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Aug 18, 2024

Gulf of Maine History 2010: Feds, state set up Maine Offshore Wind Task Force. State told: map offshore wind sites. AUDIO

Feds set up Maine Offshore Wind Task Force.  Tells Maine: prepare to turn federal & EEZ waters off state into offshore wind farms. 
State officials must come up with maps of wind-suitable areas off Maine by next Task Force meeting.
At Issue:
Earlier this year, Maine's legislature passed and governor Baldacci signed LD 1810 n Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Oc... This sets up state offshore windfarm laws and regulations. Key among the provisions of the new law is directing offshore wind power efforts at least ten miles offshore and limiting it to floating technology in deepwater locations.

But the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy would like to change that to all federal waters from three miles offshore and out. Their plans also include promoting shallow water "monopole" type windmills, driven right into the seafloor, instead of floating. While state officials and legislators questions the federal representatives, the resolution of these two plans is not clear.
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AUDIO MP3 RECORDINGS:
 
MAINE TASK FORCE MEETING
 
SEPTEMBER 124, 2010
 
, Hutchinson Center, Belfast Maine
FEDERAL BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT

MORNING SESSION
***Introduction 1 Meeting Facilitator 7 minutes








AFTERNOON SESSION











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While the federal plan would not affect most Maine lobstermen, the announcement confirms concerns raised after passage of the bill by groundfishermen that they, along with scallopers, shrimpers and other offshore fishermen, could find access to their fishing grounds at possible jeopardy. According to Aditi Mirani, Federal Project Coordinator for Maine, concerned citizens and state agencies have ten days to send their comments and decisions /positions about the new "charter".

Initially, the Task Force organizers had planned to limit public question and answer session to the close of the meeting,. However, after a request by a citizen, the governor's office had the agenda modified to allow for him to ask a question earlier in the meeting. The questioner noted that the agency is organizing ocean windfarming along the entire Atlantic coast, and that impacts to migratory species like tuna, whales and seabirds from windfarming off North Carolina or New Jersey could require that Maine reduce its offshore wind impacts to those migratory species. Would the Federal task convene a coastwise review of this issue? The officials said they would look into it.

Key people to contact: Aditi Mirani (703)-787-1752 Aditi.Mirani@boemre.gov, Federal coordinator for Maine offshore wind projects. // Karin Tilberg 207/287-353 Karin.Tilberg@maine.gov Governor's Sr. Policy Advisor.
// Beth Nagusky (207)287-2812 Beth.A.Nagusky@maine.gov Maine DEP Commissioner

AUDIO MP3 RECORDINGS:
 
MAINE TASK FORCE MEETING
 
SEPTEMBER 124, 2010
 
, Hutchinson Center, Belfast Maine
FEDERAL BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION AND ENFORCEMENT

MORNING SESSION
***Introduction 1 Meeting Facilitator 7 minutes








AFTERNOON SESSION










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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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Jan 12, 2014

Maine's floating windpower project. The backstory & unfilled gaps in knowledge 2005 - 2014

Below find details about the Maine offshore windpower initiative from 2005 to the present:  government documents,  simulations, audio recordings of Maine's legislature, offshore wind industry fishermen and public; scientific/technical reports, birder concerns and more, relating to the proposal to set up floating windmills off Monhegan, Maine.

Agency and NGO Background Documents
* Letters, memos, reports that the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands produced & received in 2009 & 2010 while selecting & approving the Monhegan offshore windpower site. 359 pages

Audio recordings. MP3s.

July 11, 2013 Webinar "Making History with Volturnus" (wmv) 
(Including Jake Ward of DeepCwind)
November 29, 2009 Maine Offshore Energy '09 
June 15-18, 2009 Energy Ocean 2009

SITING, SCENIC IMPACTS & SIMULATIONS  
Dr. Habib Dagher of UMaine has repeatedly stated the importance of siting ocean windmills sufficiently offshore that they are over the horizon from the mainland. Listen to two excerpted quotes and then the full recordings. 
* Two excerpts from audio statements by UME's Habib Dagher (May 20, 2010 & August  11, 2011)  
* August 11, 2011   Listen to Dr Dagher answer a question about siting the windmills 20 or more miles offshore. Island Institute presentation at Strand Theater, Rockland.
* May 20, 2010  Listen to Dr. Dagher's 45 minute talk at the Rockport Opera House calling for them to be 20 to 50 miles offshore.   45 minutes.   

SIMULATIONS
* Simulation of Volturnus floating windturbines' likely impact on Maine lobster larvae (1 min long)  Aqua Ventus floating windturbines location off off Monhegan will create a large windshadow and ocean current-slowing zone, where  induced upwelling and downwelling waters in the energy footprint of the turbines may divert downeast lobster larvae-bearing coastal current away from the midcoast.  See Jumars 2010 report, below, for details

SCIENCE. 
University of Maine's "research cluster" of faculty scientists reviewing or taking part in the offshore wind process.

April 20, 2012  New ocean windfarm fishery impact study: drop in local species; increases in exotics.   The effect of floating wind on the plankton and other sealife that relies on  surface water currents.


* 2010 Report. Dr. Peter Jumars, Director of the UMaine School of Marine Sciences.  Read Page 13 of his report "Anticipated Environmental Effects of Offshore Windpower Development in the Gulf of Maine". Dr. Jumars cites Norwegian govt scientist Göran Broström's report "On the influence of large wind farms on the upper ocean circulation." (Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 2008) .Göran Broström wrote that the ocean windfarms  reduce wind energy striking the waters  surrounding the turbine  "sufficiently enough that the local ecosystem will most likely be strongly influenced by the presence of a wind farm". Dr Jumars wrote: "This effect could be important offshore because deep waters of the Gulf of Maine stratify in summer. Would it be bad or good?" 

* May 1, 2012 Study of the nature of the "Gigawatt wakes" that windturbines create behind them. Viewed from an efficiency point of view but useful to ecological point of view also.