How can you help?
There's actually many ways you can help protect our farms and forests!
Become a member of Preserve Rural Maine. This is the only organization I know of which is actively working to protect the rural environment against industrial scale infrastructure, big business, and the perverse incentives of investment tax credits for renewable energy projects. (1)
Write a public comment on the PUC website. The docket number for this case is 2021-00369. You will need this number to post a comment.
This is the link to post a comment.
This is the link to review other comments.Write a courteous and professional letter to the editor at Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, the Maine Monitor, or any other newspaper which is reporting in a biased way about this project
Call and write your State Senator and State Representative
Share articles and memes on social media and with your friends via email
We are making compilation videos: send us snapshots or smartphone videos- preferably in horizontal aspect ratio, along with details about where the shot was taken and permission for us to edit and re-use.
protectmainefarmland@proton.me
Photograph the natural beauty unspoiled by above-ground transmission lines, such as the following image, or here’s another example of a video clip.
(1) The King Pine wind energy project is a 175,000 acre project, with a projected $2 billion cost. The developer could get an investment tax credit of 30%, i.e. $600 million https://windexchange.energy.gov/projects/tax-credits “To receive the full production tax credit amount of 2.6 cents per kilowatt-hour or full investment tax credit of 30%, projects over 1 megawatt must satisfy apprenticeship and prevailing wage requirements. Facilities of under 1 MW are exempt from these requirements. The base credit amount for larger projects that do not meet the wage and apprenticeship requirements is 20% of the full credit amount.”