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Jul 30, 2024

DeepCwind Consortium Website 2010 to 2015

DeepCwind Consortium Its evolution 2010 - 2015

Scroll down to enjoy the evolution of the consortium's website www.deepcwind.org/

from its first known version June 11, 2010 to its final version May 2, 2015.

Courtesy of the Internet Archive

Reading through around thirty versions lets one learn a great deal about how the Consortium grew and evolved under the leadership of the University of Maine's Jake Ward & Habib Dagher,

From their June 2010 version below comes this summation:

"In 2009, the Department of Energy granted the University of Maine $7.1 million over the course of two years to launch the DeepCwind Consortium National Research Program. The primary objectives are to:

* Validate floating platform models for deepwater offshore wind turbines.
* Optimize floating platform designs by integrating more durable, lighter, hybrid composite materials.
* Estimate the cost of energy for deepwater offshore wind technologies.
* Compare the benefits and costs of composite materials to conventional materials in deepwater offshore wind manufacturing, design, and construction.

The Final archived version May 2, 2015 Celebrates the anchoring of their 1/8 sized prototype of their floating windturbine adjacent to Castine in upper Penobscot Bay.

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2010 websites

June 11, 2010

July 28, 2010

Sept 1, 2010

Dec 27, 2010

Dec 30, 2010

2011 websites

2012 websites

2013 websites

May 31. 2013

June 29, 2013

July 28, 2013

Sept 15, 2013

Oct 23, 2013

Nov 26, 2013

Dec 4, 2013

2014 websites

June 22, 2014

Sept 27, 2014

2015 websites

March 26, 2915

May 2, 2015 FINAL ARCHIVED ENTRY

Jul 29, 2024

Gulf of Maine history: website of UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium, 2010- 2015 entries

DeepCWind Archived

Archived website updates of the DeepCWind consortium. June 10, 2010-May2, 2015

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

May 2, 2015 FINAL ARCHIVED ANTRY

Jul 12, 2021

Maine Coast History March 2010 Legislative on LD`1810 Ocean Wind Bill Audios March 6, 11, 18th, 23, 24th

Maine history 2010

LD 1810 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force. Th

3/6/10 Maine Fishermens's forum Seminar on Maine fishermen and offshore wind. Note that NOBODY gets any applause. Q&A cut short. Photos from the seminar.

* Introduction Dierdre Gilbert Maine DMR 2min
* Beth Nagusky, MDEP Office of Innovation 13 mi
* George Lapointe, Department of Marine Resources 5 minutes
* Des Fitzgerald, Principle Power, Seattle. 10 Minutes
* Peter Hughes, Fishermen's Energy, New Jersey 12 minutes
* Neal Pettigrew, University of Maine on Monhegan R&D site 11 minutes
* Addison Ames, Vinalhaven Electric Coop 10 min
* Rob Snyder, Island Institute 10 minutes

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3/11/10 Maine Legislature's Utility &; Energy Committee Public Hearing on LD 1810 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force.

Meeting introduction Senator Barry Hobbins 7 minutes

* Senator Hobbins Sponsor of LD 1810 6 min
* Representative Leila Percy, Co chair Marine Resources Committee 2 min

* Beth Nagusky MDEP Energy Office 12 min
* Beth Nagusky questioned 18 min

* Senator Kevin Raye 8 min
* Rep Stacey Fitts, Co sponsor 12 min
* Rep Seth Berry 4:17 min

* George Lapointe. DMR 6 min
* George Lapointe Q & A 5 min
* Chuck Digate, Neptune Wind
* Chuck Digate, Neptune Q&A

* Bob Baynes. Lobsterman 2 min
* Shawn Mahoney, CLF 7 min

* John Ferland, Ocean Renewable Power Co 9 min
* Lance Burton of Castine 3 min
* Bill Staby, Resolute Energy (wave energy) 4min
* J. Monroe, Blue Water Dynamos 11 min

* Ron Huber, Penobscot Bay Watch 7 min

* Bob Moore, Dead River Oil, 11 min
* Ned Bulmer, Maine Energy Marketing Assn 9 min
* Carol Lee ex head of Bangor Hydro 7min
* Carol Lee, Q&A 6 min

