Every voice not heard diminishes our chance for success!
By far, the most important thing you can do is make your voice heard. Our elected and appointed officials are supposed to listen to you. Although it sometimes seems they’ve forgotten, they work for you; not for wind energy companies, not for support industries, not for the governor and certainly not for their own business interests.
Use the contact information below to let these officials know where you stand. If you don’t speak for yourself, the wind industry will.
Call or write the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission to request to be placed on the list of interested persons in the matter of the Highland Wind LLC project, DP4862, in Highland Plantation, Maine. Doing so should ensure that you get the most up to date information on proceedings in this matter.
Marcia Spencer-Famous
Maine Land Use Regulation Commission
22 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0022
(207) 287-4933
Marcia.Spencer-Famous@maine.gov
Catherine Carroll
Maine Land Use Regulation Commision
22 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0022
(207) 287-4930
Catherine.M.Carroll@maine.gov
Senator Peter Mills and Rep. Wright Pinkham are the legislators for the area affected by the proposed Highland Plt. industrial wind energy development. Let them and the Somerset County Commissioner know you object to the industrialization of the mountains of Highland Plt. and the rest of rural Maine. Insist that, at the very least, a moratorium be placed on any additional permitting of grid scale wind energy plants under LD2283, the Expedited Permitting Law, until they have addressed the interests of all the people who must live with the effects of these developments and examined the long term impacts of the industrialization of Maine’s mountains.
Sen. Peter Mills
PO Box 9
Skowhegan, ME 04976
(207) 474-3324
pmills@mainelegal.net
Rep. Wright Pinkham
1480 Long Falls Dam Rd.
Lexington Twp., ME 04961
(207) 628-2916
wrightfor88@tds.net
Bob Dunphy
Somerset County Commissioner
201 Kennebec River Rd.
North Anson, ME 04958
(207) 635-2593
radunphy@roadrunner.com
The following key legislators need to hear your opinion on LD2283 and the lack of reasonable standards in Maine for the siting of industrial wind turbine developments. Sen. Phil Bartlett was a member of the Governor’s Task Force on Wind Power and played a role in the quick passage of this legislation, designed to bypass the people of Maine, in an effort to make life easier for the wind industry. Rep. Hannah Pingree has publicly acknowledged inadequacies in current noise standards in Maine and has a noise-problematic wind energy facility in her district. While a complete repeal of LD2283 would be desirable, ask these legislators for a moratorium on any further permitting of grid scale wind energy developments under this law, and at the very least, more comprehensive and restrictive noise testing and standards for these facilities.
Rep. Hannah Pingree
Maine Speaker of the House
92 Mills Street
North Haven, ME 04853
(207) 867-0966
hannah@pingree.com
Rep. John Piotti
Maine House Majority Leader
1075 Albion Road
Unity, ME 04988
(207) 437-2493
piotti@uninets.net
Rep. Joshua Tardy
Maine House Minority Leader
PO Box 381
Newport, ME 04953
(207) 368-4810
tardylaw@roadrunner.com
Rep. Philip A. Curtis
Maine Asst. House Minority Leader
93 Blackwell Hill Rd.
Madison, ME 04950
(207) 696-3052
pdcurtis2@hotmail.com
Sen. Phillip L. Bartlett
Maine Senate Majority Leader
141 South Street
Gorham, ME 04038
(207) 839-7827
phil@philbartlett.com
Sen. Lisa T. Marraché
Maine Senate Asst. Majority Leader
3 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
(207) 861-0154
http://www.mainesenate.org/marrache/email.htm
Sen. Kevin L. Raye
Maine Senate Minority Leader
63 Sunset Cove Lane
Perry, ME 04667
(207) 853-9406
SenatorRaye@wwsisp.com
Sen. Jonathan Courtney
Asst. Senate Minority Leader
31 Birchwood Lane
Springvale, ME 04083
(207) 324-5467
SenJon.Courtney@legislature.maine.gov
Full Maine House of Representatives Email List
While our legislators in Washington D.C. do not make zoning and land use decisions on the state level in Maine, they do need to know, and should be concerned, when their constituents are troubled by what they see happening in their state. Contact our Washington D.C. delegation and let them hear your opinions on the planned industrialization of hundreds of miles of rural Maine’s iconic mountains with industrial scale wind turbine developments under the terms and goals of LD2283, the Expedited Permitting Law. Consider also asking them to discontinue the transfer of your money to wind energy developers in the form of federal subsidies and energy production credits.
Sen. Olympia Snowe
Edmund S. Muskie Federal Building
40 Western Ave., Room 408C
Augusta, ME 04330
(207) 622-8292
(202) 224-5344 Wash. D.C.
http://snowe.senate.gov/
Sen. Susan Collins
68 Sewall Street, Room 507
Augusta, ME 04330
(207) 622-8414
(202) 224-2523 Wash. D.C.
http://collins.senate.gov/
Rep. Michael Michaud
16 Common Street
Waterville, ME 04901
(207) 873-5713
(202) 225-6306 Wash. D.C.
http://michaud.house.gov/
Rep. Chellie Pingree
57 Exchange Street, Suite 302
Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-5019
(202) 225-6116 Wash. D.C.
http://pingree.house.gov/
Governor Baldacci is the single most important political figure in Maine driving the large scale industrialization of Maine’s beautiful mountain ridgelines. He convened the Governor’s Task Force on Wind Power in 2007 with the stated goal of facilitating the development of many industrial scale wind energy developments in our state. The result, in 2008 was a bill, LD2283, that the governor signed and thus began the industrialization of Maine’s mountains with no consideration of the effects on the lives of the people and wildlife that live in and among them. Share with him your opinions on this.
Gov. John Baldacci
Office of the Governor
#1 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0001
(207) 287-3531
http://www.maine.gov/governor/baldacci/contact/index.html
Contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and ask them to provide greater enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, and the Endangered Species Act as well as greater scrutiny of wind developments with regard to wildlife impacts.
Marvin Moriarty
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Regional Director
300 Westgate Center Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
(413) 253-8300
marvin_moriarty@fws.gov
Commissioner Roland Martin
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
41 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0041
(207) 287-8000
http://www.maine.gov/ifw/contactus.htm
Contact the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and demand an overhaul of noise standards that addresses the tremendous potential for negative impacts that large wind turbines have on health and the soundscape in our rural communities.
Commissioner David P. Littell
Maine Department Of Environmental Protection
17 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0017
(207) 287-2812
david.p.littell@maine.gov
Federal policy encourages the development of wind energy production facilities while giving little if any guidance on the siting of the turbines. Federal officials need to know that the government’s exuberance over wind power is resulting in the placement of turbines in a manner that gives little consideration to the well-being of people, wildlife and livelihoods. Ask these officials to temper their enthusiasm with concern for those who will have to live with these industrial wind energy plants, possibly for the rest of their lives.
Ken Salazar
Secretary of the Interior
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C. Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20240
feedback@ios.doi.gov
Steven Chu
Secretary of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585
The.Secretary@hq.doe.gov