A new study that showed the positive impact on health and environment was printed in the Sun Journal on May 6. The study found that carbon dioxide emissions were reduced by some 490,000 tons in 2013. Other benefits were from reduced sulfur dioxide by 201 tons and nitrogen oxide by 123 tons, both of which […]
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S. McGuire: Stop the blight on Western Maine
A few years ago, a civil engineer, a man who builds wind power installations in the Midwest, spoke at a public hearing in Dixfield. He said the people of Maine should fight industrial wind as hard as they could. He said, “You can’t live near these things.” You also can’t live near the high-tension power […]
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C. Bussiere: No wind power in Dixfield
I moved to Dixfield in 2007. Since moving here, the town has added to the police force and town officials always answered that it was a good investment. Dixfield taxpayers have paid to remove the town from the over-priced district. Still waiting on the separation but … a good idea. When I bought property in […]
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Vote ‘yes’ to say ‘no’ to wind power
Will wind power benefit Dixfield? Wind turbines would permanently destroy Colonel Holman and the Common. Towns across Maine are regretting what they have done. Maine’s landscape is being destroyed. Roxbury residents hate the noise and the ugly towers. Wind power is not worth the destruction. The electricity is exported to Connecticut but the local environmental […]
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D. Lutick: Selectmen have own agenda
Dixfield’s selectmen should be subject to the citizens’ will. They should be ethical. But with the issue of wind power, their biased beliefs undermine an economic opportunity for Dixfield. In 2012, Dixfield voters approved an ordinance that would bring wind turbines, along with tax and civic benefits to the town. Grammatical flaws resulted in stalling. […]
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With sights set on lower electricity prices, LePage looks to transform Maine energy landscape
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine became the regional wind power leader under Democratic Gov. John Baldacci, but change is in the air as Gov. Paul LePage makes an aggressive push away from his predecessor’s renewable energy policies. The outspoken Republican, who says wind power is too expensive, is looking to hydropower from Canada and natural gas […]
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J. Knight: Wind power a win-win for Dixfield
Towns in the River Valley have long tried to attract new businesses to the area with little success. In 2009, Dixfield was given a chance at a new industrial wind farm with 11 wind turbines from Patriot Renewables. The majority of voters and townspeople supported the plan and still support it. The wind industry has […]
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LD 1750: A study in how special interests get their way in the Legislature
The industrial wind lobby was not happy. Its plans to keep building hundreds of wind turbines in rural Maine were threatened by the LePage administration. During the summer of 2013, the Department of Environmental Protection, run by a Gov. Paul LePage appointee, had made things more difficult for wind developers by putting more requirements into […]
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CMP, Emera announce wind power project in Bridgewater
PORTLAND — The state’s two largest utilities on Wednesday announced plans for a transmission project to what would be the state’s single-largest wind turbine project in Bridgewater. Central Maine Power Co. and Emera Maine said the transmission plan to connect the planned 250-megawatt wind farm to New England’s grid would allow developer EDP Renewables to […]
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Report forecasts wind power will generate 4,200 jobs in 2015
PORTLAND — Maine wind power supporters are touting the industry’s economic impact ahead of the legislative session. A report Tuesday by the Maine Center for Business & Economic Research at the University of Southern Maine says the industry will produce 4,200 jobs in 2015 and that the industry is poised to double over the next […]