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The Governor’s ‘Task Force on Wind Energy’ and the Maine legislature has put its stamp of approval on a program to BAN the development of wind power projects in the unpopulated areas of the state of Maine. Fearing that this unsightly and obnoxious development may be harmful to wildlife and offend recreationalist sensibilites, the state has decided that the best place for industrial wind development is in Maine’s small communities.
In the politics of siting industrial wind projects, birds, bats and recreationalists have many strong advocates, while small community populations are often less well equipped to defend themselves from invasion by well funded, slick developers encouraged by state mandate. The ‘pliability’ of small communities that the state is counting on to enable this development is directly contingent upon a lack of information and organization among their populations.
This website is here to provide a resource for those communities that wish to address the Governor’s agenda and the inevitable effect that it will have on their land, their landscape and the peace and quiet of their towns.
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