DIXFIELD — Freemont Tibbetts unveiled two films he has taken from above several mountain ranges that showed not only his disdain for constructing wind turbines on them, but also his love for the beauty of the state of Maine.
Fremont Tibbetts, a Dixfield resident who made two films showing completed and proposed wind projects, narrated one live during Tuesday's unveiling of the film, and the second while he was filming it from the air. About 20 people turned out to see his work at Dirigo High School.
Tibbetts, 79, a fifth-generation resident of Dixfield, hopes to show the films to as many people as possible.
“It's great to see the mountains before they put the damn windmills up,” he said as he narrated the film of his flight about two weeks ago over what he called the loop of planned wind projects in Rumford, Roxbury, Carthage, Dixfield, Canton and Woodstock.
About 100 turbines in six separate projects are in various stages of planning in the six towns, with all but Rumford's and Roxbury's proposed by Patriot Renewables LLC of Quincy, Mass. Rumford's project is proposed by First Wind LLC of Boston, and Roxbury's by Independent Wind LLC.
Nearly 20 people from several of the towns involved attended the showing.
The film of the Rumford loop described projects that would top Saddleback ridge in Carthage, cross Route 2 to Colonel Holman Mountain ridge in Dixfield, then continue on to Canton Mountain and end on the Spruce Mountain ridge in Woodstock.
Tibbetts hired Rumford pilot Phil Zinck to fly him above the Rumford loop, then a few days later, over the already completed Kibby Mountain project built by TransCanada in Franklin County, and another proposed project in the Highland Plantation area just east of Kibby Mountain in neighboring Somerset County.
Tibbetts said he could feel the vibrations of the turbines on Kibby Mountain, describing how portions of mountaintops are blasted, then rods inserted into the earth to provide stability for the nearly 400-foot tall turbines.
“It's some beautiful up there,” he said.
The flight route included views of Flagstaff Lake, a multitude of small ponds, some of which Tibbetts said he has fished, and places he has logged. There were distant and close-up views of the turbines along the mountain ridge at the Kibby Mountain project.
“When hikers climbing the Appalachian Trail reach Mt. Katahdin (which could be seen in the distance), all they'll see is these red lights from the wind mills,” he said.
Dan McKay said DVDs of the two flights are being distributed, including in Dixfield stores, and he and Tibbetts are looking for other venues to show the films.
Dixfield residents will decide at the Nov. 2 election whether to approve zoning which would basically ban wind projects. Rumford residents will also vote Nov. 2 on an ordinance that would also ban such projects, if passed.
His opposition to the area projects won't end at the November election, Tibbetts said.
“It's going to be a long fight. It will be a struggle,” he said.
He acknowledged that many people have seen turbines and think they are magnificent.
Patriot Renewables will present its plans for the Dixfield project at a public informational meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Ludden Memorial Library.
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Upon arriving home for work late this afternoon, I discovered Charlie Hoff's letter to the editor which I see someone has cut/pasted here. Here is what I wrote in the LTTE section as a comment to Charlie's letter for those of you who may miss it.
.Key Advisory Committee Member Changes Says Vote NO!
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What a stunning letter to find when I got home from work late this afternoon. I attended the many meetings between the selectmen and advisory committee and the public hearings in which Charlie Hoff and the other advisory committee members were adamat about the terrible things that would befall the people of Rumford, the devastating effect on our "quality of place" and "quality of life" if we did not approve this permanent moratorium of wind power development. I also read Charlie Hoff's previous LTTEs to that same effect. I am extremely impressed by Mr. Hoff's integrity, honesty and forthrightness in coming forward with this LTTE to announce he has changed his stand, on what grounds, and to encourage the voters to vote against an ordinance that he was not only key in drafting but was instrumental in encouraging the selectmen to put before the voters on Nov 2. Hopefully the voters will keep in mind the important role Mr. Hoff played in this ordinance, take Mr. Hoff's change of heart into consideration and join him in voting NO
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what about the wildlife up there? I dont think they can survive well with a giant fan on.
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You are going to have to take that up with God. The windmills are driven by the wind supplied by the almighty, they don't produce it. Didn't I read back up above something about the questionability of intelligence of people in Maine? And I am all female thank you very much have one personality that writes under my name.
