That's the same PUC that:
1. allowed Fairpoint to take over Verizon's problems
2. has given certain rights to First Wind Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Evergreen Wind Power III LLC. Try getting information on Evergreen. No website; First Wind describes themselves as a "team" interested in the community, environment, etc. No reference to Evergreen on their website.
I'm a proponent of wind but MPUC's "due diligence" ability scares me.
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Follow the money
Oct 18, 2009 3:15 am
Let me get this straight. Central Maine Power is requesting a $1.4 billion upgrade of the transmission system from the Maine Public Utilities Commission. (Sun Journal, Sept. 30). This transmission system will not benefit Maine because it is to increase transmission capacity between Orrington to the New Hampshire border right out of the state. I think that is about 125 miles. That's a pretty expensive project to take full advantage of wind power. CMP stands to increase its net income by $100 million, and its customers get to share the expense with an 8.3 percent increase in their electricity bills.
T. Boone Pickens abandoned his wind turbine project in Texas when he found out that it was cost-prohibitive to transmit the wind power. Wind and solar power are not reliable electricity producers and need backup sources. Spain's annual emissions of carbon dioxide have increased by nearly 50 percent. (Institute of Energy Research).
CMP touts that this project will create jobs. For every four green jobs created in Spain, less than one was permanent. For every permanent green job created, nine permanent jobs were destroyed. (Sun Journal, March 30).
Follow the money and decide who will benefit from CMP's request. Replacing the blown-up dams would make more sense to me. Just remember the cap-and-trade bill may be around the corner which will make your electric bill skyrocket.
Diana Holcomb, Norway
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That's the same PUC that: 1.
Submitted by LisbonBrad on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 13:30.
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Diane, you are right. The
Diane, you are right. The sole purpose of this hideously expensive and dangerous grid expansion is to connect sprawling industrial wind sites to the Southern New England market. Maine gets nothing except thousands of turbines littering the rural landscpae, hundreds of miles of ridgelines blasted away, thousands of acres of clearcuts and powerlines everywhere. Where is the outrage? Beware, there could be a 345 kv line coming to your backyard!