Monhegan Waters – Monhegan Commons

Search Suspended

September 11, 2011 Jim

Monhegan Island – The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended their search for a thirty-two year old man who they say was swept out to sea near Monhegan Island. Full Story Here…

Search continues for man swept from Monhegan rocks

September 10, 2011 Jim

Monhegan — As of Saturday morning, Sept. 10, the U.S. Coast Guard, state and local agencies, and several good Samaritans are still searching the waters off of Monhegan Island for a 32-year-old man who was swept out to sea by a wave, Friday afternoon, Sept. 9. Full story on VillageSoup.com

Winter’s Waters

December 21, 2010December 21, 2010 Peter

Manana by Douglas

October 14, 2010 Peter

Wind Power Comment Period closes Oct. 5

October 4, 2010 Jim

The comment period on the Monhegan wind power project is about to close. Story Here

Azores, are you there?

September 28, 2010 Peter

Fox Islands windmill sound recording – Monhegan’s future?

July 28, 2010 Peter

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’ sound on Vinalhaven. Recorded midnight January 1st 2010, when sound meter registered 49-49 dBa. Recorded on porch of a […]

Monhegan Sand

June 25, 2010 Peter

UMaine prof on Monhegan wind test site, offshore windpower’s future & the end of land-based windmilling. Audio.

May 22, 2010May 24, 2010 Peter

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’s Habib Dagher, PhD, leader of the DeepCwind Consortium said that the conflicts over the siting and effects of land-based and nearshore windfarming […]

Maine ocean windfarming bill passed into law: Monhegan & more distant offshore get the incentives

April 12, 2010April 13, 2010 Peter

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 […]

Ocean Wind Bill: divided we stand.

March 23, 2010March 23, 2010 Peter

LD1810, the Maine Legislature’s bill LD 1811,to authorize offshore wind leasing seems to be coming apart interestingly. Instead of filling state waters with windmills – a plan that enraged Maine’s fisheries, a new plan has emerged. By Tuesday night we’ll know if it has been adopted. It would be something like this: 1. State Waters: Rather […]

LD 1810 ocean windmills bill worksession: Monhegan R&D site to be only windmills in state waters? Meeting again Tuesday 1pm

March 19, 2010March 20, 2010 Peter

On March 18, 2010, Maine Legislature’s Utility and Energy Committee held a 2 hour work session on LD 1810, the bill to implement the recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force. Scroll down this page to listen to the speakers and legislators at this worksession. Read the Maine Lobstermens Association’s March 15, 2010 letter to […]

Key Maine legislators tell committee: No windfarms in state waters – bad for fishermen. Monhegan discussed

March 13, 2010March 15, 2010 Peter

Thursday March 11th, the Legislature’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 & 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 […]

Fishermens Forum – Audio of Monhegan R&D floating windsite talk, other nearshore wind issues

March 7, 2010 Peter

“What does Ocean Energy and Wind Power mean for Maine’s Fishermen?” was title of a seminar at the Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport Maine on Saturday March 6, 2010. The discussion included a review of the UM R&D wind site off Monhegan by scientist Neal Pettigrew, a description of the new bill LD 1810 that would […]

Monhegan’s possible wind futures.

February 15, 2010February 15, 2010 Peter

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 ‘no significant impact’, why should 3 or 4? Or…more? Take a look at what […]

Filling in the interstices: lunar power industry wishes to join wind wannabes in planned Monhegan energy test zone

February 15, 2010February 15, 2010 Peter

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 […]

Not just Monhegan

February 11, 2010February 10, 2010 Peter

I agree that there’s a serious possibility that alternative energy will impact the quality of natural beauty, not only on Monhegan, but many, many places that alternative energy is introduced. Living in Vermont, I accept that. We will have to sacrifice some vistas, mountaintops. But for me, cell towers and telephone lines already pollute the […]

Monhegan offshore wind case – 1st clash between Huber & Big Wind.

February 6, 2010February 6, 2010 Peter

(1) February 4, 2010), attorney Jeffrey Thaler of Bernstein Shur contacted me to discuss having his two new clients – the University of Maine System and the DeepCwind Consortium – becoming intervenors in my case against the Bureau of Parks and Lands decision to designate, 2 miles south of Monhegan, the Maine Offshore Wind Research […]

The “thirty pieces of silver” bill.

February 2, 2010February 3, 2010 Peter

Some here have wondered about what sort of economic benefits Monhegan might gain from becoming “host community” to the University of Maine’s wind turbine research operations. What wergild, if any, would be acceptable? Today at the Maine Legislature, there was a work session of the Utilities and Energy Committee on LD 1504, which has been […]

Front page of petition sent to Maine Superior Court re monhegan offshore wind test area. R&D center. Jan 25, 2010

Maine Superior Court asked to suspend 12/14/09 designation of Maine Offshore Wind Research Center.

January 27, 2010January 28, 2010 Peter

Legal Action. Until new state wind rules are set and enforced during decision making, Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands has no business selecting and designating Maine offshore wind energy test areas. Local media coverage: Herald Gazette and Maine Public Radio News That’s what conservation activist Ron Huber wants Maine Superior Court to confirm. […]