Monhegan – Monhegan Commons

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

Wind Off the Water

January 17, 2010January 27, 2010 Peter

Legal Action. Maine Superior Court was asked Monday to suspend Bureau of Parks & Lands decision approving Monhegan offshore wind energy test center, test area. Click picture of complaint’s first page for 9 pg pdf of legal petition filed January 25th. Conservation activist & deep ecologist Ron Huber has asked Maine Superior Court to rule […]

Gull Rock

January 15, 2010 Peter