Dear
Editor,
I
would like to thank Representative Patrick Corey for supporting LD 1444, a legislative
bill that would have expanded on Community Solar Development and that would
also eliminate CMP’s ability to charge a fee on solar energy generated and consumed
behind customer’s meters in real time.
This
common sense legislative bill won an easy 2/3rd majority in both the
Senate and the House but was unable to overcome the Governor’s veto after the
Governor leveraged his political power on House members and ultimately flipped
seven votes from ‘Yes’ to ‘No’, which defeated the bill by two votes.
Thank
you for having strong morals, for standing your ground, and for not succumbing
to political pressure from those who lack a fundamental understanding of today’s
modern and evolving energy landscape. Grid tied solar energy supports local
jobs, moves Maine towards energy independence, and keeps more of our
hard-earned money in our local economy; all while providing an unmatched
economic and environmental return on investment.
I
hope that you will continue to support sound solar policy into the future.
Thank
you,
Geoff
Sparrow
Windham
Resident
Dear
Editor,
On
page 9 of the March 30, 2018 edition of The Windham Eagle newspaper, there
appears an article regarding a news conference at Cooper’s Maple Products in
Windham. The news conference included a speaker from Senator King’s office, a
conservationist, and Andy Whitman, a forest scientist from Manomet.
These
people highlighted that climate change is affecting Sugar Maple trees in such a
way that the sap season has dramatically changed, that sugar maple growth is
“stunted”, and its normal range will basically move north, and that less
desirable American Beech is increasing and replacing the Sugar Maple component
of forest stands. In conclusion, climate
change may have horrifying effects on the Maple Syrup industry.
To
date, predictions such as these resulting from global warming, now called
climate change, have not come true. Of course, the reason the phenomenon name
was changed to climate change is because the people measuring atmospheric
conditions, (temperatures etc.) were caught falsifying data, because the
resulting global warming charge was not being supported by their work.
Some
politicians, Al Gore, and others, believe the solution to getting better
control of our climate is done by the U. S. Government taking more of its people’s
money, rights and freedoms. The real issue for Senator King is the spending cut
to the EPA by the Trump administration. Climate change is one of many deceptive
methods of convincing the people that we need to expand, not shrink government.
Cultural
treatment by man has caused increased amounts of American Beech, not climate
change.
This species is shade tolerant and will stay alive for many years in
the understory, responding in growth to a timber harvest or openings created
due to wind throw or an overstory tree death. In addition, when cut or even run
over by a skidder, American Beech responds by putting out many sprouts from the
bent stem, the stump and the roots. Very few other species are this prolific in
sprouting.
I
have tapped sugar maple trees and made maple syrup on a noncommercial basis
since the middle 1960s. From experience I learned that we get about six weeks
of sap run, no matter what date I begin tapping. The records I have kept since
2003 confirm this. The only trend my fifteen years of records show is that
production levels and dates of the season vary up and down from year to year. For some fifty years or so, I have
taped trees in the same general time period, late February-early March. Nothing
has changed about production, as it goes up and down over time.
I
know my experience is no kind of study as referenced in the article, however,
based on political motivation and the lack of honesty in “the climate change
world”, I’ll stick to my 38 years of experience as a professional forester.
Gregory
E. Foster
Consulting
Forester
Raymond
Republican
Candidate for House Seat District #66
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