* John Pierce of Harspwell 4 min
* Chris O'Neill, Saco 10 min

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March 18, 2010 Maine Legislature's Utility & Energy Committee work session # 1 on LD 1810
* Introduction to the Worksession 4min
* MDEP's Beth Nagusky on changes to Bill Part A 17 minutes
* MDEP's Nagusky Q&A session 11 minutes
* Maine Lobstermen's Association's Patrice Farrell, 3 & 1/2 min
* MDEP's Beth Nagusky on proposed changes to Part B of LD 1811
* Suzanne Sayre 2 min
* Ocean Renewable Energy Corp John Ferland
* Dianne Messer, advocate, Liberty Maine
* Chris O'Neill, Friends of Maine Mountains
* Todd Rousette (sp?) Preti Flaherty lawfirm
* MDEP's Beth Nagusky on more changes to Part B
* MDEPs Beth Nagusky on changes to Part C

March 23, 2010work session # 2 on LD 1810 * Introduction 90 seconds
* Dr Habib Dagher, University of Maine 10 minutes
* Dr. Habib Dagher, Q&;A 8 minutes
* MDEP's Beth Nagusky Q&A; 1 11 minutes
* Beth Nagusky QA 2 12 minutes
* Maine Lobstermens Assoc's Patrice McCarron 6 minutes
* Beth Nagusky Q&A; 4 9 minutes
* Beth Nagusky Q&A 5 17 minutes
* Beth Nagusky Q&A 6 to end of work session 19 minutes

March 24, 2010 work session # 3 on LD 1810 (Final worksession)
* Review of amendments 14 minutes
* BEP & Municipalities 13 min
* Preamble amendments. Criteria for projects 7 min
* Ocean wind green standard offer 12 min
* pricing and funding 8 min
* PUC questioned. What jobs? 16 min
* Pilot project RFP Cert of convenience 13 min
* Not enough info to make goals 9 min
* Renewable energy goals 10 min
* Rep Thibideau & Public Advocate Davies 8 min
* Stop hiding the costs. Make Maine leader. 8 min
* Involve Marine Resource Advisory Council 10 min
* Ocean wind green standard discussed 11 min
* Additional transmission line capacity issue 9 min
* Duplicate policy statements fix. Language review tomorrow 4 min
* Final Motion and discussion 8 min

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March 6, 2010

https://web.archive.org/web/20101127060626/http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_beth_nagusky_14min.mp3

http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_george_lapointe_5min.mp3

http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_des_fitzgerald_principlepower_10min.mp3

http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_peter_hughes_fishermensenergy_nj_12min.mp3

http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_neal_pettigrew_UME_11min.mp3

http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_addison_ames_vhaven_electcoop_10min.mp3

http://penbay.org/monhegan/audio/fishforum10/ff10_wind_rob_snyder_island_institute.mp3

March 11, 2010

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_ld1810_031110_intro.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_repr_leila_percy.mp3

https://web.archive.org/web/20101127025634/http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_bethnagusky.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_bethnagusky_q_a.mp3 17min40sec

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_senkevin_raye.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_repstacey_fitts_cosponsor.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_rep_seth_berry.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_geo_lapointe.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_geo_lapointe_dmr_qa.mp3 4min33sec

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_chuckdigate_neptunewind.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_bob_baynes_lobsterman.mp3 1min33sec

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_shawn_mahoneyclf.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_johnferland_orpc.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_lanceburton_castine_monh.mp3

https://web.archive.org/web/20101127025320/http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_bill_staby_resolute_energy.mp3 3min55sec

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_jmonroe_bluewaterdynamos.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_ronhuber_pbw.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_bobmoore_deadriverpres.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_ned_bulmer_mema.mp3 8:29

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_caroll_lee_xbangorhydro.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_johnpierce_harspwell.mp3

http://penbay.org/energy/utilcomm_031110/melegis_031110_ld1810_chris_oneil_saco.mp3 9min25sec

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Feb 26, 2017

FOAA 2016. ME Coastal Prog re Main AquaVentus April- November 2016

Maine Coastal Program's 11/22/16 response to FOAA request re Aquaventus/Volturnus. The FOPB request was for "Public records in custody of you or your staff dating from April 1, 2016 to November 14, 2016 that pertain to the Maine Aquaventus /Volturnus floating ocean wind turbines project, slated to occupy the Maine Offshore Wind Test Center." Below the links, see list of persons within these emails

Part 1 Articles and reports forwarded to each other

Full Part 2 All emails in one pdf file

Part 2A, Laura Singer to Matt Nixon 6/29/16 and 7/1/16

Part 2B Barbara Hitchcock to Singer & Singer to Hitchcock 7/5/16

Part 2C Barbara Hitchcock - Nixon 7/6/16

Part 2D Bensinger to Burrowes. 7/12/16 (twice)

