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My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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Protesters arrested at Lincoln wind site | Bangor Daily News
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Outdoors, Politics and government
Tagged Board of Environmental Protection, environmental impact, First Wind, Friends of Lincoln Lakes, Lincoln, Maine, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Maine Supreme Judicial Court, protesters, protests, Rollins Mountain, wind energy, wind farm, wind power
Tilting at windmills
Windmill farm near Mars Hill, Maine. Photo by Kelly McInnis.
Past readers know that I very much like the use of alternative energy – solar, wind, wave.
Wind energy – from both onshore and offshore wind farms – has received a big push in Maine the past couple of years. There is plenty of wind to go around in Maine, especially along the coast, and harnessing that wind will greatly ease this nation’s addiction to foreign petroleum.
But some communities in Maine are concerned with issues associated with wind farms, namely the noise the huge turbines cause. And I’m sure more than a few Mainers are upset with the interruption in viewscape.
Here in California, wind farms have become part of the landscape mostly because of the clean energy they provide.
It is my hope that power companies and government officials will find a way to mitigate the problems so that wind farms can provide clean, sustainable energy for a very long time to come.
Here are a couple of photos Kelly McInnis shot last week at the wind farm near Mars Hill, Maine. They are published here with her permission.
Windmill farm near Mars Hill, Maine. Photo by Kelly McInnis.
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors, Politics and government
Tagged alternative energy, clean energy, foreign oil, foreign petroleum, Kelly McInnis, Mars Hill, solar, turbines, wave, wind, wind energy, wind farm, wind power, windmills
Carthage wind farm proposal stirs debate | Lewiston Sun Journal
Posted in Economy, Energy, Environment, Maine, Outdoors
Tagged Carthage, Dixfield, Energy, Environment, noise complaints, Patriot Renewables LLC, Saddleback Mountain Ridge, turbine, Wilton, wind energy, wind farm, wind power
Offshore wind farm could save $4.6 billion over 25 years
Below are several links, including one to a press release found on Sustainablebusiness.com about a report published by economic consulting firm Charles River Associates. That report apparently suggests that the Cape Wind offshore wind farm alone could save $4.6 billion – that’s with a B – over the next quarter century.
The proposed project would be off the coast of Massachusetts in Nantucket Sound. It is not stretch that proportionally similar savings could be realized from the eventual construction of a proposed project off Maine’s coast.
Of course, such reports usually are funded by the agency that would benefit. Cape Wind Associates LLC funded the report, according to a news story about the report.
Here’s a link to Friday’s press release: “Cape Wind Report: Offshore wind will cut electric prices by $4.6B”
Here’s a link to a previous press release about delays: “Cape Wind faces new obstacle”
Here’s a link to Thursday’s story in the Cape Cod Times about the report: “Cape Wind savings pegged at billions”
Here’s a link to Cape Wind’s website: http://www.capewind.org/.
Turbines turn into headache for Vinalhaven | Portland Press Herald
(I really, really hope they work out the noise issue. Wind power can be fantastic, but these folks shouldn’t have their lives disrupted. — KM)
Turbines turn into headache for Vinalhaven | Portland Press Herald.
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