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youre right they dont produce the wind but that turbine spins blade like products and are not found in nature and therefore the wildlife is not accustomed to living in it. this might be a lame reason for people but it is my reason.
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WOW! Dixfield pulled their ordinance off their ballot, Charlie Hoff resigned from Rumford's Advisory Committee and is telling people to vote against the permanent wind power development ordinance he was instrumental in drafting and forced before the voters all in one day. Is Rumford going to pull their ordinance from their ballot as well? We will be back just in time to vote either way.
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Published Oct 27, 2010 12:00 am | Last updated Oct 27, 2010 12:00 am
Save As a now former member of Rumford's Wind Power Advisory Committee, I encourage Rumford residents to vote “no” on the proposed ordinance.
Why the change? Very simply, A&B Forestry’s recent threat to cut off public access to the land they own in the Black Mountain area, site of First Wind’s proposed project.
That stance is an unfortunate but understandable response by the landowner.
Although I continue to believe the strong setbacks and noise limits in the proposed ordinance are well justified, I also believe that loss of public access to the privately owned land in this area would have a much greater negative impact on quality of life in the River Valley area than would a dozen turbines on the back side of Black Mountain.
That is especially true given the apparent lack of interest in the issue by a majority of Rumford citizens.
Rumford residents should vote “no” on the proposed ordinance, restart the process and maintain the landowners’ goodwill for the greater good of the community.
Charles Hoff, Rumford
Even wind power "advisory" committee members are doing serious back peddling. It seems they got a reality check and decided the consequences of a dozen wind turbines on the citizens of Rumford is less than the loss of snowmobile trails they like to use a few months out of the year. A dozen wind turbines suddenly aren't going to have such an impact on our quality of life or quality of place after all. Hmmmmm, imagine that.
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I have nothing against using wind power but hello the turbines that are set up here in maine are not here to benefit us in anyway shape or form. Our electric bills are not going down! Why let these people put up wind turbines if they arent going to help us at all? all that electricity that is being made is being sold outside of maine, we get nothing no electricity no profit we get NOTHING. maybe you all should think twice about your gungho attitude towards these turbines being put here. enjoy your high electricity bills because they are here to stay.
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Anyone reading through these comments would have to be reminded that Maine has the least educated population in the United States.
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That should have read, No one reading through these comments would have to be reminded that Maine has the least educated population in the United States. Even we life-long residents of the state are amazed by the lack of intellectual capacity demonstrated by the anti-wind coallition on these pages, shouldn't be, but are.
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You're really another one of Candiceanne's personality manifestations, aren't you? How many does that make now? All basically the same, though, the push for wind power, the overabundant wordiness, the superior attitude, and the same angry accusation toward those who don't agree with your opinions - that we are all just stupid Mainers. You even live in the same town. Verrry interesting. It must be pretty crowded in your head.
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Sorry Nancy1 not even the same sex as candiceanne. I don't know if we live in the same town or not.
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According to MorganQuinto.com/edrank, Maine is 5th out of 50 best educated index. Check it out.
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I too am educated and a life long Mainer. The difference between you and I is I LOVE MAINE and therefore will NOT be whitewashed into thinking that WINDPOWER is the answer. It appears by your statements that you do not love Maine and would sell out at any cost. The reason we do not not have big business here is the fault of our own elected official in Augusta. We do not welcome new business, the very business that would create stable jobs with benefits. Just because someone opposes wind power does not mean they would vote down the Casino Ref. Now that group has proven beyond a doubt that this will bring in decent paying jobs, revenue and lower taxes while helping to fund education and keep local people and businesses thriving. So please tell me what the big wind power groups are offering ? I can assure you it is nothing that will benefit Maine or its people. I LOVE MY MAINE AND LOVE THE MOUTAINS THE WAY THEY ARE MAJESTIC AND PRISTINE. THIS IS PRICELESS
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Special Interest doesn't love Maine. Is that what you're saying? You love Maine, therefore you are against wind power; anyone who favors wind power must hate Maine. Right? It can't possibly be because someone crafted an opinion based on information that disagrees with yours.
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See above for what developers are offering. Now please tell me specifically what businesses with decent paying jobs and benefits Augusta is stopping at the border without the encouragement of you and your friends, because my friends and I would really like to hear about them. We would also like to know who we should be voting for come Nov 2 to change Augusta so all these wonderful businesses with these great jobs and benefits come rushing in on Nov 3.
