MAINE OCEAN WINDPOWER LAW
Final Version of LD 1810, now Public Law 615. An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force (A 29 page compendium of changes to laws administered by MDEP, LURC, DMR and other agencies, which are now being tasked to manage & review applications for offshore wind, wave and tidal energy development.

AUDIO RECORDINGS OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER EVENTS.

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
Simulated windfarms off southern New England coast at various distances

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 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.
Gulf of Maine Fishing Grounds at Risk

Proposed Monhegan Deepwater Offshore Wind Test Site
At Issue *** Audio of DeepCwind presentation to Monhegan Islanders on 2/16/10 *** Litigation *** DeepCwind Consortium *** Officials, academics & others involved.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Offshore windpower - affecting ocean currents?
* On the influence of large wind farms on the upper ocean circulation Göran Broström, NMI
* Potential climatic impacts & reliability of very large-scale wind farms. 3/12/2010 MIT Ctr for Global Change Science. Read discussion of this report
* Weather response to management of a large wind turbine array 2009 Dept of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, U MD

OCEAN WIND POWER MEDIA COVERAGE
Google coverage Bangor Daily News Ocean Wind stories. ** Maineville(bdn) coverage of ocean wind ** Working Waterfront Ocean Windpower stories