Part 2E Barbara Hitchcock, Matt Nixon, Laura Singer, 7/5 & 7/6

Part 2F Beth Nagusky, Todd Burrowes 6/27/ 6/30, 7/18

Part 2G Nixon, Leyden, Burrowes, Marvinney. 7/18, 7/28, 11/1,

Part 2H FOPB FOAA request 11/14/16

State Agencies in emails

Kathleen Leyden <Kathleen.Leyden@maine.gov> Dir Maine Coastal Program (MCP)

Mark Bergeron <Mark.Bergeron@maine.gov> Dir DEP Bureau of Lands

Robert G. Marvinney <Robert.G.Marvinney@maine.gov> ME Geologic Survey

Patrick C. Woodcock <Patrick.C.Woodcock@maine.gov> Governor's Energy Office

Meredith Mendelson <Meredith.Mendelson@maine.gov> DMR Deputy Commissioner

Philip deMaynadier <Phillip.deMaynadier@maine.gov> DIFW Coordinator

Todd Burrowes <Todd.Burrowes@maine.gov> MCP federal consistency reviewer

Peggy Bensinger <Peggy.Bensinger@maine.gov> MDEP's Asst AG

Matthew Nixon <Matthew.E.Nixon@maine.gov> MCP GIS & Ocean Planning

Monhegan Residents in emails

* Barbara Hitchcock barbaramonhegan@gmail.com Monhegan resHitchcock House

* Laura T Singer <lsinger@maine.rr.com> Monhegan Resident

Wind Industry in emails

* Beth Nagusky <bnagusky@leedco.org> Lake Erie Energy Development ,Fmr Maine renewable energy czar

* Info@windindustry.com "website for the windindustry"

* Val Stori <val@cleanegroup.org> Clean Energy Group, http://www.cleanegroup.org/blog-author/val-stori/

Feb 22, 2017

Maine Legislators briefed 2/6/17 by UME ocean wind experts. Listen to Audio.

On February 7, 2017, UMaine professors Habib Dagher and Jake Ward gave the Maine Legislature's Energy Utility and Technology Committee a briefing on the status of the Maine Aqua Ventus 1 floating wind mills project proposed for state waters off Monhegan. Listen to either the complete briefing and Q &* A session or the briefing broken into sections

Audio in sections (Full 2/7/17 Offshorewind Briefing 53min)

Introduction 2 minutes

Habib Dagher Intro Pt One 8 min 29sec

Habib Dagher Intro Pt Two 10min22sec

Dagher Presents Pt One. 7min45sec

Dagher_describes test site 3min22sec

Dagher on driving cost down_ 4min

Dagher ends presentation.1min 40sec

Dagher & Jake Ward Q&A on progress of foreign floating windpower projects 1min42sec

Jake_Ward_final_Dagher 65sec.mp3

Dagher questioned about Statoil etc 5min27sec.mp3

Dagher is asked what legislature's role should be._2min 45se c.

Feb 17, 2017

Monhegan floating windmills project spun in Augusta 1/7/17 AUDIO ONLINE

Listen to two leaders of the of the University of Maine-led Maine AquaVentus project, Habib Dagher and Jake Ward on January 7, 2017 give the Maine Legislature'e Energy Utilities and Technology Committee (EUT) a 52 minute progress report and backgrounder on the plan to build two utility scale floating wind turbines and tow them to state waters off Monhegan. Island. Below the briefing audio are mp3s of the 2010 hearing and worksessions that created Maine offshore wind law

LISTEN TO EITHER
A. FULL 52 MINUTE briefing of EUT Committee on the Maine AquaVentus project by Habib Dagher & Jake Ward & QAs on Maine AquaVentus project.

B. The floating windpower briefing broken into sections

EUT Committee opens meeting 2min3sec

Dr.Habib Dagher's opening statement Pt 1. 8min29sec
Dr. Dagher's opening statement Pt 2. 10min 22sec

Dr. Dagher on anchoring technology 7min45sec

Dagher describes offshore test site 3min22sec
1min40sec

Dr Dagher gets question on Statoil's progress elsewhere_etc_5min27sec.mp3

Dr Dagher on other countries' progress in ocean windpower 1min 42sec.mp3

Senator Woodsome EUT committee chair asks Dagher what legislature can do. 2min45sec

Jake Ward's_& Dagher's final remarks_65,sec

BACKSTORY:
Audio recordings of 2010 EUT public hearing and worksessions on
LD 1810, An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force. (as passed into law)

