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Gulf of Maine Ocean Wind Energy Extraction Oversight Portal
DeepCwind Project Googled Tweet DeepCwind & Statoil plans could jeopardize Maine, NH and Mass lobster fisheries. Norwegian firm's windpark could be 10 miles offshore; DeepCwind's 20 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. LATEST: August 11, 2011 Offshore windpower panel discussion and Q&A session, Strand Theater, Rockland, Listen to speakers at meeting. Look at photos from a demonstration outside before the meeting DeepCwind & Statoil's Gulf of Maine wind power likely 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. UPCOMING EVENTS August 11th film and discussion, "On the Horizon" at The Strand Theatre in Rockland. September 15: Island Institute hosts "Sites and Sounds of Offshore Wind Energy". As usual, critics of ocean windpower are excluded from the discussion panel. Let ocean windmill supporters hear from critics on how to best to locate offshore wind and of what magnitude. 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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