April 2009
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More outrageous legislation.."An Act To Establish...
I listened to the testimony on this bill today on the Legislative webcast. Speaker Hannah Pingree introduced the bill. “Decisions we make today will shape the future”. The bill essentially requires anyone thinking of putting a shovel in the ground to first analyze what impact the project will have on global warming and plan accordingly. It is very broad in its reach but hazy in its...
Demand for power falls with economy
CMP’s industrial customers used 14 percent less in the first quarter, reflecting slow times in manufacturing. By TUX TURKEL, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald April 10, 2009
Electricity sales to Central Maine Power Co.’s industrial customers fell 14 percent during the first quarter of the year, a stunning decline that helps illustrate how hard the...
Industrial wind project targets southern Vermont
It was standing room only tonight at the Tinmouth Community Center, as Per White-Hansen, an entrepreuner from Charlotte, Vermont gave a power point presentation showing 60 turbines covering 13 miles of mountain ridges in the towns of Ira, Clarendon, Poultney and Middletown Springs. The company’s website describes this as the “northern” portion of a larger project that extends as...
Those pesky turbine contracts: Important questions
By Nancy Murphy
As I prepared for this month’s column, my initial thought was to present brief quotations from industrial wind turbine contracts that had crossed my desk. I quickly discovered that approach would be woefully inadequate and insufficient. Just reading quotes and clauses from these contracts would not fully convey the underlying risks to landowners who choose to enter into such...