Feb 15, 2010 Jake Ward describes LD 1810 to Monhegan audience

March 11, 2010 public hearing on LD 1810

March 18, 2010 EUT worksession on LD 1810

March 23 2010 EUT worksession on LD 1810

March 24, 2010, EUT worksession on LD 1810

Jan 11, 2017

Maine Coastal Program's 11/22/16 FOAA response on offshore wind project Aquaventus/ Volturnus

Maine Coastal Program's 11/22/16 response to Friends of Penobscot Bay's FOAA re Aquaventus/Volturnus

request was for "Public records in custody of you or your staff dating from April 1, 2016 to November 14, 2016 that pertain to the Maine Aquaventus /Volturnus floating ocean wind turbines project, slated to occupy the Maine Offshore Wind Test Center. (FOPB letter is page 34)

Much ado about trying to tweak the rules to make the state offshore wind test center into a permanent windpower site - which it certainly was not intended to be!

A bit of groaning about opposition from Protect Monhegan folks

FOAA Part One Pages 1-12 PDF Articles sent to each other

FOAA Part 2 Pages 13-34 PDF Emails between the people listed below

People and email addresses used within the FOAA'd material:

State Agencies

Kathleen Leyden <Kathleen.Leyden@maine.gov> Dir Maine Coastal Prog (MCP)

Mark Bergeron <Mark.Bergeron@maine.gov> Dir DEP Bureau of Lands

Robert G. Marvinney <Robert.G.Marvinney@maine.gov> ME Geologic Survey

Patrick C. Woodcock <Patrick.C.Woodcock@maine.gov> Governor's Energy Office

Meredith Mendelson <Meredith.Mendelson@maine.gov> DMR Deputy Commissioner

Philip deMaynadier <Phillip.deMaynadier@maine.gov> DIFW Coordinator

Todd Burrowes <Todd.Burrowes@maine.gov> MCP federal consistency reviewer

Peggy Bensinger <Peggy.Bensinger@maine.gov> MDEP's Asst AG

Matthew Nixon <Matthew.E.Nixon@maine.gov> MCP GIS & Ocean Planning

Monhegan Residents

* Barbara Hitchcock <barbaramonhegan@gmail.com> Monhegan residen,t Hitchcock House

* Laura T Singer <lsinger@maine.rr.com> Monhegan Resident

Wind Industry

* Beth Nagusky <bnagusky@leedco.org> Lake Erie Energy Development. Former head ME Governor's Energy Office- Baldacci

* Val Stori <val@cleanegroup.org> Clean Energy Group, http://www.cleanegroup.org/blog-author/val-stori/

* Info@windindustry.com "Website for the windindustry"

Jun 10, 2016

Maine offshore wind funding 2016 : French naval contractor getting a big piece of the pie?

Perched at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, Monhegan Island could soon find itself hosting a French company with no experience with offshore windpower. DCNS has become a partner in Maine Aqua Ventus, the University of Maine-led consortium working to develop and deploy two fullsize prototype floating wind turbines off in state waters off Monhegan.

With contractors like DCNS, $40 million won't be going very far. What's DCNS' bite of the Maine Aqua Ventus funding pie? Why them and not BIW or another Maine company?

DCNS cites "Our knowledge of complex systems and maritime technologies, as well as our expertise in managing complex programs..." as reason for hiring out-of-country.

Those skills are not to be found here in the Dawn State? DCNS is simply a big naval contractor that, having snapped up some tidal power businesses, now proposes to expand into ocean windpower, of which they, by their own admission have zero experience.
Milking the cash cow. How much do the various individuals within the ivory tower & the consultancies feeding off this grant expect to earn? Not to mention expense accounts and junketing around our windy world, as consumed much of DOE's seed grant that ended up with Dagher's Folly, a dwarf prototype too small and frail to be tested at Maine's ocean wind test center! Don't think it can't happen again. Leadership of the consortium whose prototype failed the DOE competition hasn't changed. Maine is back in only because of the inability of the winner states to follow through. Do we really expect different results from the same crew that mismanaged its federal seed money? Isn't that the definition of.......naive? Worse: Statoil's shortlived wind effort here was a model of transparency compared to the DeepCwind team's consistent opacity. It took litigation to free up information about their offshore wind test center selection process. Top windie Habib Dagher absolutely refuses to debate with critics of "his" project or even appear on a wind energy panel if an "unbeliever" is allowed too.
In short Maine's ocean wind power consortium, under whichever name: DeepCwind or Maine Aquaventus has always been more like a private Game of Thrones: a great wasteful scramble for personal advantage, with the smallfolk not welcome.

