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Gulf of Maine Ocean Wind Energy Extraction Oversight Portal (refresh frequently - new things added regularly)
DeepCwind Project Googled Tweet Fishermen give chilly reception to Statoil offshore wind plan at 2012 Maine Fishermen's Forum Statoil plans could jeopardize Maine, NH and Mass lobster fisheries. Norwegian firm's windpark could be 10 miles offshore; DeepCwind's by comparison could be 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. 9/1/11 Fishermen's Voice Newspaper publishes two articles questioning ocean windmills: ?Offshore Lobstermen Concerned About Lack of Research on Impacts of Wind Plan and "Can Wind Turbines and Lobstering Mix?" 8/18/11 Demonstration against ocean windpower extraction too close to shore TV coverage greets Interior Secretary Salazar at UMaine Orono. Click Here for additional coverage .. ... University of Maine's Dr Habib Dagher says that the DeepCwind consortium prefers windfarming 20 to 70 miles offshore. Not 10 miles Why? Listen to him explain at a meeting in Rockport 8/15/11 Offshore wind protest outside Island Institute in Rockland (tv coverage during o fshore windpower reception inside Listen to audio of a panel discussion later that evening at The Strand Theatre in Rockland. Photos from demonstration DeepCwind & Statoil's Gulf of Maine wind power to skip Maine, go by undersea cable directly to Boston?. According to Heather Dietz, a senior marine programs director at the Island Institute , a developer has expressed interest in such a cable. Noting the Google-backed Atlantic Wind Connection plan to install an offshore wind backbone cable off New York and New Jersey, Dietz said: "There are developers interested in building a similar offshore connection line from somewhere along the Maine coast to somewhere off Boston. In order to pick up and carry power from offshore wind turbine facilities south." Matt Nixon of the Maine Coastal Program State said that a 25 megawatt commercial pilot project, presumably Statoil unless there have been other bidders, that will soon be subsidized under a 2010 State of Maine Request for Proposals for Long-term Contracts for Deep-Water Offshore Wind Energy Pilot Projects ,. Under the RFP the company would be required to connect in Maine. Listen to Diet & Nixon (5 minute mp3) speaking on the offshore cable topic at the July 7, 2011 online conference Offshore Wind Energy in Maine: Information Exchange. US Dept of Energy releases draft DeepCwind Environmental Assessment!
Maine Superior Court Ruled on June 27, 2011 in favor of state's 2010 designation of deepwater windpower test center, in waters two miles south of scenic Monhegan Island. Plaintiff had contested likely impact to irreplaceable scenic assets. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER EVENTS. AUDIO RECORDINGS July 7, 2011 Island Institute's Gulf of Maine Ocean Wind Exploitation webinar. For Earlier Events Click Here Offshore windpower - affecting ocean currents?
FOIA RESULTS: Federal emails about offshore Maine windpower 2/10 - 9/10 PLACES
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ISSUES Recent Freedom of Information Act results about Federal Agencies' windpower plans for waters off Maine.
It starts with a December 10, 2009 letter from Maine Governor Baldacci to President Barack Obama
Offshore windpower - affecting ocean currents?
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