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Gulf of Maine Ocean Wind Energy Exploitation Portal
LATEST DEADLINE: December 31, 2012 deadline to comment on Statoil plan; Federal Register notice RECENT UMaine prepares to deploy its prototype floating windtower off Monhegan spring 2013. DeepCwind's December 12, 2012 Youtube video 10/23/12 BOEM held Public Info meeting on Statoil in Boothbay. Meeting Coverage in Pen Bay Blog ( Listen to audio links here 6/26/12 BOEM and Statoil hold public info meeting in Rockland Pictures, interviews here ..... Pre-meeting review of planned meetings on June 25, 26 and 27,in Boothbay, Portland & Rockland. MORE 2012 OFFSHORE MAINE WINDPOWER NEWS Statoil Speaks.Hywind Maine officials June 21, 2012
May 24, 2012 DeepCwind Consortium deployment off Monhegan put on hold until 2013. What happened? Excerpt: "Dagher said that some permits were still pending for the Monhegan site, but that he expected them to be approved in the next two to three months, which will push the launch date to next summer." *** DeepCwind Consortium news . May 23, 2012. Feds/Maine ocean energy task force e-meeting considered next 2 steps in process reviewing Statoil's 4-turbine floating windpark plan. Held public teleconference. AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT of public teleconference *** Statoil-Maine googled April 4, 2012. Norwegian energy giant Statoil says it has not received enough subsidies from the state of Maine and the US Government to carry out its deepwater floating windfarm project off Boothbay Harbor, Maine. floating windmills.
MAINE OCEAN WINDPOWER LAWS
January 31, 2012 BOEM Presentation to New England Fishery Management Council
AUDIO RECORDINGS OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER EVENTS, 2012-2009. 10/23/12 http://penbay.org/wind/2012/boem_102312_boothbay/boem102312_boothbay.html"> BOEM Boothbay meeting 3/12/12 Fishermen give chilly reception to Statoil offshore wind plan at 2012 Maine Fishermen's Forum. See Media Coverage of 2012 Forum 12/08/11 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Public Information meeting about Statoil plan off Maine 08/11/11 Ocean Windpower panel discussion on DeepCwind plan at The Strand Theatre in Rockland. 07/07/11 Island Institute's Gulf of Maine Ocean Wind Exploitation webinar. 10/19/10. Northport, Maine First Annual Maine Deepwater Offshore Wind Conference. 9/14/10 BOEM meets with state and federal agencies in Belfast, Maine. BOEM's Maine Federal Coordinator Aditi Mirani describes why and how the Request For Interest process is to go forward.(17 min mp3) . See the documents from meeting March 11, 18, 23 &24, 2010. Maine Legislature's Utility & Energy Committee holds public hearing and worksessions on bill to regulate ocean windpower development off Maine LD 1810 An Act to Implement the recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force. Bill directs ocean windpower applicants to a minimum 10 miles offshore, protecting at least 95% of Maine lobstermen from losing fishing bottom. 3/6/10 2010 Fishermen's Forum. Agencies and industry describe nearshore and offshore wind plans 2/16/10 Public meeting on Monhegan Island about DeepCwind plan 10/28/09 Maine Coastal Conference on Wind Energy SIMULATIONS & ANIMATIONS
DeepCwind Consortium plans will they jeopardize Maine, NH and Mass lobster fisheries? Statoil's plans for deepwter ocean windfarm:
Norwegian firm's windpark could be 10 miles offshore; DeepCwind's by comparison could be up to 70 miles offshore. Read Brostrom report:
"On the influence of large wind farms on the upper ocean circulation." by Göran Broström, Norewegian meteorology Institute. Read an MIT report. Read a 2009 University of Maryland report.
Proposed Monhegan Deepwater Offshore Wind Test Site
RESEARCH PAPERS Offshore windpower - affecting ocean currents?
OCEAN WIND POWER MEDIA COVERAGE
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