on how much renewable energy we can use, including hydropower. Continue reading →

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Studies show land-based wind turbines cause property values to plummet; Health, economic, and environmental factors are cited as major issues

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/03/07/studies-show-landth-economic-and-environmental-factors-are-cited-as-major-issues-based-wind-turbines-cause-property-values-to-plummet/

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Court tells DEP to lower nighttime noise levels on Saddleback wind farm

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blog/show?id=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A45355&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

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Maine’s Wind Power Goals: Is the Medicine Worse than the Illness?

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blog/show?id=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A45516&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

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Maine Wind Sites Production for entire year 2012

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Folks, this is the wind industry’s miserable track record of production in Maine. It is their own data. They cannot hide from this failure, unless we allow them to do so. Look at those capacity factor numbers for the particular projects and aside from Mars Hill, we can truthfully and forcefully say this unreliable, unpredictable, non-dispatchable source of electricity produces less than 25% of its installed capacity. Make this known to everyone. Challenge wind power supporters with the truth and ask how this can possibly be justified as economic sense?  — Brad Blake,CTFWP co-chair

We have final figures for the major industrial wind sites in Maine for the entire year 2012.  We continue to track what is miserably poor production, with the exception of Mars Hill, the only project in Maine that comes near the output touted by the wind industry.  Wondering why Spruce Mountain Wind in Woodstock does not appear?  We finally have the answer:  projects of 20 MW rating or less are not required to report to FERC.  Aha!  Spruce Mt. is 20 MW and its owner, Patriot Renewables, will not post the data.  Just look at Record Hill and Spruce Mt. is likely to perform similarly.  see article >>

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