[This guy is getting scarier all the time. — KM]
Maine Gov. LePage: Loosen rules on environment | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
[This guy is getting scarier all the time. — KM]
Maine Gov. LePage: Loosen rules on environment | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
Posted in Environment, Outdoors
Tagged Casco Bay, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Polar Plunge, Portland, The Lobster Dip
Here are links to a three-part series by the Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting published in the Bangor Daily News looking at wind energy in Maine and the laws surrounding it.
Part 2: Examining the changes in rules recommended by the task force and the resulting law.
Part 3: Wind power law hasn’t prevented development conflicts
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Maine, Politics and government
Tagged “expedited wind zone”, economic development, Economy, Energy, Environment, Gov. John Baldacci, Governor’s Task Force on Wind Power Development, high-voltage transmission lines, law, Maine, Maine Center for Economic Policy, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, Maine Freedom of Information Coalition, Maine Land Use Regulation Commission, Natural Resources Council of Maine, politics and government, TransCanada, turbines, wind energy, Wind Energy Act of 2008, wind power
[It appears The Bangor Daily News just posted the second of three parts on the Wind Energy Act of 2008. Below is a link. – KM]
Task force had mandate to promote wind power, not study it | Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Law and Order, Maine, Politics and government
Tagged economic development, Gov. John Baldacci, Governor’s Task Force on Wind Power Development, Maine, Maine Center for Economic Policy, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, Maine Land Use Regulation Commission, Natural Resources Council of Maine, TransCanada, turbines, wind energy, Wind Energy Act of 2008, wind power