Have you noticed that so much is secret when it comes to wind farms? The leases between the wind farms and the land owners are a secret. When the wind farm corporations start looking at areas for their "farms" they can't answer any questions re. other "farms". Oddly enough the state can't either. No questions are answered. Then magically one day the corporations start erecting turbines. After the wind farm was installed in Mars Hill , First Wind, could not even say where the electricity would go. It went to Canada. Now that the Stetson Mt. wind farm is almost completed...there are a few questions that need to be cleared up. (1) Since ME is self sufficient on energy..jsut where is the power going? (2) Who is paying for the practically round the clock erection of transmission lines for the power to go (out of state)...I hear on the week ends some of the Power Tel employees are making $80.00 an hour. Watch for your electricity bills to go up to pay for it. Of course, no one is going to come right out and answer your questions. It hurts.

I'm all for windpower in Aroostook county. One would think that the rate payers in Aroostook County would consider the additional power generation in our back yards as a gateway to savings on our energy bills. The more I research the issue, the more I realize that this is not the case. The power generated from the proposed wind generators in Aroostook will flow right past our houses headed south along a future electric highway from Houlton on down. Oh yeah, we will be expected to pick up part of the tab for maintaining that new highway. It's quite a story, with politicians holding stock in companies that will benefit directly from the legislation allowing this to occur.

The wind companies come into Maine and herald that Maine is the Saudi Arabia of wind. Well, I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but they tell this to every state they come into. It's part of the con. The reality is the only good wind in Maine is offshore or in the western mountains. If you look at the wind resource map, interior Maine, including Aroostook and Penobscor counties has terrible wind resources. See for yourself at:http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_maps_none.asp Just click on Maine. So why are they coming into places like Aroostook and Penobscot? The answer is simple - they are not harvesting wind but really are harvesting the 1.9 cents per KW government subsidy, otherwise known as your hard earned money. The scammers are out in force and they are preying on municipalities that they feel won't offer them any resistance. Read more here: http://www.wind-watch.org/

First Wind announced plans for many new wind farms in ME the day after the bail out for Wall Street was passed by Congress. Why? Alternative Energy laws were thrown in the Mix. The tax give aways coundn't pass on their own...had to to be lumped into the Wall Street give aways.Mainers will be paying twice. The first time with their federal taxes and the second time every month in their electricity bills. Mass. and Canada will get the energy. First Wind is based in Mass. with their parent company in Canada. Bangor Hydro is out of Canada too.

Most power owners in this state are from Canada. Northern Maine is not connected to the grid in southern Maine and we will foot the bill to create the tie. Large $$$$$$.

Problem is our controling Government is in such a hurry to make them selves look good they NEVER take the time to weigh the benefits versus the down fall for their residents.

I voted for change this ellection how about you?

The original petition, submitted by the group Citizens for Responsible Wind Development and signed by more than 200 residents, was a response to Texas-based Horizon Wind, which has been negotiating lease agreements with land-owners in the Fort Kent area and in other parts of Aroostook County.

Here is a link that might be useful:lincenergy.us/