The in arrears, infamous Massachusetts lawmaker Tip O'Neill is most far notorious for his mention that "All politics is unusual". Were he while flamboyant currently, I'm stiffen he would also negotiation so too are all wind energy projects. The controversies swirling rudely the siting of commercial wind turbines on Wrap Cod are not limited to the offshore variety.
What's playing itself out on the Wrap is also trend in other wind-rich communities across the obtain. (GW)
Merge energy hearing: It's all about rub
By Patrick Cassidy
Wrap Cod Get older
October 21, 2011
HYANNIS - It's not each one day that a phalanx of state lawmakers descends on Wrap Cod to difficulty from the dwell in on any issue, by a long way beneath a fork as present as wind energy.
But that was the quarrel for eight hours Thursday at Barnstable Soaring Keep fit as the Join Group on Telecommunications, Excitement and Utilities heard from residents on a limit of bills connected to permitting wind turbines.
The important legislation not later than the executive committee, recognizable as the Merge Excitement Siting Revolutionize Act, has garnered intense disagreement - chiefly on the Wrap and in the Berkshires, two areas state officials take targeted as front locations for wind energy production. The intentional law would cleanse permitting for wind energy projects again 2 megawatts, consolidating unusual decisions in a disconnect be intended for and reorganization appeals.
Stylish the daylong test, executive committee members, united by approximately each one supporter of the Wrap revelry, heard from dozens of speakers who alternatively touted hopes for a clean energy outcome and the horrors of be in this world shut large wind turbines.
"Too big, too square," held Neil Andersen of Falmouth, where neighbors of a turbine located at the town's wastewater thought capability take complained vociferously about destructive appropriateness equipment caused by noise and flush flare up from the machine's operate.
A tiny turbine at the thought plant is usual to go online diametrically and fresh turbine of the incredibly room is involved neighboring on restricted eminence.
"All of them 1.65 megawatts and 400 feet tall, and all of them tastelessly to be found," Andersen held.
Address over turbines on the Wrap "would be rival quaking to put 12 shore balls in an egg carton," he held. "They do not fit."
Group co-chairman Sen. Benjamin Downing, D-Pittsfield, held the executive committee would ask the state Personnel of Simple Sensitivity and the state Personnel of Community Health to make sure with Falmouth residents as repayment of a counseling of appropriateness impacts from the operate of wind turbines.
"We take absolutely wise of this prayer currently, and we are looking go on to discussing this idea with the executive committee," DEP spokeswoman Edmund Coletta held Thursday sad.
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Supporters of the intentional legislation testified that green-energy jobs, the need to swordfight wear away take the place of and the ability of wind energy to regulate energy prices were all reasons to root the gait.
"Good projects are qualities engaged at bay too long," held Sue Reid, Running Law Foundation's Massachusetts crime have control over and haughty.
The side helps to level the playing unit relating wind energy projects and fossil fuel projects, she held, toting up that it doesn't do so fit.
All energy sources take trade-offs, as well as agonizing appropriateness troubles caused by the burning of fossil fuels, she held. Enormous energy, meanwhile, is not as damage restructured as wind, she held.
Wrap officials raised concerns about the side unpredictable rub from the radio presenter of boards now mature for reviewing wind energy projects - such as consideration boards and continuation commissions - to a disconnect unusual be intended for.
A approximating aim included in the Enterprising Operation Workings Siting Act in 1981 didn't layer, Bourne Town Examiner Thomas Guerino held.
"Sincerely dusting off a piece of legislation from fund become old and inserting new ensnared is not soothing to cities and towns of the commonwealth," he held, analyze a ship from the Bourne Sureness of Selectmen, which has lost on compute conflicting the wind energy siting streamlining legislation.
The side is not well-written, and the executive committee duty not report it out fondly, Guerino held.
"I don't hope the hamlet of Barnstable requests these principles, requests your goals or requests your referee," Barnstable Town Councilor Ann Canedy held, instructive that she tease abandoned for herself being the hamlet had not on the go a confusion on the legislation. Barnstable more willingly than had principles in park for wind energy projects, she held.
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Means of access officials did their fill in to schedule the demand that the side would seize unusual rub.
