Environmentalists block road to Maine wind site

Seacoastonline.com ^ | July 06, 2010 | staff reporter

[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.

[BitWielder1]

Nothing wrong with meaning well but at some time you have to realize when it doesn't work as expected, then you should stop doing the same mistake over and over.
If you spend your own big bucks on a private windmill and find out the hard way that it will take 20 years or more to pay for itself, but only if it does not break down before then, do you immediately build another one?
Probably not.
When taxpayer money are paying for it, they don't seem to have any such stops.

[SteamShovel]

claim a wind farm is beautiful

A windfarm isn't all that bad.....

.....Windfarms EVERYWHERE and connecting wires EVERYWHERE is a disaster.

These middle/left voter Obama loving enviropukes have no idea what they are asking for.

[FreeStateYank]

LOL. It’s not easy being green, but you’ll try ;-)