We need to help our environment and wind turbines are not so bad to look at- The birds even get used to them!

Helping our environment by disfiguring it with wind turbines so people can drive their gas-guzzling cars and live energy wasteful lifestyles is not the answer.

How about we stop wasting energy instead?

Would you rather have:
a) Wind turbines spinning away on an exposed ridge line.
b) A belching smokestack, and an open pit coal mine.
c) A nuclear plant.
Each requires some sacrifice. Clean, sustainable energy is the future. Giving up a windy spot seems more tolerable than the other options..

I'd like to see wind industry where it belongs... in areas with existing industrial development. Neither Kibby Mountain or Stetson Mountain meet this criteria.

Wild, undeveloped parts of Maine need to be protected, not developed.

No, kinsey, the birds do not "get used to them!" Thousands of birds - including hundreds of golden eagles - have been killed after flying into the blades of wind turbines in the US and continental Europe.

2,000 golden eagles killed over 20 years in California alone, along with 10,000 other raptors.

Altamont Pass- Several studies evidenced an on-going massacre at this very large windfarm near San Francisco. In 2002 ornithologist Grainger Hunt estimated, very roughly, that golden eagles were being killed at the rate of 40 to 60 per annum An in-depth study, performed by Dr. Smallwood more recently, puts the golden eagle mortality rate at 116 per annum, once adjusted for detection and scavenging.

Regarding other raptors, Altamont takes a heavy toll as well: c. 500 yearly: hawks, owls, falcons, harriers, kites etc. Cumulatively, that´s 10,000 "protected" raptors over 20 years - "at least", says Dr. Smallwood. Other victims include doves, larks, ducks, blackbirds, gulls, swallows, herons, ravens, passerines, and bats.

Studies show incredibly high bird mortality all over the world, such as:
Strait of Gibraltar.
Flanders, Belgium.
The Netherlands.
Germany.
Navarre, Spain.
San Gorgonio, California.
Cordelia, Solano County, California
The cumulative effect of hundreds of wind turbines, and more power lines to connect the windfarms to the grid, will be severe on avian life all over the globe, including Maine.
Wake up!!
Birds do not get used to them.

i live near stetson mountain and along the route they want to put the poles. no one on my road , tar ridge road in prentiss wants them either. i have lived on tis road most of my life along with most of my family. its one thing to have the elec. light co. change their poles and take some our land we shoud not have to give it to just anyone. let the people who are for them put them on their property, and let them live with them.they say stetson mountain is out of the way, but what about all the land they need to clear to put up poles for 40-50 miles. as land owners we should have a few rights. what is happening to this great country of our. there is no such thing as freedom anymore. we are losing more and more of our rights every day. I think is about time people stood up and said enough 1s enough we have men women losing their lives every day fighting in other lands for people to have freedon where we are losing it bit by bit. does this really make any sense.