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that's funny. really now.. well sorry to disappoint you but I am educated. So please humor me, how are you benefiting from those wind turbines? I have no part in any anti-wind coallition, I dont have any issue with wind turbines as long as Mainers are benefiting from it. Which we are not. I was just merely voicing my opinion in which I am entitled to do since I am a life long Maine resident. If we are going to have wind turbines set up all over our state then we should be reeping the benefits dont you think?
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For starters, everyone of these wind power companies will be paying corporate income taxes on the revenues from selling the power generated to whomever they sell it whether that be folks in Maine or folks across the state line or into foreign provinces. Canada, contrary to the believes of some as evidenced by previously posts is not part of the Unites States nor is Mexico. Everyone of these developers will also be paying property taxes/personal property taxes to the communities where their projects are located benefiting those communities. Now before you go getting your panties in a wad, no community is required to provide a TIF, that is completely up to them. Even if they do offer a TIF, TIFs have a certain life and are decending as to how much of the value is excused over the life of the TIF. Also during the TIF the company provides funding that can be used for things such as economic development, which certainly every community in Maine is in desperate need of and any money coming from the wind developer is money that doesn't have to come from the general fund. Most communities aren't spending anything on economic development and can't afford to so this money will really be a boon to them, spent wisely should produce more economic development and jobs. The jobs created, however many there may be with the wind developers directly in Maine will produce personal income taxes. Also the contractors will be paying income taxes as will their employees. Of course the economic development money will fund jobs in the towns and if the economic development people do their jobs well and the state smartens up, more businesses will be brought to those communites resulting in more corporate and personal income taxes as well as property taxes and personal property taxes for the communities. Its the big picture you have to look at, the economic engine getting fired back-up all by a few wind turbines.
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Concrete is largely impervious to to damage and rust and is one of sturdiest building materials in the world — but it is responsible for a large amount of emissions in the construction industry.
Is wind power really a clean, effective means of reducing global warming? While wind turbines are non-polluting once they are up and running, the manufacture, transport and construction of a wind turbine produces thousands of tons of carbon-based emissions. Every step — from mining the ore to making the steel, moving parts by ship or overland, constructing access roads, and operating giant cranes and excavators — creates emissions. Building the access roads alone produces nearly ten thousand tons of emissions.
The problem of mercury pollution associated with wind projects is rarely mentioned, yet significant. Cement manufacturing releases large amounts of mercury from the limestone used as raw material. Figuring that North Country wind projects require about 180,000 lbs. (90 tons) of cement per turbine base, and figuring that 0.09 – 2 lbs of mercuy are released per ton of cement (according to EPA measurements), this means 5 – 10 lbs of mercury are indirectly released into the environment for every turbine built. For a 100 turbine windplant, 500 – 1000 lbs of mercury pollution is worth noting. (Environmental analysts note that cement production is one of the biggest sources of mercury pollution.)
be sure and see the film of Kibby project. these towers are huge.
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:) Mainers and the rest of the world (our tourists) need to see what we stand to lose!
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If we fail to voting down, rejecting wind power, along with casinos, plum creek, gas plant, JFK in Portland Harbor, and on and on being 50th on Forbes list for business and careers, being the most subsidized state in the nation, exporting all our willing to work youth, being the most aged state in the nation. . . in short by saying NO again we make sure this state continues to SUCK in every conceivable way and add even more.
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Have you been drinking Candiceanne's Kool Aid? She got it right from the wind industry.
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Lisa, Kool Aid is for all you Liberal Democrats who say NO to everything that will interfer with more welfare in Maine, not those of us who want positive change, who want to stay here, who want to have J-O-B-S and who want to be able to pay taxes.
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Don't you? I'm a liberal Dem, I'm uneducated. Wrong and wrong. You're boring me. Can't you do better than that?
Good luck getting a full-time, permanent job from a wind compay, by the way. They LOVE people like you. You actually take them at their word even with all the evidence to the contrary. Hey, I've got a bridge to sell you...and some First Wind stock.