Maine can do better than that

Jan 29, 2016

2016 Offshore Maine floating windpower 1/29/16 webinar. Audio & slides

Audio and slides from the 1/29/16 webinar presentation "Maine's Floating Offshore Wind Project: Moving Forward".

Speakers were Habib Dagher, Director, University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composite Center, and Jeff Thaler, Asst University Counsel and Maine AquaVentus Legal Counsel,

The two cover the past, present and future of floating ocean wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. Speakers refer to this slideshow

Habib Dagher

Introduction 3min37sec

Habib Dagher part 1 15 minutes

Habib Dagher part 2 14min55sec

Jeff Thaler 4 minutes

Habib Dagher Part 3 5 minutes

Q &A Part 1 6 minutes

Jeff Thaler

Q&A Part 2 to end of webinar 6 min

UME's mini prototype in Castine harbor storm

May 8, 2014

Dagher gets knife in back from US Dept of Energy - Maine's not an ocean windpower grant finalist!

Appears that the feds figured out the good doctor Dagher just isn't ready for prime time.

Maine didn't get the $46 million dollar grant to build two fullsize floating windturbines off Monhegan.

The UMaine-led floating ocean winturbines project has suffered terribly from the near paranoid insularity of the project under Principle Investigator Dagher, who spurned suggestions from anyone outside his charmed circle. (Charmed by the allure of all those tens of millions and what a grand time they would've had expending it

DeepCwind is getting three million federal bucks in the nationwide competitino. but according to a University source this 3 million isn't even enough to make a single full size prototype. One that can actually be tested, unlike the ridiculous toy windmill that the Maine the windies rushed out and wouldn't take out to the test area - They knew it would sink!

So the feds took a look at this furtive public-be-damned-operation that UMaine engineering professor Habib Dagher, Principal Investigator for the DeepCwind Consortium and its spin off progeny has been running.

They gazed upon the tiny toy windturbine bobbing off Castine. Too shabbily built to be safely tested at the test site off Monhegan, the design inspired no confidence among the grantors. Where did the money given DeepCwind to buld a fullscale prototype go? they must have wondered!

This is an important stay. The University and its hangers-on in the DeepCwind Consortium presumably figured that if they could get away with soiling Monhegan's viewshed with its heavy public use and high scenic values, then all marine viewsheds of the Maine coast are vulnerable. Maine has spent too many years stewarding

Floating off shore windpower extraction is worth trying out, but not when it is needlessly view-polluting; or within the Gulf's ecologically (hence economically) vital coastal currents. Nor are great sweeping blades the only way to extract energy from the seawind. Dr. Dagher should follow his own advice and commit to siting his floaters beyond the curvature of the earth from any inhabited part of Maine.

The scent of imminent Big Money may have pushed that civic responsibility from his mind. Now that DeepCwind Consortium and its spinoff children are no longer suffering that temptation, perhaps they will step outside of their echo chamber and listen - really LISTEN -to the existing Gulf of Maine communities of interest about how to avoid wrecking or damaging their existing economic and cultural sectors and the manylayered heavily webbed ecosystem that fills these waters.

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

* Early Maine offshore wind timeline: January 2005 to February 2010

* 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

* Results from 2010 FOIA request about offshore Maine windpower to US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (79 pages)

Audio recordings. MP3s.

Maine Fishermens Forums Ocean windpower talks

2012 Fishermens Forum Ocean windpower meeting

2011 Fishermens Forum Ocean windpower meeting

2010 Fishermens Forum Ocean windpower meeting

2009 Fishermen's Forum Ocean windpower meeting

Other recordings of importance

LEGISLATURE

March 11,18,23,24 2010 Legislative hearing & 3 worksessions on Maine offshore wind law,

February 16, 2010 Audio of DeepCwind presentation to Monhegan Islanders on 2/16/10

July 11, 2013 Webinar "Making History with Volturnus" (wmv)

June 26, 2012 Statoil info meeting, Rockland, Maine: six interviews

(Including Jake Ward of DeepCwind)

June 16, 2012 MPBN interviews Habib Dagher and John Ferland

February 16, 2010 DeepCwind presentation to Monhegan Islanders.

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

* Simulated windfarms off southern New England coast at various distances Cape wind project)

* 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

EFFECTS ON BIRDS

* Strong concerns from the birding community about the Monhegan offshore wind site.

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.

January 2012 Ocean windmills, turbulence avoidance and zooplankton.

* 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?"

* October 2007 About the "wind shadow" effect of offshore windfarms

* 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.

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