Maine Legislator - Whose Wife Quashes Anti-Wind Suits - Confesses Wind Energy Isn't, um, Perfect.

[NNadir]

Now that is a surprise.

This is from today's Bangor Daily News, which was not, as we know, elected to speak for the entire State of Maine.

The spokesperson for the entire State of Maine is an E&E blogger who can tell you that if it's in Maine, and he hasn't heard of it, well then, it's not in Maine.

Anyway, for what it's worth, here's what it says in the Bangor Daily News:

AUGUSTA, Maine — As wind power expands in Maine, the industry is feeling a gust of pushback from those who worry about the turbines’ noise and impact on scenery and about whether too many towers are going up too fast.

“The wind industry has had a decade head start working behind the scenes, working below the radar and positioning itself to have a favored status,” said Brad Blake of Cape Elizabeth, spokesman for the Citizens Task Force on Wind Power, an umbrella group of residents fighting wind projects around the state. “It’s been a stealth attack on rural Maine, and the citizens of Maine are catching up...”

...While it may seem as though the flurry of wind worries is new, the matter has long been a subject of public debate in Maine, observed state Rep. Jon Hinck, House chairman of the Utilities and Energy Committee, who was an environmental advocate before being elected to the Legislature.

Hinck, D-Portland, noted that the issue has been debated in Maine at least since the mid-1990s, when a proposal to rezone areas in western Maine’s Boundary Mountains for wind development prompted opponents to organize. Now, with turbines up and turning, people have developed a variety of perspectives on wind power, he said.

“In terms of opposition in Maine, I don’t think it has too many consistent threads,” said Hinck, whose attorney wife represents the wind power industry in Maine. “There is not, as far as I know, a perfect source of power.”

No conflict of interest there, I'd guess!?!

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/137212.html">Maine residents push back against wind power farms.

Have a nice evening.

[crim son]

1. Yeah, read that one.

Apparently others don't care for the BDN either; they evacuated the building because of a bomb threat this morning.

I live in Bangor and have seen exactly two small turbines erected in the last several years - in the city, I mean. BFD.