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I don't need a permanent or temperary full or part-time job from any wind company. We all know this is your last resort tactic, like all the others you have tried it with, I already have an excellent full-time very good paying job with benefits that involves neither wind power or the government. If you didn't notice, the majority seem to think you way missed the mark with the Koolaid as well and it is you who are the socialist liberal democrat as well as people who know who I am have been on to assure that I am not candiceanne which is for certain considering I am most definitely of the wrong gender to be confused with that fine lady. All had a good laugh though.
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I don't need a permanent or temperary full or part-time job from any wind company. We all know this is your last resort tactic, like all the others you have tried it with, I already have an excellent full-time very good paying job with benefits that involves neither wind power or the government. If you didn't notice, the majority seem to think you way missed the mark with the Koolaid as well and it is you who are the socialist liberal democrat as well as people who know who I am have been on to assure that I am not candiceanne which is for certain considering I am most definitely of the wrong gender to be confused with that fine lady. All had a good laugh though.
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Deserves a medal for his commitment to preserving what we value in Maine. Few of our policy makers have stopped to even think about the devastating cumulative effect of industrial wind turbine projects on Maine's pristine ridgelines, and the media has been equally silent on this.
360 miles of ridge line development is what the current governor's expedited wind law would result in. What are we doing to our state? The proposed "benefits" and snake oil salesmanship surrounding their implementation are deplorable.
Kudos to you Mr. Tibbetts!
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The thieving, truly criminal, wind industry has paid allies like Verrill Dana and Preti Flaherty. The citizens defending Maine have volunteers like Freemont Tibbetts. I'm going with Freemont and the volunteers to drive these criminals off the land.
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you want to stop it buy the land out, otherwise Mind your own
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The wind industry has Verrill and Dana and Pretti Flaherity with a sustainable energy future for maine. The citizens of Maine have volunteers like Freemont Tibbetts who have helped to make sure Maine is 50th on Forbes list for Business and Careers, that Maine has the oldest population in the nation, all our willing to work young people and educated people leave the state, that we are a subsidized poverty riddled state. . .
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At least if all these wind power projects were actually economically viable, there would be an argument for their development. All this is is a chance for Baldy and Angus to line their pockets at taxpayer expense. Our electric bills in Maine won't go down by 2 cents a month as a result of all these projects, and in 20 years, we'll have junk strewn all over our mountains as payback. Mainers are being raped on this along with their mountains.
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Could not have said it better myself, I agree with you 110% !!!!! It is absolutely about these LLC'S and others making the all mighty dollar. I don't know about anyone else, but not once have I heard any announcement made by these companies stating they are doing this "for the good of Maine people" I say again as I have many times before ... go see Kibby Mnt,drive way up in and on the way admired all the devastation that has been done, stand beneath the turbines and gaze up at the massive structures, then go back in 20yrs once they are no longer operational and your power rates did not go down as this is what we will be faced with. For what ???
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wrong with making a buck? Should every for profit company in Maine be relegated to doing things that are only "for the good of the Maine people?" I don't know if wind power is good, but I know that socialist drivel-laden altruistic nonsense isn't.
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How much of your tax money do you think is spent developing more fuel efficient cars? How much do you think is spent researching and developing ways to find and extract fossil fuels? How much of your tax money do you think is being spent right now on ways to process fossil fuels that are so contaminated or in such a state we can not use them such as shale oil? Well in our case, the as Maine citizens, as with wind turbines, none because we are a subsidized state not a paying state. We get back, as the Sun Journal reported more money than we pay in to the federal government. But a lot of federal money does goe into the above listed research and development, money that comes from taxes paid by people in other states of course. You don't hear about it because it is done quietly. Countless billions of dollars are sent out to various universities, manufacturers, researchers, corporations of every discription to look into all of the above and more from federal coffers. What comes out of all that research is then the intellectual or patented property of whoever made the discovery using US taxpayer money and we pay again through higher prices for the produce. This is just one of those rare moments when the research and develoment is out in the open and you all are allowing yourselves to be manipulated by big oil, gas and coal who most definitely do not want the competition for your money and most definitely do not want you to have an alternative; they want you dependent upon them. If we do not come up with alternatives to fossil fuels, we are at the mercy of big oil, gas and coal for heating our homes in winter and keeping the lights burning during our short days not to mention preserving food, cooking, operating hospitals, offices and schools. Let's not be manipulated any longer by big oil, gas and coal, who have been taking our money for decades at both the research and consumption ends and laughing all the way to the bank. It is time to invest in alternative energy.
