NP/Wind Project Moratorium

[limin]

Check out this short video asking to take some time out to come up with a new state energy plan. Good summer photo of Lake Winni a couple of minutes into the film!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNo0...ature=youtu.be

[RLW]

limin, I just noticed that you are fairly new to posting on the forum and glad you have joined us. Have fun and enjoy the Winni Forum while making many new friends.

[SAMIAM]

Thanks for posting that video..............hopefully we can put a stop to the destruction of our enviroment as more people become aware.
No one is going to want to vacation in NH to look at wind mill towers.

[BroadHopper]

NH State Legislative Bills Hearing on February 19, 2013

HB580 - establishing moratoriums on wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects - 02/19/2013 at 01:00 PM Representatives Hall

HB484 - requiring public approval prior to issuance of certain site evaluation certificates - 02/19/2013 at 02:30 PM Representatives Hall
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These two bills will be presented in a hearing on February 19th and will require a significant number of people to support in person. This support will include a personal testimony and/or a vote to support the bill. This is our BEST chance to postpone the construction of Wild Meadows wind project (37+ turbines) and Spruce Ridge wind project (~25 turbines). Please support us by attending these sessions at the State House in Concord and sending letters or calling each member on the attached document prior to the meeting. We will be providing bus transportation to make this more convenient. Please RSVP as soon as possible and let us know if you would like to be included on the BUS or if you will be attending with your own transportation. If you are unable to attend, please send a letter to each of the Legislators identifying your support for these bills. These bills are the ONLY chance we will have for a moratorium to stop these wind projects.

There are also related hearings on February 12, 2013, if you are available to attend those sessions as well:

2/12 - 10:15am - HB568 regarding burying electrical lines - Representatives Hall
2/12 - 11am - HB569 regarding placing new electrical lines in existing right of ways - Representatives Hall
2/12 - 1pm - HB568 requesting a 1 year moratorium on new applications for certificates for energy facilities - Representatives Hall
2/12 - 2pm - HB449 regarding changes to the application process for an energy facility - Representatives Hall

[fatlazyless]

The Groton Wind project, 24 wind turbines total, is very, very, very visible from the Route 25-Tenney Mountain Highway in Plymouth, at Exit 26-Route 93. About eight of the 400-ft high, wind turbines can be seen from Route 93 just before and after Exit 25 as one goes north, when the leaves are off the trees. About four of the 24 wind turbines which were installed from July to December 2012, are up on the ridgeline on top of the no longer operating Tenney Mountain ski area.

The newly installed powerline which has huge wood utility poles runs down the Tenney Mountain Hgwy in Plymouth, a busy commercial road.

So, who benefits from the Groton wind farm being there and creating electricity that gets sold to N-Star in Boston?

Iberdrola Electric Utility of Spain, the owner and builder in 2012, must maybe benefit because they try to make money out of it.

The Town of Groton, NH, www.town-of-groton.com (has a small link to Groton Wind) gets about $22,500/year for each of the 24-wind turbines from Iberdrola and enough of the voters in Groton voted yes to the Groton wind project a couple years earlier to let it get built, along with the NH state agencies that also approved it.

About maybe seven miles to the east, abutting the Plymouth town line, and very close to Route 93, in Bridgewater, NH, there's the Bridgewater Power Co., which creates electricity by burning up wood chips. Tractor trailers of wood chips get hoisted way up into the air on a large truck lift and the wood chips are used to fuel up the power plant. This Bridgewater Power plant has been there for maybe 20-years, and it has one tall single stack that emittes a stream of white hot emissions from the burning of the wood chips.

For maybe 20-years, the Bridgewater Power plant has been making electricity and it has received no-where near the negative local reactions like what the Groton Wind project has received. People in Bridgewater probably tend to like the Bridgewater Power plant because it is, by far, the largest property tax payer in town, plus it was built on an unpopulated corner of Bridgewater that abutts the neighboring Town of Plymouth. After seeing the Groton Wind wind turbines, there's plenty of local residents who do not want similar wind turbines cluttering up their view, as seen from their homes.......and for good reason......just go take a look-see for yourself.

Similarly, the Town of Ashland has a very unattractive cell phone tower in their waste water treatment facility, next to the Pemigewisett River, that hugely impacts the people just across the river in Bridgewater, but is not really too visible to any residents in Ashland. The Town of Ashland receives maybe $1800/month in rent for letting the cell tower to be built on its property.

And, who else benefits from the Groton Wind farm of 24 towers........I dunno.......anybody?

By getting to watch the large mountain top windmills spin around as you drive down Tenney Mountain Hgwy.......is that a benefit....maybe it is at first sight....but after a while they start to get old you know......hmmmmm? Now, if I were getting $22,500/year/wind turbine, then they would definately be very attractive to look at to me.....but all things considered.....without personally getting the money payout.....they do not look too nice!

[limin]

Hi Broad Hopper,

Thanks for posting the hearing date and information.

I'll be there and hopefully others will too!