Posted on 07/07/2010 4:19:22 AM PDT by Daffynition
STRATTON, Maine (AP) — A national environmental group says eight of its members who blocked the entrance to a western Maine wind power construction site have been escorted offsite and issued warnings.
Maine Earth First! spokeswoman Emily Posner says about 50 people blocked the road to TransCanada's Kibby Mountain construction site Tuesday morning. TransCanada spokeswoman LeAnne LeBlanc says the protest was peaceful and work continues.
TransCanada is building 22 wind turbines on mountains near where it's already built 22 turbines that are producing power. Maine Earth First! says projects like TransCanada's destroy mountaintops and don't offset fossil fuel use.
Tuesday's protest was held a day after the end of Earth First's annual weeklong international summer gathering in Coplin Plantation.
They’re an eyesore.
LOL .... have you ever stood near one that is running at full tilt? The noise is deafening. ;)
Thanks. I’ve not seen that design before.
I`m old enough to remember these same sorts being the ones saying we should be switching to wind power. Kinda tough for them to do their usual Evil Capitalists thing in these cases, but they`re nothing if not creative. But wind power is the emblematic item in the labelling of environmentalist wackiness—THEY wanted these things, now THEY are fighting them. It`s clear they want us to just go back to pre-Industrial Revolution times, minus coal, and are thus not serious people. So of course they are a powerful democrat voting bloc.
There goes that little ‘slice of heaven’...way to go, greenie jackasses...
To say they mar the view is a huge understatement. They ARE the view.
Excellent point! Many houses in New England weren’t built with central air (WTF?); so they are going to suffer anyway...
Vacuous website doesn’t tell me what it produces at various windspeeds or how they keep it pointed into the wind.
Until effective storage is invented, wind is a total loser. Totally useless for major power generation.
But it'll make you feel good........
looks like you could make a fun dirt race course out of those access roads!
On the coast, we are fighting the off-shore wind turbines planned. The former governor, King:
‘’The Gulf of Maine is the Saudi Arabia of wind,’’ King said. ‘’There is nothing I’ve come across that has the large potential this has We need to be thinking big about this.’’
King called for the wind power equivalent of the ‘’Manhattan Project’’ during a lecture at Bowdoin College Tuesday evening, referring to the effort that produced the atomic bomb. He said such a ‘’wind ranch’’ could provide all of Maine’s electricity, as well as heat for its homes and power for its cars.
On the need, in his opinion: ‘’Filling up your (car’s gas) tank will be $200. To fill up the (heating oil) tank in your basement with oil — $2,000.’’ Maine, with its cold winters, will be uninhabitable, he said.
The only kind of power production the kooks support is the kind you aren’t proposing to use.
I have NEVER understood why ecomentalists want these things. Besides the economic inefficiencies, what a fooking eyesore. So much for pristine natural beauty.
Yep, this sounds like a case of the liberals eating their own. I thought to be a good liberal, we had to support these windmills. Alternative, renewable energy and all that. But apparently not in all cases.
So often the valuable bird killing benefits of wind turbines are overlooked - providing shredded poultry for the starving victims of the Baraqqi depression.
“but they meant well”
I would be more than happy to rent space for a windfarm on my land - looks like money to me.
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