Maine Aquaventus FOAA of DMR 2017 names and organisations listed

Maine Aqua Ventus FOAA of Maine Coastal Program DMR Maine Department of Marine Resources. List of officials and others involved.

Here is a list of the state and federal officials, academia , consultants and wind industry listed in the  DMR March-Nov 17, 2017 FOAA documents released to Friends of Penobscot Bay.  

MAINE AGENCIES

Shannon Ayotte  office of DMR commissioner  Shannon.Ayotte@maine.gov

Kate Tierney (MAG Representative)

Nixon, Matthew E

Burrowes, Todd  Coastal Program  Federal consistency, dredging, takings, public trust

Leyden, Kathleen ME Coastal Program

Desjardin, Tom;  

Noll, John Submerged Lands Director

Marvinney, Robert G.  UMaine 

John Noll (MDACF) 

Carl Wilson (MDMR)

Sue and Dawn Hallowell (MDEP)

Stacie Beyer (LUPC) 

Bob Stratton (MDIFW) 

Dennis Nault (MDMR)

Jeff Thaler  (UME atty)

Jake Ward (UME)   

FEDERAL

Wende Mahaney (USFWS) 

Sue Tuxbury NOAA (cable routing)

Jay Clement (USACE)

Mark McCollough (USFWS) 

Michelle DesAutels (USCG) 

 Andy Qua (Kleinschmidt) Andy.Qua@kleinschmidtgroup.com or Jeff Thaler Jeffrey.Thaler@maine.edu  (UMaine) 

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE
Jeff Thaler jeffrey_thaler@maine.edu;
Jake Ward jsward@maine.edu;
Damian Brady damian.brady@maine.edu;
Tony Viselli anthony.viselli@maine.edu;

CONSULTANTS
Peter Browne <Peter.Browne@hdrinc.com>;
Andy Qua Andy.Qua@KleinschmidtGroup.com
Kayla Easler <Kayla.Easler@KleinschmidtGroup.com>

Ocean Renewable  Power  Company
N Johnson njohnson@orpc.com

Me Legis Committee hears testimony for and against bill challenging Monhegan floating wind farm siting.

On May 2, 2017, the Maine Legislature's Energy Utilities and Technology  Committee heard testimony for and against LD 1262  An Act To Protect Monhegan Island by Limiting Wind Turbines.   Below, listen to mp3s of each speaker

Full hearing 3hr 31min  (hearing was already underway)

Intro by Maine Senator Dana Dow Lincoln County  5min (in progress)

Travis Dow 4min 46sec 

Kathie Ianicelli. 3min 10sec  Monhegan

Angela Monroe Governor's Energy Office & QA 12min

Jessica Stevens 3min30sec

Tara Heyer 4min38sec

Cole Lord  2min30sec

John Murdoch 2min 54sec

Marian Joffee  5min45sec

Angela Ianicelli  3min 40sec

Chris Oneill  3min 15sec

Don Lathrop 3min 35sec

Winnie Murdoch, 3min 25sec

Mary Webber, 2min 35sec

George Hart, Tenants Hbr 2min35sec

Jackie Boegal 4min 15sec

Andrew Fennemann friends of Muscongus Bay. 4min 15sec

Julie Eaton MLU 3min 40sec

Kim Ervin Tucker  6min 50sec

Doug Boynton_Tenants Harbor. 1min32sec

Lucas Chaffee  3min 17sec

Speaker from__plantation. 2min30sec

David Edson of James Sewall Co 3min 18sec

Jay Morancy (?) 5min25sec

Mal Carey 3min 43sec

Jeff Thaler UMaine Counsel 15min

Waldo Wales, 3min 38sec

Paul Hitchcox_birder 3min 31sec

Chris Smith Monhegan power district. 1 min 25sec

Peabody Consultant 2min 5sec

____Weber_55sec

Jim Belanyea_METF 

Group of UME students & profs 12min 43sec

Anthony Viselli UME  3min 50sec

Robin McCoy 3min 30sec

Alison Hill 1min30sec

Joyce Blakeney 2min 45sec

Pamela Rollinger 3min

Barbara Hitchcock 2min 45sec

Haley MacDougal  2min 32sec

Habib Dagher & QA 7min

Dylan Vorhees NRCM  3min 30sec

Derek Lovitch 3min 13sec

Kathy Leeman 3min_45sec

Doug Hitchcox  3min22sec

Dan Reilly 4min 28sec

James Monroe 2min18sec

Jake Ward 5min 45sec

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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

 

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.