River Valley
Wind farm forum set for Friday
DIXFIELD — An informational meeting on a proposed wind farm for a ridge that includes Colonel Holman Mountain is planned for 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Dirigo High School.
Dan McKay, one of the organizers for the event, confirmed that Tom Carroll of Patriot Renewables LLC, local physician Dr. Albert Aniel, Roxbury summer resident Steve Thurston of Vermont and local businessman Tom Powell will sit on the panel.
Townspeople enacted a six-month moratorium on the development of wind farms soon after the Quincy, Mass., company submitted a tentative plan to construct eight to 20 wind turbines on privately owned land in Dixfield.
During the moratorium, which can be extended another six months, an ad hoc committee will devise regulations for wind farm development. Those regulations will be acted on by voters sometime next year.
Patriot Renewables is also in the early stages of planning wind farm projects in Woodstock and Carthage.
The company plans to open a storefront in the former Holmes Market building on Main Street, Dixfield, within the next few days. Carroll will staff the informational space several days a week to answer questions from residents. He will also have exhibits on display of the company's plan.
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almost forgot there is
almost forgot there is several hundred acres of land that the town voted to protect from development which is being planned on having windmills built on. Now this land was voted by the people of Carthage to protect and since there was no town meeting the selectmen decided to allow the windmills to be built on it.
To be you can have the
To be you can have the windmills. but just so you know a little bit more about them. I am a resident of carthage and I am opposed to these windmills. The question I ask is if the windmills are so great then why are they playing dirty pool to put them up. Let me explain. The head town selectman wants the windmills and will do anything for them. As I write this post I am still waiting for the town meeting for 2009. Normally the town meeting is held on super bowl sunday (I hate that but it is easy to remember when it is) but this year is was cancelled and never rescheduled. With no town meeting there was no budget commitee meeting to plan the budget (with no town warrent no budget). The town is running on 2008 budget and rules. Also one of the three selectmen's term is up. Meaning the election of that selectman was to be held at the town meeting but since there was no town meeting there was no election. But dont worry fokes since the town is running on 2008 budget and rules the selectman is still casting is votes and being paid without being elected(the selectman is well liked and does a good job he would have been elected again). Why is all this happening its because the head town selectman wants the windmills and knows if the town meets in a large number (lets say at a town meeting) we would go to the hills with torches and pitchforks (not real but you get my meaning).
Final thought is this I live in the area where the Dixfield and Carthage windmills are going up. the two mountains the windmills are going on are at each side of the same valley. Think about you are driving up route 2 looking at the beatiful mountian side and then you turn into windtunnel valley formly know as mystic valley.
Please come to SOUTH
Please come to SOUTH Waterford ,me we have several places Ideal for wind mills...
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Numbers and Nimbys
One gentleman asked for published, peer-reviewed information on wind power. He was told, correctly, that such information can be hard to get, although there is of course published work showing serious effects on bird and bat populations. However, one source does come to mind: the US Energy Information Administration. They publish information about how much money we spend as taxpayers to support various forms of energy, and it can be quite interesting. For instance, natural gas gets $0.25 per MWh; coal gets $0.44. The owners of industrial wind turbines get $23.37/MWh.
Does that answer anyone's questions about why Angus King et al are working so hard to get in on this racket?
If the SJ thinks that windpower is a valuable part of the mix, and that subsidies are important, perhaps the answer is to have a level playing field here. And incidentally, according to the head of ISO-New England, wind turbines are so spread out over the landscape as to require a massive investment in transmission lines with an estimated cost of $19-25 Billion.... we would be paying for that, of course, on our electric bills. And paying again in terms of lost tourism revenue.
Another item that has come up here is the usual accusation about anti-windpower people just being a bunch of NIMBYs. Well, I can't speak for others but I sure hope I'm one! Love, charity, and caring for one's neighborhood are virtues that begin at home, and then hopefully go out to encompass more and more of the world and its people. I think it's high time people quit using this as an insult-- it's like sneering at someone for loving his mother.
However there is a kind of NIMBY that deserves the perjorative use of the term, and that is one who supports an activity as long as it's in someone else's backyard, not his. Thinking of the Natural Resources Council of Maine here... I'm not a member any more!
I've read a lot of words from Maine people who are fighting industrial wind, but have never heard one say it was fine as long as somebody else had to suffer, not them. So please, if you want to use the term make sure you use it wisely.
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