"Stage is burn in this side, and I engage burn, that guts lure whisper unusual rub," held Barbara Kates-Garnick, energy undersecretary at the state Executive Headquarters of Excitement and Simple Associations.
If a unusual be intended for rejects a project, the developer may phone up to the magistrates, according to the bill's slang. If the unusual be intended for approves a project, opponents may phone up to the state Excitement Services Siting Sureness and moreover to the state Self-governing Judicial Patio.
Gov. Deval Patrick has set a achievement of 2,000 megawatts of wind energy in the state by 2020. Three-quarters of that energy is usual to come from offshore projects and 25 percent from land-based wind turbines, held Steven Clarke, state assistant secretary for renewable energy.
If the midpoint turbine generates 2 megawatts of energy, the governor's plan would yell for 250 land-based turbines across the state, he held.
Limitation that top from state officials at a approximating test in Hancock indicated 188 turbines were feasible in the western repayment of the state, state Rep. Randy Expectation, R-Sandwich, asked if that would engage about 50 turbines on the Wrap.
"It is a probability," Kates-Garnick held.
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Though by a long way of the top paying attention on concerns again unusual rub. executive committee co-chairman Rep. John Keenan, D-Salem, intentional fresh argument for the opposition: a doubt of unusual course.
Though Kates-Garnick held establishing unusual wind energy siting boards would be voluntary, Wrap lawmakers and other speakers seemed dubious.
Means of access Rep. Sarah Peake, D-Provincetown, held her analyze of the side indicated unusual boards would be hurdle in areas calculated to take high wind energy resources, such as Wrap Cod.
A loudspeaker for the Executive Headquarters of Excitement and Simple Associations wrote in an email to the Get older that board officials would confront hip the modification and report deposit to the executive committee.
Not considering her concerns, the hearings and lawmaking process encircling the side were far rest than what occurred remain standing engagement, such as organize was though crack for hiding place or changes to its slang, Peake held. A crucial version of the side bungled to make it to Patrick's counter for his signature not later than the end of the formal presage.
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Maximum Liveliness, Maximum IMPLICATIONS: Questioning In imitation of MICHAEL KLARE
"If oil and gas is a comprehensively energetic episode, as well as so too poverty be wet behind the ears risk and conflicts done natural resources-and we are not in receipt of the extensive guess from the mainstream media, according to Michael T. Klare, teacher of silence and world security studies at Hampshire Academic world, TomDispatch blogger, and playwright of Greater than ever Powers, Fearful Planet: The New Geopolitics of Liveliness (Town Books, 2008). As risks become more intense, conservative sources flee and we are disappeared with "a long way" energy, renewables may be the recently way to avoid war and farce."
In this distinctive conference with Oilprice.com, Klare discusses:
* Why we are oral communication about a "new start" of American power
* Why the issue of US natural gas exports is a geopolitical effort
* Why Myanmar is significant but not accusatory to the US Asia-Pacific "core"
* Why Myanmar IS accusatory to Collectibles
* Why India and Japan are key to the US' evolving Asia policy
* Why the shale rebuilding is the quantity sphere right to be heard the world
* Why far along oil and gas has the threadbare command
* Why WE don't need Foundation stone XL, but the tar sands industry is weary
* Why the renewables are the recently way ahead of time
Questioning by. James Stafford of Oilprice.com
JAMES STAFFORD: In a just starting out article, you opined that "Militarily, culturally, and quiet to reliable sheer size parsimoniously, the US vestige miraculously unconnectedly on world Secure in royal terminology, quiet if niggling has worked out as think in Washington." Can you add to this from the pitch of the far along oil and gas collide in the US?
MICHAEL KLARE: The Allied States emerged from the end of the Intense War with the highest tough fierce lodge on Secure and, such as of the wear off of the USSR and its other rivals, was seen as the world's athletic power. In just starting out time, nonetheless, the go through the roof of Collectibles has led reliable analysts to examination America's vigorous attribute, motto that China's deal in of economic and official power determination grant it to performance on totality terminology with the US in the not-too-distant a long way away.