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I first and foremost want to thank Mr Tibbetts for doing this and hopefully opening eyes and ears to the mass destruction that the turbines cause. Then I want to thank him for his love of this beautiful state that we live in. I love Maine and I want the mountains to remain as they were created, pristine! Why is it Mainers are so quick to sell out their state on a promise of lower cost for power ? This power is not staying in Maine and we will not see a reduction in our cost. All that will come of this is big bucks for the companies planting these turbines in our backyards and then when their so called usefulness is gone, then what. Big ugly, rusty, turbines left rotting on our once majestic mountain tops.
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salemgirl1, if "mainers are so quick to sell out their state on a promise of lower cost for power?" which i have not seen or anything else, the state would not be 50th on Forbes list of Business and Careers among so many other notable worst place we hold. As for "All that will come of this is big bucks for the companies planting these turbines in our backyards and then when their is so called usefulness is gone, then what. Big ugly, rusty, turbines left rotting on our once majestic mountain tops." Take a a trip to Texas, California and Nevada, as those turbines are becoming obsolete, as resolutions to problems, better ways of doing things are discovered (like 80 ft towers are a problem for birds) they are being replaced with the latest and greatest. Don't expect anything different here. This is a new technology in its infancy that just like solar when it first came out folks poopooed. If you hadn't noticed, we now have a dairy in this state completely operated on solar and a new textile operation was written up in this very paper a few days ago. The YWCA of Central Maine in Lewiston is looking to solar to save it from extinction with oil costs for heating the building and pool and electricity costs for operating the building requiring deathknoll hour rescue recently. Solar is becoming widespread with solar arays found in the western deserts producing power commercially. Commercial structures and operations are installing arrays on their roofs and on their grounds to supply power for operations and selling the surplus back to the power companies supplimenting income. Solar started with tubes containing liquid running over the black background of panels with glass faces that only heated water in my house on the best of days. Today they directly produce enough electricity almost everyday to run everything in my house 24 hours a day directly or off the batteries charged during the day for night time power in Maine! What a remarkable transformation in the 40 years I have welcomed them into my life. I don't expect anything less from wind power, I welcome it as clean renewable energy that is absolutely pollution producing free, no emissions. We will get there the same way we did with solar, buy building and learning.
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Why must the developers insist on putting the towers up on the mountains? Can't they place a few of them met towers in the valleys or the farmlands of Aroostook???
Sounds like greed to me.
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Think about it, the highest elevations is where the wind blow the hardest and most consistantly. Think about the weather atop Mount Washington. WMTW frequently shows the folks that man Mt Washington's weather station being blown all over the place, they are tied off when standing on terra firma to keep from getting blown down the mountain side. The best place for wind turbines is obviously going to be where the wind is going to blow the most consistantly and hardest to a certain point (Mt Washington would be excessive). Aroostook Counties flatland is not workable because of the lack of consistant wind and wind at necessary force.
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It is my understanding that you want consistent but not huge wind. And, the fields of Aroostook County are already being tested for windpower. As I understand it, windmill technology is now capable to handling windpower in open fields. Also, I believe windmills are placed along roads in Texas.
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Have you ever been to Texas? The landscape is totally different then here. The weather too including a fair number of tornados. Maine gets Altitude winds, as in on the mountain tops that shelter the valleys. Have you ever noticed how the weather service will give warnings of frost in low lying areas. That is because the air is still allowing the cold moist air to settle and frost on the plants while the higher elevations stay frost free with the wind. Texas has vast plains with tremendous winds because there is nothing to break the winds. These are great for wind turbines and they have great wind farms there.
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GIVE TO THE DOPESTHAT RECKED OUR LIVES ON 9/11 ??????????????? MOVE FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What does wind power in Maine have to do with 9/11?
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If you haven't figured out by now that developing wind technology is an integral part of the way out of oil dependency it is because you have chosen not to Spirit of the Mountain, just as you have chosen to not know what 9/11 was about.
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Mr. Tibbetts may want to put his video on Channel 7, the local access channel. It will reach a wide audience at no cost.
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