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	<title>Monhegan Commons &#187; Monhegan Waters</title>
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	<description>Monhegan Commons is a search for the essence and spirit of Monhegan.</description>
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		<title>Fox Islands windmill sound recording &#8211; Monhegan&#8217;s future?</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/fox-islands-windmill-sound-recording-monhegans-future/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/fox-islands-windmill-sound-recording-monhegans-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Did You Know?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Monheganers can now contemplate the sort of sound that would accompany an on-island windmill,  should one be built on your fair isle.  Just listen to a  podcast of an hourlong unedited recording of Fox Islands Windmills&#8217;  sound on Vinalhaven.    Recorded midnight January 1st 2010, when sound meter registered 49-49 dBa.   Recorded on porch of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monhegan Sand</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/monhegan-sand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photo Gallery]]></category>

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		<title>UMaine prof on Monhegan wind test site, offshore windpower&#8217;s future &amp; the end of land-based windmilling. Audio.</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/umaine-prof-on-monhegan-wind-test-site-offshore-windpowers-future-the-end-of-land-based-windmilling-audio/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/umaine-prof-on-monhegan-wind-test-site-offshore-windpowers-future-the-end-of-land-based-windmilling-audio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floating windmills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Habib Dagher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windfarms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At a Maine Wind forum May 20, 2010 at the Rockport Opera House, locations  as varied as Ragged Mountain, Vinalhaven, Monhegan and waters 20 to 50 miles offshore were discussed. The key speaker University of Maine&#8217;s Habib Dagher, PhD, leader of the DeepCwind Consortium said that the conflicts over the siting and effects of land-based and nearshore windfarming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine ocean windfarming bill passed into law: Monhegan &amp; more distant offshore get the incentives</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/maine-ocean-windfarming-bill-passed-into-law-monhegan-more-distant-offshore-get-the-incentives/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/maine-ocean-windfarming-bill-passed-into-law-monhegan-more-distant-offshore-get-the-incentives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floating windmills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LD 1810]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windfarms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several takes on the conclusion of LD 1810, An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force What all  sources agree on is that the state  is leapfrogging over state waters to much windier  sites ten miles and more offshore for utility size windfarming. It is also noted that the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ocean Wind Bill: divided we stand.</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/ocean-wind-bill-divided-we-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/ocean-wind-bill-divided-we-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nearshore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windfarms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LD1810, the Maine Legislature&#8217;s bill LD 1811,to authorize offshore wind leasing seems to be coming apart interestingly. Instead of filling state waters with windmills &#8211; a plan that enraged Maine&#8217;s fisheries, a new plan has emerged. By Tuesday night we&#8217;ll know if it has been adopted. It would be something like this: 1. State Waters: Rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LD 1810 ocean windmills bill worksession: Monhegan R&amp;D site to be only windmills in state waters? Meeting again Tuesday 1pm</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/ld-1810-ocean-windmills-bill-worksession-windfarms-driven-ten-miles-offshore-meeting-again-tuesday-1pm/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/ld-1810-ocean-windmills-bill-worksession-windfarms-driven-ten-miles-offshore-meeting-again-tuesday-1pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, 2010, Maine Legislature&#8217;s Utility and Energy Committee held a  2 hour work session on LD 1810, the bill to implement the recommendations of the Governor&#8217;s Ocean Energy Task Force.  Scroll down  this page to listen to the speakers and legislators at this worksession. Read the Maine Lobstermens Association&#8217;s March 15, 2010 letter to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Maine legislators tell committee: No windfarms in state waters &#8211; bad for fishermen. Monhegan discussed</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/no-windfarms-in-state-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/no-windfarms-in-state-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LD 1810]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windfarms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday March 11th, the Legislature&#8217;s Utility and Energy Committee held its  public hearing on LD 1810. Listen to the legislators and testimony  to them by MDEP,  DMR, Neptune Energy &#38; other would-be wind industrialists, and opponents and supporters of the same. Lance Burton describes  to legislators his life on Monhegan and in Castine and what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishermens Forum &#8211; Audio of Monhegan R&amp;D floating windsite talk, other nearshore wind issues</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/fishermens-forum-audio-of-monhegan-rd-floating-windsite-talk-other-nearshore-wind-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/fishermens-forum-audio-of-monhegan-rd-floating-windsite-talk-other-nearshore-wind-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island Institutute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nearshore wind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samoset DMR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What does Ocean Energy and Wind Power mean for Maine&#8217;s Fishermen?&#8221; was title of a seminar at the Fishermen&#8217;s Forum in Rockport Maine on Saturday March 6, 2010.  The discussion included a review of the UM  R&#38;D  wind site off Monhegan by scientist Neal Pettigrew,  a description of  the  new bill LD 1810 that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monhegan&#8217;s possible wind futures.</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/monhegans-possible-wind-futures/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/monhegans-possible-wind-futures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A gentleman  living on the shore of Lake Michigan ,who loves that  great freshwater sea, sent these surrealistic possible futures of Monhegan and Manana, should they becomes a locus of Maine wind generation.  After all, if one or two windpoles have &#8216;no significant impact&#8217;, why should 3 or 4?  Or&#8230;more?   Take a look at what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filling in the interstices: lunar power industry wishes to join wind wannabes in planned Monhegan energy test zone</title>
		<link>http://monhegan.com/filling-in-the-interstices-lunar-power-industry-wishes-to-join-wind-wannabes-in-planned-monhegan-energy-testone/</link>
		<comments>http://monhegan.com/filling-in-the-interstices-lunar-power-industry-wishes-to-join-wind-wannabes-in-planned-monhegan-energy-testone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Monhegan Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lunar power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monhegan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tidal power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Resolute Marine of Boston  hopes to add lunar power  energy extractors to the same two square mile area south of Monhegan that the wind industry plans to use to develop giant floating offshore wind turbines, that would be emplaced by the hundreds a few miles east of the  test site in federal waters.  Now, if [...]]]></description>
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