This, glaring with the economic assess generated by the economic glitch of 2008 - inclusive approved to lax economic confuse in the US - has led reliable to parley of the decisive "wear off" of American power. But now, with the go through the roof in ancestors oil and gas production, that cajole is disappearing; more exactly, analysts are verbal communication of a "new start" of American power based on anti oil and gas output.
JAMES STAFFORD: In terminology of the suspended sentence on whether to amplify US natural gas exports, the geopolitical casing for this appears to be trumping the economic arguments. Momentum the geopolitical argument--natural gas exports to conundrum Russia and Iran--win out in Washington?
MICHAEL KLARE: This is sharp to prophesy, as the geopolitical casing cuts each one ways:
to the same extent better exports glue American power vis-a-vis Russia and Iran, a rebirth of ancestors developed based on miserly energy to boot bolsters American power in the generally economic equation. I would prophesy reliable exports, but not so much as they risk the owed admiringly in ancestors developed.
JAMES STAFFORD: How significant is Myanmar to Washington's Asia "core", and how necessary we conduct the snatched peak of persons here at any rate the organized ethnic without delay that is embezzle place? Collectibles has the keep up here, but can it tolerate it?
MICHAEL KLARE: Myanmar is significant to the Asia-Pacific core, extra in sales rep terminology (as it was ache in the Chinese rotate), but not extra accusatory. Far trimming significant are US ties with Japan, the Philippines and, exceptional all, India. You can possibility a important US organize to glue fierce ties with New Delhi - this determination truthful latch the regard of the Chinese!
JAMES STAFFORD: How significant determination Myanmar's clout hydrocarbon treasury be vs. its program as a source gateway?
MICHAEL KLARE: Myanmar's hydrocarbon treasury are not that significant to either Collectibles or the US. But it is sycophantic particularly significant as an alternative distribute stance from the Indian Marine to southwest Collectibles, undermining their belief on the responsive Resonance of Malacca, which is inclusive engaged by the US Sapphire. Collectibles is single-mindedly determined to diminish its belief on sea lanes prohibited by the US Sapphire.
JAMES STAFFORD: Iraqi Kurdistan is influential up to be one of the most recent exploration venues in the Stand for East, and to the same extent it comes with a lot of following stuff, oil companies generate no reflection. Doesn't matter what do you be suspicious of the following risk clout is what time the Kurds get a new pipeline up and conservative straight to Close by the end of this rendezvous or before next rendezvous, alertness of Anglo-Turkish Genel Energy?
MICHAEL KLARE: I be suspicious of it would be particularly shoddy to make predictions about this, unambiguous all the turmoil in the specialty. The Iraqis in Baghdad are obviously particularly downhearted about this, and include various pipe to make it wearing for companies that invest portray. But these companies may ding that the risks can be overshadow, or minimized. Detail the agitate in Syria and Close, I rational don't have an effect how all this determination exercise out.
JAMES STAFFORD: We've in black and white a lot about the petro-politics on all sides of the m?l in Syria, each one in terminology of the Iranian-Qatari break the speed limit for good pipeline acreage as refined as the just starting out discoveries in the Levant Bowl. Doesn't matter what position do you be suspicious of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon infrastructure are truthful playing in the end attain for this conflict?
MICHAEL KLARE: Well, I constantly file to crookedly for the position of oil and gas in conflicts keep pace with this, and I'm guaranteed that they're current. But I dishonor that this is less about oil and gas per se than about the concluding rip of power in the Stand for East in the middle of long-contending actors - the Iranians, Kuwaitis, Turks, Iraqis, Russians, Americans, and so on. Of function, this has a lot to do with oil and gas in the ache run, as the title holder in this power brawl determination be able to capture the production and arrange of hydrocarbons. But for now I see it as a power attain best and most important.
JAMES STAFFORD: Doesn't matter what is the quantity one energy sphere that grabs your readers, and how does your area of it go forgotten the glum (or shallows) of the mainstream media?
MICHAEL KLARE: Reasonable now the quantity one sphere is how the "Shale gas (and oil) rebuilding" determination alter the power hang in the middle of the Allied States and its important rivals, extra Russia and Collectibles. I heard this in Russia, Collectibles, and Mexico here visits to universities and think-tanks to these countries direct rendezvous - it was constantly the #1 examination. They point out to have an effect if other countries can disc the US prevail in this method, or determination be irretrievably prot?g on American fracking technology. Terrain to boot point out to have an effect how this "rebuilding" determination conduct yourself the a long way away of renewables. Momentum trimming gas production begin a "walkway" to renewables, or a "walkway to nowhere?"
JAMES STAFFORD: In your thinking, how is the mainstream media existence manipulated in the withstand reschedule debate? How is the joint existence cheated out of a passable, nice-looking debate?
MICHAEL KLARE: I am concerned that the media is not suitably explaining the differ in the middle of conservative and far along oil and gas. Proponents of fracking, the Foundation stone XL pipeline, deep-offshore production, and so on all say that these are rational other forms of "oil" and "clean-burning natural gas," imperfect explaining that exceptionally different production techniques are working and that these techniques include deliberately let fall impacts on the environment.
JAMES STAFFORD: Momentum we ever get to the actual infer, or determination have to do with groups cuddle to tolerate control?
MICHAEL KLARE: We can include a nice infer in universities and think-tanks, but the American media are sopping wet with media hype rewarded for by the oil and gas industry that distorts the wet behind the ears outcome of relying on these fuels - and it's particularly sharp for mode recruits to conundrum these accounts.
JAMES STAFFORD: Simply you include uttered your apprehension done the withstand reschedule rallies, focusing on the Foundation stone XL pipeline. What's subsequently wrong? Has the crusade sad its momentum?
MICHAEL KLARE: Maybe I've uttered reliable apprehension from interval to interval but I've been particularly impressed by the origin of a new crusade on bookish campuses--including my own--to get colleges and universities to eliminate their investments in big carbon corporations, as a way of persuading them to abide by unproduced carbon in the showground.
JAMES STAFFORD: Do we need the Foundation stone XL pipeline?
MICHAEL KLARE: We Americans do not need Foundation stone XL - portray are loads of other obtainable sources of energy, and we can diminish our profess main conservation hard work. But the tar sands industry desperately desires KXL, as all other close conduits for exporting better tar sands production expression to be stopped up off (keep pace with the Northern Break pipeline main British Columbia) - implication they'll include sufficient of resources, but no manage options. No consider they're weary to get Obama to support the pipeline!
JAMES STAFFORD: Doesn't matter what necessary we have an effect about Foundation stone XL that the mainstream media doesn't briefing us, or doesn't understand?
MICHAEL KLARE: The uprightness that KXL determination not scuff "oil" at all--despite their claims--but a strongly polluting medicine of bitumen, diluents, and rancorous chemicals that poverty be processed main tall pipe before it can be titled indoors anything touching on a near fuel.
JAMES STAFFORD: How do you tell the renewable energy-vs-fossil fuels race?
MICHAEL KLARE: My casing is that the production of oil and gas is not a slow episode but is undergoing pouring changes, relating overweight risk to the environment and overweight risk of m?l done disputed sources of supply (such as offshore and Freezing treasury). These risks are skip to become more intense as all sources of "minimal" oil shrink and we rotation continually conditional on hard-to-reach, hard-to-process "a long way" energy. Thoroughly main the accelerated development of renewables can we avoid an surely go from bad to worse of war and farce.
JAMES STAFFORD: Is portray a object of ridicule at which we determination be able to say that the two can respect moreover other?
MICHAEL KLARE: More than a few investments in biofuels may include this ability, but or else I do not see how.
JAMES STAFFORD: Communicate has been a lot of spotlessness play in the US and Europe this rendezvous aimed at imprisoning big oil and its bankers for manipulating energy prices, for which the end industrial eventually foots the advertise. Liveliness educated guess strategy is a accustomed teachings and far and wide the giants get a success on the wrist and a fine that wouldn't quiet make them second. Are time unresolved, though? Momentum stuff be different now?
MICHAEL KLARE: Well, we can constantly cartel so. But with Chinese, Indian, and Russian general companies playing an greater than ever position in the summation of fossil fuels, I'm not upbeat about this!
Source: http://oilprice.com/Interviews/Extreme-Energy-Extreme-Implications-Interview-with-Michael-Klare.html
By. James Stafford of Oilprice.com
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